With its powerful processor, sleek, low-profile design, and fast SSD storage, the Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 14-inch R7-5700U/8GB/512GB SSD Laptop is a practical choice as your on-the-go workstation. It also comes with 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0 for convenient, wireless connectivity.
Wonder if the ram can be increased?
In the specs @ HN it states up to 12 GB.
4GB Soldered DDR4-3200 + 4GB SO-DIMM DDR4-3200
Ugh, better than all soldered
Shocking
Wow super fast cpu scoee for this price!
Zen 2 though, only 8mb L3 cache
Does anyone own this machine and can comment on its battery performance, Thanks
Looks like the body is plastic. I bought a HP that looked very similar online for my son. The body literally disintegrated in couple of years. Since then I prefer MacBook Air or aluminium body when buying for kids.
But you could buy one of these every 2 years and still be ahead of where you were if you bought one macbook air after about 5 years…and you'd have an updated laptop every 2 years to boot.
hardly a fair comparison.
A MacBook Air m1 is around $1250 from education. And it’ll last ages, unless you do something stupid. During Black Friday the cost (after gift card usually $240 and cash rewards) is around $900. I’d wait for that
Exactly, my MacBook Pro last almost 7 years. It was still pretty good and only needed a new battery. After this experience all my kids are using MacBook Air M1.
@Faiz: It’s not good that Apple is expensive to start with , but in the long run they are quality and will cost the same if you keep for many years.
Husband just got iPhone 12 battery replaced after 3 years of intensive use (it was at 79 battery health). That will extend its life for another 3 (and iOS will be supported for another 3 most likely too).
@fozzie: I think you get updates for six years. I am planning to do the same with my iPhone 12 Pro Max next year. The battery is at 85% after 3 years.
@Faiz: Wow! That’s astonishing. How is the battery still that good? My iPhone 14 pro only has 88 and less than 1 year!
@fozzie: I only charge once per night. I also have the optimised battery charging enabled, so the battery finishes charging just before I wake up. That kinda did the trick.
@Faiz: I do the same with mine, but massive difference…. While the iPhone XR I used to have dropped to 80% after 4 years. Just weird, might depend on models as well.
Now trying to always have between 20-80% (as it’s one of the recommended tricks with lithium batteries).
old macbook air yes, new ones no, designed to fail after a few years
@Headless: I have a MacBook Air m1 and it’s flawless after nearly 3 years. Battery is still excellent too.
@fozzie: Use it while you can, quite a few teardowns on youtube about these.
pop windows on it and it would be great 😁
@Headless: Lol, I like the macOS and synchronises with iPhone. I’m keeping as it is, actually upgrading soon to either another m1 or m2 with bigger storage (this one is being passed to family).
@Headless: How do you know (lol)? I also have android, Amazon fire tv and a window computer. And I own Huawei Freebuds pro and razor wireless over the head.
I just like Apple especially for work as I don’t do anything special (mostly generic apps and videos/word docs etc)
You sure it's not the way your son has treated the laptop? I've had a budget plastic HP laptop survive 6+ years of constant use throughout high school.
Hard to tell because they change the specs constantly within the same model, but the IdeaPad Slim is generally an aluminium body. It's Lenovo's answer to the Mac Air.
I've got a plastic body Lenovo ThinkPad e420 running on i3, replaced hdd with ssd and double the ram up to 16gb, bought back in 2012, still going strong.. and it's been used pretty roughly.. running on windows 10 without a hiccup.. I wonder if a MacBook bought back then updated to the latest possible os would run so smooth..
Got an iMac late 2015 i5 with 8 gigs of ram running on Monterey, replaced hdd with ssd, still not as smooth as the hype apple products get..
Been on iPhones for last 2 years, had three of those, first one dead after update, second one developed touch issues sold in fb, third one developed speaker and network issues, had each of them for less than a year and with the last one, service centre told me it's damaged though the phone was very much like new without even a hairline mark as it was mostly lying on the table as i work from home and they still denied to repair it..
To my experience APPLE IS THE WORST AND THE MOST HYPED BRAND, and apple fanboys are always unwelcomed guests comparing their costly toys with very affordable very practical and entirely different breed of products..
This is also very similar case..
someone comparing windows laptop with age old nonsensical apple OS laptop.. no words for that ideological blindness..
14" FHD (1920x1080) TN 250nits Anti-glare
Any new laptop over $500 with a TN display is not a deal
Minimum spec for this price is IPS 250nits 45% NTSC
Anyone looking for a laptop in this price range wait a few more weeks
There have already been IdeaPad deals with Zen 3/16GB RAM/IPS screens for $700 so not only is this overpriced Lenovo e-waste, you are supporting Uncle Gerry as well
Thanks
Upvoted because it came from HN. All you Gerry wannabes just jelly.
Question.
To buy from Lenovo Education store
Do you have to be a student (My Kids)
Or do you need a .edu email (how do you get that)
I see some deals there (Also in link above) that are better than this deal
Thanks
you just need .edu email , can try and use your kids .edu email
Wonder if this laptop can be charged via USB C pd ?
In spec list @ HN it states it has USB C 3.2 Gen 1 but that leaves it still open to an unknown.
Edit: According to last time this was posted USB C data only :-(