Lenovo Ideapad 3 17IAU7 17 Inch HD Cloudbook Laptop – (Intel

 

After spending 6 months using the laptop.

Perfect for all usage types other than hardcore gaming.

The gaming graphics capability is medium/low power,

but for all office and video/social media use, its excellent.

 

superb laptop fast startup had old type laptop tap just got slower over the years spent a longtime looking for new one im well pleased with this lenove i would recomend you give it a try

 

Got it on a huge sale for only 299
Arrived here in Egypt after about 8 days, excellent condition, no damage to the box whatsoever.
Although it’s labeled with 4GB of RAM, my unit has 8GB clocked at 3200 MHz. freaking Amazing!
Happy customer indeed.
Here’s the specs if you want to check it :

Device name LAPTOP-NRGQNNKL
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.42 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.79 GB usable)
Device ID 🙂
Product ID 🙂
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

 

expected much better for the price being charged…..could have got a very similar model for much less but thought i would give this a go…we live and lea

 

Not what I hoped for but you pays your money and and you get what you pay for..

 

Having spent the last year or so toiling away with a super entry level laptop this unit is a breath of fresh air. Most of my heavy usage like gaming or media creation is done on my desktop PC so I wasn’t in need of a high powered laptop but even with that considered I’d recommend buying something like this laptop over a super cheap one.

This is a proper PC compared to chromebooks etc especially once you’ve upgraded it a bit which is super cheap and easy. It’s powered by an Athlon Gold 3150u which is a dual core CPU with 4 threads so for all intents and purposes it will perform like a quad core chip with only slightly less performance. For casual browsing and even fairly intensive workloads it will breeze through it. Obviously don’t expect to be doing render projects on it etc but It’ll deal with most productivity workloads you throw at it like spreadsheets etc.

Fun fact, the current Athlon range use the same strong CPU cores as found in the Ryzen chips. They’re just a different entry level range.

The unit comes equipped with 4gbs of RAM which is fine to begin with however I’d highly recommend buying an extra stick of 2400mhz sodim RAM and sticking it in to up the capacity and make the memory work in dual channel which allows the GPU to work with a lot more memory bandwith. The max capacity the laptop can handle is 12gb so sticking an extra 8gb stick in is a good shout and only costs about 26.

Speaking of which did you know this thing can game? Yep it most certainly can thanks to the onboard Vega 3 graphics. Now don’t expect to be playing all modern games and definitely not at 1080p but the list of games I have been able to run so far includes Resident Evil 2 remake at 720p 60% resolution scale, Destiny 2 same res, Dragon Age Inquisition 720p, The Witcher 3 720p low settings.

Those aren’t exactly light weight games and with a little tweaking of the settings you can get them running at 30fps and they look absolutely fine on the smaller screen. You can even take advantage of AMD radeon’s adrenaline drivers which gives you access to a slew of graphical effects to improve image quality further.

For a 299 laptop with a few upgrades on top like extra ram and a larger hard drive you’ll have a device that performs like a proper PC and can play some very recently released games. This is why AMD’s mobile offerings appeal to me much more than Intel’s current crop. The integrated graphics performance is on another level.

A highly recommeded device.