This is one of the bestThe Lenovo IdeaPad 320S is an affordable laptop, costing £349 in the spec we’re reviewing. This has a low-end Intel Pentium 4415U CPU, a 128GB SSD and 4GB RAM.
If you’re after a low-price laptop that also has a Core-series processor, the i3 Lenovo IdeaPad 320S costs £475.
There’s also a much higher-end version, with a Core i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, 1080p screen and 128GB SSD, for £649.99. It’s a viable alternative to the £200-more IdeaPad 720S, although really a totally different laptop to the one we’re reviewing today, outside of the shell.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S comes with a one-year warranty. laptop that I have ever tried.it has high processing power, ram, Rom and graphics
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S has what is fast becoming the crowd-pleasing standard of connectivity. There’s one USB-C port, the new style of connector, and two older full-size USBs.
As you might guess given the price, these are not all top-spec connectors. One of the USBs is a 2.0 socket rather than 3.0, and the USB-C does not support the ultra-high bandwidth Thunderbolt 3 standard.
None of this matter too much in a £350 laptop like the Lenovo IdeaPad 320, though.
The full-size HDMI and SD card slot are far more important. For the average buyer the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S has much more useful connectivity than a £1500 MacBook, even without truly high-end ports.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320’Ss screen is the one part that instantly marks this out as cheap laptop. It uses a TN-style screen rather than the IPS LCD kind seen in almost all more expensive laptops at this point.
When tilted back too far, the colours invert and the screen appears cast in shadow. Tilt it towards you and the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S looks washed-out. Vertical viewing angles are poor, making the screen look bad unless viewed dead-on.
Resolution is limited too at 1366 x 768 pixels. However, this is currently the most common resolution at the price. And it doesn’t appear aggressively pixellated.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S is a low-end laptop. It uses the Intel Pentium 4415U CPU a dual-core with four threads and a base clock speed of 2.3GHz.
We normally advise against buying a Windows 10 laptop with a Pentium or Intel Atom processor, as they are often a chore to use. Even system navigation can be slow to the point of annoyance.
However, the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S proves we’re back at a point where an Intel Pentium laptop can be a good buy. Windows 10 feels fast, there’s no waiting for basic elements of the OS to appear and general responsiveness is remarkably close to that of a Core i3 laptop. This is, in part, thanks to the use of a 128GB SSD rather than a slower hard drive.
Conscious that there’s still a question of how much an Intel Pentium CPU with 4GB of RAM can really hack, we tried opening a dozen browser windows, a few documents and running Minecraft in the background. The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S still didn’t fall over, although looking at Windows 10 Task Manager’s CPU usage stats it’s clear the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S is made for light tasks. Processor usage was fairly high with this kind of low-level multi-tasking.
If you want to do video editing, use Photoshop or music production software, we’d highly recommend a Core i-series laptop instead. That said, for the kind of work we tend to do: browsing, writing documents and relatively simply editing of photos, the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S fares surprisingly well.
Compared to our earlier reviews of older Pentium laptops, the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S performs fairly well in benchmarks. It scores 4995 points in Geekbench 4, compared to the 3211 of the older-generation Pentium CPU Asus VivoBook Max X541SA and the 6000-plus of a Core i5 system.
We’re rather impressed with the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S, and could happily use it as our main work machine. Until we needed to edit video or do some serious image editing, at any rate.
Gaming performance is much worse than a Core i5 alternative, though. Where a Core i5 laptop like the Acer Swift 3 can play Alien: Isolation at 720p and manage an acceptable 30fps average, the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S averages an unplayable 16.7fps.
At 1366p this slows to 11.6fps. We’d normally test at 1080p, but the Lenovo IdeaPad 320’s screen isn’t that high-res.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is unplayable no matter the setting. At 720p Low it shuffles along at 7.7fps, dropping to a painful 2.7fps at native resolution, Ultra settings.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S can play Minecraft happily. We tried it. But don’t expect too much more than that.
One benefit of using such a low-end CPU is that while there is a fan, it’s never remotely loud. Even after a series of gaming tests, the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S was very quiet.
Battery life
This laptop doesn’t get into the teens of hours of battery life like some low-power laptops. However, it does nudge its way towards all-day stamina when simply playing locally stored video, at 120cd/m brightness.
It lasts just over eight hours of 720p movie playback, which is a fairly light task even for an Intel Pentium CPU. You should see similar results when simply catching up on emails or writing docs, with 7-8 hours perfectly feasible at the sort of screen brightness level you might use indoors. Lenovo promises seven hours’ use, and delivers.
SHOULD I BUY LENOVO IDEAPAD 320S?
The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S proves cheap laptops don’t have to be undesirable. A portable frame and modern look make this a laptop you could be proud to take out at the local coffee shop.
We’re also glad to see a Pentium-based system run Windows 10 so well, with performance in basic tasks similar to that of an Intel Core machine,
The screen is very poor, however, thanks to its use of a basic TN panel. If you’re looking for something that’ll double as a portable Netflix/iPlayer, you might want to save up for something with an IPS screen. You’re unlikely to find many Windows 10 laptops as attractive and slick at £350, though.
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so guys I ssuggest you to buy this laptop for a business toolor home use