Lenovo IdeaPad 320S review

Lenovo has updated its Ideapad series of laptops, and this is one of the cheapest. But it's really good. 😇

The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S is an entry-level laptop that looks, from arm’s width at least, similar to ones costing £600-1000. Sub-£400 models don’t have to be dumpy or ugly anymore.

Normally we struggle to recommend a laptop as low-power as the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S. However, we’ve finally reached the point where Windows 10 and a low-end Pentium processor can get along. It’s time to celebrate. 

The Lenovo IdeaPad 320S is a great match for someone with a low budget and no truly CPU-crunching tasks to do. Don’t come expecting a great screen, though, as it’s glaringly worse than that of a laptop from the next tier.

Price:

The 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.

you’ll notice the Lenovo IdeaPad 320S isn’t quite as slim or as light as a premium slim laptop, though. At 19.2mm thick, it’s portable but thick enough to be a noticeable presence in your rucksack.  

That said, we’d be happy to use it as a laptop carried around daily. Lenovo also says the 320S weighs 1.7kg, but that must relate to the higher-spec version as this one is just 1.435kg according to our scales.

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