Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14 Inch FHD Laptop - (AMD Athlon Gold, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, Windows 10 S Mode) - Abyss Blue

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Now you can enjoy elite gaming performance on a thin and light device with amazing battery life, thanks to the new AMD Ryzen™ 5000 H-Series Mobile Processors. On the other hand, the HP is much larger and heavier, but it's equipped with powerful AMD Ryzen H-series CPUs and dedicated entry-level NVIDIA GPUs that are significantly better suited for heavy workloads like gaming, 3D design, and physics simulations.

Cinebench is often a good predictor of our Handbrake video editing benchmark, in which we put a stopwatch on systems as they transcode a brief movie from 4K resolution down to 1080p. The MacBook Air is better in nearly all aspects, but it has a smaller display, isn't as serviceable, and its port selection is much more limited as it only has two USB-C ports. The AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and the Ryzen 7 5700U will only perform slightly better, not enough to make much of a difference in most games. It's a thin and light device that's easy to carry around, with enough battery life to get you through a couple of movies and TV show episodes. We run two of its subtests, Aztec Ruins and Car Chase, rendered off-screen to accommodate different display resolutions and make comparisons valid.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Athlon, EPYC, FreeSync, Ryzen, Radeon, Threadripper and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Our IdeaPad 3 review unit came running a 10th-gen Intel Core i3-1005G1 processor – by no means the latest or greatest Intel chipset, but definitely enough to get you through some everyday computing tasks.

The bezels are not as thin as those on, say, the XPG Xenia 14, but they're still plenty modern-looking. We tested the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15 (model 82KU00YQUS) with a 1080p touch-sensitive IPS display, an AMD Ryzen 3 5300U CPU, AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 integrated graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage.

Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT. Balancing a tight budget with a feature set that mostly consists of the necessities isn't easy when you're evaluating a sea of machines that all look more or less the same. We were seeing battery life of 3-4 hours with standard, undemanding use – that's with the screen set on maximum brightness, so if you're happy to dim it a little you'll get more time between charges. Shutter your webcam Enjoy video chatting with friends and family—but don’t stress for a second about the webcam when you’re not using it. The IdeaPad 3 14 struggled in the 1440p Aztec Ruins test, clocking an average of 23 frames per second (fps).

It's available with a better IPS display, as it gets brighter to combat glare, and its wider viewing angle makes it easier to share the screen with someone else.

Smart learning solutions such as Eye Care, to reduce harmful low blue light, and Noise Cancelling that blocks out background noises make this the ideal laptop to lounge and learn on. It is worth noting that the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 stayed nice and quiet during our time with it, with the fans only spinning up occasionally when the laptop was put under pressure. To find out, we brought in the Asus VivoBook S14, the Dell Inspiron 15 (3511), 2021's HP Pavilion x360 15, the pricier Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 13, and our previous Editors' Choice pick for best budget laptop, the MSI Modern 14. This means that whether you’re trying to give it your all in a match, or you’re on-the-go, it can give its best performance at all times. The review unit we had was fitted with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD internal storage – you wouldn't really want to try and run Windows 10 on anything less, but again you can get by with this sort of spec.