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Lenovo has been coming out with some really good Ultrabooks of late, with its IdeaPad U410 offering excellent performance and features for less than you would expect. The company's latest offering is the Lenovo IdeaPad S300 - a smaller and more portable 1...
Ivy Bridge performance, Low price tag, Connectivity, Great design, Good keyboard...
Poor battery life, Quick start needs improving, Wasted gaming potential, Heavy, No SSD...
The Lenovo IdeaPad S300 isn't exactly the slimmest, nor is it definitely the lightest, but it is very attractive, well-built, very nice to use for long periods of time and it does have a decent amount of lick underneath the hood, thanks to its Ivy Bridge...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2014-04-12 03:33:16
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Lenovo has been coming out with some really good Ultrabooks of late, with its IdeaPad U410 offering excellent performance and features for less than you would expect. The company's latest offering is the Lenovo IdeaPad S300 - a smaller and more portable 1...
Ivy Bridge performance, Low price tag, Connectivity, Great design, Good keyboard...
Poor battery life, Quick start needs improving, Wasted gaming potential, Heavy, No SSD...
While the Lenovo IdeaPad S300 doesn't quite have the technical ability to rival other Ultrabooks, in the end you're paying a lot less money. Admittedly, the Lenovo IdeaPad S300 isn't actually an Ultrabook, so perhaps it's unfair to compare. But - aside fr...
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technoodling.net Updated: 2016-12-15 02:04:52
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Despite Intel's publicity, ultrabooks' pricing remain strange: shouldn't Windows notebooks be cheaper than MacBooks? Manufacturers, such as Lenovo, respond to that call through their compromised variations of the “ultrabook”. The Lenovo IdeaPad S300, revi...
The Lenovo IdeaPad S300 takes the wedgeform of the MacBook Air, settles for plastic instead of an aluminum or magnesium alloy body, and houses a fastenough processor – Intel Pentium 997 (1.60GHz/1333MHz/2MB L3) – instead of the strictultrabookrequirement...
1. The trackpad can be too “sensitive” – hover your cursor over a link, lift your finger and bring it back down to tap that link, and the cursor will have moved somewhere else. You can avoid this clicking on the trackpad, but initially it was annoying. (I...
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chip.com.my Updated: 2016-12-15 02:04:52
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Lenovo's going out on a limb and has launched notebooks and laptops of all shapes and sizes to cater one and sundry, be it businessmen, power users, and even those who are just looking for a portable machine for day to day use. The Lenovo IdeaPad S300 is...
Slim and stylish, Excellent keyboard...
No backlit keyboard...
In terms of user experience, the IdeaPad S300 is without a doubt an excellent laptop. We would, however recommend that you opt instead for either a Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge processor as you can then do a lot more things on the S300 than just browse the...
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We recently featured Lenovo's new duo of affordable laptops with a form factor of an ultrabook. Just a week after the launch, the folks from Lenovo sent us an IdeaPad S300 to take out for a spin. Catch our review of the Lenovo IdeaPad S300 after the break...
â— Thin and light, â— Comfortable keyboard, â— Good battery life...
â— Low display resolution for its size...
It's undeniable that the Lenovo is banking on the IdeaPad S300's 22.4mm thin form factor and its affordable price tag to gain market traction. Taking those two factors in to consideration, we think that Lenovo will have a great shot at the budget-consciou...
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The previously tested IdeaPad S300-MA145GE with a Core i3 and dedicated AMD graphics card even satisfied undemanding gamers. This is unknown to the IdeaPad S300 that we are now reviewing. The MA14CGE model features basic equipment in the form of a 1.8...
Good price-performance ratio, Stylish casing, Light and slim, Ultrabook feel, Decent application performance, Very quiet operating noise, Very low waste heat...
Only average battery runtimes, Not suitable for games, Limited viewing angles, No Gigabit Ethernet, Spongy key stroke, Few interfaces, Intense bluish cast...
Surprise! The less expensive IdeaPad S300-MA14CGE offers the better price-performance ratio compared with the bigger MA145GE model. This is due to the virtually identical performance of the processor and overall system. Only the storage device lags behind...
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The laptop seems like the perfect package and is available for 549 Euros (~$710). Let us take a quick look at the competition : the flat, 13-inch HP Envy 6-1000sg Ultrabook (740 Euros/~$957 - i5-3317U and AMD Radeon HD 7670M ) and the 15.6-inch Acer Aspir...
Light and slim, Ultrabook feeling, 24 months guarantee, Low power consumption, Good program performance, Entry-level gaming performance, Quiet HDD, Low temperature emissions...
Poor sturdiness, No Gigabit Ethernet, Poor contrast, dark display, Mere 4 GB RAM, Short battery life, Spongy key impact, Few ports...
Lenovo wants to create an Ultrabook replacement. Their 13.3-inch model is cheaper ( 550 Euros/~$712 ) and offers a dedicated GPU ( Radeon HD 7450M ) for occasional gaming. Sadly, Lenovo bet on the wrong horse: the Radeon GPU may be better than the HD Gra...
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