Lenovo Ideapad 3 17IAU7 17 Inch HD Cloudbook Laptop – (Intel
Lenovo Ideapad 3 17IAU7 17 Inch HD Cloudbook Laptop – (Intel Pentium 8505, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows Windows 11S) – Arctic Grey
Features
Perform at your best
Perform, create, and study with the latest Intel Pentium processor. Store all the large digital files in your household with up to 1 TB of space and dual storage option. Keep your desk from cluttering with a full-function Type-C port for faster data transfer.
Weight: | 3.02 kg |
Dimensions: | 39.9 x 27.4 x 1.99 cm; 3.02 Kilograms |
Brand: | Lenovo |
Model: | 82RL002MUK |
Colour: | Abyss Blue |
Batteries Included: | Yes |
Manufacture: | Lenovo |
Dimensions: | 39.9 x 27.4 x 1.99 cm; 3.02 Kilograms |
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.
I needed a replacement for my ever reliable but now ageing Lenovo Ideapad Core i5 8400 laptop. I noticed the specs of the new Pentium Gold 8505 were significantly higher than the previous 7505 model and decided I’d go for this model along with an additional 8Gb memory upgrade since I do independent software development with Visual Studio 2022.
I’m absolutely blown away by the truly excellent performance of the machine. It’s sold essentially as an entry level general purpose laptop for browsing and office but it copes easily with my development needs and is much quicker than my old i5.
What I would recommend though is spending the extra 20 or so on the 8Gb upgrade (giving 12Gb in total). Windows 11 eats RAM so if you are intending doing anything more than browsing and maybe the odd bit of MS Office then you’ll appreciate the extra capacity.
The screen quality is again excellent as is the keyboard. The built-in mouse pad is accurate and fine for occasional use or if your work is mainly keyboard driven. However if you are doing a full shift with lots of mouse manipulation then, like all the laptops I’ve used (and that’s plenty), you’ll want to plug in an external USB mouse.
I haven’t used the built-in webcam but it’s the the usual 720P standard laptop type so it’s likely to be good rather than brilliant.
I’ve just bought a second machine to act as a development database server. With lower end processors like this, unless you are doing something like CAD or gaming then there really isn’t any real need to go to the expense of an i3 or i5.
This is a good laptop for what I needed, i.e I7 to run spectrum analyser software at a decent speed. Unfortunately it arrived with Win 11S loaded not win10S as advertised. It has been quite an effort to downgrade back to win10 including reverting to win 11 from 11S, removing encryption from hard drive and then downloading win 10. After 3 days I now have the win10 laptop I need as it does a good job running the older software not compatible with win 11.
I love this laptop. I got rid of both my desktop and laptop and this replaces both. The graphics are clear and the speed is great. It had Windows S mode on it which was very confusing but I looked on YouTube how to remove that and now it works fine. (you can’t reverse it if you like S mode but I am much happier without it.)
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
Really good laptop for the price, it’s nice to finally have a computer I don’t despise!
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
Nice, budget friendly gaming laptop. Bought for my daughter who loves Minecraft & Roblox. Easy to set up, it has a voice over that talks you through (a bit like Alexa). Easily switches to windows 10/11 with a quick update so you can easily download. Not had any issues so far with storage. Sound quality is good however we use it with headphones. Overall very happy recommend as a first pc. Good budget pc for school/uni work or light gaming 🙂
The highest quality but the lowest price!
The laptop matches the description.
It’s better than expected!
So far so good . Female shout – love the colour of this laptop .
No issues so far as you would expect from Lenovo . My only drop in star is because I find the screen on this model light reflective and lacks clarity and colour vibrancy .
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
I bought this as a gift for a 7 year old. It is her first laptop and it is ideal to learn on. Good screen size and quality. It has everything you would need in a basic laptop at a good price.
Not what I hoped for but you pays your money and and you get what you pay for..
For 400 a Core i5, 8gb ram and a 256gb ssd is great value especially with a 15″ display. Don’t worry about it running Windows 10S you can return it to regular Windows 10 in the app store for free.
The picture quality and materials are as you’d expect at this price point but the battery life is disappointing. It gives you maybe 2 hours with heavy use.
This laptop has a great battery life and last me all day, while streaming videos and playing games! Also has a very fast response where you can click quickly between Google tabs or apps. The laptop is very light which is good to have on you lap on the go, easy to move around and the quality of the laptop is amazing no stiffness when opening 🙂 The keyboard is amazing to use with keys feeling amazing to type with and the touch pad is an joy to use as it’s just the right size to have two hands on the touch pad to navigate through web pages. The set up took less than 20 minutes to complete making simple to get right to work!!!
Will 100% this laptop to anyone on a budget
My only thing that bugs me is that without a laptop Sleeve the colour of the laptop shows the every day dust that collects along the top and finger prints are easily seen. ( not a real issue! Just a silly thing I noticed )
Leah
Good battery life so far and quick response in use and on opening. Came as Widows 10S, but upgraded to Windows 11 Home within a couple of weeks.
Screen is perfectly acceptable straight on, but loses a bit of depth on an angle, not really a big problem, just something to be aware of.
Replaced a 5 year old HP laptop and feels, looks and so far performs as a big improvement.
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.