Seems like a reasonable deal to me as includes an SSD as standard rather than mechanical HD. People on here often moan about laptops not being equipped as standard with an SSD.
Admittedly, not a huge SSD but probably big enough to store OS and apps for most people. It might suit someone who doesn't need a huge amount of storage and willing to sacrifice that for a quick boot up time/general improved system performance.
You could always remove the DVD drive and use an 2.5" HD to DVD adapter bracket to place a mechanical drive in the DVD slot for extra storage. I have done this before.
As usual with Lenovo (or certainly so I have found to date) all major components (RAM, Drive bay and wireless card) accessible via easily removed bottom hatch.
Upgradeable to 16GB RAM.
Oh, please don't moan about the resolution: You wont get 1920x1080 at this price!
Standard blurb from Saverstore cut and pasted below:
B50-80 - Intel Core i3-5005U(p) 4GB 128GB SSD DVDRW 15.6 INCH Windows 10
The Lenovo B40-80 and B50-80 are the best value-for-money notebook PC on the market. Available in a wide variety of configurations and screen sizes, the Lenovo do-everything B40-80 and B50-80 are perfect notebook solutions for day-to-day computing tasks.
Specifications
•Intel Core i3 (5th Gen) 5005U / 2 GHz / 3 MB Cache Dual Core processor
•4GB DDR3L 1600MHz memory (2 slots/1 free)
•128GB Solid State Drive
•DVDRW Drive
•Intel HD Graphics 5500
•15.6" HD screen (1366 x 768)
•Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
•Integrated HD 720p webcam, Microphone, Stereo Speakers
•Fingerprint Reader
•Keyboard with Nueric Keypad, Touchpad
•4-cell Lithium-Ion battery (upto 5.5hrs runtime)
•2 x USB 3.0 , 1 x USB 2.0 ports
•1x VGA, 1 x HDMI
•Headphone/Microphone combo jack , OneLink connector
•Windows 10 Home x64
•MS Office 2013 Trial Version, McAfee LiveSafe
•1 Year Warranty
•2.3kg weight
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thecoolguy
11 Feb 16#1
can run kodi no problem
MoyesIsTheBest to thecoolguy
12 Feb 16#40
If you can run kodi on the rpi, then I think you can run it on this!!
never heard of the company so would rather pay more
computerrobot to cruisecars
11 Feb 161#11
They've been around for about 15 years under this name, I used to use them a lot with no problems. Only reason I haven't used them much lately are because amazon are nearly always cheaper. They used to be called watford elctronics but their wharehouse is in luton. You can also arrange to collect from them by appointment.
huangxq2 to cruisecars
11 Feb 16#15
They have been around for a long time.
I used to use them a lot when I was a student before Amazon. It was about 10 years ago.
subscriptions to cruisecars
12 Feb 161#18
Never heard of Lenovo?
quidmaster to cruisecars
12 Feb 16#21
Which century were you born?
freebiehunter
11 Feb 16#8
Just a shame that the build quality of the cheaper Lenovo laptops is so poor, I literally return about 1 in 5
mirrorsaw to freebiehunter
11 Feb 161#10
This is from the B series, they are Business quality and really well built.
CountFilth to freebiehunter
12 Feb 16#17
Last year I bought a Lenovo G510 with i7-4700HQ (quad core) CPU and I've barely used it due to major problems with SATA connections being unstable or disappearing completely. At first I thought it was problems with the SSD that I fitted but I've recently had a bit more spare time to fault find and discovered it's a SATA corruption issue. I've found out it's a common issue and Lenovo's supposed fix is to factory reset or re-install Windows device drivers. Unfortunately neither of these is a suitable solution as it doesn't address the actual issue which is caused by the hardware itself and if the device is not being detected reinstalling the driver isn't going to help.. The only temporary fix is to remove battery, physically remove the drives, make sure everything is discharged, replace the drives, replace battery, power on. I wouldn't touch a Lenovo again.
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Admittedly, not a huge SSD but probably big enough to store OS and apps for most people. It might suit someone who doesn't need a huge amount of storage and willing to sacrifice that for a quick boot up time/general improved system performance.
You could always remove the DVD drive and use an 2.5" HD to DVD adapter bracket to place a mechanical drive in the DVD slot for extra storage. I have done this before.
As usual with Lenovo (or certainly so I have found to date) all major components (RAM, Drive bay and wireless card) accessible via easily removed bottom hatch.
Upgradeable to 16GB RAM.
Oh, please don't moan about the resolution: You wont get 1920x1080 at this price!
Standard blurb from Saverstore cut and pasted below:
B50-80 - Intel Core i3-5005U(p) 4GB 128GB SSD DVDRW 15.6 INCH Windows 10
The Lenovo B40-80 and B50-80 are the best value-for-money notebook PC on the market. Available in a wide variety of configurations and screen sizes, the Lenovo do-everything B40-80 and B50-80 are perfect notebook solutions for day-to-day computing tasks.
Specifications
•Intel Core i3 (5th Gen) 5005U / 2 GHz / 3 MB Cache Dual Core processor
•4GB DDR3L 1600MHz memory (2 slots/1 free)
•128GB Solid State Drive
•DVDRW Drive
•Intel HD Graphics 5500
•15.6" HD screen (1366 x 768)
•Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
•Integrated HD 720p webcam, Microphone, Stereo Speakers
•Fingerprint Reader
•Keyboard with Nueric Keypad, Touchpad
•4-cell Lithium-Ion battery (upto 5.5hrs runtime)
•2 x USB 3.0 , 1 x USB 2.0 ports
•1x VGA, 1 x HDMI
•Headphone/Microphone combo jack , OneLink connector
•Windows 10 Home x64
•MS Office 2013 Trial Version, McAfee LiveSafe
•1 Year Warranty
•2.3kg weight
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I used to use them a lot when I was a student before Amazon. It was about 10 years ago.