Under £200 on this sort of spec seems very reasonable and with SSDs dropping all the time, you could always drop one in later down the line. With 250GB SSDs dropping to around the £50 mark recently, I can only imagine Black Friday deals this year might make upgrading older HDDs to SSDs a lot easier on the pocket (Fingers crossed)
Product Info
Weighing only 2kg and at just 22.6mm thin, the Lenovo® ideapad™ 100 is the perfect companion for your on-the-go lifestyle. Powering this 15-inch notebook is an Intel® Core i3 Dual-Core processor, which clocks in at 2GHz and is well complemented by 4GB of RAM. A hard drive with a sizable 500GB capacity gives you plenty of space to store your data, video, music and photos.
Windows 10 Home comes preloaded on the ideapad™ 100 so it’s ready to use straight out of the box. With useful security features built-in, Windows 10 Home helps you safeguard the notebook against theft and malicious software. Data can be easily transferred with other devices thanks to ports for USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 and a 2-in-1 card reader. The notebook also benefits from an HDMI output for easy connection to a television or external monitor.
Also, with 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity and optional Bluetooth® 4.0, you can connect the ideapad™ 100 to the Internet wherever you go.
Top comments
Meow1234 to sam_of_london
15 Sep 1615#6
Why don't you just marry 4k?
vulcanproject
15 Sep 1610#14
Wants budget £200 laptop to support 4K output. Moans about intel integrated graphics. It's integrated graphics you muppet, if you're not buying 'old garbage' then why are you banging on about integrated output? You need a better budget to expect to get something with higher end graphics and connections for that anyway!
You're not buying garbage but you're talking it for sure.
awal
15 Sep 165#4
I have this machine and paid about the same for it a few months ago. The sound is painful until you use headphones; the buttons for left and right mouse click are also very painful! it’s just one long single bar! It needs a clean install of windows and SSD installing and then you have a good machine. If only I could upgrade the inbuilt speakers, also to note it only has one single memory dim. For the money its ok but its not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Putting and SSD in is a must but not very easy as you need to pull the whole unit apart to access the drive! Voiding the warranty! Hope this helps others.
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garrafk
15 Sep 161#1
these machines have good spec only warning sound is terrible and I'm not exaggerating but if that doesn't bother you indeed it's a bargain
Greengreenie to garrafk
15 Sep 162#9
Never had a laptop with warning sounds before.
I'll turn it right down if it's that bad
arthurx1234 to garrafk
15 Sep 16#18
Must also lack a , key
Arthur Brexit
iEimis
15 Sep 161#2
Will most likely just end up buying this until I can find a good upgrade at a reasonable price. XPS 13 or 15 sounds good but not for £1K+ Voted hot thanks for posting.
gottahavethat1
15 Sep 16#3
Hot from me. Just ordered one. thanks op. Looks ideal for that return to studying next month and producing outstanding essays:]
awal
15 Sep 165#4
I have this machine and paid about the same for it a few months ago. The sound is painful until you use headphones; the buttons for left and right mouse click are also very painful! it’s just one long single bar! It needs a clean install of windows and SSD installing and then you have a good machine. If only I could upgrade the inbuilt speakers, also to note it only has one single memory dim. For the money its ok but its not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Putting and SSD in is a must but not very easy as you need to pull the whole unit apart to access the drive! Voiding the warranty! Hope this helps others.
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#5
I am not buying any Intel product until they come with 4k output either from displayport or hdmi 2.0. Still selling old hdmi connection which does not have bandwidth to display 4k.
Meow1234 to sam_of_london
15 Sep 1615#6
Why don't you just marry 4k?
tickedon to sam_of_london
15 Sep 162#7
You'll be looking for the new Kaby Lake 7xxx Intel CPUs which are rolling out now then - they include HDCP 2.2 support and HDMI2, but Display Port remains v1.2.
captainbeaky to sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#12
Intel PCs with DisplayPort can output [email protected] You can get an adapter for about £25 to convert to HDMI 2.0 if needed.
profet
15 Sep 16#8
can you swap the optical drive for a second HDD?
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#10
Displayport 1.2 can support 4k as well.
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#11
I am not buying old garbage like you.
webmonkey
15 Sep 161#13
anyone know which integrated graphics this has?
Noclouds to webmonkey
16 Sep 16#28
If the CPU is a i3-5005U, it would have integrated Intel HD5500 graphics.
vulcanproject
15 Sep 1610#14
Wants budget £200 laptop to support 4K output. Moans about intel integrated graphics. It's integrated graphics you muppet, if you're not buying 'old garbage' then why are you banging on about integrated output? You need a better budget to expect to get something with higher end graphics and connections for that anyway!
You're not buying garbage but you're talking it for sure.
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#15
Displayport can support4k k. But current Intel displayport cannot support 4k, only Amd and Nvidia . They have crippled it as well.
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#16
Looks £200 is peanuts for you. But not for me. I already have laptop with this spec, I bought couple of years ago.
dribspak
15 Sep 16#17
you're not old garbage. You're mature, like a fine wine :wink:
sherlock747
15 Sep 16#19
I wish this was posted earlier. I placed my order this morning :disappointed:
Cenobite
15 Sep 16#20
Not a fan of Lenovo, but this is a good price. If you're on a budget & not looking to do anything taxing, this could be a good buy.
Haha! If you had one already and enough money to buy a better one you wouldn't be here. You're not fooling anybody.
sam_of_london
15 Sep 16#24
I like a bargain just like everyone. This site has saved me lot of money. There are already £50 Android players sold here which can play 4k and Microsoft Office and lots
EazyDuz
15 Sep 16#25
cold its slow and bad sounds
vulcanproject to EazyDuz
16 Sep 16#29
Can't speak for the sound but I picked up another cheap machine to sell on with this identical spec/chipset and it's surprisingly quick for what it is in windows 10. The i3 5005u batters the usual Pentiums and AMD chips you get for this money, it's far better. Sips power.
4GB RAM is sufficient for browsing and light office. The HDD will never be lightning but once you are in a browsing window it doesn't matter and SSD upgrades are par for the course with this sort of system.
dark_like_vader
15 Sep 16#26
I'm not convinced this is for me but credit for posting op
jebervic
15 Sep 16#27
OOS
Lloydieboy
16 Sep 16#30
Bought this yesterday before the new code, asked them to add it to my order but apparently it's "invalid", and now it's out of stock so dont really want to cancel it.
Still the cheapest I3 laptop I can find though
Nepp_
16 Sep 16#31
Stop looking at affordable laptops then and go buy something with high price which will be 4K compatible.
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Opening post
Under £200 on this sort of spec seems very reasonable and with SSDs dropping all the time, you could always drop one in later down the line. With 250GB SSDs dropping to around the £50 mark recently, I can only imagine Black Friday deals this year might make upgrading older HDDs to SSDs a lot easier on the pocket (Fingers crossed)
Product Info
Weighing only 2kg and at just 22.6mm thin, the Lenovo® ideapad™ 100 is the perfect companion for your on-the-go lifestyle. Powering this 15-inch notebook is an Intel® Core i3 Dual-Core processor, which clocks in at 2GHz and is well complemented by 4GB of RAM. A hard drive with a sizable 500GB capacity gives you plenty of space to store your data, video, music and photos.
Windows 10 Home comes preloaded on the ideapad™ 100 so it’s ready to use straight out of the box. With useful security features built-in, Windows 10 Home helps you safeguard the notebook against theft and malicious software. Data can be easily transferred with other devices thanks to ports for USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 and a 2-in-1 card reader. The notebook also benefits from an HDMI output for easy connection to a television or external monitor.
Also, with 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity and optional Bluetooth® 4.0, you can connect the ideapad™ 100 to the Internet wherever you go.
Top comments
You're not buying garbage but you're talking it for sure.
All comments (31)
I'll turn it right down if it's that bad
Arthur Brexit
You're not buying garbage but you're talking it for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQYnH4v0fg
Heat for the deal by the way.
4GB RAM is sufficient for browsing and light office. The HDD will never be lightning but once you are in a browsing window it doesn't matter and SSD upgrades are par for the course with this sort of system.
Still the cheapest I3 laptop I can find though