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Intel® Core i5 processor: with stunning visuals and performance, the 5th gen Intel Core processor delivers processing power that takes your computing to the next level.
Thin, Light, and Portable. With a starting weight of only 2.0 kg (4.4 lbs) and at just 22.6 mm (0.89") thin, the Ideapad 100 is perfect for your on-the go lifestyle.
Smile, Swap, and Sort - In Seconds. The Ideapad 100 comes with Lenovo Photo Master 2.0 - a modern photo library with powerful, easy-to-use navigation and editing tools.
Windows 10 is the best combination of the Windows you already know, plus lots of great improvements you'll love. Technologies like Battery Saver to automatically conserve power , so you can work longer and play harder.
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Top comments
barnehurst
26 Sep 163#44
Lenovo is a disaster - laptop broke down after 8 weeks - wiped all content - now been in Germany repair centre for a month, with no update - AVOID
EazyDuz
26 Sep 163#43
absolute junk, cold.
All comments (60)
joolt
26 Sep 16#1
good deal, you prob want to put Amazon in the title
crumpo
26 Sep 16#2
Got one this morning for about £211 via Amazon Warehouse. Not FHD but other than that it looks like a great laptop for the price.
claire7519 to crumpo
26 Sep 16#3
Do u have a link please I can't find one (if there's any left)
Davidben83
26 Sep 16#4
None left
LewsTherin to Davidben83
26 Sep 16#8
In stock for me...its Deal of the Day for Amazon so unlikely to run out of stock this early
hackerace
26 Sep 16#5
also looking for a decent laptop, does anyone know which laptop used 1 finger scroll on the touchpad? hate this 2 finger business, who thought of that!
fishmaster to hackerace
26 Sep 16#36
Two finger is on everything and I think on Apple products first around 2006. You're mad two finger scroll is a lot better :smiley:
Kasia29
26 Sep 16#6
looking at the spec. looks like a very good deal...but comments...that's a different story .... , to buy or not to but that's a question...help.
tuna89 to Kasia29
26 Sep 161#47
Avoid Lenovo - terrible quality, you'll be buying a new one in about 8 months.
mickjack
26 Sep 16#7
Sweet laptop at a good price, sound lets it down at bit. 2 finger scroll.
stesunners
26 Sep 162#9
Little undecided as seeing the posts on here regarding laptops, I will be using premiere pro and photoshop but don't want to pay over the odds. A lot of people on here have stressed over SSD and FHD, think I've seen every laptop deal for 6months and read something negative!
coolcat21 to stesunners
26 Sep 162#11
I agree! I'm looking to replace my daughter's laptop & when it looks like I've found a good deal, it then gets negative comments, leaving me more confused :neutral_face:
GTX
26 Sep 16#10
Good value, but the screen resolution is 1366 * 768
alloysrunescape
26 Sep 16#12
I just got one on amazon prime now, might be worth a shot
bellboys
26 Sep 16#13
The post was relating to warehouse deal, I think?
aljack
26 Sep 16#14
Looks like a decent spec for the price. Heat
montee
26 Sep 161#15
got the i3 version with only 4gig ram only last month from tescodirect...going back to lenovo already as it's just stopped working....feels cheap and plasticky also you can't remove or change the battery....i wouldn't have another one...there are better options out there
chrisredmayne
26 Sep 161#16
i5u without ssd, wouldn't expect it to run that great for the price...
kwl147 to chrisredmayne
26 Sep 162#17
Does't matter if there's an i7 underneath the hood with 16GB ram. If it doesn't have an SSD, chances are it'll lag IMO. I've seen lower spec machines completely destroy new laptops just because of an SSD.
dotnetter to chrisredmayne
26 Sep 16#18
can you not upgrade the HDD? Another deal posted was for a similar laptop but with the i3, 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD - you can buy a 128GB SSD for under £40. So even for £340 it's still cheaper and has a better processor and twice the RAM. This is assuming the upgrade is needed - personally I would upgrade it as SSD makes so much difference!
chrisredmayne
26 Sep 16#19
yeah you'll be able to upgrade, just guessing here but the benchmark between a i3u and a i5u isn't much difference though. a cheap i3 with an SSD will easily cope with demands of browsing, office, and older games. don't know how much more you'll be getting by paying more for an i5
LewsTherin
26 Sep 16#20
Yeah laptops built within past 4-5 years are all very easy to upgrade ssd, optical drive and memory. No longer need to fiddle to get the entire front chassis off, take screen apart to get to the hdd. Usually a few screws on back and 4 on hard drive cage and you're golden. Well worth the investment tho I suggest a 500GB ssd unless you intend to remove the optical disc drive to replace with your old hdd that came with the laptop. No biggie, a lot of caddies on ebay for whichever laptop model you own.
aceshigh
26 Sep 16#21
I'm pretty sure on the Ideapad 100 you do have to remove the keyboard and the base to expand the RAM and change the hard drive. Theres no trapdoor.
iEimis
26 Sep 16#22
Thin, Light, and Portable. With a starting weight of only 2.0 kg (4.4 lbs) and at just 22.6 mm (0.89") thin, the Ideapad 100 is perfect for your on-the go lifestyle.
Erm... No.
Battery life is very poor around 2.5/3 hours by just browsing.
It is heavy and so not very portable as description tries to claim.
You get what you pay for, I got a i3 version with 500GB HDD for £194 last week but personally I wouldn't pay more.
Eez1
26 Sep 161#23
Once you've gone FHD on a laptop there's no going back. Otherwise it's a decent enough lappy for 300
siroko
26 Sep 16#24
Anybody know if this machine will hook up to an Elgato HD 60 and stream to Twitch sweetly?
The specs say it will, but I'd love a second opinion..
Thanks..
LewsTherin to siroko
26 Sep 16#30
Yes it should be fine. Though I never quite understood the need for a streaming PC when my main rig is sufficient for both.
Flora82
26 Sep 16#25
I have an existing 256gb ssd I'd want to use, but would love to swap the pointless optical drive and keep the 1tb drive. Would this work: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172233545759?
I'm assuming I don't need any cables, but what about a plastic blanking plate for where the drive cover used to be?
many thanks
john.
Tonyc997
26 Sep 16#26
I think that is the HD bracket that fits the original HD inside the laptop, it's not a replacement bracket for the optical slot or anything to do with the optical slot.
If you look online the only way to swap the HD is to open it up by removing the keyboard, quite long winded but i'm going to do it - an SSD is an amzing way to boost the performance.
captain frugal
26 Sep 16#27
I grabbed one of these as an Argos refurb for £180 a few months back, and I wouldn't pay much more than that.
Not bad for what I paid, but the sound is awful, the mouse buttons are very noisy, there's an uncomfortable amount of flex in the plastic case, and it's a pain to swap the hard drive. I don't mind the screen, but I'm not a FHD fanboy.
Perfectly fine for web browsing, videos and coursera (with headphones), which is what I bought it for, but the price needs to drop £80+ before it's better value than the HP trade-in deals we see each month.
Mikiex to captain frugal
26 Sep 16#34
FHD fanboy? .... its like saying someone is a 3g fanboy :smiley:
LewsTherin
26 Sep 16#28
Oh well, probably why I dont own one :smiley:. All the laptops Ive got at home (Asus, Dell, HP) dont have any difficulties swapping out. Tbf even if you still need removing keyboard etc, its not complicated and wont take much time as long as you do it quite soon after you buy the laptop so that you dont have a ton of data to backup.
LewsTherin
26 Sep 16#29
Yes this is fine, you will need to buy the cover where the drive was to cover this hdd. Should be somewhere on ebay as well.
sotomonkey
26 Sep 161#31
Think I'll wait for Skylake to come down in price. Kind of old tech Q1-15 considering this retails for 499.
"About Us
CheapGamingLaptops.UK is UK based laptop comparison website and therefore we do not sell any of the listed products on our website. After adding the products to the shopping basket and during the checkout, you’ll be redirected to secured supplier’s website."
And then it redirects you to Amazon...
johnzoro
26 Sep 16#35
Is this better than a 14 inch 510s that i just bought from very?
I think this one (was posted previously).. extra money for SSD + full HD + i5 6th gen.
no experience with misco.. anyone used them?
meherenow
26 Sep 16#39
Terrible, TERRIBLE customer support - I had to get real with a small claims threat a few years ago to make them abide by their obligations under the (then) Sale of Goods Act when something pricey I bought became faulty after a few weeks.
YMMV of course, but I think the reviews on Trust Pilot say it all...
Better buy full HD certified refurbished dell for 320
uk90 to pablomalin
26 Sep 16#52
I'd never by a refurbished laptop, you never know where the previous owners hands have been, stats have shown there is more bad bacteria on laptops and phones than the average toilet.
uk90
26 Sep 16#51
Will GTA 5 work on this? It works perfectly on my 12.5" Toshiba Laptop but that has an i7 processor, 256gb SSD and some intel graphics card. Only trouble is after a while the laptop gets quite hot but luckily I bought a cooling pad which sorts it out.
iceni
27 Sep 16#53
Respectfully, do you ever go out and touch anything ?
fit finlay
27 Sep 16#54
crap screen, no ssd, don't be fooled by the other specs
fit finlay
27 Sep 16#55
it was years ago, now its LOW D
uk90
27 Sep 16#56
I appreciate your question and the answer is yes however when I come back from somewhere I would wash my hands thoroughly as I would if I was eating out too and whenever I get the opportunity I would wash my hands where available. Clean my phone everyweek and don't let anyone use my laptop at uni and very rarely eat something someone has offered me unless its from a packet and yes it is very rude but I tend not to tell them why as it is a habit but I greatly appreciate their offer.
Weenie Beenie
27 Sep 16#57
Yeah.....no. 720p is still a very common video format for HD video, this is greater than that. It's HD.
jasee
27 Sep 16#59
Splitting hairs yes, but if this was to describe its display as HD, it wouldn't be.
tuna89
27 Sep 16#60
You're very welcome - just to be clear to everyone this isn't an issue just because you can't run Linux, this locks you out of being able to reinstall any operating system to your HDD - (I.E no Windows 7 no Windows 8 or Vista, it's either Windows 10 or NOTHING).
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Opening post
Intel® Core i5 processor: with stunning visuals and performance, the 5th gen Intel Core processor delivers processing power that takes your computing to the next level.
Thin, Light, and Portable. With a starting weight of only 2.0 kg (4.4 lbs) and at just 22.6 mm (0.89") thin, the Ideapad 100 is perfect for your on-the go lifestyle.
Smile, Swap, and Sort - In Seconds. The Ideapad 100 comes with Lenovo Photo Master 2.0 - a modern photo library with powerful, easy-to-use navigation and editing tools.
Windows 10 is the best combination of the Windows you already know, plus lots of great improvements you'll love. Technologies like Battery Saver to automatically conserve power , so you can work longer and play harder.
For total confidence, Windows 10 helps you stay up to date and has more built-in security features than ever for helping protect against malicious software.
Top comments
All comments (60)
Erm... No.
Battery life is very poor around 2.5/3 hours by just browsing.
It is heavy and so not very portable as description tries to claim.
You get what you pay for, I got a i3 version with 500GB HDD for £194 last week but personally I wouldn't pay more.
The specs say it will, but I'd love a second opinion..
Thanks..
I'm assuming I don't need any cables, but what about a plastic blanking plate for where the drive cover used to be?
many thanks
john.
If you look online the only way to swap the HD is to open it up by removing the keyboard, quite long winded but i'm going to do it - an SSD is an amzing way to boost the performance.
Not bad for what I paid, but the sound is awful, the mouse buttons are very noisy, there's an uncomfortable amount of flex in the plastic case, and it's a pain to swap the hard drive. I don't mind the screen, but I'm not a FHD fanboy.
Perfectly fine for web browsing, videos and coursera (with headphones), which is what I bought it for, but the price needs to drop £80+ before it's better value than the HP trade-in deals we see each month.
Did you even check what it is you are posting??!
"About Us
CheapGamingLaptops.UK is UK based laptop comparison website and therefore we do not sell any of the listed products on our website. After adding the products to the shopping basket and during the checkout, you’ll be redirected to secured supplier’s website."
And then it redirects you to Amazon...
I think this one (was posted previously).. extra money for SSD + full HD + i5 6th gen.
no experience with misco.. anyone used them?
YMMV of course, but I think the reviews on Trust Pilot say it all...
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.misco.co.uk
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/X0N33EAABU-HP-250-G5_1959038.html
Not bad spec for the money, but the screen at 1366 x 768 will look rubbish.
If you can, spend the extra cash and get a 1080p laptop.
Can't find a good new example atm, but here's a refurbished with similar spec
http://www.xsonly.com/products/new-other-lenovo-ideapad-z50-70-59423314-i5-4210u-windows-8-1
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_microsoft_signature_pc_program_now/
Be warned!