The Lenovo IdeaPad 110 15.6" Laptop is part of our Social range, which features great-value laptops designed to keep you connected to what matters. It's ideal for social media, making notes, email, and shopping online.
Powered by an Intel® Pentium® N3710 processor, it delivers smooth performance built for multitasking and social networking on-the-move
Room for all your files
A roomy 1 TB of storage provides lots of room for your photos, videos, and music without you having to worry about where else to store them.
Stream movies without a hitch
AC WiFi provides a faster internet connection so you can browse the web smoothly, watch the latest movies and TV shows streamed from Netflix, and play online games without any lag in online performance.
Decent for price, but battery life is a major issue going by the specs. That's if they are accurate ofcourse.
Bully to Deedie
20 Aug 17#63
I am hoping that quoted battery life is a mistake,none of the reviews i read mention battery life as an issue
Deluxe1
13 Aug 17#2
£349 anyone be a fool to buy at that price from my experience lenovo is complete garbage
jameshvc to Deluxe1
13 Aug 17#3
I've been using my Lenovo laptop daily for 5 years without any problems, so I have had the opposite experience. But that's only based upon owning one laptop. What had your experience been?
Picard123 to jameshvc
14 Aug 17#47
You sound just like the old couple of who live next door to me.
They have this old Lenovo laptop that they occasionally fire it up, waiting 5 mins for Windows to load off the chuggy, slow HDD. They use it to send the occasional email or browse the weather forecast or TV listings displayed on the cheap fuzzy 1024x768 TN panel. They never take it out so the woeful less than 3 hours battery life isn't an issue. It's a piece of junk.
However, if you were to ask them, they would describe it as "without any problems" but that's only because they don't know any better....
ukwomble to Picard123
14 Aug 17#48
Sounds like it suits their needs then :stuck_out_tongue:
Picard123 to ukwomble
14 Aug 17#49
But they could have bought something better and cheaper.
The only reason they ended up with what they did was because they didn't know any better (like the people voting this deal hot.....)
ukwomble to Picard123
14 Aug 17#50
I get you, but us oldies go for the simple option, I used to be ok with technology years ago but things change so fast these days it easier to go for something that will do the job for what it'd be used for. Appreciate your more than likely right with what you're saying though :raised_hand:
Picard123 to ukwomble
14 Aug 17#51
It's not about age, it's about having knowledge of the product. I appreciate that not everyone finds technology interesting but if you have the choice between a better option or a more expensive, worse option, why would anyone choose the latter? It makes no sense.
That's what annoys me about this website at times - too many people vote hot on things that they don't understand and all that does is mislead casual buyers into buying something that's worse and more expensive than another product.
ukwomble to Picard123
14 Aug 17#52
And don't get me started on the site's new layout :stuck_out_tongue:
ottosump288 to Deluxe1
13 Aug 17#11
The world largest personal computer vendor, yeh must be garbage eh!
Deluxe1 to ottosump288
13 Aug 17#12
like I said from personal experience of owning multiple lenovo laptops in my opinion they are garbage & unreliable !
tryn2help to Deluxe1
13 Aug 17#13
Think they're still rated as the best for touch typing. I use older Dells and have had experience of newer machines, but they're just dreadful for typing on. Almost everyone agrees older Lenovo's (think it's x220) were the best for typists, but I haven't been able to locate a decent one as yet.
Picard123 to tryn2help
13 Aug 17#16
They got rid of the original (brilliant) Thinkpad keyboards ages ago. These budget Lenovos now have really poor rubber domed keyswitches which are rubbish.
hcc27 to tryn2help
14 Aug 17#33
Yeah the IBM Thinkpads manufactured by Lenovo had the best keyboards bar none.
Magister to Deluxe1
14 Aug 17#42
Been using Lenovo for years without any problems. Perhaps you should get a little more experience, or treat your devices more kindly. Just saying.
Deluxe1 to Magister
14 Aug 17#56
its nice to hear that people have had positive experiences with lenovo but thats a large assumption wouldn't you say get more experience & treat devices better ! ive often thought of giving it the hammer treatment lol
blitzmmccv to Deluxe1
15 Aug 17#59
Sure they are! That's why businesses who use Windows laptop's are using Thinkpads as their daily drivers. Just because this laptop and the one you had might be sh!t doesn't mean the whole company is sh!t. You just need to pay a bit more for your tech and not cheap out. You get what you pay for at the end of the day.
Deluxe1 to blitzmmccv
15 Aug 17#61
people sure do like to assume on here I cheap out or treat devices poorly etc .. I was merely stating my opinion based on performance& experience of owning low budget & high end lenovo laptops & customer support received from lenovo
S.c.0.TT.y
13 Aug 17#4
Looking for a Yoga 300, hoping to see one at a decent price.
billbennett1 to S.c.0.TT.y
13 Aug 17#8
i posted a deal fpr the yoga 300 at £215 yesterday, but it went freezing cold :disappointed:
jedijacobs
13 Aug 17#5
I had a budget Lenovo for a year and a few months... Then just stopped booting and would only occasionally do so every dozen attempts or so. Told it will cost more than I paid (£189.99) to replace the motherboard! Heard many other problems with budget Lenovos. Poor quality brand, avoid...
EndlessWaves to jedijacobs
13 Aug 17#6
And have you had the experience with other sub-£200 laptops to say that it's a brand failing and not normal at this price?
jedijacobs to EndlessWaves
13 Aug 17#28
Yes indeed. I've used a number of £200-£250 laptops over the years, but just found Lenovo to be extremely budget quality build and longevity. Google it too, they all suffer similar problems and their customer support is poor.
Picard123 to jedijacobs
13 Aug 17#29
I don't rate many of their 'mid to high end' laptops either. They're 'okay' but build quality and components choices are relatively poor. I have a Y50 series laptop for example that originally retailed at around £1,000. The screen is crap, the keyboard is crap, trackpad is abysmal, the SSHD has a known high failure rate etc. Even after 2.5 years of use, the plastic around the screen hinges is beginning to crack. No way do they have top end build quality of the IBM laptops from yesteryear. Everything screams 'cutting corners' on costs. Macbooks blow these Lenovos into the weeds in terms of build quality and quality of finish.
The problem is that most buyers are pretty dumb and don't consider this sort of stuff. They just look out for 'megalpixels' or low price without properly understanding the product (it makes no sense that this deal is reaching 600C for example when the laptop itself is a bit of a dog).
Pateo to jedijacobs
13 Aug 17#10
I've got a Lenovo g550 must be around 10 years old, never really had many problems with it, it's a bit slow last few years but probably just needs hard drive cleaning /deleting etc, think I seen it on here if remember correctly! Might go for this laptop!
plap to jedijacobs
14 Aug 17#37
Budget laptops from most manufacturers are poor quality, they have to cur corners to sell devices that cheap, and they are not designed to be repaired either (cases/components clip/glued together even)
Different with business style laptops which are expected to un 8 hours a day for 4 years. Way more expensive but these devices last and keyboards can easily be replaced.
I think these people who find it to be very slow are experiencing a common problem where hardware interrupts are eating up a load of cpu cycles due to some bad driver settings. This can be fixed by running Device Manager, expanding the IDE controllers section and Uninstalling every entry that appears there, then rebooting. These drivers will then get reinstalled with the correct settings and the problem should be fixed.
I had one which saw light use and some keys on the keyboard became u/s after 14 months. I took it to a local (reputable) repaired who told me that these are awfully time consuming to replace and the only alternative was to buy a complete palm rest with keyboard but they were £150... not worth it so just made do with a usb keyboard.
Picard123
13 Aug 17#15
1366 x 768 on a 15.6" screen?
No, no, nooo..............
TN panel as well and both combined make this a dealbreaker.
COLD.
Picard123
13 Aug 17#17
At this (budget) end of the market, you'd be better off looking at one of these instead.
CPU is comparable, the screen is much better, the eMMC is much faster than the slow 5400rpm mechanical drive in the Lenovo, and you also have an M.2 slot for SSDs. If you need big storage at low cost, just plug in an external HDD via USB3.0.
The Lenovo is almost obsolete. At least, this will give you many years of decent use for basic tasks without you getting frustrated with a low res screen and wasting hours of your life waiting for that HDD to spin up.
thabiz
13 Aug 17#18
Good price and decent basic spec. I bough the dell inspiron 15 that was sub 200 pound on here in 2014, it has a lower spec processor (n3050 i think) and it works well still. Though i recently reformatted it and put Win 7 on it instead of 8.1. I am still suspicious of 10, but this is a hot deal. As for Lenovo being a bad brand, well it is a bit of a pointless debate. Some Lenovos might use substandard hardware or have awful bloatware, but the same can be said of Dell and Toshiba. Do your homework, uninstall any rubbish you dont need, look after it, and dont expect it to perform like a 600 pound machine. It will probs do you fine as a browser, old school emulator, old school games, word processor, kodi machine.
EndemicAlarm to thabiz
13 Aug 17#25
If that's what you're doing, 1TB hard drive, nor even Windows itself, is necessary. Could probably get away with a Chromebook for a few dollars more and have it actually perform like a 600 machine.
At any rate, I suspect virtually everybody would regret this particular laptop.
gorgo2015
13 Aug 17#19
The last good Lenovo ever produced was the X220 and I think it was 7 years ago.
TheHoss to gorgo2015
13 Aug 17#21
Excellent machines i swear by the build quality of the thinkpads particularly the t and x series.
Picard123
13 Aug 17#20
"Up to 3 hours battery life"
:dizzy_face: :astonished: :astonished:
jaydeeuk1 to Picard123
13 Aug 17#24
Shocking. I've taken dumps longer than that.
Picard123 to jaydeeuk1
13 Aug 17#27
It gets even less in the PC Mark battery test.... :poop:
TomScrut to jaydeeuk1
15 Aug 17#57
Surely the length of a dump should be measured in distance rather than time :wink:
jaydeeuk1
13 Aug 17#23
£199 still overpriced for the spec imo.
APPLE-SAM
13 Aug 17#26
We got the 310 model from John Lewis last year, luckily with a 2 year warranty which we need to use. Seriously not impressed, battery life is poor at about 2 hours, keyboard has annoying habit of typing characters twice...real pain when entering ****passwords..., USB & memory card ports playing up by stopping & then restarting. Won't be buying another budget Lenovo
I think you would be far better off with this one with a 128Gb SSD, and use a portable HDD for extra storage.
kupon
14 Aug 17#32
I purchased a Yoga 700 for £340 last year which I was happy with. I used it for web browsing and Office work, nothing demanding. However, the motherboard died after just 370 days.
I would never purchase a Lenovo laptop/notebook again.... ...unless it was ridiculously cheap, of course!
Be warned.
Picard123 to kupon
14 Aug 17#34
370 days? No reason why you can't still claim against the retailer under the sale of goods legislation.
I contacted the retailer, Amazon, who told me that as I had opened the casing to disconnect and reconnect the battery (following advise on Lonovo's forum) that I had invalidated my warranty with them and would be unable to claim.
LadyEleanor
14 Aug 17#35
6Decent enough, but bear in mind that these chips are really from the Atom stable. The 6 wattts average is via throttling the CPU a lot.
I guesd the low battery life is OK in that we can now safely assume laptops are for desk use only, tablets and phablets dominating none desk use
Picard123 to LadyEleanor
14 Aug 17#38
WTF are you babbling on about???
Laptops are designed to be portable. You'd be screwed if try to take this to a conference or meeting somewhere as it won't get you through even half a day, let alone a full day.
"Up to 3 hours battery life" is nothing short of ridiculous, given that real world battery life is likely to be less and reduced even further as the battery wear.
LadyEleanor
14 Aug 17#36
firstpost.com/tec…tml "The benchmark scores obtained were quite modest, with Cinebench R15 giving 142 points and 3D Mark Skydiver gave 1238 points which is the lowest score we have obtained on a laptop tested in the last couple of years. Crystal Disk Mark 3.0 gave an acceptable 102 MB/s for sequential read speeds and 104 MB/s for sequential write."
LadyEleanor
14 Aug 17#39
An outdoor meeting, or are you simply too soft to seek a plug socket? Anyway, have you not heard of external battery packs suitable for one offs?
As to the comment on budget laptops being none repairable, the high end ones can be worse, Surface recently being singled out for strong criticism.
eloo
14 Aug 17#40
Cold Lenovo laptops are terrible quality unless your super lucky
Snugster
14 Aug 17#41
Just been to PC World Silverlink, salesman was very evasive as to whether they had this in stock and he seemed determined not to sell me the laptop without buying with their bundled options. I walked out.
Picard123 to Snugster
14 Aug 17#46
You dodged a bullet - this machine is junk.
Magister
14 Aug 17#43
Been using Lenovo for years without any problems. Perhaps you should get a little more experience, or treat your devices more kindly. Just saying.
ukwomble
14 Aug 17#45
Cheers op, picked one up earlier for son to use during a course he is taking, should do the job perfectly
foraminafera
14 Aug 17#53
I've had Lenovo T series laptops for years and they have been reliable (though admittedly dinosaurs). Replaceable keyboards (once only as the original had a USA keyboard - £40 Amazon), batteries (duracelldirect heavy duty simple swap £ 40), etc..... the current system is >10 years old and has now come to the point where it needs a new screen (£40 - swappable with reasonable tech knowledge). Now the budget range was another story - one only - DOA - strung along by Lenovo on replacements (lack of) - spares - (lack of) - refund (eventually offered at my insistence) - but took a long time to materialise. Unable to recommend Lenovo at this budget end.
Village
14 Aug 17#54
I have boycotted Lenovo since their firmware disabled the battery on my Thinkpad after I'd run it flat then unplugged the charger before it had charged enough. The battery still had 70% of its original storage capacity, and it should have been up to me rather than Lenovo to decide when it needed replacing. Dreadful company, even the Thinkpads are pretty shoddy nowadays leave alone their crappy own brand junk.
briandwilliams1958
14 Aug 17#55
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 510S and it's an amazing machine, have some heat
zzzz
15 Aug 17#58
Showing as £249.98 for me now.
captainbeaky to zzzz
15 Aug 17#60
Yep. They have put the price up now.
spirogiro
15 Aug 17#62
To the nay sayers - have sourced 3x Lenovo Thinkpad 1510s from deals on here over past 3 years and each are working fine and faultless and one has a 5 hour battery life normal use - all refurbs too... Nowt wrong with the brand...
Bully
20 Aug 17#64
Looks like the Ram can not be upgraded on this unit as the 4GB is soldered directly onto the motherboard.
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Powered by an Intel® Pentium® N3710 processor, it delivers smooth performance built for multitasking and social networking on-the-move
Room for all your files
A roomy 1 TB of storage provides lots of room for your photos, videos, and music without you having to worry about where else to store them.
Stream movies without a hitch
AC WiFi provides a faster internet connection so you can browse the web smoothly, watch the latest movies and TV shows streamed from Netflix, and play online games without any lag in online performance.
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All comments (64)
They have this old Lenovo laptop that they occasionally fire it up, waiting 5 mins for Windows to load off the chuggy, slow HDD. They use it to send the occasional email or browse the weather forecast or TV listings displayed on the cheap fuzzy 1024x768 TN panel. They never take it out so the woeful less than 3 hours battery life isn't an issue. It's a piece of junk.
However, if you were to ask them, they would describe it as "without any problems" but that's only because they don't know any better....
The only reason they ended up with what they did was because they didn't know any better (like the people voting this deal hot.....)
That's what annoys me about this website at times - too many people vote hot on things that they don't understand and all that does is mislead casual buyers into buying something that's worse and more expensive than another product.
I use older Dells and have had experience of newer machines, but they're just dreadful for typing on.
Almost everyone agrees older Lenovo's (think it's x220) were the best for typists, but I haven't been able to locate a decent one as yet.
Then just stopped booting and would only occasionally do so every dozen attempts or so.
Told it will cost more than I paid (£189.99) to replace the motherboard!
Heard many other problems with budget Lenovos.
Poor quality brand, avoid...
I've used a number of £200-£250 laptops over the years, but just found Lenovo to be extremely budget quality build and longevity.
Google it too, they all suffer similar problems and their customer support is poor.
The problem is that most buyers are pretty dumb and don't consider this sort of stuff. They just look out for 'megalpixels' or low price without properly understanding the product (it makes no sense that this deal is reaching 600C for example when the laptop itself is a bit of a dog).
they have to cur corners to sell devices that cheap,
and they are not designed to be repaired either
(cases/components clip/glued together even)
Different with business style laptops which are expected to un 8 hours a day for 4 years.
Way more expensive but these devices last and keyboards can easily be replaced.
amazon.co.uk/Len…r=1
No, no, nooo..............
TN panel as well and both combined make this a dealbreaker.
COLD.
CPU is comparable, the screen is much better, the eMMC is much faster than the slow 5400rpm mechanical drive in the Lenovo, and you also have an M.2 slot for SSDs. If you need big storage at low cost, just plug in an external HDD via USB3.0.
The Lenovo is almost obsolete. At least, this will give you many years of decent use for basic tasks without you getting frustrated with a low res screen and wasting hours of your life waiting for that HDD to spin up.
At any rate, I suspect virtually everybody would regret this particular laptop.
:dizzy_face: :astonished: :astonished:
I think you would be far better off with this one with a 128Gb SSD, and use a portable HDD for extra storage.
I would never purchase a Lenovo laptop/notebook again....
...unless it was ridiculously cheap, of course!
Be warned.
theguardian.com/mon…eed
The 6 wattts average is via throttling the CPU a lot.
I guesd the low battery life is OK in that we can now safely assume laptops are for desk use only, tablets and phablets dominating none desk use
Laptops are designed to be portable. You'd be screwed if try to take this to a conference or meeting somewhere as it won't get you through even half a day, let alone a full day.
"Up to 3 hours battery life" is nothing short of ridiculous, given that real world battery life is likely to be less and reduced even further as the battery wear.
"The benchmark scores obtained were quite modest, with Cinebench R15 giving 142 points and 3D Mark Skydiver gave 1238 points which is the lowest score we have obtained on a laptop tested in the last couple of years. Crystal Disk Mark 3.0 gave an acceptable 102 MB/s for sequential read speeds and 104 MB/s for sequential write."
As to the comment on budget laptops being none repairable, the high end ones can be worse, Surface recently being singled out for strong criticism.