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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021)
The niche that the IdeaPad 3 fills is now more important than ever. The need for a budget-conscious laptop has skyrocketed with the world being in the state that it is. The newest generation IdeaPad 3 laptops offer the Ryzen 5000 U-series chips, albeit the ones that are built on the Zen 2 architecture.
However, they still offer plenty of performance for day-to-day activities, as well as the occasional heavy workloads. The IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021) offers a lot of bank for the buck, with its 17.3-inch screen and is one of the more interesting IdeaPad 3 laptops.
Today, we present you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021).
Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021): Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021)
1. Upgradeability
The laptop offers decent, but not perfect upgradeability. For example, half the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard, with there being only one SODIMM slot for future expansion. Storage-wise, you get one M.2 PCIe x4 drive, along with an optional 2.6-inch SATA drive bay, depending on which battery you go for.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access the laptop’s internal components, including the RAM and SSD slots.
2. Display
The laptop offers two display options, each with a 17.3-inch diagonal. The first laptop offers a 1600x900p resolution and uses a TN panel, which offers narrow viewing angles and poor color reproduction. The second option increases the resolution to Full HD and uses an IPS panel. Our laptop had the latter option, and it showed comfortable viewing angles, a maximum brightness of 327 nits in the middle of the screen, 321 nits as an average for the entire display area, and a maximum deviation of 8%. The contrast ratio is good – 1150:1.
The display also covers 97% of the sRGB color gamut, making a good case for being a budget creator laptop.
The display solidifies its case by delivering great color accuracy once we applied our Design and Gaming profile applied, bringing down the dE value to 1.1.
Here are the results of our color accuracy test with both the factory settings (left) and with our Design and Gaming profile applied (right).
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Office Work应该主要由那些花大部分时间看文本、表格或仅仅是浏览的用户使用。该配置文件旨在通过保持平坦的伽玛曲线（2.20）、本机色温和精确的色彩来提供更好的清晰度。
设计与游戏
本资料针对专业处理色彩的设计师，以及游戏和电影。设计与游戏》将显示面板发挥到了极致，使其在白点D65的网页和高清电视的sRGB IEC61966-2-1标准中尽可能准确。
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3. Battery life
The laptop comes with the choice between two different battery units, either 38Wh or 45Wh. Our laptop came equipped with the 45Wh battery unit, and it performed quite well, lasting for 9 hours and a half of Web browsing, 9 hours and 3 minutes of video playback, and two hours and five minutes of gaming. Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.
4. Performance
The laptop offers adequate performance, with its Ryzen 5 5500U, which is a nice middle ground between the Ryzen 3 5300U and the Ryzen 7 5700U. Here you can compare the benchmark scores of our laptop, as it goes against several of its competitors.
CPU benchmarks
结果来自Cinebench R23 CPU测试（分数越高越好）。
结果来自于我们的Photoshop基准测试(分数越低越好)
GPU benchmarks
结果来自3DMark：Time Spy（图形）基准测试（分数越高越好）。
结果来自3DMark：Fire Strike（图形）基准测试（分数越高越好）。
1 reason NOT to buy the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (17″, 2021)
1. Design and build quality
The laptop is built entirely from plastic, which is totally understandable, considering the price of it. However, we would have liked it if Lenovo had put more effort into making it sturdier. When you are the brand that created the ThinkPad laptops, which annually show the world that you don’t need fancy materials on laptops to make them rigid and tough, you need to apply the same effort for your other, less expensive laptops, which make the largest chunks of your revenue.
Both the lid and the base are bendy, and the lid cannot be opened with a single hand. However, it sports portable dimensions especially for a 17.3-inch device, weighing only 2.10 kg, while being 19.9 mm tall.
