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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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Kontorsarbete
Office Work bör främst användas av användare som tillbringar den mesta tiden med att titta på textstycken, tabeller eller bara surfa. Den här profilen syftar till att ge bättre tydlighet och klarhet genom att behålla en platt gammakurva (2,20), ursprunglig färgtemperatur och perceptuellt korrekta färger.
Design och spel
Den här profilen riktar sig till designers som arbetar professionellt med färger, även för spel och filmer. Design and Gaming tar skärmpaneler till sina gränser och gör dem så exakta som möjligt i sRGB IEC61966-2-1-standarden för webb och HDTV, vid vitpunkt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminerar skadlig pulsbreddsmodulering (PWM) och minskar negativt blått ljus som påverkar våra ögon och vår kropp. Eftersom den är skräddarsydd för varje panel lyckas den hålla färgerna perceptuellt korrekta. Health-Guard simulerar papper så att trycket på ögonen minskas kraftigt.
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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
Resultaten är från Cinebench R23 CPU-testet (ju högre poäng, desto bättre)
Resultaten är från vårt Photoshop-jämförelsetest (ju lägre poäng, desto bättre).
GPU benchmarks
Resultaten är från 3DMark: Time Spy (Graphics) benchmark (ju högre poäng desto bättre)
Resultaten är från 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (högre poäng, desto bättre)
Resultaten är från Unigine Superposition benchmark (ju högre poäng desto bättre).
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.
