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Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6 Inch Full HD - (Intel Pentium Gold, 4GB RAM, 128GB Storage, Windows 10 Home in S mode) - Abyss Blue

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We test Windows PCs' graphics with two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for laptops with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs). To get some insight into just how portable this laptop is, we have to take a peek at its measurements. Here, we see a weight of 1.65 kg, and a profile of 19.9mm. Indeed that makes it super comfortable to carry, even at 15-inches in diameter. Unfortunately, the build quality is not great. As the laptop is made entirely out of plastic, we see that the base is super bendy. Definitely refrain from flexing it. As we said at the beginning of the review, your expectations should have been low. Unfortunately, the IdeaPad 3i Gen 6 (15″) kind of proved this with its poor build quality. Interestingly, Lenovo has shown with a lot of ThinkPads that it can make good-quality plastic devices. However, this particular laptop falls short of that, as its chassis is super bendy, and the hinges are unstable. Given the fact that the build is what provides the first impression, we feel that they could have done a better job. Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6in Pentium 4GB 128GB Laptop vs other products in the Laptops and netbooks category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives.

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Find out why Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6in Pentium 4GB 128GB Laptop scored an incredible review score of 9.5 out of 10. The maximum measured brightness is 312 nits (cd/m2) in the middle of the screen and 288 nits (cd/m2) average across the surface with a maximum deviation of 15%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen and at maximum brightness is 6200K (average) – slightly warmer than the 6500K optimum for sRGB. Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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Three further benchmarks focus on the CPU, using all available cores and threads, to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads. Maxon's Cinebench R23 uses that company's Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene, while Primate Labs' Geekbench 5.4 Pro simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning. Finally, we use the open-source video transcoder HandBrake 1.4 to convert a 12-minute video clip from 4K to 1080p resolution (lower times are better). The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Lenovo is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Laptops and netbooks category. We have to say that despite the budget nature of this notebook, Lenovo didn’t spare any resources and efforts in designing its cooling solution. As you can see, even under extreme workloads, the device can maintain a frequency higher than the 2.40 GHz base one for this processor. Comfort during full load This device houses a 15.6” HD display and stereo speakers featuring Dolby Audio technology; it will make for a fine casual gaming and multimedia experience. Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode.

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Officially listed as model 15IAU7 and product number 82RK0017US, our test unit combines a 12th Generation Core i5-1235U processor (two Performance cores, eight Efficient cores, 12 threads) with 8GB of DDR4 memory and a 512GB PCIe SSD. Interestingly, it comes with Windows 11 Pro instead of most consumer machines' Win 11 Home. Wi-Fi 6 (not Wi-Fi 6E) and Bluetooth handle wireless connections. Still, we’ve included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios, as well as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it’s difficult for today’s displays to cover that well. We’ve also included the so-called Michael Pointer gamut, or Pointer’s gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day. Like some costlier notebooks, the IdeaPad 3i turns on when you open its lid rather than waiting for you to press the power button. The webcam has predictably soft-focus 720p resolution, but it captures relatively well-lit and colorful images without too much static. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6in Pentium 4GB 128GB Laptop to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material.

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The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Laptops and netbooks category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Lenovo. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Lenovo branded products in the Laptops and netbooks category.

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