Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a low cost decent Laptop. You can use it for browsing, simple work in documents etc. Not for Heavy use or gaming. Do not expect speedy work or browsing either, considering it running Windows 11 on 4 GB memory - it is tough to expect a quicker response for any task. It takes time to settle down after a few updates. I wanted an additional Laptop for my kids to complete occasional school Homework which it is able to do, however if you start loading more applications and demanding operation, this laptop will lag behind and get you frustrated soon. I would recommend this laptop only if you are on a tight budget or need a spare for kids/light tasks.

The Lenovo Ideapad 1 is a stylish, efficient, and budget-friendly laptop that exceeds expectations. Whether you're a professional or student, its Celeron N4020 processor and 4GB memory ensure seamless multitasking. The 14.0" HD display and 128GB eMMC storage provide a vibrant visual experience and ample space for files. With impressive battery life, comfortable keyboard, and affordable price, the Ideapad 1 is a winning choice that elevates your computing experience. Highly recommended for those seeking a reliable, well-rounded laptop without breaking the bank.

This was an open box special so I got it at a great price. With a manufacturing date of Aug 2023 I was a little surprised that it didn't come with a universal USB-C power supply. It also has the large SD card slot that requires an adapter. It came with the latest windows OS but that seemed to be a bit much for the little processor. It would occasionally freeze up, I'm guessing trying to catch up on things it needed to do in the OS. So I dumped windows and loaded Debian-Linux. It works fine now, plenty of speed working with Debian and no freeze ups. I did have to spend $11 on a n USB network dongle since Debian didn't have the driver for the on board network device. If you're comfortable with a Linux OS this will be a good little device. If you need to stick with windows it may be a little disappointing.

This has been a great purchase, as the laptop is light in weight, is easy to use and very smooth in performance, and its battery has been way too good, as it lasts very long. Good laptop for every day use.

Technical Specifications • Brand: Brand name • Model: Specific model • Processor: Processor type • RAM: Amount of RAM • Storage: Disk type and capacity General Performance ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5 stars) Strengths • Excellent processing speed • Elegant and modern design • Good battery life • High resolution screen Aspects to improve • Possible heating in intensive use • Somewhat high price User Experience The computer offers solid performance for everyday tasks such as web browsing, office work, document editing and multimedia playback. Its lightweight design makes it very portable. Recommendation Highly recommended for professionals, students and users looking for a versatile and reliable team. Final Verdict A computer that combines power, design and functionality at a competitive price.

Could be faster. Then again….I only paid like 130. Fine for BASIC task that you don’t mind waiting in. Email, office/excel docs & spreadsheets. Fiddle around and easily transport.

Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome computer. My battery lasts about 8 hours before needing to recharge, and it charges super fast! I have a couple of problems though. One, you only get 128 GB of storage. It's great for web browsing and low-end tasks, but not for anything else. My second issue is the charger. It doesn't go in easily, so you have to wiggle it to make it go in. Overall, it's an awesome computer and I would recommend this if you need a computer for school or work without breaking your wallet.

She was a great laptop for the last four years, but she has slowed down a lot. The fan has always been relatively loud and nothing I ciuld do much about. She struggles ro run games with Medium-Low requirements like League of Legends and definitely cant run games like Ark or Rocket League. But the first year or two she did well. Had to get a new laptop. I’d recommend a more recent laptop. I

Originally got the computer for school, It works great although it can get a bit slow when one to many tabs are open. Overall I recommend.

This computer is very slow and it freezes as well, when I first received it it was slow but I thought it’d speed up overtime which wasn’t the case. You can’t have to many tabs open either or it’d reset whatever it was you were doing, and it’s still slow today.

I bought this laptop for school so I could do my assignments on Windows, but I have never been able to get the laptop to load properly. It is so bad that it even took over an hour to get passed the password screen. I waited to actually get it checked out (because I'm tech-dumb and was mostly getting by with the Chromebook), and finally decided to see if my laptop could be fixed after two years. I also have another laptop that's a Chromebook and I've been using that instead of this one. After getting it reviews by geek squad, I actually had a chip issue and was told I would basically need a new laptop because repairs would cost that much. I don't think my experience was a normal case. I was really hoping it would work out for me, but mine just had a very serious issue with it.

Worked well but a lil slow Also great for work and other things

The labtop came in great condition it just runs very slow and it won’t connect to certain apps

Too slow, it’s not bad for work. The screen is very nice, and at times it can be fast but overall too slow

for the price this computer is AMAZING everyone is so shipping was fast. I use this laptop daily for my WFH job and online classes and it gets the job done. Couldn't be more satisfied with my purchase. I also regularly watch movies from this laptop and my daughter plays Roblox regularly as well. Battery life is amazing but what's even better is that it charges EXTREMELY FAST.

Great laptop for the price, it can be a bit slow upon first start up, or when too many browser tabs are open. Very useful if its for a child or if your just on a tight budget.

THIS BY FAR IS THE “WORST” laptop you can buy. It constantly freezes when you open the browser. It’s super slow. Having to constantly restart the laptop. The lights always flashing on it. It’s just not really worth the money it’s best to save more money and get more quality for your money. This laptop was just thrown together with a price slapped on it. Definitely not worth it.

Great laptop, a beautiful design, ultra thin and very good for homework

It’s small compact, perfect screen size and very efficient battery.

With an admirably long battery life, decent build quality, weight less than 3 pounds, and reasonable serviceability for web browsing and Office apps productivity, this laptop is actually a decent deal if you can get it on one of these crazy sales where it is $100-$120 off in price! Otherwise, when you approach its full retail price, I would skip it and spend an extra chunk of money on a machine with a tad more modern specs like 8GB of RAM to minimize your frustration, even if you must buy refurbished or renewed. If you do decide to buy this laptop, I feel I am obligated to first advise potential buyers on how to setup this laptop so that they do not pull out all their hair and then immediately return this laptop or set it on fire out of frustration. Steps to setting this laptop up in a manner that maintains your sanity: 1. Take a deep breath and let go of your initial 2023 speed expectations. This is going to take a while, get ready for the marathon, because this will be no sprint. 2. Plug it into power and preferably perform this setup while you have a movie or show or two in a row playing in the background to distract your attention while this machine slowly proceeds through its setup. Satisfactory setup and usage took me nearly three hours waiting on the machine to slowly update and set up. 3. When you get through the initial Windows installer setup and first boot onto the desktop, DON’T TOUCH THE MACHINE. It is likely going to be pegged out at 100% of CPU and RAM usage while it is first booting up and doing a ton of background processes and tweaks. Any actions you try to perform are going to feel so slow you will think the laptop is busted. It is best to wait for maybe 10 minutes and follow whatever prompts that pop up like Edge settings before you go clicking around too vigorously. If you have OneDrive from another Windows computer and you have logged in with your Microsoft account, this can add another long and indeterminate amount of time that you need to let this sit idle while it retrieves all your cloud information and makes it available for access via the native OneDrive folder. 4. Next, go into the settings to Windows Update and have it check for updates. Install all updates and then restart the computer as instructed. Then check AGAIN for updates, and install all of those, restarting if need be. By doing that, you are making sure you have the latest Windows updates and drivers for your computer installed so you know that none of those issues are bogging you down during your first real use of the machine. 5. Uninstall McAfee Security. The Windows security software installed on this operating system is sufficient for most and McAfee is a memory hog and will constantly pester you with security program offers and coupons. 6. Check Windows Update ONE MORE TIME or TWO MORE TIMES for updates, just to make sure nothing has been missed. 7. Now, you are ready to start your real use of the machine! Now to the lengthier part of my review. I am going to be honest: I was ready to give up on this laptop. Through the entire length of this 3 hour or so set up and update process, I was ready to huck this laptop out the window. It was slow as all get out in every metric while it was slowly and laboriously updating, with the RAM and CPU pegged at 100% utilization almost the entire setup process. That was not a good sign. Much to my surprise, this machine almost had a sort of “break-in” period, where it was initially clunky in its usage through all of its updates, but now has managed to actually be enjoyable enough to use that I am incorporating it into my daily usage for this review period! This laptop is incredibly lightweight at less than 3 pounds on my scale (2Ibs 14.8oz) and is only a half an inch or so wider than my 2021 MBP 14. The top shell is metal and feels high quality, even if it is a little prone to fingerprint accumulation, and the bottom shell of the chassis is strong feeling plastic and the keyboard deck is also metal, although it is a little flexy. Perhaps the best part of this laptop is the keyboard and trackpad. Although the keyboard is not backlit, it is an appropriately responsive keyboard with a good layout and excellent tactile feedback from the keys. The keycaps themselves are covered in a sort of eggshell textured matte finish that keeps the finger oils and prints off the keys and makes for a nice grippy feel while typing. I am indeed typing this review on this laptop, and it is a great experience. The trackpad is a real surprise on this laptop. It is, I kid you not, better than the trackpad of a $2300 dollar gaming laptop I just tested. It is an almost glass smooth trackpad with nice left and right built-in buttons at the bottom left and right of the trackpad that are clicked in a springboard fashion. The touchpad is perfectly responsive and precise and responds to Windows multitouch gestures like three fingers swipe up to give a view of all the windows and programs open on your desktop. I have been using this trackpad for over 4 hours on this laptop just today and I have not had the slightest inclination to pull out a mouse to use with it. Another aspect of the hardware of this laptop I am content with is the screen. This screen is not the brightest, sharpest, or highest definition capable screen out there by a long stretch, but it provides users EXACTLY what I think they need on a laptop of this price in the way of being reasonable for some good-looking YouTube or Netflix videos. It has relatively good viewing angles and also hinges open almost just a few hairs shy of flat to the keyboard! The speakers on this are another case of being reasonable at the price. There are two tiny speaker grills under the front lip of the laptop and the sound the speakers emit is neither loud nor high in clarity, but they are serviceable. Gratefully, Lenovo absolutely knocked the input and output ports of this laptop out of the park. The include charger is tiny, juices the laptop up quick, and super easy to pack up and take on the go. The 3.5mm barrel port for headphones works great and delivered plenty of volume to my Apple earbuds I still like to use from time to time. The laptop includes an HDMI port that was capable of putting out a beautiful, buttery smooth image to my 32” 1440p (2K) display at 60Hz refresh rate. The USB-C port is data transfer only as far as my testing can tell. There is no charging through it (bummer) nor was it able to send a display out to my monitor via an HDMI to USB-C cable.. Also included is a full-sized SD card slot (take some notes, Dell), and two full sized USB-A ports for connecting a mouse, flashdrive, or any other USB-A accessory you might be considering (take some notes, Apple). This has all the I/O most any average light laptop user could want! The battery life is absolutely excellent on this laptop. Unplugged I ran intensive setup tasks, benchmarks like Speedometer 2.1, watched multiple YouTube videos, and had many apps open and installations done for almost 4-1/2 hours, and I still had 63% of the battery remaining when I turned in for the night! It is incredible to me how efficient these laptops are getting now. While the Intel Celeron is not my favorite family of processors historically for raw computational power and multitasking, darn if they don’t make for an efficient chip in this laptop! As for the EMMC flash memory in this laptop, 128GB is just serviceable for having the OS installed on it and some of your favorite pictures, music, and documents stored on it. It is reasonably speedy to with a 310MB/s read and 230MB/s write speed on my CrystalDiskMark desk from the Microsoft app store. The best use of this laptop is light web browsing use and working within the native Microsoft Office apps. Microsoft Word opens relatively quickly in about 5 seconds after your first time setting up and operates very smoothly with no stuttering of character population while typing and demonstrates very smooth scrolling. I have reviewed higher-end gaming laptops that couldn’t get this right! This is most definitely an appropriate selection for young students in middle school or elementary school who just need to write some basic essays, or older adults who are looking to generate some basic letters or fill out documents. Microsoft OneNote is likewise very smooth to type in and navigate. It can be a tad slow to populate some of the pages and my bigger workbooks I use for taking school notes, but it is nothing insufferable, even for someone who is used to much higher end PC’s for day-to-day use. Microsoft Excel is likewise admirably quick for very basic use. I have a one-page sheet I use for our household budgeting that only has a few simple equations built into it and there where no stutters or issues at all while browsing that workbook. I can imagine that the pitiful 4GB of RAM would be a major choke point for larger workloads on Excel, but I was at about 72-82% of RAM utilization and 62%-95% CPU utilization while I had a Word document open, OneNote notebook open, and my excel budgeting spreadsheet open. This left enough headroom for smooth switching between and I also had Microsoft edge on a YouTube page playing some music in the background. Altogether, I am surprised at the end of this review to actually be able to recommend this laptop given how much of a hastle it was to set up in the year of 2023. Thus, if you buy this, know that for the first day of owning it, you are going to be engaging in a very frustrating setup and pseudo-break in process to get this machine feeling smooth. But once you do, it is well worth it to any low-key laptop buyer looking for a simple machine with great portability and great battery life packed into a bargain of a new laptop, especially at sale prices!