Lenovo Ideapad 320 17 [320-17IKB 80XM00A1RA]

Modern design

Since Lenovo's Ideapad 320 series is full of much more expensive models, the youngest has inherited a minimalist, sharp-angled design.

The body of the laptop is made of soft-touch plastic. It creaks a little, bends in some places, but for its price category it is assembled quite well. Due to the sharp rectangular lines of the case, the frames around the screen seem larger than they really are. However, these are rather nit-picking, in life the laptop looks great.

The screen with a diagonal of 17" has a resolution of 1600x900 pixels and is made using TN + film technology. It has a sufficient supply of brightness and high contrast, but small viewing angles and insufficient saturation of the picture. However this is striking if you decide to turn on a colorful blockbuster or play something.

Strong graphics card

And it's not about browser toys. Thanks to a discrete NVIDIA GeForce 920MX graphics card with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, the laptop is able to deliver a stable 30 frames (at medium settings and medium resolutions) in past-gen hits like Battlefield 4 or Batman: Arkham City.

In terms of gaming, the weak link is not the graphics card, but the rest of the hardware: a dual-core Intel Pentium 4415U processor (frequency 2.3 GHz), 4 GB DDR4 RAM (expandable up to 16 GB) and not the fastest 500 GB hard drive. If you return from heaven to earth and put aside the game, then for the usual surfing the net, launching HD video and office work, this power is more than enough.

Communication with the outside world

The set of laptop connectors includes two USB 3.0 ports, one USB-C port, HDMI and a card reader. The set is as modern as possible, but if you are used to connecting speakers, a mouse, a smartphone and some peripherals to a laptop, then there may not be enough ports and you will need a USB hub.

It is also worth highlighting a rather “tenacious” battery, which, with an average load (Standard mode, brightness by 70%, working with text) lasts up to 5 hours. For 17-inch models that do not have high battery life, this is a worthy result.

Against the background of all that has been said, the main disadvantage is the lack of an operating system. Neither Windows, nor Linux, nor the fashionable Endless OS is here, so the OS will have to be installed by yourself.