Lenovo IdeaPad G50-45 [G5045 80E300HCUA]

Minimum price

One of the most affordable 15.6-inch laptops on the market is the Lenovo IdeaPad G50-45, which costs less than $250. It was possible to reduce the cost of the laptop and, as a result, the final price for the buyer thanks to the use of an AMD processor instead of Intel.

Energy Efficient Processor

While AMD's old laptop processors were hot and battery hungry, the new E1-6010 consumes only 10W of electricity (previous generations used 18W). In addition to two processing cores with a frequency of 1.35 GHz, it has a Radeon R2 graphics accelerator with 128 micro-cores of the GNC architecture.

Work and play

This processor with integrated graphics allows not only to surf the Web, view videos and edit documents, but also “run” in all blockbuster games released before 2010.

Mandatory minimum memory

You can blame the Lenovo IdeaPad G50-45 not so much for 2 GB of RAM (this is just typical for $ 250 laptops), but for a hard drive with a capacity of only 250 GB. A drive with twice the capacity would have looked better in this laptop.