The IdeaPad is one of the most popular and numerous lines in the assortment of the Chinese giant Lenovo, which is strongly associated with simple laptops for work or study. Most IdeaPad models are built on the Intel platform, equipped with integrated Intel Iris/Radeon Vega graphics and flexible NVMe SSDs that provide lightning-fast system and application startup. The whole IdeaPad series stands out due to the clear division into classes.


The IdeaPad 1 is the entry-level family with simple TN+Film or IPS screens and AMD Ryzen 3/Intel Core i3 quad-core processors. The amount of RAM is in the range from 4 to 8 GB, and additional equipment is limited to fast charging. The IdeaPad 3 devices are one step higher. In terms of performance, they are similar to the IdeaPad 1 laptops, with the difference that the hardware is usually more powerful, the case is assembled from better materials, the hardware is more powerful, and an eye-pleasing IPS panel with a large margin plays the role of the screen brightness, wide viewing angles and natural color reproduction. The range of possibilities here is much wider: this is suitable for home, and for work, and for study. Sometimes you can even play games.

Well, at the improvised top of the lineup are the IdeaPad 5 and IdeaPad 5 Pro laptops, which are positioned by the manufacturer as modern and fairly powerful business-class laptops. Here, Lenovo engineers allow themselves some liberties, but they always strive to ensure that the final cost of such a device does not go too far beyond $ 1000. These are very productive medium format laptops with a powerful Ryzen 5 / Ryzen 7 processor, 16 GB of RAM, good autonomy (up to 12 hours), WQHD screen, fast charging and aluminium casing. Depending on the specific modification of the laptop, it can use both an integrated AMD Vega series video card and an entry-level discrete GPU a la GeForce 1650/2050/3050/4050.