Staples - Lenovo Ideapad S405-59351953 14" Laptop for $325 AC

DEAD, Sale is over.

Quote from pablocordoba : DEAD, Sale is over.

Actually, if you can find it in stock, the laptop is still there for $399 (ad runs through Sat) and you can use the $100 off coupon (Fri/Sat only) that's been quoted elsewhere to bring it down to $299.

APU (A6-4455M) should compare to the i5, and the Radeon 7500 graphics will run better than Intel HD on the i5 APU's

Found that $100 topic...
but it says OVER $399.99
This one is exactly $399.99 after discounts..

I purchased this laptop for $325 plus tax. Its a dual core for sure, very light and thin. Battery power is yet to be tested.

The screen resolution/quality is not great out of the box, I have yet to make any adjustments.

For my typical home use, such as bill payments, browsing, kids homework, budgeting etc, it is perfect. My desktop handles video editing etc etc.

The windows experience score is just 4.4, primarily due to graphics, the highest score was 6.7 (and I don't remember what that was for).

Anyhow, for $549 (msrp) it sure isn't worth it, but for $325, I'm not complaining. I've been looking for a while, and the best price I have seen on a 14" thin laptop was $369 for a i3 14-b015dx from best buy. Is the i3 worth paying 15 to 20% more for? For my use case i didn't think so. All of the laptops that I have seen under $300, were either heavy, bulky, had 2gb ram, 320 gb hdd, or 15.6" screen. All of these were deal breakers for me.

Quote from rcr203 : APU (A6-4455M) should compare to the i5, and the Radeon 7500 graphics will run better than Intel HD on the i5 APU's

Yeah, right. How about comparing it to an old Celeron processor.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.p...-4455M+APU

Just received mine today. For those who purchased it, it is extremely tricky to recover the back plate. I hate to call to get the manual to attempt to remove it. Total you have to take out 9 black screws and 3 silver ones near the battery. 5 black screws are accessible from the back and the remaining 4 are hidden under the rubber feet. Once 12 screws are taken out you can upgrade the ram and HDD. There is only 1 slot for ram so you have to purchase a 8GB to take advantage of the max setting.

So far I am impressed with the size of the laptop. I know you can score a 15" - 15.6" laptop with better specs for the same price, but they are just to heavy IMO. The biggest I would go is 14" due to the weight. The battery life has been about 3 hours with surfing web and updating the OS. I would recommend to anybody looking for a slim notebook, but at the $325 price and not more than that.

Quote from recklessk : Just received mine today. For those who purchased it, it is extremely tricky to recover the back plate. I hate to call to get the manual to attempt to remove it. Total you have to take out 9 black screws and 3 silver ones near the battery. 5 black screws are accessible from the back and the remaining 4 are hidden under the rubber feet. Once 12 screws are taken out you can upgrade the ram and HDD. There is only 1 slot for ram so you have to purchase a 8GB to take advantage of the max setting. So far I am impressed with the size of the laptop. I know you can score a 15" - 15.6" laptop with better specs for the same price, but they are just to heavy IMO. The biggest I would go is 14" due to the weight. The battery life has been about 3 hours with surfing web and updating the OS. I would recommend to anybody looking for a slim notebook, but at the $325 price and not more than that.

This looks like a decent deal for a lightweight machine. Two questions: Does it get warm easily? Can you see the screen well in bright light? (near a window or outdoors?) Thanks in advance!

window 8 not so certain right now,and this coupon doesn't make a big discount

Maybe it is worth $300 but I doubt they will extend the sale and make $100 available

there is a $100 off laptops coupon dec 7 & 8.
see http://slickdeals.net/f/5648232-H...aptop-399?

Quote from oldlady : there is a $100 off laptops coupon dec 7 & 8. see http://slickdeals.net/f/5648232-H...aptop-399?

Yes, but it clearly says OVER $399.99
This is right now exactly $399.99 in store, and out of stock at most stores.
And of course it's been gone from online for a while, does not even show up in the list anymore and it was removed from my cart.

Quote from recklessk : Just received mine today. For those who purchased it, it is extremely tricky to recover the back plate. I hate to call to get the manual to attempt to remove it. Total you have to take out 9 black screws and 3 silver ones near the battery. 5 black screws are accessible from the back and the remaining 4 are hidden under the rubber feet. Once 12 screws are taken out you can upgrade the ram and HDD. There is only 1 slot for ram so you have to purchase a 8GB to take advantage of the max setting. So far I am impressed with the size of the laptop. I know you can score a 15" - 15.6" laptop with better specs for the same price, but they are just to heavy IMO. The biggest I would go is 14" due to the weight. The battery life has been about 3 hours with surfing web and updating the OS. I would recommend to anybody looking for a slim notebook, but at the $325 price and not more than that.

what type of RAM is needed? have you found a good 8 gb stick?

Quote from pablocordoba : Yes, but it clearly says OVER $399.99 This is right now exactly $399.99 in store, and out of stock at most stores. And of course it's been gone from online for a while, does not even show up in the list anymore and it was removed from my cart.

In stock at all my local stores right now.

Man, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I'd even pay $335 for it. I don't have a staples by me. ugh