Lenovo Ideapad S405 Laptop: AMD A6-4455M 2.1 GHz APU, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, 14" 1366x768 LED, 4-cell, Windows 8 $274.99 with free shipping

Quote from Paigey : USB Flash drives can do everything a DVD drive can, while being more portable, having more storage, and doesn't make your laptop thicker/heavier/more power consuming. They're extremely cheap nowadays.

I thought it was easier for the average person to burn a bootable ISO rather than make a USB flash drive bootable and have the correct files ( for like an OS or multiboot type thing)

Out of stock. Is it something that could handle photoshop?

Picked one up this morning. I like it so far. The only complaint is the display. Compared to my 4 year old $300 emachine laptop, the colors aren't as nice. And the processor scored 4.9 in windows experience index compared to 5.6 on the emachine. Windows 8 is going to take some time to get use to also.

I ordered one too. Thinking of upgrade to 8GB and change hard drive to SSD.

Quote from Nah85 : Out of stock. Is it something that could handle photoshop?

A 5 year old core2duo could handle photoshop!

Quote from rjs987 : How is the WIFI on this model? I know the U310 model has terrible wifi.

I've had no problems with the WIFI.

You guys think this laptop is much better than this http://slickdeals.net/f/5819888-H...R-B-M-YMMV

Looking to hear you opinions cause i now own both. Don't have the lenovo in my possession yet.

I'm getting OOS after I try to add the laptop to my cart. Is it OOS?!? Anyone else?

I was in Staples this morning debating between the Lenovo and an HP Sleekbook 14-b010us [staples.com]. Any thoughts? I really only need to be able to surf the web, but I need to be able to load webpages quickly because it's what I do for work.

Oh, I should mention I got the Sleekbook for ~$350 - $50 rebate so final price of $300 if the rebate comes through.

Got mine today. First impressions:

Pros: The laptop has a very sleek factor, it is light, good screen, average keyboard, it is pretty fast, runs relatively cool.

Cons:
- First one didn't boot right out of the box. Got stuck on "No boot device". Box was sealed, so either they forgot to image it or the drive failed. Exchanged to be on the safe side.

- The second one (sealed too) has scratches on the battery and slightly malfunctioning battery latch. Apparently quality control is non-existent with them any more.

- No Gigabit - What in the world are they thinking??? Why wouldn't you put a gigabit LAN in this thing?

- Clickpad is ridiculous. There are no settings to disable motion over the buttons so 8/10 times you end up moving the mouse by the time you press down and click. To make things worse - Synaptics includes a "billion" other extras but omits something crucial like that.

- Windows 7 BIOS issues, which Lenovo refuses to fix according to latest news - Renders windows 7 useless on it.

- The camera has pretty bad quality so it is below useless.



Although the above issues, I will still keep it. I just love the form factor. I can't even believe myself saying all of this, but it was like love from first sight . I guess the non-W7 issue will at least make me get used to W8. It might be a good thing after all. The thing that annoys me the most is the lack of gigabit, so I either have to get a dualband card put in it or a USB3 gigabit adapter. I use my NAS for main file distribution, so 100 sometimes just doesn't cut it.

Quote from netuse : I played with a display model in the store. From the windows experience index the graphic numbers are no better than i3-3rd generation, but cpu numbers are way lower than i3. There are also complaints about the screen being too dim. Looks like Lenovo hasn't fixed that and the problem is still present in the current batch. Unlike other laptops in the store, at the lowest brightness setting the screen is completely dark in Windows 8. From my experience it will be worse if downgraded to windows 7.

OP is 17W ULV. Compare against 17W intel. Graphically it will win handily and the CPU is good enough for most tasks.

Quote from janyjan : I was in Staples this morning debating between the Lenovo and an HP Sleekbook 14-b010us [staples.com]. Any thoughts? I really only need to be able to surf the web, but I need to be able to load webpages quickly because it's what I do for work. Oh, I should mention I got the Sleekbook for ~$350 - $50 rebate so final price of $300 if the rebate comes through.

HP is 2nd gen i3 and a little weak comparing to 3rd gen i3...both cpu are very comparable.

Here is the review...but not based on S405..

http://tbreak.com/tech/2012/11/am...pu-review/

Quote from Chaminda : I ordered one too. Thinking of upgrade to 8GB and change hard drive to SSD.

There is only one memory slot and is occupied by 4G RAM already...

Here is the detailed review..

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Revi...795.0.html

Quote from slckofit : Picked one up this morning. I like it so far. The only complaint is the display. Compared to my 4 year old $300 emachine laptop, the colors aren't as nice. And the processor scored 4.9 in windows experience index compared to 5.6 on the emachine. Windows 8 is going to take some time to get use to also.

I've owned S405-A6-4455M for about 2 months. I use it everyday for web surf..check email..copy&paste...I struggled in the very low score 4.9 in windows experience index but soon I recognized that the score didn't mean anything....This APU really runs fast and even faster than my old 2nd i5-2410M...I think this is due to the new OS Windows 8...

As a computer technology fan...I spent about a week and get used to Win8..I also wrote some scripts and shotcuts..put then on the desktop so operation environment is very similar to Win7...

I also found most Win7 programs are not comparable with Win8.. including the anitvirus..LOL....Now..I use Win8 more Iike I use Android/Ipad tablets..