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Lenovo Ideapad 3 14" Laptop: Intel 6405U, 4GB DDR4, 128GB SSD

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$149

$320

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Walmart has Lenovo Ideapad 3 14" Laptop (81WA00B1US) on sale for $149. Free shipping may be available in select areas, otherwise choose store pickup where available. Thanks PoloM
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Specs:
  • 14" HD LED Backlit Anti-Glare Display
  • Intel Pentium Gold 6405U Dual Core Processor
  • 128GB 2242 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
  • 4GB OnBoard 2400MHz DDR4 RAM
  • Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
  • 2 x 2 802.11AC Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 5.0
  • Windows 10 in S Mode

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Walmart has Lenovo Ideapad 3 14" Laptop (81WA00B1US) on sale for $149. Free shipping may be available in select areas, otherwise choose store pickup where available. Thanks PoloM
  • Note, availability may vary based on location.
Specs:
  • 14" HD LED Backlit Anti-Glare Display
  • Intel Pentium Gold 6405U Dual Core Processor
  • 128GB 2242 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
  • 4GB OnBoard 2400MHz DDR4 RAM
  • Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
  • 2 x 2 802.11AC Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 5.0
  • Windows 10 in S Mode

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GrandpaRicky
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Forget the haters! My wife and her aunt have something similar. If the performance is the same, It's a great deal for less tech-savy uses, like home study, or for media consumption. Windows 10 works just fine once you switch out of S mode. Streaming services work, Zoom works, light browsing works (seen the wife with 10 tabs open in Chrome and Edge just fine). They pay bills, do online shopping, write emails - all that stuff. The kids play Roblox and Minecraft. Wife hooks up to the TV to do her workouts. The specs are all low-end, but it is $150.

So what are the cons? It's not thin, nor light. The camera is hot garbage to me, but the wife uses it for Zoom and hasn't complained yet, so there's that. The screen is ... meh. I mean, our phones have better screens, and I'll bet a $150 phone might as well. At first I was concerned about the 4GB of ram, but honestly, it hasn't been a problem YET. I'm sure, in the future we'll have to revisit this. I would like an ethernet jack, but it's hard to tell because they only use them in the house and we have good wi-fi. If we go on vacation, it might be a different story. Also, 128GB of storage is nothing these days. You will run out fast if you have a lot of media. But this problem isn't exclusive to this particular model, as the majority of laptops are in the same boat. So add the cost of external storage (SD card, external drive, cloud) to the overall price. Finally, the battery life is not good. You'll have to pay more to start getting decent longevity.
GILTI
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You can look it up by model #

Intel Pentium Gold 6405U (2C / 4T, 2.4GHz, 2MB)

https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/I...81WA00B1US
nomedigasnada
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I'm telling you guys. Avoid these lower end Lenovo laptops. Already purchased and returned two similar models. RAM is soldered and cannot be upgraded. Even running basic tasks on Windows 10 is hard for these to handle, especially with only 4GB of RAM.

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Nov 14, 2020
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nkx1
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I found some info pertaining to the 2.5" drive cable adapter (for the folks that wanted to add a SATA SSD:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Leno...-p/5021622
Nov 14, 2020
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Jonathan2396
Nov 14, 2020
216 Posts
what a weird system they got now lol sometimes only for pick up and sometimes only delivery... by the way we can get more than 1 at a time? im looking one for mom and brother...
Nov 14, 2020
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SicBoy34
Nov 14, 2020
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Typing on it now, I've been messing around with it for a couple hours. I never even allowed it to fully boot into Windows -- I immediately installed Ubuntu onto it. It's a surprisingly nice little machine for being only $150. I have a couple work laptops, a gaming rig, and I had been using a 8 year old Dell laptop as my daily Linux machine. This is definitely going to be taking the place of the Dell. I tested Stadia out on this (via Chromium) and it worked pretty well. Absolutely no complaints so far, I'll eventually get around to installing another 8gig stick as people have recommended.
Nov 14, 2020
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Kopite
Nov 14, 2020
355 Posts
Quote from gunbunnysoulja :
Yes blank 2.5 cage is in place (white casing to the side of the battery)
So the cage is there, how about any connector cable to the motherboard ? Someone claims one may need to find a suitable cable to hook up the SATA drive. Thanks.
Nov 14, 2020
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gunbunnysoulja
Nov 14, 2020
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Quote from Kopite :
So the cage is there, how about any connector cable to the motherboard ? Someone claims one may need to find a suitable cable to hook up the SATA drive. Thanks.
I unfortunately didn't check and packaged it back up for Christmas
Nov 14, 2020
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gunbunnysoulja
Nov 14, 2020
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Quote from Jonathan2396 :
what a weird system they got now lol sometimes only for pick up and sometimes only delivery... by the way we can get more than 1 at a time? im looking one for mom and brother...
I got 2 at once the other day
Nov 14, 2020
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NogibTC
Nov 14, 2020
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Wonder if there is anything that can be done for those of us still stuck in "Preparing". I mean it has been three whole days. I don't expect things to ship right away but it seems like others got theirs shipped already.

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nkx1
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Quote from NogibTC :
Wonder if there is anything that can be done for those of us still stuck in "Preparing". I mean it has been three whole days. I don't expect things to ship right away but it seems like others got theirs shipped already.
Not sure. It is rather odd that the people who ordered first will get theirs last (or maybe not at all?). I ordered during the first minute on 11/11, but that one hasn't shipped. I ended up ordering a second one on 11/13 (2 days after the first one) and my second one was already shipped via FedEx.
Nov 15, 2020
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SeadudeW
Nov 15, 2020
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Just received mine this morning, people who said this laptop is slow definitely missing out! Installed photoshop and a few other apps. Boot up is really fast, tested a few apps and they are all very snappy. I was expecting something similar to last year 14w which I end up returning. This one is definitely much faster. What a steal for just $134.1 (A friend work in walmart helped me get another 10% off)
Nov 15, 2020
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deals_4_me
Nov 15, 2020
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Quote from SeadudeW :
Just received mine this morning, people who said this laptop is slow definitely missing out! Installed photoshop and a few other apps. Boot up is really fast, tested a few apps and they are all very snappy. I was expecting something similar to last year 14w which I end up returning. This one is definitely much faster. What a steal for just $134.1 (A friend work in walmart helped me get another 10% off)
How is the display/resolution? Was worried it is only HD and not FHD. TIA
Nov 15, 2020
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SicBoy34
Nov 15, 2020
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Quote from deals_4_me :
How is the display/resolution? Was worried it is only HD and not FHD. TIA
1366 x 768
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SeadudeW
Nov 15, 2020
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Quote from deals_4_me :
How is the display/resolution? Was worried it is only HD and not FHD. TIA
The display is OK. not as good as my other laptop with FHD IPS, but it's actually quite decent. The left and right viewing angle is pretty good. Viewing from the top is very bad. I just switched out of s mode and working through all the updates, so I haven't had a chance to run video on it.
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deals_4_me
Nov 15, 2020
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Quote from SeadudeW :
The display is OK. not as good as my other laptop with FHD IPS, but it's actually quite decent. The left and right viewing angle is pretty good. Viewing from the top is very bad. I just switched out of s mode and working through all the updates, so I haven't had a chance to run video on it.
Thanks. Please keep us posted. I am still waiting on my pickup email. But overall the feedback here is pretty positive for a $150 laptop
Nov 15, 2020
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Zer00
Nov 15, 2020
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Quote from SeadudeW :
Just received mine this morning, people who said this laptop is slow definitely missing out! Installed photoshop and a few other apps. Boot up is really fast, tested a few apps and they are all very snappy. I was expecting something similar to last year 14w which I end up returning. This one is definitely much faster. What a steal for just $134.1 (A friend work in walmart helped me get another 10% off)
That's good to know! Did you install additional memory?

Mine has been out for delivery since 9:30 am. It's frustrating! Hopefully will have it soon.

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SeadudeW
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Quote from Zer00 :
That's good to know! Did you install additional memory?

Mine has been out for delivery since 9:30 am. It's frustrating! Hopefully will have it soon.
No, I may keep it as 4GB for now, since this is mainly to upgrade my boy's 10 years old laptop with pentium dualcore and just 3GB ram, He has been using that old system since March for school (zoom), scratch and lego mindstorms, So this laptop should be a huge upgrade for him.
Last edited by SeadudeW November 14, 2020 at 08:30 PM.

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