Nice review! Keep it up. I bought this one out of curiosity 3 weeks ago, mainly to keep track of my mails, some office work and internet business when I´m outdoor´s or on the road. I´m very surprised with it´s multitasking capabilities. No problem with handling 2 programs side by side, while having chrome browser open with 5-6 tabs and playing a hd video at the same time. With 30-40% brightness, mixed tasks and wlan on, I get around 9 hours out of it. At full brightness it´s also usable outdoor´s. The price here in europe is 250€, but I´m definitely impressed.
Thanks Stefan!! For the price the performance is great and a really good alternative to a chrome book. I'm glad you're enjoying it and thanks for taking the time to watch the video !
I know we spoke at length on the topic of budget laptops. This will undoubtedly find itself an audience but I don't believe this can give the experience for it to give the longevity to customers. Great video tho. Some new stuff I see! :)
+Ash Tailor (ashthought) No it can't that's why it has a few use cases, but for $200 it's a good chromebook/tablet alternative. Thanks Ash! or should I call you son?
+Matthew Moniz yes! I am even doing some gaming on it! I've played LoL, some indie Steam games, and GTA San Andreas on it! And I am really surprised with the performance. I am looking forward to test more games.
200$ a couple of years ago would have gotten you 2 copies of Windows lol Well done with the review man! Even if I don't particularly dig the font you use :v
+Matthew Moniz Ahaha I didn't get scared, I was just impressed by too much awesomeness in one pic! :D By the way I'm a bit (too much) nitpicky about fonts, bear with me =]
+Matthew Moniz Too slim I guess, I don't think it's bad overall! I'm pretty much in love wit these two: www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/bebas-neue / www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bebas but I recently started trying some Helvetica-inspired fonts thanks to +Canoopsy
Got it for $150 and I love it, for gaming I use my consoles but this computer is perfect for college, movies and videos running on 1080p 60fps no lag, Netflix, Spotify etc...Its perfect for the price.
I just got this device over the holiday season, and I am thoroughly enjoying the system! I got this unit from the Lenovo website, and the keyboard has practically no bounce; it is great. I use this for web browsing and word processing, since gaming doesnt really work on this thing. Overall, this laptop is great for its value! If anyone has any other questions, I would be glad to answer.
down to $150 at your local Best Buy. A few things I did, 1 use headphones, much better quality sound than the tinny speakers 2 disabled the touchpad, and installed a wireless mouse(my preference, trackball mouse)...so that the touchpad doesn't accidentally move things around . 3. Deleted some of the pre-installed software, which it actually didn't have a lot of 4. got rid of IE, downloaded Firefox. 5. didn't use the pre-installed anti-virus , downloaded AVG instead TBH, for $150, it's pretty good so far
Nice Videos, but I would recommend buying a used Thinkpad x201/220. I bought a x201 several months ago for uni, and it is perfect. I just put in a SSD and I am running arch linux.
Cons in this video are greater than the Pros but nonetheless it's great for the price Lenovo is offering. It's great as a secondary device or for someone on a tight budget! Awesome review and subscribed.
I take this to school and work for the pure fact I don't want my dell laptop stolen or broken this is a awesome laptop for the price I can do basic work processing in the field with my buisness and plan to equip my field teams with these for quick access to computers in their trucks
Considering that it's so cheap, you really are getting a lot for your money. I know someone who has this, and she really likes it. I was able to go $300. on my laptop. But it's nice to know that there are options for people who need a computer and really don't have much to spend.
in june I bought the nextbook flexx 11 from Walmart for $227. It is almost identical hardware wise, and I use it daily. I like seeing a well known brand selling computers at this price but I would rather spend the extra $27 and buy a flexx 11 because it has many other features, it is a 2 in 1 after all.
That's a good price for a 2in1. But a few people (like me) prefer the old school laptop style. But I am really surprised with the technology now. Its really a huge gap between the technology a decade ago and today.
Recently got this unit under PHP4300 or 79USD on the fb marketplace but the Ideapad 100s-14IBR Version which is Celeron N3060 and 128GB LiteON OEM M.2 SATA SSD, and this thing can actually game, but expect the performance to be poor as the laptop is just under passive cooling only. (But 2D games can be as easy feat)
I spoke to a Computer shop owner. He said Windows 10 upward cannot be stopped updating, and it will use up all the memory, making the laptop glitch ridden for sure. And what use is HHD if yu can have no games loaded etc with all the innate space taken up?
Although, this is one of the slower types in the idealad 100 series. There are better types, so if you think this is bad there are better laptops in the 100 series. Like the one I have is a 4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD with an Intel Pentium N3700.
Low inexpensive laptop for students... 200$ is very good for students...would be very useful in india... 7 hours of battery life is cool... Nice review brother... Thank you...
I personally don't see why you would want a budget laptop such as this. You could either get a more premium laptop from last year, an IPad, or even a phablet. One of thee biggest problem I find with these budget laptops is that they have no longevity what so ever. A few months in and you have serious sticky keys, or they're falling out. It runs at 2fps and then at that point your ready to throw it out the window.
Sorry but this thing you may as well buy a Galaxy Note 8 which can cost the same or less depending and actually runs faster and more stable and also has wacom technology for drawing. I bought the 100s thinking it would be a wonderful little machine for browsing and using my desktop wacom tablet and use drawing applications. Well that wasn't the case at all. I had issues with some websites where I could type and watch the text fill in delayed and I do type slow at like 30wpm. Even really old games like Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 which ran like a dream on a P2 with like 512mb RAM could hardly run on this... O_o? I dunno why considering my previous amd dual core ran the game farrrrr too fast.. heck even the celeron based machine I had before that ran it faster. Anyways There was alot of delays, hiccups, slow moments. The machine for being what it is just ran too slow. And for all that you can do on it, you may as well buy a tablet.
Anyone at all used Steam in-home streaming with this? How does it handle? Have you used in-home streaming on something with better performance? If so, does the 100S stutter, have more lag, etc?
+Matthew Moniz I figured. I heard the chromebook version of this is harder to replace the os with another. I might pick one up though to have a secondary laptop running linux. Nice review by the way.
if I connect this to a 1080p monitor and on the laptop set screen resolution to 1920x1080, can I use this to see full HD? this JUST barely meets the Photoshop spec requirements and I would like to use it for that (paired with an external HDD for extra storage of course)
+Ali Dağ It's an Intel Atom chip so you can't really game with it. But it's fine for browsing the web, watching videos and performing productivity tasks such as MS Word and Google Docs.
Damn, Very good review.
I hope you reach 100,000 subs fast.
+Shreyas Sreedhar Thanks Shreyas! That would be awesome!
+Matthew Moniz can this laptop run league of legends
+Matthew Moniz can this laptop play team fortress 2
Great video! It's amazing how much you can get in a laptop for such an affordable price.
+Canoopsy Thanks Canoopsy! i agree laptops are getting cheaper and more expensive. Looks like the middle area is being priced out.
Nice review! Keep it up. I bought this one out of curiosity 3 weeks ago, mainly to keep track of my mails, some office work and internet business when I´m outdoor´s or on the road. I´m very surprised with it´s multitasking capabilities. No problem with handling 2 programs side by side, while having chrome browser open with 5-6 tabs and playing a hd video at the same time. With 30-40% brightness, mixed tasks and wlan on, I get around 9 hours out of it. At full brightness it´s also usable outdoor´s. The price here in europe is 250€, but I´m definitely impressed.
Thanks Stefan!! For the price the performance is great and a really good alternative to a chrome book. I'm glad you're enjoying it and thanks for taking the time to watch the video !
Always a pleasure!
Not too bad. Awesome review as always Matt!
+Brad Snyder Thanks Brad! = )
Love the review man. One of my favorite new channels I've subscribed to. Keep up the great work.
Thanks!! I'm glad you like it. Welcome to the channel : )
Nice one Matt! Seems like a good budget option for some light duty usage.
+Jo Olmedo Thanks Jo! It's a great beater laptop for kids or a backup.
Wow that's so cheap! Did they send this to you to review? Congrats on 20k :D Hope I got some of my viewers to subscribe to you!
+Tech Infusion Yup! Thanks = ) I really appreciate the support!
hey dude what an amazing video man keep it up
I know we spoke at length on the topic of budget laptops. This will undoubtedly find itself an audience but I don't believe this can give the experience for it to give the longevity to customers.
Great video tho. Some new stuff I see! :)
+Ash Tailor (ashthought) No it can't that's why it has a few use cases, but for $200 it's a good chromebook/tablet alternative. Thanks Ash! or should I call you son?
+Matthew Moniz You two should totally marry each other
+The Jeff We would have the best wedding video, EVER!
Ash Tailor The best sex tape too :P
Definitely would have the cutest kids!
Love the video! Btw I highly suggest taking a look at the dell Inspiron i3531 it's a very good cheap laptop.
+kytter56 Thanks! I'll definitely check it out.
hello matt great work dude
+alan joseph Thanks Alan!! = )
That crazy! I wanted this for christmas.
great video Matt!
+Apple Pro 65 Thanks! = )
This guy should have 100.000+ subscribers! The quality of his videos are amazing!
+Valentino Harpa Thanks Valentino!! = ) I appreciate that and thanks for taking the time to watch!
Matthew Moniz you're welcome! Actually your video made me bought this laptop, and I am really satisfied with it. So, thank you very much :DD
+Valentino Harpa Nice! I'm glad you like it. It's not a bad little laptop to get the basics done.
+Matthew Moniz yes! I am even doing some gaming on it! I've played LoL, some indie Steam games, and GTA San Andreas on it! And I am really surprised with the performance. I am looking forward to test more games.
200$ a couple of years ago would have gotten you 2 copies of Windows lol
Well done with the review man! Even if I don't particularly dig the font you use :v
+The Nerd Herd I know it's crazy! Thanks again Gio! First you get scared of my pic, now my font. haha, I should just delete my channel!
+Matthew Moniz Ahaha I didn't get scared, I was just impressed by too much awesomeness in one pic! :D
By the way I'm a bit (too much) nitpicky about fonts, bear with me =]
+The Nerd Herd haha, what do you not like about the font? What are some good fonts?
+Matthew Moniz Too slim I guess, I don't think it's bad overall! I'm pretty much in love wit these two: www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/bebas-neue / www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bebas
but I recently started trying some Helvetica-inspired fonts thanks to +Canoopsy
Got it for $150 and I love it, for gaming I use my consoles but this computer is perfect for college, movies and videos running on 1080p 60fps no lag, Netflix, Spotify etc...Its perfect for the price.
Can't go wrong for that price! Glad you're liking it and thanks for watching !
Very good, intelligent review.
you covered and answered all of my questions
Good I'm glad you found it helpful!
Holy Crap! 181 likes with no dislikes! Good Job Man
Thanks! But now you have jinxed it. Next time I look at the video it's going to have lots of dislikes. Haha
I just got this device over the holiday season, and I am thoroughly enjoying the system! I got this unit from the Lenovo website, and the keyboard has practically no bounce; it is great. I use this for web browsing and word processing, since gaming doesnt really work on this thing. Overall, this laptop is great for its value! If anyone has any other questions, I would be glad to answer.
+GoCards PlaysMCPE The value certainly can't be beat! Glad you are liking it!
Good review keep up the good work!
+Paul George Thanks Paul!!
I got one, I have no complaints so far.
Nice! It's not bad for the price!
down to $150 at your local Best Buy.
A few things I did,
1 use headphones, much better quality sound than the tinny speakers
2 disabled the touchpad, and installed a wireless mouse(my preference, trackball mouse)...so that the touchpad doesn't accidentally move things around .
3. Deleted some of the pre-installed software, which it actually didn't have a lot of
4. got rid of IE, downloaded Firefox.
5. didn't use the pre-installed anti-virus , downloaded AVG instead
TBH, for $150, it's pretty good so far
Nice! Exactly for $150 you can't really complain
Great video! You deserve more view and subs.
+reventom 106 Thanks!! I really appreciate that= ) They will come in time.
Great video! It was very informative and confirmed to me my purchase was a wise one. Thanks for that!
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
Nice Videos, but I would recommend buying a used Thinkpad x201/220.
I bought a x201 several months ago for uni, and it is perfect.
I just put in a SSD and I am running arch linux.
I'm waiting for the X230 to drop off more in price and then I will pick one up.
How much?
+TheMatoroMovement Paid around 180euro for the 2.56ghz i5 version and 70euro for the samsung 850evo ssd
+TheMatoroMovement 180 for the laptop, 70 for the ssd
Cons in this video are greater than the Pros but nonetheless it's great for the price Lenovo is offering. It's great as a secondary device or for someone on a tight budget! Awesome review and subscribed.
+MrDefeater94 It's definitely a very competitive price that's for sure. Thanks and welcome to the channel = )
I got it on black Friday at Best Buy for 129.00 US. It was a steal! Seems like a pretty solid little surf machine so far,
Wow that is a steal !! Nice buy
How is the laptop holding up?
MrFlawsy Help up great. But, I hardly used it. Too under powered to anything other than browse the web. Just sold it.
I have one in red, it is pretty decent. I paid US $109 at Best Buy (open box). Not as nice as my Macbook Pro Retina, but it works for what it is.
Exactly it works for what it is! Thanks Mike for watching !
Very helpful thx will be purchasing one of these
Nice! Let me know how you like it.
Cool vid I was looking for a budget laptop and I think i have found it.
That's cool that it has a traditional touchpad
i used to have an old lenovo thinkpad, and it was really slow. now i enjoy solid 60fps medium graphics on fallout!
This with Ubuntu or some other Linux distro should be nice.
I take this to school and work for the pure fact I don't want my dell laptop stolen or broken this is a awesome laptop for the price I can do basic work processing in the field with my buisness and plan to equip my field teams with these for quick access to computers in their trucks
Considering that it's so cheap, you really are getting a lot for your money. I know someone who has this, and she really likes it. I was able to go $300. on my laptop. But it's nice to know that there are options for people who need a computer and really don't have much to spend.
in june I bought the nextbook flexx 11 from Walmart for $227. It is almost identical hardware wise, and I use it daily. I like seeing a well known brand selling computers at this price but I would rather spend the extra $27 and buy a flexx 11 because it has many other features, it is a 2 in 1 after all.
That's a good price for a 2in1. But a few people (like me) prefer the old school laptop style. But I am really surprised with the technology now. Its really a huge gap between the technology a decade ago and today.
Recently got this unit under PHP4300 or 79USD on the fb marketplace but the Ideapad 100s-14IBR Version which is Celeron N3060 and 128GB LiteON OEM M.2 SATA SSD, and this thing can actually game, but expect the performance to be poor as the laptop is just under passive cooling only. (But 2D games can be as easy feat)
I spoke to a Computer shop owner. He said Windows 10 upward cannot be stopped updating, and it will use up all the memory, making the laptop glitch ridden for sure. And what use is HHD if yu can have no games loaded etc with all the innate space taken up?
I got one on boxing day for $286 (NZ) and its usual price is $448 (Still NZ.) Its an awesome deal for a windows 10 laptop.
It certainly is! How are you liking it ?
+Matthew Moniz I'm loving the laptop. The only thing is the colour not being always accurate and the touchpad. Other wise it's a good laptop.
Although, this is one of the slower types in the idealad 100 series. There are better types, so if you think this is bad there are better laptops in the 100 series. Like the one I have is a 4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD with an Intel Pentium N3700.
Good review. Any idea if MKV files would run fine on this? I watch a lot of movies on VLC.
+Christopher Reynolds Thanks Christopher! Yup, it works just fine!
Low inexpensive laptop for students... 200$ is very good for students...would be very useful in india... 7 hours of battery life is cool...
Nice review brother... Thank you...
Thanks Robin! It's great for students who need the basics
Good review
Any good comp in the market/
Thanks
Thanks ! = )
just order mines thanks man
You're welcome and enjoy! = )
There's color options and there's blue! This product is Rick approved.
That's all it takes for Rick. As long as there's blue Rick will buy it
I personally don't see why you would want a budget laptop such as this. You could either get a more premium laptop from last year, an IPad, or even a phablet. One of thee biggest problem I find with these budget laptops is that they have no longevity what so ever. A few months in and you have serious sticky keys, or they're falling out. It runs at 2fps and then at that point your ready to throw it out the window.
you mean Windows😂
you my friend simply don't understand what it feels like to have a budget constraint nor know how to maintain a laptop properly
Might be a stupid question....but can this install blender for animation?
You were cool in those days too..
A $200 Windows laptop is no longer a surprise any more.
No it's not it's become a lot more common now
+Matthew Moniz great review it helped a lot can u do a video and the gaming sorta performances and can u do a video on how to set up this laptop
would you buy this for a college student uses word, youtube, netflix, googledocs at 150 US dollars?
Are there any other issues in directed to the wifi like will it be able to connect to 5g wifi ?
Interesting video
+Benny Walker Thanks Benny!
I played a few games on the windows xbox store like minecraft, asphalt, halo and others. it runs fine but for games like gta, hell no
This or Asus E200HA?
can it run Sony Vegas pro14
I just need a Laptop for school and study works which runs office perfectly and offers sone browsing too. would you recommend?
+StarWars1611 This will do! = )
My little brother wants a laptop. So is this laptop good to play the game Roblox? Will it be too slow?
I heard simple games like Robles and Minecraft are fine and can run on it
Stupid Question, but what is a 5Ghz WiFi? I'm planning to buy this laptop.
I hope somebody answers my question.
HeyItsMickeyAndy 5ghz is faster wifi than 2.4ghz (standard wifi) but if doesn't the signal doesn't go far but 5ghz also can support more devices too
Can it run Gamemaker and or Unity, because I'm looking to be a developer and I need a low budget laptop
Can the processor be upgraded to something like a core i5?
is it good for roblox
Do you have a video on how to reboot the laptop?
It's running Windows 10 you reboot it like any other computer. Or if it won't turn off hold down the power button until it shuts down.
it is 800 in malaysia
it is 800 in malaysia
Can I playing games on it
Sorry but this thing you may as well buy a Galaxy Note 8 which can cost the same or less depending and actually runs faster and more stable and also has wacom technology for drawing.
I bought the 100s thinking it would be a wonderful little machine for browsing and using my desktop wacom tablet and use drawing applications. Well that wasn't the case at all. I had issues with some websites where I could type and watch the text fill in delayed and I do type slow at like 30wpm.
Even really old games like Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 which ran like a dream on a P2 with like 512mb RAM could hardly run on this... O_o? I dunno why considering my previous amd dual core ran the game farrrrr too fast.. heck even the celeron based machine I had before that ran it faster. Anyways
There was alot of delays, hiccups, slow moments. The machine for being what it is just ran too slow. And for all that you can do on it, you may as well buy a tablet.
+Rickowned but the Galaxy Note 8 runs android and the 100s is windows windows and android are very different :P
Does anyone know how much fps you get with minecraft on the lowest settings?
Btw, nice video!
around 30
Would a photographer be able to do photo editing on this laptop?
+Jimmy Lazaro no it's not really powerful enough
Jimmy Lazaro kinda but u don't need to use like adobe premier and heavy software but use lighter software and it will get the job done
Would it run filmora??
is this laptop new or used ?
rafael hernandez New
could u use ur elgato with this
I wanna figure that out to since I'm looking into getting it so I can stream on twitch
Should I get this or the Hp Stream 13? respond please
Yg Tiger itbdepends on how much you wanna pay
Are you able to change the internal storage capacity on this laptop?
no, use a micro sd card or external drive
Paul Stewart no but there is as card
Anyone at all used Steam in-home streaming with this?
How does it handle?
Have you used in-home streaming on something with better performance? If so, does the 100S stutter, have more lag, etc?
no lol
wait y said it isnt good for pc gaming but have HOTS installed hahaha can it run league of legends then too?
also how did u get windows 10 i got chrome os
+Shyair miles it came with it. I believe there are two versions of this laptop
How would these fair running Debian or Xubuntu using i3 or xfce? In normie terms, can you install linux on this laptop?
+SirTriopsKing I'm not sure I have never tried installing Linux on it. But it should run fine.
+Matthew Moniz I figured. I heard the chromebook version of this is harder to replace the os with another. I might pick one up though to have a secondary laptop running linux. Nice review by the way.
@@SirTriopsKing lubuntu works fine
No it's not bad at all.
Can you update gaming headsets on this?
hubba 9143 most likely
Can it run csgo?
can you upgrade the ram?
No you cant
That keyboard bounces. :/ I mean, i know it is cheap, but at least they could have fixed it...
Ya there's definitely a lot of bounce
+Matthew Moniz does it matter?
can I run MATLAB with this laptop? or any engineering softwares?
Francis Sy you could play some indie games😀
would I be able to download Microsoft Word in to this Laptop?
Yup!
+Matthew Moniz would an elgato game capture work with it
yesterday it was only $117 on best buy but its to late. so....
+Alec Arthurs Damn that's a steal! Too bad.
Matthew Moniz Just got it for 40 dollars
if I connect this to a 1080p monitor and on the laptop set screen resolution to 1920x1080, can I use this to see full HD? this JUST barely meets the Photoshop spec requirements and I would like to use it for that (paired with an external HDD for extra storage of course)
Yup you could!
Randy Barrett yes 99% sure
is the ram upgradable?
+Usman Jhangiri No sorry
does it have a password lock
geeeenaa all windows computers and laptops do
Asus EeeBook X205TA is a much better option.
+Samar Anand I will have to check it out! Thanks for watching
what mine was 130 and its new
Is the micro sad card tray the smallest ad card?
yup!
Matthew Moniz Thanks!
what about Minecraft
+bubblegumpop1013 aj OK thanks
what about performance?
+Ali Dağ It's an Intel Atom chip so you can't really game with it. But it's fine for browsing the web, watching videos and performing productivity tasks such as MS Word and Google Docs.
+Matthew Moniz understand thank you :) waiting for new videos!
+Ali Dağ You may use only the browser and do light work but not gaming.
I have one question can this laptop play csgo
XANY box probably 720p low
but I'm a gamer and I already bought it.......
is it good for school?
This or hp stream plz respond
This
It should run chrome os
There's tons of options at that price point that run Chrome OS. It's more of an alternative
what is the different with 11.6 and 14?
14 is bigger
Lol
Omg did you really just ask that
PLEASE Matthew, Can i run GTA San Andreas PC version 30fps?
Yes, san andreas at 40 fps
GTA V at 10 fps but with changing settings in config, 30 fps
Cody maybe but idk why u would do that