The outline of the IdeaPad 100 is as tame as could be expected under the circumstances. It is only a dark rectangle with a slight carbon fiber-esque composition on the cover. It is the fair size car of tablet plans, a.k.a. impeccably normal inside and out. What's more, that is not so much a terrible thing—when you're purchasing a portable PC for this shabby, having it look "like each other tablet" is emphatically superior to having it resemble a shoddy portable workstation.
The IdeaPad 100 model we investigated is likewise somewhat littler than a portion of the opposition, coming in at 14 inches with a gleaming 1366x768 presentation. It's not a phenomenal screen, but rather the survey edges are a considerable amount superior to anything, say, the Acer Aspire E-15. Keeping in mind shading exactness is (nothing unexpected) poor, hues do appear to pop more on the IdeaPad 100 contrasted with the greater part of the opposition.
Fabricate quality is genuinely strong, aside from some flexing at the base of the screen. The IdeaPad 100 feels like a portable PC you could toss into the base of a pack with a few course readings and not stress over it. It's light on ports, with only power, HDMI, Ethernet, a bound together earphones/mouthpiece jack, and two USB openings (one 3.0, one 2.0) on the left side. There's a card peruser on the front. Nothing at all on the privilege.
The console is shockingly pleasant, with a better than average measure of snap to the keys. You miss out on a numpad by cutting back to a 14-inch portable workstation, yet… will you truly miss it? Despite the fact that on that note, it is odd that Lenovo chose to nix the numpad yet at the same time incorporate a section of keys committed to the Home square (Delete, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down). It appears to be entirely pointless.
The trackpad is finicky, to put it affably. For reasons unknown the trackpad appears to have no issue the length of I place my finger level at first glance before dragging. On the off chance that I attempt to utilize the tip of my finger however (like I'm indicating at the trackpad) it tends just enroll 50% of my swipes. Considering that is the manner by which I ordinarily utilize a trackpad, the IdeaPad 100 and I are always battling. Your mileage may change.
At any rate it has physical mouse catches, however.
The sound quality is typically unpleasant—all treble, and I figured out how to inspire it to crackle and contort just by turning the volume up to 100 percent on a YouTube feature. I can say in all trustworthiness that I show signs of improvement sound quality out of the speaker on my Nexus 5 telephone, which isn't stating much.
Basically: The IdeaPad 100 does not measure up to the opposition portable workstations here, execution savvy. It's not the most exceedingly awful in its class, but rather it's closer to the Atom-controlled Acer Aspire 10 than it is to the Core i5 5200U fueled Acer Aspire E-15 (to say nothing of our execution ruler, the Toshiba C55-C).
Be that as it may, that doesn't essentially make a difference, if you can discover the IdeaPad 100 for modest. As a $300 portable workstation, the IdeaPad 100 isn't an awful decision. I wouldn't purchase it for more than that, however.
Our IdeaPad 100 unit was fueled by an Intel Celeron N2940 timed at 1.83GHz with coordinated Intel HD Graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB 5,400 RPM hard commute.
In PCMark 8 those specs meant a Home Conventional (i.e. web scanning, feature talk, word handling, and so forth) score of 1,339. That is a steep drop from the Toshiba C55-C's score of 2,527—which is itself a drop from your normal gaming portable workstation's score of around 3,500.
Things are surprisingly more terrible when you require genuine execution, however. With a Creative Conventional score of 1,083 and a Work Conventional score of 1,631, the IdeaPad 100 scarcely beats the scores of 801 and 1,382 posted by the Atom-fueled Acer Aspire 10. What's more, it doesn't even verge on the 2,198 and 2,771 posted by the C55-C.
What's more, on the off chance that you need an all the more genuine measure of execution, simply look at our Handbrake test. We nourish the tablet a 30GB MKV record and perceive to what extent Handbrake takes to transcode it. With the IdeaPad 100, it was a stunning four hours and nine minutes (contrasted with two hours and twenty-nine minutes for the C55-C).
One final note: Lenovo's done something bizarre with the hard commute: Aside from the typical modest bunch of parcels made by Windows 8.1, there's likewise a 25GB D: drive segment titled "LENOVO." I accept this is to encourage its OneKey Recovery, however I sensed that it was worth indicating out you lose another powerful piece of drive space simultaneously.
Considering Lenovo was the key player in the late SuperFish contention, it's without a doubt worth investigating what outsider programming is introduced on this el-cheapo portable workstation—and see whether Lenovo has taken in its lesson.
My starting impression? Possibly. Except for my minimum most loved antivirus programming McAfee, most everything preinstalled on the IdeaPad 100 is either made by Lenovo or is Lenovo-marked. That incorporates document exchange programming SHAREit, OneKey Optimizer, Lenovo EasyCamera, Lenovo Experience Improvement, Lenovo Reach, Lenovo OneKey Recovery, and the sky is the limit from there.
In general, I'd say Lenovo really wins this class. While I'd totally uninstall a large portion of those Lenovo projects to free up space, in any event they're all first-party local Lenovo programs. They didn't even incorporate applications like Netflix or Spotify on this thing! Incredible!
The Lenovo IdeaPad 100 is an incredible deal, gave you get it to a deal cost. Like, a truly deal cost. Lenovo set out to contend with Chromebooks with this portable workstation, and that is precisely the sort of execution you can expect—so verify you get it at a Chromebook-style cost. I'd say between $250-300 and not a penny more. Else you're in an ideal situation taking a gander at some different alternatives, either higher end (like the Toshiba C55-C) or lower (like the Lenovo S21e or Acer Aspire S
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