By Kevin Lee
It’s not hard to see why Chromebooks have dominated the budget laptop scene for the last few years. They offer all the basic functionality you need from a computing device for a fraction of the price and double the battery life you would get on a Windows machine.
Now, Lenovo wants to double dip in the affordable, cloud-based laptop space with a new IdeaPad 100S running Windows 10. With a $189 (about £123, AU$269) starting price, this 11.6-inch laptop is a potential Chromebook killer.
Packing a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z3735F processor, 2GB for RAM and only 32GB of storage, Lenovo offers an almost identical device running Google’s Chrome OS. To compete with Chromebooks’ Google Drive offers, this machine comes bundled with a one-year subscription to Office 365.
The Lenovo IdeaPad 100S is also available as a 14-inch notebook that comes standard with a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron N3050 chip and 64GB of storage for $229 (about £150, AU$331).
Design
A pitfall that cheap laptops often stumble into is that they look and feel as if they were pulled out of the bargain basement. Thankfully, that isn’t the case with the IdeaPad 100S. The laptop’s plastic …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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