Lenovo - 330-15ARR 15.6" Laptop - AMD Ryzen 3 - 8GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive - Onyx Black

The Good: 1 - This is a very fast laptop with 8GB of memory. 2 - It has a quick charging feature. 3 - The screen while not IPS looks very good and has good viewing angles. 4 - The keyboard is very good for quick typing. 5 - There are lights for the num lock, caps lock and power. 6 - It has a DVD drive The Not So Good: 1 - You can't charge it from the USB port. 2 - There's no easy way to upgrade the drive or add memory. 3 - Only 2 USB ports* 4 - USB ports are only on one side (left) of the laptop. 5 - Audible fan. 6 - Audible hard drive. Comments: I was looking for a laptop with great performance, a very good screen and the ability to upgrade easily. Lenovo delivered on the performance but adding memory or upgrading to a SSD will be a chore because it has a dozen small screws instead of a compartment like other brands do. While this is just a minor annoyance (you don't upgrade that often), what I find both confusing and annoying is the USB type C port. When I looked at this laptop in the store, I saw the sticker on the front that said USB-C 3.1 and it also says "Fast Charging" so naturally, I thought I'd be able to charge it like my cell phone but you can't. It's nice that the port can do high speed data transfers but I would rather have a third regular USB port which is far more flexible. Although I intend to change to a SSD at some point, I have no real complaints with the 1TB drive this laptop came with. The drive is very fast for a conventional drive but in a quiet space, the drive activity noise can be annoying. As for the fan, for people who like me have a work space that is dead quiet, this could be an annoyance. It seems that the fan never turns off but for the speed of this laptop, it's a compromise I'm willing to live with. All in all, in my opinion, this is the price/performance leader in laptops as of the time of this review (I just looked and it's on sale for $60 less than I paid for mine). Thanks for reading

This is a hard review to write, as the problem we had wasn't Lenovo's fault at the outset. In short, Windows 10 stopped booting after a Microsoft Update - Windows automatically removed the update, but the damage was done. Fortunately, Lenovo laptops come with a "Novo" button that's supposed to boot a system recovery utility that would have restored Windows to its factory state (fine by us, since we hadn't had a chance to install anything yet). Great idea. Unfortunately, it didn't work. These laptops don't come with any restore media, so Lenovo offered to send one to me by mail when I called for help I couldn't get them to send it to me electronically, and 3 business days' wait for my daughter's Christmas present was more than I could bear. FWIW, I thought their support was just fine otherwise. But in a day where people can download entire movies in minutes, why not send me what I need via the Internet? One thing I would add, when you buy any Windows 10 computer, especially if you don't get recovery media with it, before you do anything else you should create a Windows recovery drive - it's unique to the computer model, so you can't go to a different computer and make one if the one you want to fix won't boot. You can make a general Windows 10 recovery drive using a Microsoft utility, but it's limited in what it can do, and didn't help at all in our case. We took this Lenovo back and bought an HP 14-cf0013dx. It was a bit more expensive, but the reviews were good and I'd had good experience with HP recovery utilities in the past. It was a bit smaller in the screen but had a better feel than the Lenovo (which had its mouse buttons built into the touchpad and overall felt cheap and plastic). But I can't give the Lenovo a good rating if the recovery utility doesn't work, even though the issue we had very likely wasn't Lenovo's fault. Just as a note, on our HP, we disabled Windows update ASAP, created a recovery drive ASAP, and took the additional step of imaging it with Macrium. At some point we'll manually apply Windows updates, but only when we've got the time and resources to deal with bluescreens. We're older and wiser now. Had we done the same on the Lenovo, I could have left a more relevant review. But the "Novo" utility not working was a ship-sinker for me. Finally, kudos to Best Buy for allowing us to make an easy exchange, no questions asked, and very quickly to boot. I'm glad I bought there

I ordered this computer online for school and within an hour was able to pick it up at the Best Buy near me. First and foremost, the computer has a great sleek, and clean look to it which I loved! The screen is bigger than I thought it would be, (my old laptop only had a screen size of 11'' which was fine, but this is definitely an incredible upgrade!) and the resolution is pretty good as well. I have watched Netflix on it for a few hours and the quality is definitely worth the price I paid. It took a few minutes to finish the initial set up but thats to be expected as it had to update a few things. I bought it a couple days ago and it runs like a dream. Its just the right speed for me, and I need a decent speed with all the online school work, web surfing, research, and occasional recreational use like Netflix and light video gaming. The ONLY downside to this computer is that the battery life isn't long lasting. It needs recharged within about 4 or so hours of constant use. Which it says in the description when looking at the details of the laptop. However it charges up relatively fast so it really isnt an issue for me, just the only small downside I was able to find in order to give an overall review that wasn't straight gooshing about this laptop. Long story short, I love just about everything about this laptop and the price was extremely reasonable. This is my first Lenovo Brand and I am definitely impressed with the quality of their electronics thus far. :)

I bought this laptop out of necessity. I have a really nice MacBook that I bought last year and have been using that for college but as I've gotten closer to my degree I had to get a Windows computer to be compatible with applications needed for accounting. This laptop was the one I chose as it was on sale for $319.99 at the time and it had a 10-key. The processor, RAM, and conventional hard drive (not SSD) seemed underwhelming spec wise but I didn't care, just needed something to do the school work as my Mac can do everything else. I got it delivered on Thursday and have put all my stuff on it so I can function. I was surprised at just how quick and usable this laptop is. I was expecting this thing to be a dog but completely stock it is fast enough! In the future I may bump the RAM and throw in an SSD but for now, I see no point in doing so. If you buy this laptop you'll be pleasantly surprised at what it has to offer, especially at this price point. The screen is alright, nothing stand out like my Retina display on the Mac but definitely good enough. Battery life is meh, but it only has a 2 cell battery so that's to be expected. If you're on the go then turn down your settings and use the battery saver. If you're on the fence about buying this cheap laptop, do it. It is worth it!

Obviously, you can tell form the price and specs that this is not meant to be a high-end machine. And by that, I mean that if you're looking for a gaming laptop and whatnot, it might not work for you. I read all the negative reviews (I find these more beneficial than positive ones) before I made my purchase. The main complaint that I saw repeat was how slow the laptop is. I can tell you that this is a Windows 10 issue on this laptop. Because Lenovo does not provide a firmware update tool for Linux, I kept the windows installation which comes preloaded to make it easier to update the firmware whenever there is an update (and there will be one when you first use the laptop). I noticed how annoying and lagging performance was. However, I waited until I installed the Linux based system that I was going to actually use before deciding whether this is machine related to Windows related. The machine is perfectly fine and performs well. Battery life is about 4 hours (it's a small capacity battery as indicated in the product description). I also read complaints about the fan noise and HDD noise; both are legitimate to a certain extent. The fan noise is audible, but it doesn't go too loud as I expected it to based on reviews, perhaps it goes higher when using Windows 10. As to the hard disk noise, you can only hear it when it "parks" or starts. During use, it is barely noticeable, if at all. Overall, I'm satisfied with this purchase and it serves me well as an advanced user.

This laptop is not only stylish but it is also very thing at 0.9 inches tall. The display is your basic TN panel screen which means it will not have very good viewing angle as it would it was an IPS panel. But that does not really take much away from the experience. I got this laptop on sale for 329.99 which at time of this writing it is now 379.99. The ryzen 3 processor is rather fast for daily tasks like web browsing and watching videos on youtube etc which is what I use this system for. If i do load any games on it I will not be trying to run something that just came out. System has 8GB of ram but some where on the description it said 4GB so that is wrong on here. For the money this is a fairly good deal considering comparative HP laptops don't always come with WirelessAC and bluetooth which this laptop has. Does not come with an SSD. But the device is rather easy to upgrade if you know someone who can do that for you. I have dropped a 500GB samsung 860 EVO SSD in it as of yesterday now this system is super responsive and snappy. Moral of my novel of a review? BUY IT.

I selected my laptop after my current laptop emergency arose (black screen and thereafter a noisy hard drive). Due to work-related travel I had to replace it quickly. After hours of using the Best Buy site online, I found a laptop that seemed to fit what I needed short-term. Due to website design my search criteria constantly got lost every time I changed store locations, RAM or Storage size, whatever. I checked touchscreen dozens of times as a requirement. This laptop has listed in its specifications "touch screen"--I stopped there. All the other "Specifications" items listed were actually in the laptop. If I had looked to the right on the Specifications I would have discovered that what Best Buy meant was the opposite--Touchscreen NO. There was really NO Touchscreen. This is terribly misleading and defies common English usage. This laptop also does not have a radiator or a kitchen sink or puppy either. Should those be listed and then a "No" put in? Absurd. Because I am traveling daily from city to city for work for weeks and must have a working laptop at all times, I now have a "touch screen-No" laptop and cannot readily return it. Otherwise, for the price, it seems to work great. I have had many Lenovos over the years and most have been sturdy workhorses. Hopefully this one, without the touch screen I thought I was buying, will be the same and will be reliable.

Computer had very slow start up. I had thought the Ryzen would have a quick start up and fairly quick loading. I had heard from many people that Lenovo was a great computer, and glad that it came with a DVD drive! I was disappointed with all the pop ups, etc. Reviews on this product said there was a minimal amount lot of extra "junk" ware loaded into the computer, or is that all windows 10 stuff that needs to be deleted, after installing ? Then, while trying to put in my info and start up, and etc. I kept getting the McAfee pop -up that said to install McAfee. I kept closing it and tried to continue doing my start up info. McAfee popped up about 4 more times. then McAfee popped up again taking up half my screen and STAYED on my screen! I couldn't close it or work around it. I didn't want to load it as I wanted to use a different computer protection software. So when McAfee came on and stayed on, my computer was then, unusable, unless I erased everything and started over. I turned it off and didn't want to go back to it! So that is where it stands now. I am going to have to return it.