Lenovo - IdeaPad L340 15 Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 - 256GB Solid State Drive - Black

So far very pleased with this laptop for the cost to performance value. I took the device out of the box and upgraded it to a 1tb m.2 and 16gb RAM (SINGLE slot memory). Build quality- Plastic fantastic. Do not expect anything special in materials, but the hinge is OK for the display and the keyboard has a satisfying feel. Track pad is a little cheap, but large enough to still be effective. But who's kidding, it's a gaming laptop, grab a mouse. Display - Good! Better than I expected. 60hz is perfectly reasonable for the price/ performance (although 120hz is always cool) Color accuracy is right on par from what you would expect from a sub-$200 monitor. I'm satisfied. Gaming- In my testing, here's an idea of how a few titles have run: - Yazuka O - High settings 60FPS - Horizon Zero Dawn - Medium Settings 45FPS - Middle Earth: Shadow of War- Medium to High Settings 45FPS Overall a solid 8/10 for the price. C'mon? $450 for (enjoyable) portable PC gaming, hard to beat. Are you setting any benchmark records? definitely not, but you can get a good experience. A good, plasticky experience.

I like this and believe it was a very good deal for the price. Pros: Adjustable lighted keyboard, SSD quick boot/start up, crisp bright display, audio quality and max volume better than previous laptop (old MacBook Pro), weight and balance. Cons: The trackpad R & L button clicks are not solid (too loose and clicky, if that makes sense), and the BIGGIE... battery life no where near 9 hours (wasn’t expecting it to be 9 hours) but new at 100% charge just over 5 hours is indicated and with light use I’m getting barely 4 hours.

Not a bad cheap gaming laptop for 450 bucks on sale runs the games I play just fine no problem

The laptop is great for the black Friday price. Some reviews say this laptop can run in dual channel - mine cannot (its possible there are 2 revisions of the laptop out there). Mine does NOT have onboard ram, it only has 1 DDR4 slot. This slot will hold a single 16gig chip. Also, there is a slot for a 2.5" SSD or mechanical drive but there is no connector on the motherboard to connect the drive....seems poorly thought out. The laptop has NO ports on the right side at all, everything is on the left. Not a big deal but I personally like having USB on both sides. The keyboard is fantastic. Keys have good travel and are responsive. There are 2 levels of a back-lit blue The track pad is "clicky" as others have said but is easy to use and responds well. The screen is great. The colors are bright and vivid. The viewing angle is very good. The thing that I found most shocking were the fans...I play World of Tanks, Black Desert Online, Breakpoint, Division 2(all can be run on max settings) and the fans are very quiet. Compared to my Legion 5, I would consider this laptop is extremely quiet. You do hear them but they are not the normal gaming laptop loud fans. This may be because its an i5 with a 1650? Either way, its nice to be able to sit infront of the TV and not have to raise the volume because of your laptops fans. The temp on the GPU after running about 30 min will hit 71c-73c, the CPU 75c-81c - I do not use a cooling pad Temps monitored with Core Temp and HWMonitor Pro That being said, I purchased this laptop as a less expensive travel laptop so I wouldn't risk damaging my legion on trips. I didnt expect it to compete with the legion - I was upset that the ram cant be setup in dual channel mode and I was annoyed by the limitations of only having 1 drive HOWEVER this laptop runs quiet well right out of the box. For the price, Im more than happy with the performance and build quality.

Pros: - very fast! nvme drive makes for incredible load times; it does not feel like a 'budget' machine - sleek design, would not look out of place in a professional setting - screen is bright and crisp and viewable at all angles - fans run quiet even under load - Lenovo's software makes it very easy to update things like BIOS - keyboard feels great - multitasks extremely well for only 8gb ram - built-in webcam with a privacy slider Cons: - trackpad is "meh" at best and stops tracking when also pressing keys - no dual-channel RAM - Lenovo 'expert' who commented on this was incorrect, as there is only one ram slot (not soldered) - fingerprints everywhere This is a great budget gaming laptop. I purchased this on sale and couldn't be happier with the performance to price ratio. I wanted this mainly to run WoW when I am not home, or when I feel like hanging out on the couch. I am getting a consistent 60 FPS at 8 of 10 settings/v-sync enabled, and have zero issues also running Spotify/addon programs/browsers in the background. Alt-tabbing is lightning quick. I was initially disappointed that I couldn't add in an additional stick of ram as the Lenovo expert has said is possible, but honestly after playing with it for a few days I am not sure I really even need it. If you can get this on sale, it's well worth it!

Okay, Everyone reading this review... Please do me a favor and don't trust the negative reviews of this laptop. This l340 gaming laptop is ACTUALLY a beast. Budget Beast, but a beast none the less. I bought this because I really wanted to get a system other than my ps4 pro for trips or just to play in bed. I started searching for an affordable gaming laptop that could play my favorite games on the highest possible settings or at least match the graphical performance of my ps4 pro. The games I'm referring to are as follows; Final Fantasy XIV , Monster Hunter World, and sometimes Destiny 2. I have run the official Final fantasy XIV benchmark on this laptop with max settings and it scored extremely high. Destiny 2 can be run on this laptop with max settings as well. Have not tested Monster Hunter yet, but I assume based off the other 2 games I did test, that it won't be a problem. I highly recommend this Lenovo L340 gaming laptop to anyone looking for ps4/xbox one level graphics and for those of you who want a solid budget gaming laptop.

After having it for a few weeks, now I can give it a fair assessment. It’s a good computer for the price that it was at. Best of the Black Friday deals. Cause lately, any computer put fourth for Black Friday deals are just a tad over garbage. Usually screen resolution isn’t good, Slow hdd and plastic-y. Speakers are garbage. However, this one is worth it for $400. Screen resolution is great. It’s faster than I thought, but that could also be the McAffee web boost software that’s installed helping out. If so, if you choose not to use McAffee after the free trial, the machine might slow down but not much though. Backlit keys look and feel great. Track pad is whatever, but for what this machine is built for, you’ll most likely use a separate wired mouse. Speakers are okay, not amazing. But way better than all the other ones that were on sale. But also can be fixed with headphones. Totally and easily upgradable, which leads to my biggest gripe with this otherwise great laptop. It was marketed as with dual channel RAM slot which one was dedicated for gaming (Which is the only reason why I even bought it, because I already had another Ideapad I bought last year). This is is absolutely false. It’s only comes with one slot. The other part about it, is that even the Lenovo experts didn’t even know what was in the machine. People were asking about the RAM, telling some that it was dual channel. Telling others that the second channel was soldered directly to the board and the other was upgradable. It took comments from a few others that had opened and looked to realize that none of that was true, it was only single channel. Only then, those “experts” finally said that the customers were right. I’ll see and test it more to see if its really worth it since I have till Jan 15th to return it.

I just received this laptop today and have been thoroughly testing it throughout its gaming aspect and overall multitasking workload. Even with only 8GB of RAM you get a really GREAT experience out of this system. I was able to install multiple games and apps at the same time without any lag. Also, the UI is really friendly regarding BIOS overview and the driver updates and easy to access! Whilst gaming on Overwatch the experience was smooth and maintained a constant 60 FPS score without any lag, just some increased heat which should be expected. Overall, the out of box experience is really exciting, welcoming, and surprisingly fast and easy! I would recommend this even for the price it is at (disregarding I got this on Black Friday).