Lenovo - IdeaPad S145 15.6" Laptop - Intel Pentium Gold - 4GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive

I picked this up on sale @ $199 and did the 16GB Ram upgrade as well as the 1TB SSD and with the bloatware still installed from the disk clone, it boots up in under 10 seconds. For a lightweight email, browser and media machine it is perfect. And I can even use it for some light work tasks like packet captures and analyses with Wireshark. Not sure i have had a laptop out of the 20 plus I have had for work and personal use that has had this much function at even double the price. The display is the only shortfall from being the perfect mobile lightweight laptop. And it is fine for my needs so I am satisified for the value.

Needed a laptop and this one look good tried to start it up with Windows 10 after 20+min it finely started we could not opt out of Windows 10 so we powered it off pulled the battery put in a PNY SSD and it went nuts looking for windows HaHaHa! at that point we used a USB 2.0 8Gb stick with Linux Mint 19.02 and it Did a full boot into Mint every thing worked except the WiFi so we added a USB WiFi and we were good ran the install did all the updates and now it boots in about 10 seconds now very fast. we are done with Microsoft.

Originally purchased to replace an older model Dell laptop, this Lenovo has proved to be invaluable to me when I started working at home because of the pandemic. Someday I don't feel like being boxed up in my home office and this laptop allows me the freedom of working from other parts of my home (like my couch!). Slim but powerful enough to meet the demands of VPN and Zoom meetings with ease.