Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15 Laptop, 15.6 FHD Display, AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 8GB RAM, 256GB Storage, Windows 10H

I gave it to my 20 year old son for Christmas who was thrilled.

Upon arrival, I immediately took the ram out and upgraded to 2x 16gb Samsung sticks. Didnt even turn it on first.

The pre-installed suite of bloatware eats RAM. Other than that great laptop, not the best battery, about 3 hours max on saving mode.

Ive had this laptop for 2 weeks now and if I consider the one I had before , this is a massive upgrade, as a software developer who does gaming as a hobby and a bit of content creation , I wanted a machine that could handle coding workload and android emulation (for mobile apps) and could also handle big gaming titles ,not just esports titles at a respectable framerates (atleast 60fps) . Im telling you this laptop is a beast, powers through anything I did throw at it. Havent tested the emulation part but it should handle that pretty well.

My son really loves the speed. He uses it for Autocad his friends love it too

After reading plenty of reviews and comparing this with other similar systems, I took the leap and purchased it. Ive been playing games on Xbox Game pass with my Xbox Controller and so far they all run great. I do recommend upgrading the RAM to 16GB (comes with 8GB). Its a simple process (check YouTube). Ill also probably upgrade the SSD, as it only has 256GB available. Not horrible, but games can be very large. Cloud gaming is a good option too which runs smooth on this system. Im happy with it so far, definitely recommend!

The GPU performance is notably terrible, it can barely operate Adobe suite software and takes a long time to load. The speakers are practically useless with really poor distribution meaning some frequencies are very quiet, others loud, and makes a very unpleasant listening experience. Battery leaves much to be desired.

2-Week Review: This laptop is everything I hoped it would be for the price. Im using it for gaming, 1080p video editing, and watching movies. Its wicked fast compared to the 6 year old Dell business laptop I was using before. I added a 1TB nvme drive and an extra stick of 3300MHZ ram for a total of 16GB. Opening the case was fairly easy but it would be nice to have a simple switch you can slide that would unlock the bottom part of the case, instead of having to pry it open.

They sent me the wrong processor, at least they were able to notify me, the computer is excellent but I almost got into trouble with the owner.

Its a great laptop for its price. Getting very high to max performance on games with it. Only complaints are the fan system isnt as powerful so it gets a little hot with continuous gaming at high performance. And the battery also dies rather fast when gaming. But the laptop itself works great.