Deal | Affordable Lenovo IdeaPad laptop with 16 GB RAM and powerful SoC gets 49% discount

Thanks to an ongoing sale, the well-equipped Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x laptop is now available for an all-time low price on Lenovo's official online store, coming in at just $751. This variant comes equipped with a powerful Snapdragon X2 Plus SoC paired with 16 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD.

Of course, ARM-based Snapdragon SoCs come with woes of their own. ARM support is still a hit-or-miss on Windows, despite many popular productivity software companies having already launched ARM-native variants of their products.

The Slim 5x laptop is extremely powerful - with the right software

Folks who happen to have workflows that are primarily browser-based, or are lucky enough to have native ARM support for their software of choice, will almost certainly be plenty satisfied with the X2 Plus-powered IdeaPad Slim 5x laptop.

In synthetic benchmarks, the X2 Plus 42-100 SoC performs about as well as an Apple M3, and is around 16% faster than an AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 "Gorgon Point" APU found in laptops in this price range. The 16 GB of LPDDR5X-9524 RAM is plenty fast, and non-upgradeable.

The Adreno X2-45 iGPU is also neck-and-neck with a Radeon 880M iGPU, but real-world performance in games and apps will certainly depend on compatibility. In simpler terms, non-native games and apps that have to rely on emulation layers will struggle, while natively complied ones will be more than playable.

The IdeaPad Slim 5x laptop comes equipped with a 15-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200, and a refresh rate of 120 Hz. Lenovo claims complete coverage of the sRGB color gamut, and a 400-nit peak brightness.

Needless to say, the laptop's RAM is impossible to upgrade, although its storage can be upgraded via the M.2 2242 slot. The I/O on offer has been detailed below:

• Dual USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
• Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• microSD slot, 3.5 mm audio jack
• HDMI 2.1

Other notable details of the laptop include a 180-degree hinge, dual 2-watt speakers, and a 54.7 Wh battery that lasted over 20 hours in PCMag's video playback test. At its current discounted price, the IdeaPad Slim 5x laptop definitely brings a lot of value for folks who have workflows with ARM support.

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