KING of Budget Laptops - IdeaPad 5 14 (Ryzen 4700U) Review!! By Just Josh

Tech family, you spoke, and I listened about two weeks ago, I put a pile up asking what laptop you wanted to see most and this laptop won by a landslide I'm. Only joking, this one did it's the Lenovo IdeaPad 514 with the new rising 8 core for 700 you process of the smaller sibling to the IdeaPad 515. Then I gave a rave review of a couple of weeks ago in this video I'm gonna, thoroughly review the laptop and compare it to the IdeaPad 515, as well as draw comparisons to many other laptops out there, including Apple's MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro 13, the new Dell XPS 9 300 and Isis PMD swift, 3, I'm, Josh and I, buy and review a lot of laptops and talk tech from the perspective of what it's like to own and use these devices. If, at the end of this video, you liked what you watched, don't forget to smash that subscribe, button click the thumbs up and the notification bill. It shows your appreciation for the incredible amount of time that goes into making these well. That's rock.

The model I have here comes with 16 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of storage, which I purchased for 776 US dollars before taxes by the way I purchased this with my own money, and I'm, not sponsored by Lenovo. Let's start with CPU performance, the new Prison for 700 u8 core a thread processor is a monster in deep bench, although it doesn't quite hit the multi-core score at the 8 core 16 thread: MacBook, Pro, 16 and yes, I am comparing it to a two and a half thousand dollar laptop it Wallops into a core i7 fork, or a thread: isolate processor, even much more expensive laptops like the Dell XPS 9 300, and the MacBook Pro 13 in single core performance. It is neck and neck with the best laptops out there. By the way, this laptop does offer two performance modes: the default, intelligent, cooling and extreme performance. Moving on to Cine bench r20, which maxes out the CPU cores is where this CPU, combined with the cooling in this chassis really shines.

It makes a complete mockery of Intel laptops that cost more than twice its price. The only laptop that beat was the eight core version of the MacBook Pro 16, which is over three times the price. When we look at CPU speeds, while under load, you can see that it starts at a lofty 4.2 gigahertz on extreme performance mode, which is odd, as this processor is only meant to go up to four point. One Gig he'll call it then stabilizes at 3.6, gigahertz higher than any other laptop in this list. When looking at power draw, I saw around 33 watts of power being fed to the CPU, which is around the same as the MacBook Pro 13 Dr, even though it's Cine bench performance was only two-thirds of the idea pads by the way, I got some odd results here with extreme performance mode.

Hardware info stated that the CPU only drew around 26 watts of power. I would have expected it to draw more than on intelligent cooling. CPU temperatures were very good maxing out at 86 Celsius, nowhere near the hundred Celsius, they see on the Dell XPS, nine 300, the MacBook Pro 13, or the MacBook Air on chassis temperatures, the ones you would actually feel if you use the laptop, they were very good on intelligent cooling, the laptop remain comfortably cool to the touch on extreme performance. It did get a bit warmer, but thankfully nothing like the hot temperatures on the XPS 9300 chassis, the ID pad 515 was noticeably cooler on extreme performance, but it has a bigger chassis which tends to allow more airflow and the material used on the chassis doesn't seem to conduct as much heat. As on the IdeaPad 514.

The fan does in to turn off when on battery power, but when plugged in it seems to be always on. That being said, it's only slightly noticeable in a quiet room. I really, don't think it's loud enough to be disturbing. If you plan to use this laptop in a classroom or a library under load, it sounded similar to the Dell XPS 13. When on the intelligent cooling, which is good on extreme performance, it sounded as loud as the MacBook Pro 13 overall, given that the fans aren't high-pitched, the volume from the fans is good by the way I noticed no coil whine in my unit, all right on to real-world applications, and this laptop had mixed results.

It performed very well opening up Microsoft Office documents in some coding tasks like starting the integrated development environment, IntelliJ, compiling code and debugging on the Jack boss, application server in the skewer large database, reload though it didn't perform as well and was similar to the XPS but slower than the MacBook, Pro and air. One hypothesis is that the SSD speed of this laptop may have something to do with it: lucky its user replaceable for other tasks it didn't perform as well. I found it interesting that the IdeaPad 515 started much quicker, even though it had the same file start setting where this laptop did not perform well at all. In fact, it was a disaster was in Premiere, Pro and exporting standard, h.264 footage used on, say u2 when looking at task manager. I could see straight away that the GPU has not been used.

It was doing a software render, even though I told premier to do a hardware, one, the IdeaPad 515, with horizon 4 500, you CPU fared even worse. Not only does it have a 6 core processor versus the eight core in the IdeaPad 14, but my unit came with 8 gigs of ram compared to the 16 that I got in my IdeaPad 14. You can see when we look at the memory area and task manager that, while rendering the IdeaPad 514 is making use of that extra ram, so my theory is that the IdeaPad 515 is also being bottle necked due to only 8 gigs of ram. It seems Premiere Pro does not take advantage of AMD's video coding engine at all. Hopefully, a done can release an update to enable this I did try a couple of rounds of League of Legends and found it played very well at 1080 settings.

My five strike scores confirm this. You can see it beat out Intel's new g7 graphics in the far more expensive, Dell XPS, so I'd classify. This laptop is good enough for casual gaming, but nothing more memory has set up in dual channel for optimal performance, just like on the 15-inch model, which is great by the way. If you are comparing this laptop to other budget laptops. Please factor this in take a look at the new Dell Inspiron 5000 series with AMD many have single channel RAM, which will perform substantially worse.

The Samsung NVMe SSD isn't the fastest out there, but it is pretty fast, it's marginally faster than the sky-high max in the 15, and it's about as fast as the one in the Dell XPS 9300. Wi-Fi speeds are great, no drops, and it's the new Intel ax 200 Wi-Fi 6 chip yay nice. The cabin over, can put this into their budget range, even though Apple can't manage to put it into their pro range. The display is of a similar quality to the IdeaPad 515, which is very good for a laptop under $800, but definitely worse than more expensive laptops. The brightness is good enough and combined with the fact that both of these laptops have matte panels, which aren't reflective means.

It should be very viewable in a moderately bright room and a little sunlight by the way. I know in my original video of the IdeaPad 515 I scored higher brightness for some reason after numerous retest I could not reproduce that score. So these are my most recent readings. The colors aren't very accurate. That being said, it's definitely better than the display in the ASUS, with three that Wooden review, unless you are only using the laptop with an external monitor, I, would avoid the Asus with three for this razor.

As this is a 14 inch 1080 panels, you are faced with what I consider a bad choice in Windows display scaling settings either run it at 125 percent, which makes everything look too big or at a hundred percent, which makes everything look too small, although this is completely subjective, I find 125 percent works better on a 13-inch and a hundred percent works better on a 15 in Windows. You can set a custom scaling like, so I personally set this laptop to 110 percent. This screen is not a touchscreen, unlike the IdeaPad 515 I also did not detect any PWM flickering when lowering the brightness, which is good. There was a mild amount of backlight bleeding in my unit, but there were no dead pixels. Overall, this screen should be sufficient for using office applications and coding.

I would avoid using it for photo or video editing, though, unless you just can't spend more than 800 US dollars. This is because it's probably the best screen you'll get in that price range unless, of course, you buy second hand. The keyboard is excellent, just like on the IdeaPad 515, very satisfying key travel and click beak, spacious, layout and no odd surprises, where keys are placed no number pad, though, but keys are backlit, which is good too. The track band is also very good and works very well. The speaker's sound decent and there is nice stereo separation, the speaker's, also face upwards, so they won't be muted if you use this laptop on your lap, but there is certainly no bass, and it doesn't come close to the MacBook Pro 13 speakers.

In fact, I found the IdeaPad 515 speakers to be louder. Audio latency is perfect and, while latency Mon was running, I did do some rather heavy tasks on the laptop. The chassis looks and feels more premium than on the IdeaPad 515 because of the material used in darker color. It does pick up fingerprints. However, it's not a fingerprint magnet like the black Racer laptops by the way, I noticed no sharp edges and the laptop can be opened with one hand.

The port situation is ok. The good news is that a laptop is charged by the single USB port plus there are two USB ports and an SD card reader. So for most folks, you covered the bad news. Is that the SD card reader isn't the fastest and neither are the USB ports which are all 3.1 gen one, what's extremely important that you should know. If you plan to use an external monitor, is that in the 15-inch version, the HDMI connector is only 1.4 B. That means you will only get 30 frames per second, when driving a 4k screen, which is a terrible experience as just moving.

The mouse feels jolting on the 14-inch, though I discovered that, even though it is also noted as 1.4 beyond Lenovo's product page I actually got 60 frames per second at 4k, meaning it is likely HDMI 2.0. But before you say, I can't get the 15-inch laptop because of this. If you plug the monitor in via the USB-C port, then it will use the DisplayPort signal and can drive a 4k monitor at 60 frames per second, so you're, probably thinking you should get the 14-inch version as it gives you more flexibility when using an external monitor right, not so fast. The 14-inch version has a different downside due to its ports. It doesn't have the barrel, pin charger and only changes over the single USB port.

If you want to use any other USB-C devices that don't live a power to the laptop, you have to run the laptop on battery power, while doing so a minor annoyance, because the charging port is only on the left side of the laptop. You will have to run a cable around the back. If you plan to use an outlet on the right side, the laptop weighed in at 1.4 kilograms or 3.1 pounds, first 1.6 kilograms or 3.6 pounds in the IdeaPad 515, both of these I consider light and portable for their size. Battery life was around 5 hours. In my test, with brightness set to max doing tasks like writing the script and watching clicks similar to the IdeaPad 515, they both have a 57 watt hour battery and on battery life.

I noticed no slowdowns of performance, which was good like the IdeaPad 515. The webcam is pretty bad, but at least it's placed in a good place, and it has a privacy filter. The fingerprint reader also worked well. The charger is a 65 watt. USB want betters mentioned, because there is only one USB-C port.

If you want to plug something else into that port, you will have to run the laptop on battery power, which is very annoying. They should have added a second opening up. The laptop I could see one large fan and a replaceable SSD. It is the smaller lens m2 type, though, to my delight, I found a second full-length m2 slot available I experienced 0, blue screens or lock-ups, while using this laptop, which is good, alright, here's what I think just like the IdeaPad 515. This is a revolutionary device for the budget category six months ago.

I could not have imagined getting a powerful 8 core CPU, 16, gig of ram, a fight or guess SD and a decent screen for under eight hundred US dollars. I would have thought you found some great secondhand deal or something putting the internal components aside, though, as there will be models of the 15-inch with this CPU and RAM. If this were your, only laptop I would recommend getting the 15-inch over the 14 ? reasons for this one. The 15 inch has two options for charging, which means you can charge it, while also using the USB-C port and two for displays like these, which aren't the brightest or the most color. Accurate I find the larger 15-inch to be more comfortable on the eyes than the 14 plus.

The 15 inch is already very lightweight and portable. Anyway, if you think you aren't going to ever use the USB-C port or are getting this to supplement a bigger, laptop or desktop at home, then sure get the 14 inch. That being said, everyday users who are just browsing the web and watching Netflix. If you can come up with the extra 150 US dollars, I'd, advise you to get the base model MacBook Air. Instead, even though it is far less powerful, it is powerful enough for you, and it has a much better screen and has two USB seaports.

If you do want the power, though, this 14-inch laptop paired with a good external monitor that charges via USB, see like the one I mentioned, is going to be an awesome, combo and I highly. And finally, it's going to take a bit of time for major software developers like Adobe, to update their applications to take full advantage of these new AMD processors. But the more of us who buy these the more pressure you will place on them to hurry up tons of people have messaged me saying that these models aren't available. I have reached out to Lenovo, and they are being sold but I just frequently out of stock due to supply issues and probably popularity. So if you see one and want one, don't dilly-dally! Well, that's all for today! Folks, if you like this video, you know what to do smash that subscribe.

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