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hey guys this is Austin we've done our fair share of fortnight videos but today we're taking a look at what might just be the best cheap laptop for fortnight the $450 Lenovo IdeaPad 330 s take a look around and this is a surprisingly solidly built laptop so lenovo did opted to go with aluminum for the build and while for the most part it's sturdy there's going to be a little bit of screen flex as well as a little bit in the chassis it does feel nicely sturdy there's also a reasonable selection of ports so Lenovo loaded it up with a USB C port there's also going to be a USB 3.0 which can charge your device even the laptops closed in HDMI and if we flip the laptop to the other side there's one more USB 3.0 port as well as an SD card reader open the IdeaPad up and there's a full size keyboard with a number oh it's also backlit which is especially nice to see at this kind of price point usually when it comes to budget laptops there's a lot of blue air I'm bored well there's going to be a little bit on the Lenovo I've got to say it's actually not going to be that bad and of course it's going to be easily removable unlike some other laptops that you spend hours trying to uninstall the xviii trial of McAfee on you know what I'm talking about 18 with a sometimes look ok I feel there's like three different McAfee things they load on laptops these days there's like security there's like the internet security and there's like some totally something-something uni any of that just to hit uninstall with the SSD it's nice and fast ok 18 is an exaggeration I'm sorry it's 3 open up the IdeaPad you're actually going to find a few interesting things at least if you're a nerd like me first of all we have our processor now this guy is rocking the Core i5 a 250 you as well as the new 8th gen Intel chips that means that we're going to be getting a full quad core design which is really nice and I 450 dollar laptop there's a lot of interesting stuff inside here though first of all it seems like there's almost definitely some version of this maybe not this laptop at least this board that does take advantage of an MX 150 graphics card that looks to be about the right size for the GPU as well as where the gddr5 would go but there's some other interesting stuff here including the Intel AC Wi-Fi card it's going to be dual band should be plenty powerful plenty fast and on top of that we also do have a few good bytes of RAM this we're going to be 4 gigs here as well as 4 gigs on the back side running a dual channel and that is going to be very important to keep those you HD 620 graphics on the core i5 nice and fed that enough specs for you cuz I've got even more you should be wary of which model of this laptop you pick up most are going to be rocking a 1 terabyte hard drive some do take advantage of the m2 slot give you some octane support but what we've got here is instead a 128 gigabyte two and a half inch SATA drive I say that because of course that's going to give you the best performance out of the box this one performs pretty reasonable but if you ever want to upgrade this guy as opposed to just throwing in an extra hard drive you're pretty much limited to adding a second SSD in that m2 slot last but certainly at least on Austin's tour of the inside of a laptop we have the 30 watt hour battery now that looks like a pretty large cell however 30 watt hours is not a lot for a laptop part of that is because this is actually partially hollow it looks bigger than it really is 31 hours is going to be not to get somewhere between 5 to 6 hours of use but it's not going to be a lot and it is a very easy way to tell that lenovo was cutting some costs when they designed this laptop put all this together and what you've got is a pretty decent a little laptop but of course the real question is can it play fortnight's jump into the game and what we're getting is an incredibly playable 30 frames per second because you know that's what all games should run at right real talk though for for $50 laptop is I've run into a tree this is actually going to be very very playable so I didn't have to turn down some of the settings we are running at 768 P I'll get into a little bit of that later but we were running on mostly low settings but the view distance bumped up we've got motion blur on and importantly we have not like vsync on but also the 30 frames per second cap so this can run a little bit higher than 30 if you want Capet we're running around like 40 but it gets a little bit erratic and when we turn on vsync it actually smooths out the action quite a bit it's not going to be as smooth as a full 60 FPS experience but this is a $450 laptop and it's going to be completely playable with Fortnight with the core i5 inside it's actually going to stay reasonably cool it doesn't get above 65 degrees for the most part on the actual processor and because we aren't going to be completely taxing it with that 30 FPS cap it means that the system itself doesn't get all that warm either sure it's going to be a little bit warm where that fan is underneath the screen but to the touch the laptop is nice and cool Tovar you might be asking yourself why exactly am i playing at 1366 by 768 on the resolution and that my friends is the biggest issue with the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 is the screen not great this is a 15.6 inch 1366 by 768 screen and not only is that not going to be all that impressive to begin with but it's also a really cheap TN panel so the viewing angles as you can see here are well pretty terrible the colors is not going to be accurate whatsoever there's just a lot of issues with this screen and that doesn't even get into the idea this is a pretty large display with almost no screen real estate now to be fair when it comes to fortnight the screen is actually going to be totally fine in fact it's almost a slight advantage because we can't play as a full native screen reza for almost everything else though it's just not going to be all that great so there is a 1080p option that you can upgrade this laptop with but the problem there is that once you start upgrading the screen the price of the laptop will quickly get above $500 and for that kind of money actually I do kind of prefer the isuzu both better recently took a look at it then there's the issue of what this thing actually costs so I was able to pick it up for 450 dollars and that price it's solid unfortunately when I took a look at it this morning a lot of these were running for a little bit closer to 530 and again at that price it gets to be a little bit of a harder sell if you're able to pick this up for $450 it's a pretty solid package with the core i5 eight gigs of ram as well as standard SSD but that screen is a big big issue so if you're looking for an entry-level for night experience by all means pick it up other than that though you may want to look at slightly higher end options