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do we have a new king of the ultra budget laptops well almost I'm Dan Ackerman and this is the Lenovo IdeaPad 100's it is a newer entry in this growing field of computers that cost basically less than $200 and yet are still fairly functional fairly usable for everyday tasks you've got things like the HP stream 11 which is about $200 clamshell 11 inch laptop much like this runs Windows 10 you've got inexpensive things like the Intel compute stick guy that's basically a full mini desktop PC the size of a big USB key that's only a little bit more than $100 and now we have the Lenovo IdeaPad 100's for 199 dollars comes in a variety of fun colors which is nice including this muted red right here there's also blue silver and white and it's got an Intel Atom processor as you would expect from something this price range along with 2 gigs of ram and a very small amount of storage 32 gigs of solid-state storage but that's pretty much what you get in this category along with a low res non-touch 1366 by 768 display the reason the lenovo stands out as one of the better examples of this genre is because it's got it typically excellent ovo keyboard on it island style keys but like other lenovo systems they curved out just a little bit of the bottom give you something for your finger to catch on to really the best keyboard I've seen on one of these ultra budget systems unfortunately the flip side to that is that the touchpad is a huge source of frustration and might be a deal-breaker for you if you're looking at the system because it's not a click pad style pad it's an older style that has separate left and right mouse buttons and it also does not support multi-touch gestures so you can't do two fingers scrolling when you're going up and down long webpages or tap two fingers down to get a right-click especially without a touchscreen that's that's very important to have if you're reading an article or scrolling through your Facebook feed and not having it hugely hugely frustrating I could very easily cause you to put aside this system and get something else like the HP version instead even though the design and chassis and keyboard are much better here but any way you slice it you are getting something that'll work for you know everyday tasks web surfing online shopping social media from less than $200 that's something that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo IdeaPad 100's