Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IRU9
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Average of 2 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IRU9
Source: Ricks Tech
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 02/26/2025
Source: Techradar
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 is not going to set anyone’s world on fire. It comes with bloatware, the audio is lackluster, and most of its aspects could best be described as “fine.” However, it’s fairly portable for its size, is attractive enough, and has enough performance for most people’s day-to-day needs. With its low price, it’s a great value for those that just need a Windows computer.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/12/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 80% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80%
Source: Laptop Mag
Just because the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget laptop doesn’t mean it needs to be a cheap laptop. I’d be OK with the performance and the display — I wouldn’t be thrilled with it, and neither should you — but one has to make some sacrifices with an affordable laptop. If the battery life lasted more than eight hours, that would have raised the Slim 3i to another level, but at just over 6 hours, it’s one of the shortest-lived non-gaming laptops we’ve tested in recent memory. Do yourself a favor and opt for the Acer Swift Go 14 (2024). For $100 more, you get longer battery life, a bright and colorful display, and much more powerful performance. That’s a steal when comparing the two and worth saving up for. Even at a steep discount, you could find something better than the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/10/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Laptop Media
If you need an unpretentious device for standard home or office tasks, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Gen 9 (15, Intel) is a good choice when it’s combined with an SSD and dual-channel memory. Yep, don’t forget that the base configurations come with a TN panel, UFS storage, and just 8GB of soldered RAM in single-channel mode. These ones should be avoided unless your budget is extremely tight. The overall performance of our laptop with Core 5 120U, dual-channel RAM, and an NVMe is good. The only con is the slow write speeds of the SSDs which cause slow app installations.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/14/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/14/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Slim size; light weight; good cooling and silent system; decent fingerprint reader; long battery life; quick charging. Negative: Non-expandable RAM; mediocre design.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/14/2024
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Intel Iris Xe G7 80EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G7 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 80 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Core 5 120U: High-end mobile processor based on the Alder Lake architecture. Offers 2 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores and can process 12 threads simultaneously. The maximum turbo clock of the P cores is 5 GHz.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.60":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
