Lenovo Ideapad L340 Gaming Laptop, 15.6 Inch FHD (1920 X 1080) IPS Display, Intel Core i5-9300H Processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB Nvme SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, Windows 10, 81LK00HDUS, Black

This laptop surprisingly good, quiet, light and reasonably powerful. I didn't test it in much games, All I have tested is Total War Warhammer II and it has stable 50+ FPS on ultra settings. With these specs I think it is a good deal. There is not much more I can say about laptop. Upgradability: - Processor is soldered to system board. - There is only one slot for RAM. - There is no bracket and cable for additional hard drive and I couldn't find spare on Lenovo Parts Finder. My huge complaint is about Lenovo Representative who answers questions here on Amazon. Answering questions he said that there is extra slot for additional RAM stick. Here is the link to that answer: https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx1QTL71H6BKS5Z/ref=ask_dp_dpmw_al_hza. That is a lie. There is no additional slot for RAM on this board. There is only one slot with 8 Gb stick installed so if you want, like me, upgrade this Laptop to 16 Gb of RAM you need to buy 16Gb stick. I'm very disappointed by this because after I read Q&A section I ordered another 8Gb stick along and now I stuck with 2 extra 8Gb sticks after I upgrade laptops memory. Also, Lenovo Rep mentioned couple of times that laptop is not user serviceable. I don't know why did he said that. Bottom cover is held by 11 screws and comes off easily, after you slightly pry latches. (2 for each side spaced evenly) and there you have access to RAM, coolers (in case you need to clean them) and SSD. ( By the way there is short version installed, but it is possible to install long SSD stick, as it has screw mounts for different sizes). You can find service manual with diagrams on Lenovo site in support section. Finally I want to recommend to undervolt your CPU and GPU. BUT ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING. IF YOU MESS WITH WRONG SETTING YOU COULD END UP WITH TOASTED CPU OR GPU. I undervolted CPU by -150 mV and end up with constant 3.99 Ghz without any throttling and max temperature of 68 C.

So far it has performed well. The screen’s anti glare works quite well and the colors are vibrant. The keys also have a nice feel and seem very responsive. The only complaints I have is that the mousepad is a bit annoying and doesn’t track incredibly well. A minor inconvenience when doing regular things but it can build up to be fairly annoying. However I also purchased a mouse, as I had planned from the start, and I’m happy with the combination. The only other thing that bothers me is that the backlight can be seen lightly in semicircles around the edges of the screen when on a mostly black image. Nothing big, and you really only can see it when the screen is completely black, or the edges at least and it is faint, but it still harms my piece of mind ever so slightly. With that said it has performed quite well for the gaming I do and the day to day use. I would highly recommend as an portable but powerful gaming laptop that also doesn’t break the bank. It’s the first gaming laptop I’ve bought but I was already very familiar with games and the market so I would very much recommend to that audience. I did a lot of research. This was hands down the best specs, quality, and trustworthy choice I could find for around this price. I’d rather the rating be 4.5 stars but since I can’t I’ll have to settle for 5 because I don’t think 4 is fair. So long as you’d be willing to purchase a mouse and don’t try to simulate the world, I think whoever purchases this laptop will be satisfied.

Why did I buy this? I was looking for a laptop that I can use for work, travels easy, but can afford me some game time when I am on the road. Budget wasn’t really an issue, but I wanted to make sure I was getting the most value for what I spent. I do not do intensive work applications on it just email, excel, general surfing etc. I am not a competitive gamer, so getting that extra millisecond of response time was not a concern but I wanted something that could handle current games and most games that will come out over the next couple of years. What I considered / compared it too? GPU – GTX 1650 – this thing rocks, most comparisons were to the older (but still capable) 1050i and other variations. I wanted the newest I could get for the cost. So this was the bench mark of my search. Processor – 9th gen i5 – I really wanted to get a 9th gen i7 but, most of the ones that had it only had the 1050 series of graphics card, and as I stated above that’s what I really valued most. NOTE: Lenovo DOES make a version of this with a gen 9 i7, it is not available (at the time of writing this) on Amazon. It IS available on Lenovo’s website for about $180 more than this unit (on sale for $270 off ATM), but it comes with a smaller SSD. I know its easier to replace an SSD than a GPU (basically impossible on a laptop like this) but between the cost difference and not having to hassle with adding an SSD right when I received it, that’s why I decided against that route. NOTE: the benchmark testing on a gen 9 i5 vs i7 were very close in most tests, while future proofing your purchase is a good idea, it didn’t look like a big enough difference (4 cores 8 threads on the 5 vs 6 cores 12 threads on the 7) to move me to spend more. NOTE: This laptop model might be an Amazon exclusive because I could not locate it on the Lenovo web site. Monitor refresh – 60Hz – this was a tough one for me, there are some laptops that have the 9th gen i7, 16gb ram and the 1650 graphics card with 144Hz monitor (and there is a difference, just watch some youtube videos on it) but that cost difference was about $450. For the games I play (will get to that in a second), the look, and the weight of the product, I just couldn’t pull the trigger on the extra costs. RAM – 8GB – documents state that you can upgrade the single 8GB stick to 16GB. 16GB DDR4 is about 70 bucks, if I get into a game that is giving me performance issues, I am ok with that upgrade cost. NOTE: Lenovo says you should use an authorized tech to upgrade your RAM/SSD or you might void the warranty. I am not sure of the legality of that due to the right to self-repair, but I have done enough that it doesn’t concern me, your views/value my differ from mine in this respect. 512gig SSD – I definitely wanted an SSD, boot speeds etc are totally worth it. 512 means I can fit about 6+ of today’s modern games on it comfortably. I am ok with that for now. It does have an extra 2.5” bay for another SSD (I have a 1TB from my old laptop so if I get to the point where I need it, it won’t cost me anything extra, obviously your experience will differ from mine in that additional cost). The extra bay is nice because you do not have to reload the OS etc, you can add the drive and increase your storage easily. The NOTE above on the RAM upgrade applies here too. The Look – As I mentioned I will be using this for work too, this is as discrete of a “gaming” laptop as I have seen. I did not want flashy lights or gaming brand logos on the cover. I have the power to game; I don’t need or want to flaunt it in my day job interacting with customers. Keyboard backlight – has 3 settings, off, low, high. I play in a pretty dark room and the low setting was perfect to let me see while not blinding my peripheral vision. Heat – this is not a loud laptop (fans); I have been gaming on laptops for 10 years an have had my fair share of jet engines. This doesn’t appear to be one of those. It does get warm, but nothing of concern or that would burn to the touch. Battery life – I haven’t tested it yet completely (will update when I do) but in “economy” mode (not using the 1650 graphics card) it looks to last 5+ hours, the description says 9 hours but I doubt that, still its more than enough for when I can’t plug in. Running with the 1650 turned on and gaming I would get around 2 hours. Bloat – amazingly it didn’t come with much on it that I had to remove. MacAfee and a Lenovo thing, that’s about it. What games do I play on it? No Man’s Sky Beyond – Played on high settings with no issues/lag/clipping at all WoW – Ultra settings with no issues (obviously its an older games graphics wise) Overwatch – Ultra Settings with no issues As I play and test more games ill update this….. 9/29/19 EDIT - Borderlands 3 - 30 FPS on Ultra, dialed back to medium and was more than great for my average gamer needs. 11/30/19 EDIT - Thrown a ton of games at this over the past few months. Basically anything made before 2018 you can run at max with no issues. Most newer games (2019 releases) will run just fine at med/high settings. 12/10/20 EDIT - Cyberpunk 2077 - played on Medium in game settings with no issues at all. prob could have bumped it up a setting. What about the backlight/bleeding reports? Ill knock on wood, I have not seen bleeding on the edges for darker games, or I might just not be noticing it. backlight/monitor darkness, again, I have not experienced this, and I hope I don’t. I get that everyone has defects and a % of DOA product. Everyone’s mileage will differ on this I guess.

If you're gonna plunk the better part of $1k on new tech (that you'll have for years to come), it's important to get a total, accurate look at what this laptop is and is not: I want to address the positives AND the (very few) negatives. Yeah, it's not a bleeding-edge gaming laptop w/ a hot & heavy RTX card in 'er. But - I've been playing a dozen games ranging from Fallout 4 to GTA 5, to Cyberpunk 2077, & more. CP2077 is the one game that can't be run at ultra/high settings. But, w/ some tuning/tweaks, it'll still run ~60fps on medium. **Note about FHD screen and certain games running @1080p/60Hz/FPS below in the paragraph on the screen** Lenovo's keyboard are legendary. Clicky-clacky enough yet smooth and buttery. Having a keyboard w/ nearly full-sized key and a 10-key makes all the difference for me personally. Keyboard is beautifully & evenly backlit in blue; and can be set to 'low', 'high', or off. Touchpad is standard and full clickable. Of note if you like to turn off touch "Taps" (I despise tap-to-click...Grrr...), I discovered that Windows 10 has no easy way to disable that "feature" in Control Panel. I had to slog through RegEdit to find the correct value and set it to "0". Problem solved! The FHD/1080P screen is gorgeous. Windows 10's default display settings can cause a situation in which some legacy windows within the OS are displayed at a lower resolution, creating blurry text and border lines. This is a known issue across all FHD screens, laptop or desktop, and the fault lies w/ Windows 10, not you & I, or the laptop. Google will produce a simple fix, and somebody has created a small (kilobites) file that will switch your display settings to fix this problem. Let's talk about the bread-and-butter part of the Lenovo L340: The video card is Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1650; a capable video card, even in the day of the RTX2080 monsters. Will it play every current AAA-title at Ultra settings? No...sadly. But it WILL play every AAA-title currently out as of May 17th, 2021 at reasonably acceptable quality. And the 2-5yr old games (and older, of course) look incredible running on High or Ultra settings. Playing Fallout 4 on High setting, w/ textures/fade/water/light on Max/Ultra, it runs sustained @60FPS (capped by default, and fine by me in this case) even while exploring & shooting hordes of enemies in the midst of downtown Boston. Most Fallout 4 fans know downtown Boston to be the game's chokepoint; where consoles and older PC GPUs start dropping frames hard, and everything becomes choppy - even sometimes causing the dreaded CTD. Windows 10 is Windows. After the horrific ess known as Windows 7&8, I switched back to running Linux boxes or Windows 7 (running Classic Shell) for games, & vowed to not.come back until Microsoft got rid of that Metro crap. I want my OS to look and work like an OS... ...Anyway, when I finally was forced to adopt Windows 10 when my last laptop went Tango-Uniform and I bought this Lenovo L340. And I actually, genuinely like it. This is what 7 & 8 should have been. Metro app clicky-touchy nonsense if you OPT for it, or, an OS for those of us who prefer it. Last, I just want to say that Lenovo as a company has been pretty good to me. I've owned 5 Lenovo laptops in about 10 years. Two for work (I can't recall model #s), one of which is in my work truck currently, and the one before it that died from living full-time w; roasting hot or freezing cold, dusty, humid, smoky, vibrating/shaking and constant daily abuse over a 5-year period. One my oldest daughter has used almost 4 years now for college. I hear it's holding up well, and I've been spared having to be "tech support" for any issues. My last one died completely after almost 6 years of OUTSTANDING service. I burned two full spindles (200 DVDs worth) and a good chunk of a third making work-related copies and backups. Never, ever made a coaster. That drive was so sweet, I salvaged it. Thousands of hours on and productive. I actually wore a soft spot in the 10-key. Then the FN key stopped responding. Then the touchpad stopped. One day, I went to start working and it refused to turn on at all. Wouldn't run diagnostics, BIOS was unusable. Toast. So if I get 5 years out of my new L340, I will be a happy man.

The Lenovo Ideapad L340 Gaming Laptop with 15.6 Inch FHD display looks amazing. Fast Intel Core i5-9300H Processor has proven worthy on opening up and running applications fast. The 512GB Nvme SSD makes this laptop boot up quick and load games/apps much faster than conventional HDD drives. The built-in NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 has been able to handle very well with many new game titles and some VR games. The 8GB DDR4 RAM handles well for the most part. The HDMI input works great for connecting a larger screen and getting a better picture. The laptop vents hot air towards the front and can get a little loud depending on graphic settings. The blue LED backlit keyboard is nice to have. I have not had any issues with it yet as I keep video drivers and windows up to date. This does not have a CD-ROM so you will have to get an external one. All in all, this is a decent price for a gaming laptop that can handle just about any game.

Let me start by saying I have always been an AMD supporter. I was in doubt and buying this i5 based laptop instead of the Ryzen 5 from other manufacturers broke my heart. I made a big research on this i5 vs R5 and found out that the i5 leads the way in 90% of the comparisons. My choice was purely based on maximizing the value of my money. This laptop is robust. It's blazing fast. The i5 does the job well. Even with 8GB of ram. The ram and the pci-e ssd are Samsung's components. They are reliable and have an outstanding performance. I plan on upgrading the ram to 16gb from crucial. If you think about upgrade, there is only ONE slot for Ram. So you will need to remove the 8gb and place the 16gb. You can upgrade de 512gb pci-e ssd but I do not recommend since the one is really good. There is a pretty hidden sata III connector for an SSD so I will buy also from crucial a 2TB ssd. The battery life is miserable. I cannot expect a lot from a gaming laptop. The GTX1650 handle everything very well. Nvidia software let's you switch from Gaming drivers to Studio drivers at any time so you can use it for your Adobe suite and return back to your daily gaming activities lol. BE ADVISED: the video presentation of the product might make you believe that the lid's backside logo and the logo next to the keyboard are retroiluminated, but they are not. The keyboard is very soft. Nice to type. I enjoyed the mousepad. I saw complaints about it, but seriously?? Well, just get a mouse. I have mine also. The screen is big and bright. Everything is very clear. Windows flows nicely on this machine and I can't regret making this purchase as long as it lasts and I surely can't see this laptop failing. The only bad thing: McAfee. First thing I uninstalled. Make sure you do the same. I bought it during Black Friday and paid 549 USD.

Before I start my review, I would like to point out that this laptop has a overall review score above 4 stars, and the people who are most likely to leave reviews are the ones who have issues with a product. The only reason I am giving this product a review that is good (I usually only review products if I have something bad to say) is that I feel it is misrepresented by the bad reviews. Only a small portion of the reviews for this computer are negative, and more people who have bad luck will leave reviews than those who have good luck. So consider that before you think that the 20% of reviews that account for this computer not having a 5 star overall score make up probably 5% or less of people who actually had issues with this computer after purchasing it. Ok, on to my review This computer is better than any other that I have used or owned before it. Thats not saying much because I got it as an upgrade to a 10 year old macbook. However, some of the reviews complained about the screen not having good color, and I dont really think thats true. Also, there were complaints about the keyboard, which feels really good in my opinion, and about the flimsiness of the plastic that its made of. I understand that a computer with an aluminum shell would be better, but that is expensive and heavy, and the plastic that lenovo used doesn't seem flimsy. Cosmetically, I love the computer, and the screen seems very good quality. The main reason I wanted this computer was for editing with premeire pro, which I could not even use on my old computer. Premeire runs very well, and I have installed a few games on it as well which I feel might help some people make desicions about whether it is "beefy" enough for their gaming needs. I have been running forza horizon 3 with max graphics settings, and the framerate average is around 50 to 60 frames per second, which is better than I expected for a $700 laptop. The other game I have been running, which some people might be less familiar with is the drone racing league simulator. This game, when on max graphics settings, has realistic lighting and amazing amounts of detail, and I have had no issues running it at 60 fps all the time with max graphics (the game is very fast paced so it has a framerate warning if you drop below 60). I can't give an accurate estimate as to battery life yet, because I've only had it for a few days and haven't tested the battery yet. I would guess that you could probably get 5-6 hours if you are web browsing, and 1-3 hours gaming, depending on how demanding the game is. I will update my review if I have any issues or anything changes.

The performance was great at first! I had no issues with this device. Then I started to encounter problems. The battery drains itself very easily after two months, and I can't even get a couple of hours of just basic web browsing in without having to plug it in. I have reinstalled Windows, and let me just say, the performance didn't change. I installed even fewer programs and games this time, and it only gave it about a 2% performance boost. I am very dissatisfied with how little time it took for this product to degrade. Even my $200 HP laptop didn't lose much performance over the course of time, and I've had that since 2017. I purchased this a few months ago. Can't play a simple Minecraft Java edition game on regular settings, or play Fortnite on medium without constant FPS drops. On AC power. I would have given it one star for the battery, but I do realize that gaming laptops' batteries aren't as good as normal ones, hence the extra star. Also, the 1080p screen is decent, but I only gave it 4 because it will randomly glitch out if there hasn't been an update to what is on the screen for about a minute. The USB sometimes malfunctions too, along with the HDMI Port. Ethernet, charging port, and USB C are all fine. Will continue to use it because I have to, but still, not a good product for what you pay. Beware!