Lenovo G50 15.6-inch Laptop Notebook (Intel Celeron N2840 2.58 GHz, 4 GB DDRIIIL RAM, 500Gb HDD, DVDRW, Wi-Fi, BT, Camera, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8.1 with Bing) - Black with Free Windows 10 Upgrade

A very good value this level-entry laptop. Very responsive and fast.I was pleased to find that there was not a bundle of software to install just the right amount. I bought a Toshiba SatelliteC50 A 19 it was brilliant but when I sold it took over two hours to do 'Factory Reset' too much software loaded installed.This laptop is really easy to use even for the novice, with really good pre-installed documentation available at a click of a mouse. Great keyboard toonice and soft, smooth and it looks great.I also have a Lenovo Yoga 10.1" tablet that I bought just before last Christmas which is excellent. I had an iPad Mini 7.9 inch and it was rubbish - over priced, over rated and over hyped - the iPad clearly had superior hardware but very poor expandability and could not be upgraded. And £50 more. It never even had an SDHC card slot. I have a Mac too but Apple just made plenty of money on the new iPhone 6 recently and theyare not getting any of mine.I work in the ICT industry as a technician I fix computers all the time and I would highly recommend this laptop to anyone who is a beginner or novice.I like the Lenovo VeriFace Pro Face software very clever bit of software. Very cool. I also have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with the biometric finger print feature and that was pretty cool. This is Star Trek cool.

Good functionality and easy to navigate around - free upgrade to Windows 10 appreciated. Build of laptop itself flimsy compared with the old thinkpad forerunners of this product but much cheaper too and lighter to carry. Screen resolution for me very good but I have not tried to play any music or films yet so cannot comment on the sound quality.

This Lenovo laptop is a reasonable low-budget machine. I bought it just over a year ago, and it's performed in a satisfactory manner. It's certainly not 'high end' with great specifications; but nor is it outdated and unable to do what's required of it. If you're interested in buying this laptop, the key question is: what do you intend to do with it? If you're aiming to use it for fairly routine things - such as writing-up Word documents and browsing online - then this laptop is a good buy. If you're after a machine that's capable of specialist functions (such as video-gaming or photo editing using advanced software) then I'd suggest you select an alternative laptop.This is a light-weight machine, and easy to set-up and use. It comes with Windows 8.1 on it - and is able to download Windows 10 free of charge. The screen is a decent size, and the display is clear and sharp. The battery life is rather good (at about 4 hours). For storing documents and family photos, it's 500 GB hard-drive is very useful. Yet, I've found that it can be slow to turn on, slow to open documents, and - at times - very slow when doing things online.Given the limitations of this laptop - in terms of it's limited processing power, and slow responses - I've come to use it as a back-up. It's the laptop that I let others borrow if they need to use a computer. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's simply not a great machine. As such, I "like it" because of its price and that it fulfils the tasks I require of it, but it's not a laptop that's pleasing to use. Lenovo do make other, more advanced laptops (I also use a Lenovo G780 17.3-inch with 8GB RAM and 1TB HDD - which is a joy to use) and I do recommend the brand.So, overall, whether this laptop is the right one for you depends on what you intend to use it for ...

I was always reticent to purchase a Lenovo because that's the make of my work laptop. I never did get on with that thing and thought that was a reflection of Lenovo. This laptop had exactly the specs I was after, at a low price, so I figured I would give it a try. I realise now that it's not Lenovo's fault that my work laptop is a slow, unwieldy behemoth, but rather my employer's for restricting so much of it and bloating so much of the rest. This is a great little laptop, perfect for casual home use. Mine is used mostly for streaming, such as netflix and Amazon Prime (shout out to Amazon) and it does a great job. I use a second screen, stream onto one and work on the other and the laptop handles this without issue or latency. I can't comment on high intensity gaming, etc, as I haven't tried this, but for the average user this has coped with everything I have thrown at it so far. Recommended!

Pros:Cheap. Got this for £180.Good specs for priceCons:SUPERFISH. Wow. Just wow.Also, the computer failed after about 3 weeks of use and the OS had to be rebuilt (explorer.exe crashed and restarted non-stop, if explorer.exe doesn't work then you're going to have a hard time trying to apply any fixes). Likely a driver clash, but the QA seems lacking here.Also, after about 3 weeks of use the left pointer button doesn't bounce back all the way. Again, QA / build quality is lacking.Bottom line: seriously regretting not getting the HP Stream

Pretty good, but I should've known without the dedicated graphics it can hardly play a youtube video without having a small heart attack.Other than that I bought it to mainly work on and check emails when I'm travelling so it does the job well for the cheap price. :)