Lenovo – Ideapad Gaming 3 15.6″ FHD Laptop – Ryzen 5 5600H – 8GB Memory – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti – 256GB SSD – Shadow Black

I had been looking for a laptop that could play games and handle programming and graphic design software like Poser and Photoshop. I’m on a fixed income so my budget was no more than $700. I know, that’s not much for what I wanted. But, I found the perfect laptop for me with the purchase of this Lenovo Ideapad 3 Gaming Laptop at a sale price of $550! I also added another 8 gigs of memory and another M.2 1 TB SSD to my initial purchase for another $102, bringing it to $652. I also read about the included 135w AC adapter issues and spent another $29 on a 170w adapter for a total of $681, under my budget!
I could not be happier with my laptop and feel the money was well spent. With 16 gigs of RAM and the additional 1 TB SSD, it’s handled everything I’ve thrown at it. And the 170w adapter works great, solving the problem of the battery losing charge while playing games or anything that uses the Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti video card. Speaking of which, the 3050 card was also a deciding factor in my decision as I wanted to buy a laptop with the best video card that my budget would allow, since you can’t upgrade a laptops video card. Most budget gaming laptops come with a 1650, 1660 card so this Ideapad 3 is a step up.
So, even with the upgrades, which is another plus since it can be upgraded, this particular machine is a solid investment for those looking for a gaming and/or graphics design laptop. Highly recommended!!

It’s display has backlight bleeding problem! I’m so much disappointed, first I didn’t notice the problem but after using for 2 days I noticed this problem while using totally black background wallpaper.