IdeaPad 330S Series
The Lenovo IdeaPad 330S series consists of two size variants: 14- and 15.6-inch displays. In both cases, these are low-priced models, which should offer a lot of equipment for little money. The 14-inch model is only offered with Intel CPUs of the 8th generation of the core series and the Pentium series. It should score especially because of the compact design and the great variety of connections.
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Lenovo IdeaPad 330S with a 14-inch display
The Lenovo IdeaPad 330S with 14-inch display offers a simple HD display with 1366×768 pixels and in the more expensive models, an IPS display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The panel is therefore in the classic 16: 9 format and will also come along with a matte finish and no touchscreen. The device itself is kept in the classic clamshell design, a complete flipping of the display is therefore not possible.
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Under the hood is in the cheapest variants of the Intel Pentium 4415U, which reaches a clock rate of 2.3 GHz with its two cores. An intermediate stage is the Intel Core i3-7020U, which also comes with two cores at 2.3 gigahertz, but brings a slightly stronger GPU and larger cache. The more expensive versions of the IdeaPad 330S-14IKB include the Intel Core i5-8250U with its four 1.6-gigahertz fast x86 cores, which clock up to 3.4 gigahertz via TurboBoost. The top of the range is the Intel Core i7-8550U with 1.8 GHz base clock and 4.0 GHz maximum frequency.
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Depending on the CPU Lenovo installed either four, six, eight, twelve or even 16 gigabytes of RAM, although basically four GB are firmly soldered to the motherboard, while an additional RAM bar with four or more GB is installed. It should be noted, however, that only the more expensive models, which come from the factory anyway with eight GB of RAM, also have a RAM slot on board and thus at least theoretically upgradable.
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As for the internal memory, the PCIe NVMe SSDs for the M.2 slot with 128 or 256 gigabytes are provided here. Certain variants also have a standard 2.5-inch hard drive on board, which provides up to a terabyte of additional storage space. Depending on the model and country, Lenovo also installs an AMD Radeon 535 or Radeon 540 add-on GPU in addition to the CPU’s own Intel graphics unit. The AMD graphics chips are each two gigabytes of dedicated GDDR5 memory available.
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The IdeaPad 330S with 14-inch display also has two USB 3.0 ports, a USB Type-C port with USB 3.1 support, a full-size HDMI output and an SD card reader. The radio is powered by Bluetooth 4.1 and Gigabit WLAN according to the AC standard. The Lenovo IdeaPad 330S-14 is just under 19 millimeters thick and brings it to a weight of 1.67 kilograms.
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Lenovo IdeaPad 330S with a 15.6-inch display
The 15-inch Lenovo Ideapad 330S has a 15.6-inch display that resolves to either 1366×768 or 1920×1080 pixels, depending on the variant you get. Under the hood you get, depending on the variant, either the above-mentioned Intel CPUs of the 8th core generation or AMD processors from the Ryzen series, in which case it is not yet clear whether it apart from the Ryzen 5 2500U with its 2.0 gigahertz will also give other variants. Certain variants also have a Radeon 540 GPU from AMD on board, which works with two or even four gigabytes of memory.
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Depending on the model, the RAM is between four and 16 gigabytes in size, with the customer again having PCIe SSDs available – with the option to use a 2.5-inch hard disk to offer as much as possible additional storage space. Lenovo also offers two USB 3.0 ports for the IdeaPad 330S-15IKB and 330S-15ARR, a USB 3.1-capable Type-C port, a memory card reader and a full-fledged HDMI output. A 720p webcam is also standard here.
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The weight of the IdeaPad 330S-15 is exactly 1.8 kilograms. The battery equipment varies with the two new IdeaPad 330S variants depending on the hardware. The cheaper versions come with only 30 watt-hour large batteries, while the more expensive models and the ones with AMD additional graphics offer a 52.5-watt-hour battery. Depending on the features and model, prices start at around 450 US dollars each.
