Lenovo’s IdeaPad 710s brings a lightweight premium look and feel to their already extensive range of great looking Ultrabooks.
Lenovo really did a great job of branding their consumer laptops by borrowing the cache from the ThinkPad brand when they bought the business from IBM back in 2005. The first IdeaPads launched in 2008 with some innovative features that can be said to have led the way in lightweight ultrabook design.
The new IdeaPad 710s continues the value look and feel with a laptop that feels so light you have to remind yourself it is actually made of metal, albeit lightweight magnesium and aluminium. Lenovo has a habit of bringing incremental improvements to its notebooks and the 710s is no exception. With its sleek lines and an almost opulent appearance, it’s no slouch in the performance stakes either.
With its Skylake processors, 16GB of RAM available and fast SSD storage, the IdeaPad 710s is a cracking performer and looks like it could be a winner for Lenovo.
The ideapad 710S is a new premium Ultrabook from Lenovo. It features a classy magnesium-aluminum construction, a near bezel-less display, and is just 2.6 pounds and 0.55 inches thin. On the inside, it packs Intel’s latest “Skylake” Core i-series processors, up to 16GB of RAM, and PCI-express SSD storage. We gave this sleek beauty high marks for just about everything, minus some keyboard layout quibbles, and its subpar selection of ports.
We initially thought the ideapad 710S was plastic when we took it out of the box. It’s lighter than the average 13.3-inch notebook, at 2.6 pounds. This puts it just slightly under the Dell XPS 13 (2016), and the Acer Aspire S 13, two of its closest competitors. Rather than plastic, however, the all-silver ideapad 710S uses magnesium and aluminum. This helps keep the weight down, and also strengthens the chassis. Indeed, the base of the notebook is rigid, with just a bit of side-to-side play when we torqued it by its corners (which you should avoid doing, by the way). The lid has a bit of flex to it, but actually provides excellent protection to the display panel.
We weren’t able to get ripples to appear in the display by pressing in on the back of the lid. This is even more impressive in view of the lid’s thinness. Another impressive fact about the lid is that it tilts 90 degrees past vertical, allowing it to lay completely flat with the surface. This is unusual, as most notebooks tend to stop around the 45 degree mark, or shortly thereafter. The lid’s hinge is a bit too stiff to allow it to be opened one-handed, though.
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