Lenovo IdeaPad 330s-15ARR Laptop Review: A powerful Ryzen 5 2500U laptop paired with disappointing battery life

[Redaktion]

The IdeaPad 330s-15ARR scores well with its Ryzen 5-2500U APU, fast NVMe SSD, and dual-channel RAM. Its dim and poor battery life inhibit what is a good laptop though.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaPad-330s-15ARR-Laptop-Review-A-powerful-Ryzen-5-2500U-laptop-paired-with-disappointing-battery-life.425017.0.html

[concerned reader]

Performance numbers and comparison are just phony bullshit!

For cinebench and witcher tests, line chart shows one numbers (min/avg/max) and bar chart for some laptops shows either random numbers (sometimes event with avg>max wtf?!) or just max score (which is useless as laptops rarely operate on constant maximum frequency). Some laptops are even claimed to be tested with max fan set! This is not only irrelevant for general comparison but also puts its result in favour against other devices turning the whole thing into mess!

The final score for performance doesn't mean anything and is practically useless for comparison purpose!

Cinebench:
Lenovo Ideapad 330S-15ARR-81FB00C7GE: Ø505 (465.19-617.99) and 618 in bar chart
HP Pavilion 15-cw0003ng: Ø431 (417.88-605.96) and 606
505 / 431 = 17% faster and not just 2% according to comparison.

WTF&71!? Is all the database on this website complete nonsense?7

[NikoB]

Likewise, while we like that Lenovo has included a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port, we cannot understand why it did not include support for DisplayPort or USB power delivery.

Very inattentive and poor testing. And Lenovo(this is entirely the fault of marketers) is lying about the HDMI 1.4b port in this version. In reality, there is 2.0b, as Vega does. Therefore, DP is not needed (well, it would be more accurate to have it, but only as a second video output 4k@60Hz). 4k@60Hz, and HDR easily provides via HDMI port in the version with Ryzen. This has already been tested in practice. It's really works.

But people who bought 330-15IKB (Intel version cpu) actually lose the most important feature for the future, video output on a 4k monitor and it turns out to be some kind of weakness, and not an office laptop. Neither this nor that ...

[Tao]

Hi

do you think windows 8.1 64bit works well on this computer ?

thank you

[Tarun Sachdeva]

How long the battery lasts about with just browsing and some work on Word with no streaming or gaming?