Lenovo Ideapad 710s Plus Touchscreen Laptop - Intel Core I7 - 1080p Review

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Our Verdict

The Lenovo IdeaPad 710S Plus is a swell 13-inch notebook that but lacks for battery life.

For

Thin, lightweight
Vivid, vibrant brandish
Comfortable keyboard
Strong audio
Speedy SSD
Runs cool

Confronting

Below-average battery life
Undersized right-shift key
A bit pricey

Laptop Mag Verdict

The Lenovo IdeaPad 710S Plus is a great 13-inch notebook that just lacks for battery life.

Pros

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Thin, lightweight
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Bright, vibrant display
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Comfortable keyboard
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Stiff audio
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Speedy SSD
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Runs cool

Cons

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Below-boilerplate battery life
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Undersized right-shift primal
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A bit pricey

The $899 Lenovo IdeaPad 710S seeks to pack everything you need into a light petty frame. This sleek 13-inch notebook includes a gorgeous screen, a solid keyboard and surprisingly strong audio. We do wish this system lasted longer on a charge, just overall, it'south worth the premium price.

Blueprint

The 13-inch IdeaPad 710S is a slim, magnesium-and-aluminum wedge of a notebook. Reflective Lenovo branding sits on the summit-left corner of the hat and mesomorphic rubber feet adorn its bottom.

Measuring 0.half-dozen inches thick and weighing 2.vi pounds, the IdeaPad 701S is thinner and lighter than the Inspiron xiii 7000 two-in-1 (0.8 inches, iii.iv pounds) and similar to the Asus ZenBook UX330UA (0.5 inches, two.7 pounds).

On the left side of the IdeaPad, you'll observe its USB ii.0 port, SD memory reader and pin-pigsty-size recovery/reset button. Its power port, dual USB iii.0 ports (i is Blazon-C, the other Type-A) and headphone jack sit on the right.

Annoyingly, that Blazon-C connector is data-just and doesn't draw ability, similar to the Asus ZenBook UX330UA's connector. The Inspiron 13, on the other hand, can accuse from its Type-C port.

Inside, the 710s Plus' fingerprint reader sits underneath the bottom-correct corner of the island-mode keyboard. Among other purposes, the fingerprint reader enables speedy logins via Windows Hello. The Inspiron doesn't sport such a sensor, while the ZenBook'south is inconveniently located in the top-right corner of its touchpad.

Display

The brilliant, 13.3-inch screen in the IdeaPad 710S produces jaw-dropping images. Watching a trailer for Buster's Mal Middle on the 1920 x 1080-pixel panel, I noted the vibrant blues of a well-lit pool, inky-dark corners of a hotel entrance hall and a wide range of realistic greens in a forest scene. Fine details, such as the minor glimmer of a screen'south reflection in Rami Malek's right eye, came through conspicuously.

According to our colorimeter, the IdeaPad 710S produces 121 percent of the sRGB spectrum. That beats the 96-percent ultraportable average, as well as the measurements from the Inspiron 13 (69 percent) and the ZenBook UX330UA (106 percent).

The IdeaPad'south screen is likewise rather authentic, equally information technology netted a score of 0.2 on the Delta-Due east examination (0 is perfect). That trounces the ii.half dozen category boilerplate, and readings from the Inspiron 13 (1.seven) and the ZenBook UX330UA (1.11).

Need a flashlight? Just turn upwards the brightness on the IdeaPad 710S, which emits up to 346 nits. That beats the 288-nit category average, and the dimmer marks from the Inspiron 13 (228 nits) and the ZenBook UX330UA (286 nits). It also enables solid viewing angles; I saw its colors stay strong at 45 degrees to the left and right.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The IdeaPad 710S' backlit keyboard and buttonless touchpad enable comfortable input. Testing the notebook out on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, I click-clacked my fashion to 77 words per minute, just shy of my 80-wpm boilerplate.

While the 1.iii millimeters of travel in the keys is less than the 1.5 to ii mm we hope to see, they require 70 grams of strength to actuate, which is well above the preferred threescore grams. I establish the Inspiron thirteen's keyboard as easy to employ, whereas the ZenBook UX330UA'due south keyboard suffers from a stiff experience.

The IdeaPad 710S produces 121 pct of the sRGB spectrum, which beats the Dell Inspiron 13 and ZenBook UX330UA.

While I somewhen got used to the half-size shift central on the right side of the keyboard, Lenovo needs to end making keyboards that take this cardinal. While it enables the visitor to apply larger directional arrows, it kept tripping me upwards equally I typed, creating typos and forcing me to forego that shift key altogether.

The notebook's iv.ane x 2.7-inch touchpad offers accurate input tracking and a solid feel to each click. It also speedily registers Windows 10's iii-finger switching gestures.

Audio

The JBL stereo speakers in the IdeaPad produced enough volume to fill up our large conference room. When I tested it out on DJ Khaled'due south "I'm The Ane," the notebook emitted sturdy bass guitar twangs, clear vocals and accurate synths.

The IdeaPad 710S includes a Dolby Audio app with speaker presets, including Movies, Vocalism and Games. Playing with these options while watching trailers, music videos and interviews, I found the best sound quality came with the Music preset, the default choice.

Operation

The IdeaPad 710S features a 7th Gen Intel Core i5-7200U processor and 8GB of RAM, enabling solid multitasking. I saw no lag after splitting my screen between a 1080p video and a dozen Chrome tabs including Google Docs, Slack and TweetDeck. The system continued to be responsive afterward I opened Camera, Photos, Maps, OneNote and Border.

The IdeaPad 710S earned a score of 6,497 on the Geekbench 4 general-performance exam, which is lower than the scores from the Inspiron thirteen (6,707) and the ZenBook UX330UA (seven,182), which both feature the same CPU and RAM. The 6,722 ultraportable category average is also higher.

The 256GB PCIe SSD in the IdeaPad 710S duplicated four.97GB of multimedia files in xviii seconds, for a speed of 282 MBps. That'southward faster than the 184.vi-MBps category boilerplate, every bit well every bit the times from the SSDs in the Inspiron 13 (110.six MBps) and the ZenBook UX330UA (159 MBps).

On the OpenOffice productivity macro examination (matching 20,000 names to addresses), the IdeaPad 710S finished the task in 4 minutes and 12 seconds. The Inspiron 13 and ZenBook UX330UA came in tied at a shorter 4:03.

The Intel HD Graphics 620 flake in the IdeaPad 710S pushed it to a score of 61,201 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics test. The aforementioned flake enabled the ZenBook UX330UA to earn a higher score of 66,645 and the Inspiron 13 to cyberspace a lower ane of 55,827. The ultraportable category average is a lower 53,895.

You can run some mainstream games with modest requirements on this Lenovo. It ran the Clay 3 racing championship at 36 frames per second, which is like to the rates from the Inspiron 13 (38 fps) and the ZenBook UX330UA (33 fps).

Battery Life

The biggest drawback of the 710S Plus is its below-average battery life. On the Laptop Mag Bombardment Life Test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi, the system lasted 7 hours and 7 minutes. While that runtime outlasts the 6:30 mark from the Inspiron 13, it's below the 8:nineteen category average and the excellent 10:17 from the ZenBook UX330UA.

Webcam

Laptop webcams are a lot like the Stormtroopers on the Decease Star: ubiquitous and bad at their jobs. And this one is no different. In our well-lit function, the 0.9-megapixel camera above the IdeaPad'southward display captured grainy selfies with so much digital noise that it looked like I was using a VHS cassette filter (ask your parents if y'all don't know what those are).

Rut

The IdeaPad 710S is cool to the touch. Later nosotros streamed 15 minutes of Hd video on the notebook, our oestrus gun picked upwards temperatures on its touchpad (75 degrees Fahrenheit), G and H keys (82.5 degrees) and underside (85.five degrees) that savage far below our 95-caste comfort threshold.

Software and Warranty

Lenovo loves to preload systems with its own utilities, and just some are useful. While the Connect2 file-transfer software doesn't seem entirely necessary (what with email, cloud fill-in and messaging apps), Lenovo's Companion organization info app and Settings utility corral otherwise hard-to-find data and options.

The IdeaPad 710S comes with a 1-yr warranty that includes service via mailed-in repairs. Bank check out our Tech Support Showdown and Best and Worst Brands report to see how Lenovo stacked upward against other tech titans.

Bottom Line

The thin and low-cal IdeaPad 710S Plus' bright brandish, comfortable keyboard and sweet sound make it a joy to use. Only this ultraportable's battery life doesn't measure upward to the best systems in its class.

The Asus ZenBook UX330UA lasts three hours longer on a accuse and costs $200 less, but it packs a dimmer display and a worse keyboard. If you're willing to accept the charger with you for longer stints, the IdeaPad 710S Plus is a fantastic car for work and play.

Credit: Shaun Lucas/Laptop Mag

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Lenovo IdeaPad 710S Plus Specs

Bluetooth	Bluetooth iv.0
Brand	Lenovo
CPU	Intel Cadre i5-7200U Processor
Menu Slots	SD memory reader
Company Website	http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-700-series/Lenovo-IdeaPad-710S-Plus-13IKB/p/88IP70S0802
Display Size	thirteen.3
Graphics Menu	Intel Hard disk drive Graphics 620
Hard Bulldoze Size	256GB
Hard Drive Type	PCIe SSD
Highest Bachelor Resolution	1920 x 1080
Native Resolution	1920x1080
Operating System	Windows 10 Abode
Ports (excluding USB)	Headphone/Mic, USB 2.0, USB iii.0, USB Blazon-C
RAM	8GB
Size	12.xvi x 8.66 10 0.58
Touchpad Size	four.1 x 2.7 inches
USB Ports	3
Video Memory	Shared
Warranty/Support	One twelvemonth
Weight	two.6 pounds
Wi-Fi	802.11ac