The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is the best laptop deal I’ve seen so far in the Amazon Spring sale.

• The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is it £400 on Amazondown from the 180-day average of £730
• This better value than its sibling the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3xExpert Review called it the “king of budget laptops” when we reviewed it

The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is a laptop that ticks pretty much every box imaginable. 14in laptop with OLED panel. It’s thin and light at around 1.5kg and comes with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD – for a mid-range price of around £730, it’s good value.

However, with the reduced Amazon Deal Days price of £400 this is excellent value for money – in fact, this is the best laptop deal I’ve seen so far for the Amazon Spring Sale.

We haven’t reviewed this particular model, but we liked the (regular) cheaper version – the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3x – so much so that we called it “the king of budget laptops”. At this price, the 5x represents the best deal.

So what makes this deal good? Well, it’s rare to see an OLED display on any £500 laptop. This type of screen ensures that any video you watch on a laptop will look vibrant and dynamic – especially HDR content. It’s like having a small OLED TV that you can take with you wherever you go.

Is the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x good for work?

It’s also rare to see a laptop with a Snapdragon X processor down at these kinds of prices, either. Yes, this slowness of that particular series of processors and graphics performance is not good. You won’t be playing modern, triple-A games on this machine. However, my experience with other Snapdragon X powered machines like the Asus Zenbook A14 and the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, is that this doesn’t matter much if you’re going to use the laptop mainly for productivity style tasks.

For web browsing, emailing and writing, the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is a laptop that delivers all the power and responsiveness you need. And combined with 16GB of RAM, it should continue to feel responsive, no matter how many tabs you have open at the same time.

Does the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x have good battery life?

Finally, the efficiency of the Snapdragon chipset should mean that the battery life is more than respectable. Indeed, Lenovo quotes up to 19 hours, and I’ve seen other laptops based on this chip last longer in our battery tests, so this doesn’t seem too unusual. Expect this laptop to last a full day of normal use, and then some.

With new laptops set to become more expensive in the coming months due to the rising cost of RAM and storage, this could be your last chance to take advantage of this great deal.

Written by

Jonathan Bray

Head of reviews at Expert Reviews, Jon has been testing and writing about products since before most of you were born (well, only if you were born after 1996). During that time he has tested and reviewed hundreds of laptops, PCs, cell phones, vacuum cleaners, coffee machines, doorbells, cameras and more. He has worked on websites since the early days of technology, writing game reviews for AOL and hardware reviews for PC Pro, Computer Buyer and other publications. He also had work published in Trusted Reviews, Whither Computing? and the Observer. However, even after so many years in the industry, there is nothing he likes more than getting to know a new product and introducing it to its categories.

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