A few months ago, we had a chance to review one of the latest laptops from Lenovo Philippines but unfortunately, the pics that we had of this laptop in a USB got lost at the recent Taal eruption (apologies for that) but all we got was the notes that will uncover about. Here is Lenovo S145 review.
At first, we attempted to borrow the most affordable version at under 20k but they only had the Php 30,995 version right now at PC Express, the one with Intel® Core™ i5-8265U Processor
The weight of S145 is at 1.6 kilograms (same with my under 13 inch laptop) but the 14 inch HD display that we had, the heft of it was a bit more lighter especially when I am using the same laptop bag that I am bringing while going out for media events.
The display was from a TN panel which is expected for a budget laptop. I am happy that the normal-sized HDMI and 3 USB 3.0 ports were all on one side at the left which gives more ease in putting in extra external storage and pairing it usually with a second monitor at my workstation
The promised battery life of this laptop was at 6 hours which like in most cases, expect less as I maxed it out on 5 hours the most on either balanced or power saving mostly connected on WiFi and on 25% brightness while finishing some pending posts on this website. We were able to fully charge this laptop for around 90 minutes. Even that there is Dolby audio support, we prefer to use it on standard which sounded pretty good on both headphones and it's dual speakers
On benchmarks, we were only had time to run it via Cinebench R15 and we got 350 on multi-core and 161 on single-core testing at the balanced power settings
Average battery life, weight on the balance, good keyboard, good placement of ports and having SSD inside where the key points to have this version of Lenovo S145 if you have that Php 30,000 budget for a laptop from a trusted brand. Only thing that I think they missed, how I wish it was already on 8 GB RAM and the display could have been a bit better. It's 4 out of 5 for us on Lenovo S145
