Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (2024) 15.6"

The laptop measures 359 x 236 x 19 mm with a total volume of 1609.756 cm³ and weighs 1630 g, placing it in a fairly standard footprint for a 15-inch class machine. It includes a backlit keyboard and comes with a 2-year warranty, though it does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is present. The build is not rugged and is not weather-sealed, so it is not designed to withstand harsh environments or accidental splashes.

The 15.6-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD panel runs at a 1920 x 1080 resolution with a pixel density of 141 ppi and a 60Hz refresh rate, offering a standard Full HD viewing experience with typical brightness of 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the surface to reduce glare in lit environments, though the display does not support touch input. The GPU can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously, extending the laptop's usability beyond the built-in screen.

The CPU configuration combines two cores at 1.7 GHz and eight cores at 1.2 GHz across 12 threads, with multithreading enabled and a turbo clock speed reaching 4.7 GHz, built on a 10 nm process and supporting 64-bit operations. The system runs 16GB of DDR4 RAM at 3200 MHz through a single memory slot, with 16GB also being the maximum supported capacity. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4, with flash storage as the underlying technology. The GPU reaches a turbo frequency of 1250 MHz and supports DirectX 12, rounding out a performance configuration oriented toward everyday computing tasks.

In benchmark testing, the processor achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 13,586 and a single-core score of 3,262, reflecting its capacity for both threaded workloads and individual core responsiveness. The Cinebench R20 results follow a similar pattern, with a multi-core result of 3,009 and a single-core score of 649, providing a consistent picture of the CPU's rendering performance across both parallel and sequential tasks.

The laptop offers one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, and one USB 2.0 port for wired peripherals, while higher-speed options such as USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, and Thunderbolt 4 are not available. Video output is provided through a single HDMI 1.4 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backward compatibility across Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.2, though there is no RJ45 Ethernet port. An external memory slot is included, and AirPlay is supported for wireless display output.

The laptop is equipped with a 38 Wh battery rated for up to 8.5 hours of use, providing a full workday of untethered operation under typical conditions. Sleep-and-charge USB ports and a MagSafe power adapter are not included.

The laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, a front camera, dual microphones, and a fingerprint scanner for biometric login, covering the core requirements for video calls and everyday audio use. Ray tracing, DLSS, and Dolby Atmos are not supported, and there is no S/PDIF output or optical disc drive. On the sensor side, the machine does not include a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS, and 3D facial recognition and voice commands are also absent, keeping the feature set focused on standard laptop use rather than mobility-oriented or advanced security scenarios.

The integrated GPU is the Iris Xe Graphics 96EU, featuring 96 execution units and supporting OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, with the CPU carrying a 15W TDP and a maximum operating temperature of 100°C. Cache memory is organized across three levels — 928 KB L1, 9.5 MB L2, and 12 MB L3 — and the processor operates with a clock multiplier of 17, though the multiplier is locked. The CPU supports a broad set of instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, and NX bit is enabled for hardware-level security. Memory runs across two channels with a maximum supported RAM speed of 5200 MHz, while ECC memory is not supported.