Lenovo Chromebook S330 Laptop, 14-Inch FHD Display, MediaTek MT8173C, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, Chrome OS

I've wanted a Chromebook for years, but could never really justify the purchase...until recently. I've been taking some trips out of town, and needed to be available for work, just in case, but I didn't want to risk taking my work laptop with me on the trips. So, I bought this Chromebook. I use Chrome Remote Desktop to control my work laptop, which is sitting at home, and it's been a great experience. With a good WIFI connection, It feels just like I'm working on the remoted machine. The keyboard feels good, and I'm able to type just fine. I thought I'd be missing having function keys, but there's a system setting to treat the top row of icon keys as if they were F1 - F10, and it works great. If I want to use whatever the icon for that key is supposed to do, I just press the search key (just above the shift key) to use those keys. Apart from needing this for work, most of what I use the computer for is web-related stuff; looking things up, email, watching videos, etc. This works great for that. I'm amazed that a machine for just over $200 can do everything I need to do. The screen is a little washed out, color-wise, but after a couple of days, I don't even notice that any more. The battery life is amazing. I've been working on it now for a couple of hours, and it says I've still got 9 hours of battery left.

Had this laptop for 5 years and it gave out on me yesterday (3/20). Not complaining, it was the best 5 years with it.

I don't understand all the negative reviews about the screen. It's not the BEST laptop screen I've ever used, but FAR from the worst. And for less than $250? Are you guys kidding me? Are you expecting an ipad pro level screen? The laptop is solid even though it's plastic, I'm not worried about putting this thing in my backpack. While the keyboard is a little stiff for my taste, it works well. I'm just used to my mechanical keyboard on my desktop. I can write and do some coding perfectly fine and that's how I would describe this chromebook: Perfectly fine. Solid. Reliable. Lenovo-quality. I might as well be in one of their commercials, but Lenovo has never failed me. The negatives? The screen can be a BIT wobbly when I adjust it, but that's minor. It doesn't wobble when I type, which would make me want to return it. A couple more ports would be nice as well as an SD card slot that allows the SD card to completely insert. This one, the card sticks out halfway. Battery life is great, can go for hours at the library without needing to be plugged in and I'm using a higher brightness. I'm not doing anything intensive, just chrome tabs, spotify, watching Youtube. If you need a laptop to take care of your internet needs and basic computer needs, this is a solid one for the price. If you need stronger hardware, then spend at least 400-500. However, if you're already spending that much money, it might be better to get a Windows machine, unless you LOVE Chromebooks. I love Chrome OS for what it is. Fast, lightweight, and cost-effective. That's the name of the game. If you buy this laptop, or any laptop a this price, then don't expect a thousand-dollar plus experience and then leave horrible reviews. This is a solid chromebook, especially for the price. I'll be keeping this one for a long while and give it to a family member when it's time for me to upgrade.

Bought it for my wife for Christmas. She loves it. Lightweight and works great for web surfing which is just about all we do with them.

My middle-schoolers do a lot of work at school on Chromebooks through Google Classroom. I wanted to give them a similar experience at home while keeping the cost reasonable and support overhead very low. The Lenovo Chromebook S330 was just the trick. This thing is fast, the screen is clear and bright and the battery life is awesome with an estimated life of 13 hours. Is it really 13 hours? Who knows, but it last through 6 hours of constant and showed a little over half battery remaining, so it seems reasonable. For perspective, "best" in terms of computer hardware and operating system really comes down to your intended use. You'll get the best value and have the best experience when you buy for that intended use. For what I've described above, this Chromebook is perfect. I could have spent a lot more on a high-performance gaming rig or something with a touchscreen and all the extras, but that's not what was needed. We haven't had it very long, so I'll post back if any of my initial impressions and observations change.

I purchased this Chromebook after my 4 year old Toshiba Chromebook 2 finally started having issues. I paid almost the same price back in 2015 for the Toshiba that I did for the Lenovo. I was hoping to find a similar quality machine and boy was I wrong. Here are the main issues with the Lenovo. Screen Quality - I have no idea what Lenovo was thinking with this screen. You have to have the perfect angle to see anything, and even once you find that angle, it still looks like garbage. The colors are always washed out, black text on a white background looks almost grey. This is embarrassing for a lcd screen made in the past 10 years. Speakers - I listen to a lot of videos and music on my chromebook. My old Toshiba had amazing sound for a chromebook, and I was not expecting to find the same quality without paying for it. But the “speakers” that the Lenovo have are hilarious. I can’t believe how bad they are. Not only are they very flat and hollow sounding, you can barely hear them at max volume. I even tried using the “Audio EQ” extension, that allows you to boost the preamp and increase volume. Even with that it truly sounds like you have headphones plugged in, sitting on the desk with the volume max. Terrible! Wifi - I have plenty of devices in my home running on a 5Ghz connection with 100+ mb/s internet. Everything works fine...But the Lenovo. Sitting 5’ away from the router shows a “medium” connection strength. This translated when trying to watch videos and every new video had to “load” for a second, before dropping the quality down for a minute or two while the computer tried catch up. The battery seemed to hold up after a day of "Using it". Mainly trying to find if some setting was causing all of the issues and poor quality. The keyboard felt fine. Trackpad was fine. I ended up returning this and buying the Acer Chromebook 14. These two should not be within $300 of each other. If the Lenovo was a $150 chromebook, I could argue that for the price, at least it kind of works. But when they are asking the same price as some of the other brands that are much higher quality, I had to leave a review to warn others. I use a $2500+ Lenovo workstation laptop everyday as an engineer and I have nothing bad to say about it. But this Chromebook is garbage. Don’t buy it. Find other options.

The mobility is great, and the battery life is decent, but the quality of the laptop is just so weak. I guess you get what you pay for, but it feels like my phone performs better and my phone is a budget moto g7. Netflix looks blocky and pixelated on this. YouTube videos seem ok. It lags playing even simple browser games. If you are getting this just for typing or watching youtube, maybe listening to music, ok. If you're getting this to watch movies on or even play the most basic browser games, or run higher end apps, I don't trust it. It's a really, really weak machine which is unfortunate but the cost is very attractive so if you can deal with not being able to do much it's a nice sleek designed laptop that functions pretty well for extremely basic tasks.

This is a good value for a budget machine. Its austere plastic body probably wouldn't survive much abuse but it does have a mat texture that wards off finger prints. It's nice to have the 14" 1920 x 1080 mat screen and thin bezel. On a full charge I can go eight hours editing text while streaming music from wi-fi to bluetooth headphones and leave a good third of the battery remaining. It comes with Google Drive of course but I easily synced Dropbox as well using a free third party app. What I like most is that now you can install Linux apps. No need for Crouton. You just open a terminal in Chrome OS and type something like "sudo apt install libreoffice" say, and you end up with a new shortcut that you can pin to the "shelf" (taskbar) and from there said app can be launched, all while never leaving the Chrome OS desktop. You can keep a separate storage space for your Linux data or "share" your Google Drive data with Linux. So you can for example use Linux's Libre Office Write to open and save a file directly from/to the cloud, preserving the Chrome OS thin-client motif.

I really like Chromebook. The quality is really good. Screen quality is great! Touch pad is very touchy... The slightest touch makes it work. I needed a laptop for basic things . It's best for online streaming & social media etc.

El preducto llego a tiempo y en buen estado.

Chromebook is amazing. It's fast, light and a good quality product. Now a days LED is so common that an LCD display looks a bit old fashioned and dull. However, the screen quality on this Chromebook wasn't as disappointing as I expected. But it's the best we can get at this price range.

El producto es viejo, sin garantía, dejó de funcionar después de unos días. Amazon no se hace responsable, Lenovo tampoco, me estafaron. Eviten comprar de este vendedor y de amazon

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