In other words, you might expect to get closer to 12 hours of battery life doing things like browsing Facebook or shopping on Amazon, and might expect to hit around 7 hours, say, trying to conquer the world in “Civilization VI” or explore the galaxy in “No Man’s Sky.” To get the tougher load number we watch a high-res video (which is quite taxing) until the battery depletes. We calculate the light load number (so, 12 hours) doing simple things like browsing the web, hopping from website to website, until the battery depletes. Depending on how hard you push a laptop, you’re either sipping power or really gulping it down.

You may have to wait a beat or two for the most demanding tasks to wrap up, such as rendering high-res video, but if you don’t do that too often it may not bother you.īeyond raw performance, the IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 works pretty decently as a laptop, too: It weighs 3.7 pounds, which is lighter than most 15.6-inch laptops, and its battery lasts between 7 and 12 hours on a single charge.

Whether you’re browsing the web, copying large files between folders, editing photos, or, yes, playing games (again, at lower graphical settings) you’ll find the IdeaPad to be responsive. Starting with performance, our testers find the IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 to be snappy in the sorts of everyday tasks that mark the difference between a laptop that’s fast and fun to use and one that’s pull-your-hair-out frustratingly slow. It doesn’t quite ace some of the tests, but it’s hard to complain when the price is so low. It’s a traditional notebook (that is, it’s not a 2-in-1 of any kind) that scores well in just about all of our tests. The Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 is a solid laptop that somewhat blurs the lines between entry-level and mid-tier models.

Lenovo ideapad 3 touch screen