Lenovo 14-Inch IdeaPad Slim 3 Touch Screen Laptop Is Almost 60% Off, Making It Cheaper Than AirPods Pro

Touchscreens have been available on laptop computers since 1983, believe it or not. But it took decades for them to become widely available and, more importantly, affordable. Now we appear to have moved from “affordable” to “absolutely dirt cheap,” if Best Buy’s $169 sale (58% off) on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is any indication.

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This incredible price for a 14-inch full-HD Chromebook with a 2.05 GHz processor, integrated graphics, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage is only slightly more than half the price of Apple’s entry-level 10th gen iPad, and the lowest price of the iPad Pro would cover the price of the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 five times over. The original $399 price for the IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is, honestly, reasonable. But Best Buy’s current $169 deal is unbeatable.

Gets It Done

We’re not going to tell you the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is fancy, or jam-packed with incredible features or the very latest bells and whistles. What we can tell you is, it’s abundantly solid, especially for high school or college students. It’s sturdy, it’s durable, it’s easy on the eyes, and it just gets things done.

What kind of things? The stuff you do every single day, like browse, check and send email, post to your social media, and maybe catch up on a little streaming on the clear, full-HD screen. The IdeaPad Slim 3 does all of those things very well, and can do them all day long thanks to the 13.5-hour battery life. And it can do them wherever you need, because the IdeaPad Slim 3 is, indeed, slim and lightweight and abundantly portable.

Connections At the Ready

Again, the IdeaPad Slim 3 isn’t going to blow you away with a massive array of ports to become the hub of a huge desktop setup, but it has what you need — one USB-C 3.2 Gen 1, one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1, a microSD card reader, and a headphone/microphone aux jack. It will run an external monitor just fine, and an external SSD to augment the 64GB of built-in storage is also easy to connect.

WiFi 6 and Bluetooth connections are present and accounted for, and the HD screen’s 60Hz refresh rate will make your streaming or online videos come through smoothly, although it’s not a great choice for gaming. And then there is, of course, the touchscreen, which easily sets the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 apart from any sub-$200 laptop or Chromebook we can think of.

Think of the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 as basic simplicity and total competence and efficiency as a daily-use laptop, and take the touchscreen and especially the $169 sale price (58% off) at Best Buy as two very big bonus points.

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