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Lenovo 100S-14IBR Laptop: Travel effortlessly with this lightweight 14-inch Lenovo Ideapad. Equipped with a speedy Intel Celeron processor and 32GB of storage space, it keeps your programs running smoothly. This Lenovo Ideapad has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 technology to let you stay connected wherever you are.
 
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Good for school & blogging, storage limitations
on July 26, 2017
Posted by: NorCaComputerHobbyist
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This excels in battery life, portability, keyboard quality, and screen quality (for a conventional TN-based screen). It falls short in storage capacity, storage speed (it's slow eMMC not much faster M.2 or SSD), and RAM.
The net result is that this has ok speeds when scrolling web pages, tad slow opening linked tabs in the background, noticeably slow maneuvering complex websites like USA Today and NY Times. After 20 open tabs reloading an older tab takes a second longer as it retrieves it from the hard drive.
2gb RAM would be enough with a speedier hard drive (it would use the hard drive to store inactive windows). With just 2gb RAM and 32gb of (slow) storage it has to work harder. In a year or two the 2gb/32gb configurations will probably move into the history books and get replaced by 4gb/64gb configurations, and eMMC storage will probably get much faster implementations.
So is this worth getting or not? Depends on your usage. If you treat it like a Chromebook - don't store files locally, don't try to run Photoshop locally (Word is fine, and is included for one year for free!), you should be ok. The battery life, compact thin & long cord wall-wart power charger, and thin and light construction make this fine for school work/cafe browsing. A BIG PLUS IS THE 14" SCREEN, compared to 11.6" screens usually found in this price niche. It's even up-sized compared to 13.3" laptops.
Most "Settings" are optional, but monitor your storage usage under the "System" category and clean it up from time to time. CCleaner is also helpful.
My Best Buy number: 3499578180
My Best Buy number: 3499578180
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I would recommend this to a friend!
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Lenovo 100S-14IBR Laptop: Travel effortlessly with this lightweight 14-inch Lenovo Ideapad. Equipped with a speedy Intel Celeron processor and 32GB of storage space, it keeps your programs running smoothly. This Lenovo Ideapad has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 technology to let you stay connected wherever you are.
 

I already have a license for Microsoft Office from my work (to install Word). If I buy this computer, can I still install Word using my license without having to activate the 1-year free subscription that comes with this computer?

Set up your computer with your personal credentials first an then activate and install the free one year Office (watch for, and turn of, auto renew during activation). You need to do this prior to a clean Windows install, before logging into your work account, or you might lose the free copy. Next, uninstall Office to save space - don't worry, for the next 12 months you can reinstall here or on another Win or Mac computer plus on a tablet.

Next, set up another user with Admin credentials - this would be your work account. Since you have limited space on this machine, from your work account log in, delete your personal account in Settings=>User.

Now you've saved your free Office in case you want it in the future, but your machine now has your work account and Office from work downloaded.

Since there is no coupon code - the free offer is hard-coded to the laptop - you have to use this work around to activate and save your free Office.

Or you can just set it up with work credentials at the outset and download your work version, but you risk losing the free offer.
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