Lenovo IdeaPad 1 (15.6-inch, 2023)

Built for budget laptop shoppers, the Lenovo IdeaPad 1 15 is an affordable big-screen pick, but wait for sales pricing for a better value.

The seventh generation of Lenovo's IdeaPad 1 laptop is a mid-range machine with a large 15.6-inch screen that could make it ideal as a device to be shared among the family. We've put it to the test in the lab to see whether it's worth buying.

The Lenovo IdeaPad 1 has a solid-sounding spec for a mid-range laptop. There's a quad-core AMD Ryzen 7 processor, 8GB of Ram and a 512GB SSD, along with a 15.5-inch screen, Dolby sound and a battery that Lenovo reckons will last you up to 9.5 hours....