54 PCWorld APRIL 2019REVIEWS LENOVO IDEAPAD 730S
laptop through any port. (I was even able to
charge the laptop with a smartphone charger,
albeit slowly.)
Lenovo did have the good grace to
include to include a headphone jack, but if
you want built-in ports for USB-A, MicroSD, or
HDMI, you’ll have to look
elsewhere.
The camera is your typical
cheap laptop webcam,
supporting up to 720p
resolution. At least it’s
mounted along the laptop’s
top bezel, so you’ll avoid the
unflattering camera angles
that plagued some of last
year’s thin-and-lights (go.
pcworld.com/dxps). The
IdeaPad 730S does have afingerprint reader
just beneath the
right arrow key, so
you can log in
without a password
even though the
camera lacks
Windows Hello
facial recognition.
As for the
aforementioned
Dolby Atmos
speaker system, it
combines Dolby-
designed hardware
with some fancy equalization settings for
louder dialogue and better-sounding music.
This still a laptop speaker, so it’s not going to
fill your room with rich audio, but YouTube
videos came out sounding crisp even at full
blast. It’s certainly a step up over most laptopThe gaps underneath the keys double as air intake sources.The IdeaPad 730S has only USB-C ports, but at least you get a headphone jack.