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A great thin-and-light laptop for touchscreen skeptics. BY JARED NEWMANT
he Lenovo IdeaPad 730S is
notable not just for what it offers,
but for what it doesn’t.
Unlike many other laptops in
the $900-and-up price range, the IdeaPad
730S doesn’t transform into a tablet and
doesn’t even have a touchscreen. It uses a
modest 1080p display instead of a battery-
chewing QHD or 4K panel, and its wildestflourish is a Dolby Atmos speaker system,
which for a laptop actually sounds pretty
good. By trimming away fancy gimmicks,
Lenovo has delivered a lightweight laptop
that looks great and performs well for a
reasonable price.
One word of caution, though: We’ve
tested two of these laptops, and both had
constant Wi-Fi connectivity issues acrossIMAGE: JARED NEWMAN