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Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Chromebook 14

LAPTOP | £349 from www.snipca.com/49572

Slick and thin

Like most things in life, one general rule when buying a laptop is that the less you spend on it, the more compromises you should expect. We experienced such trade-offs recently when testing the IdeaPad Slim 3i 15 (£459 from www.snipca.com/49046, reviewed in Issue 677) – an affordable Windows laptop in the same range.

This slightly smaller machine runs Google’s ChromeOS instead

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