Lenovo Ideapad S21e-20 (80M4)

usability, portability, price, performance, size

keyboard, reliability, image quality

81% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Budget-friendly price. Thin and light. Solid chassis. Keyboard is comfortable to use.

Keyboard and touchpad are a little small. Below par performance and battery life compared with the competition.

Conclusion The Lenovo S21e-20 is a decent ultraportable budget laptop, with a fair share of storage, and it runs smoothly if you're not using intensive applications like Adobe Photoshop. If you're a student with modest computing needs—like writing...

This machine is priced bargain-basement cheap ; Responsive and precise trackpad makes up for small size

Only 64GB of storage—and it's an eMMC ; Performance falls on the lower end of the spectrum

Lenovo's S21e is more of a large netbook than a small laptop—but it also retails for under $200. Now we're talking bargains.

Professional-looking design; Accurate display ; Short battery life; Finicky touchpad ; The $269 Lenovo S21e is a fairly capable budget notebook you can take anywhere, but its short battery life and wonky touchpad hold it back.

Short battery life; Finicky touchpad ; The $269 Lenovo S21e is a fairly capable budget notebook you can take anywhere, but its short battery life and wonky touchpad hold it back.

The $269 Lenovo S21e is a fairly capable budget notebook you can take anywhere, but its short battery life and wonky touchpad hold it back.

Decent mobile design ; Price potentially right (if you shop around)

Frustrating, shallow keyboard ; Insufficient battery life ; Price potentially too high (if you don't shop around) ; The Lenovo S21e is an acceptable to decent companion device with good-enough processing power. Get it for the right price and you'll be...

The Lenovo S21e is an acceptable to decent companion device with good-enough processing power. Get it for the right price and you'll be able to see past the frustrating keyboard and mediocre display. The poor battery life is a bit harder to accept,...

With the Lenovo S21e, you need to be sure your biggest requirement in a laptop is a small size and a small price tag. If both of those things matter most, any other complaints about the system will fall to the wayside, as you’ll understand that with...

Low weight., Quiet but not silent., Decent performance

Weak chassis., Keys have poor feedback., Bad webcam., Limited battery life., Small storage space

Higher-priced convertibles are very much in demand, but there are still customers wanting a simple and cheap Windows subnotebook in a clamshell format. The Lenovo S21e-20 is available at a low price, but it is not the best choice in all categories.

Netbooks fell out of fashion for a reason--there's only so much you can do with them, and there are better-performing laptops on the market now that are just as portable, to say nothing of tablets or hybrid tablet/laptop designs.

Worked well for a year

Doesn't last long

Great matte screen, all the modern conveniences, 1xusb 3,1xusb2, hdmi out. Battery seems to last a long time (5 hours or so). Lightweight, stylish looking, super portable, and I find the 11.6 screen comfortable size, was worried its too small but after...

Neither ram nor storage is upgrade-able, which I knew going into it and am not too worried about, would have been nice if it were though. Does have a micro sd slot.