Lenovo Essential G505 (15.6-inch, 2013)

74% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

67% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Lenovo's trademark ergonomics, High graphics performance

Only 300GB HDD space, No touch screen, High price

Great keyboard ; Capacious hard drive ; Low price ; Impressive battery life

Unexciting screen ; Poor memory configuration ; Slow CPU performance ; Limited gaming capabilities

The Lenovo G505 is potentially good value, if you're prepared to upgrade the memory the moment you buy it, but ultimately it doesn't quite shine enough to make us want to recommend it.

Can be used as a paperweight

I got this as a gift for my girlfriend. I got a decent quality laptop for $450 in 2013. I figured that since my girlfriend didn't need much power for gaming I could go cheap ; This piece of junk could barely boot up and was extremely slow to attempt to...

This is a good basic laptop with sufficient processing power for email and MS Office once you remove bloatware and other redundant software

Typical Lenovo bloatware. It is very, very slow until you remove all the extra garbage that comes pre-installed on all Lenovo consumer level products. Remove McAfee security software FIRST, then proceed with the other unnecessary items. McAfee hogs...

This thing "feels" nice. I like the way the keyboard feels and kind of has a sleek look. That is about all i can say nice about it

Slower than dirt. I work in IT and I can confess I have tried a lot to get this thing to work faster. However, so far, nothing has come from it. I have tried Ubuntu 14, Windows 7, and Windows 8. All fresh installs, no bloatware. Websites load slow,...

Good speakers, that's about it

This machine ran slow as hell fresh out of the box and has only gotten worse. I am returning it now that I actually can do without a laptop for a couple weeks. Wary of dealing w/ Lenovo tech support, and I have only negative things to say about this...

Great for what I use it for. Very simple to transports and still have ease of access to the internet through my bluetooth on my phone when needed

Just wish it had a faster processor than the E-1

It's great for what I need it for in the field and at home, It is also great that I can bluetooth it to the hotspot on my phone when I need too. Check a certain website for information. But for the price I'm not out a whole lot of money. For this is my...

I just wish the processor was a little bigger so it didn't run so slowly