And with 30TB hard disk drives in the pipeline, there’s still a lot going on for them, especially in data centers. Note that the research results only apply to consumer laptops.

Conclusion: The Lenovo IdeaPad S145 is a good option at the budget end of the market, and in the main, it cuts the right corners, maintaining a decent enough build quality for a cheap machine.

Besides an SD card reader, the Lenovo IdeaPad S145 comes with two USB Type -A 3.1 ports, one USB Type-A 2.0 port and an HDMI port as well. So users have the option of hooking the laptop up to an ...

The most affordable one in this category is Lenovo Ideapad 110 (80TR0034IH) selling at Rs. 25,990 and the highest priced is Rs. 1,79,000 for Dell Alienware 14 (AW14781TB2A2).

The Lenovo IdeaPad S145, in its current configuration of an Intel 8th Gen Core i3 CPU, 4GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive, is not terrible value for its Amazon.in-listed price of Rs 32,990.

Lenovo worked with Utimaco to integrate SafeGuard Easy 4.30, a software program that encrypts information on the hard drive with a single swipe of a fingerprint reader on select ThinkPad notebooks.