Introduction

I recently reviewed the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15AHP10 with a Ryzen 7 8840HS, and now it's time to check the Team Blue version of this laptop. It's called the IdeaPad Slim 3 15IRH10, and it resembles its AMD sibling in appearance. The differences are under the bonnet. Intel Raptor Lake-H CPUs power this variant. You can find it with just two versions—the 8-core Core i5-13420H or the 12-core i7-13620H.



Given that the cooling system is the same—a basic setup with one heat pipe and a single fan—it makes little sense to pick the version with the 13620H. As we saw in the previous review, this cooling system can't handle a 28 W AMD chip properly, so a more power-hungry 45 W Intel with additional cores is definitely not a good match for this notebook.

That's why I bought a device with the more modest i5-13420H that has the same core count as the 8840HS in the 15AHP10. Also, the Intel system cost me 80 euros less than the AMD one, which seemed like a fair deal. The 13620H versions, in my opinion, are priced a bit too high.

The rest of the specs aren't any different from the AMD version. You still get three 5 Gbps USB ports and an SD card reader, which is a nice touch. Thankfully, there are no TN panels here. The optional OLED screen could add a premium feel to this otherwise affordable package. It's always nice to see a webcam with a shutter like the one here. If you care about Windows Hello certification for face unlocking, picking the IR model over the basic 720p version is a smart move.

Specifications