The case of the IdeaPad 330 is made of stable-looking plastic and is available in platinum gray, snow white, midnight blue, chocolate and onyx black. The workmanship appears to be very good with nothing to criticize. The lid of the Lenovo notebook is also very stable and will only warp under high pressure. The weight of the base unit is just high enough to enable you to open the device with one hand.

The bottom plate of the IdeaPad 300 can be lifted off after removing several screws. This gives you access to the hard drive. Our test unit also has a free RAM slot that is hidden below a metal sheet, which means you can expand the working memory if you wish. Before opening the case, you must also remove the optional DVD-RW drive.

Lenovo only includes the most necessary ports, although there is a USB Type-C port, which gives you the possibility to connect a docking station with further ports. The internal card reader accepts cards in the SD, SDHC, SDXC and MMC formats. However, they all stand out of the case by over a centimeter. The card reader only reaches below-average transfer rates in our test with our reference card, the Toshiba Exceria Pro SDXC 64 GB UHS-II. However, our comparison devices all have similarly slow transfer rates.

The integrated Wi-Fi adapter is similar. It performs below average in our Wi-Fi test and places our test unit in last place in our comparison table.