Lenovo 300w Gen 5 83LF0005US 11.6" Touchscreen Review

The Lenovo 300w Gen 5 is an ultra-portable Windows tablet, but it's painfully slow and has a low-res screen. At $938, it's hard to recommend. Only consider it if tiny size is your only concern.

The Lenovo 300w Gen 5 is a tiny, lightweight Windows tablet with a keyboard. It's built for one thing: being easy to carry. With an 11.6-inch touchscreen and a weight under three pounds, it's a simple machine for basic web browsing and note-taking. Just don't expect it to do much else. The Intel N150 processor and 8GB of RAM are entry-level specs, and the 128GB storage is minimal. This isn't a laptop for work or play. It's a digital notepad that runs Windows.

Performance is exactly what you'd expect from an Intel N150 chip. It's fine for opening a few browser tabs and streaming video, but that's about it. Our database puts its CPU power in the 8th percentile, so it's one of the slowest processors you can get in a Windows device. The 1366x768 screen resolution is also in the bottom 5%, so text and images won't be sharp. The one bright spot? It scored well for reliability, landing in the 76th percentile.

At $938, the value proposition is rough. You're paying a premium for the ultra-compact form factor and the Windows 11 Pro license. For the same money, you could get a much more powerful traditional laptop with a better screen and faster processor. This only makes financial sense if portability is your absolute number one priority and you're willing to sacrifice everything else for it.

Compared to something like an ASUS Zenbook Duo, you're getting one screen instead of two, and much weaker internals. Next to a base-model Apple MacBook Pro, it's not even in the same universe performance-wise. Even against other Lenovos like the ThinkPad P14s, you're trading all professional capability for a smaller size. The closest competitors are other Windows tablets, and at this price, many offer better specs.

Skip this if you need to do real work. Students, avoid it—our score shows it's weak for that use case. Business users should look at a ThinkPad instead. Anyone who cares about screen quality or wants to do more than one thing at a time will be frustrated. If your budget is near $1000, you can get a much better all-around laptop.

Buy this only if you need the absolute smallest, lightest Windows device possible and your tasks are literally just web browsing and checking email. It's for a very specific user: someone who values carrying weight above all else. For students or business users, our scores show there are far better options.