I love mine, especially for the price I paid. Great value. However the screen is mediocre at best. It also heats up like crazy when I play a game with it plugged in. Maybe the fans arent working like they should be?

I bought a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 last year at BestBuys. I had originally wanted a Toshiba 2 in 1 but due to some mixup, the manager offered me a Lenovo with similar specs for the same price (Lenovo was originally $100 more). He assured me that the brand was a better quality. Windows 8.1 fit like a glove and I enjoyed the laptop until I upraded to Windows 10. Every major update caused problems and I came close several times to switching back to Windows 8.1. However with the anniversary update, all the problems have disappeared and my computer has been able to boot faster.

As for the program they tried to sneak pass, I was able to remove it although I could no longer gain access to the pc app store.

What I love about my Lenovo laptop is the 2 in 1 aspect of the machine. I've used it in tablet form, stand form (L-shape) as well as a normal laptop. The screen is pretty bright and the touch screen is pretty responsive. There are a couple negatives though- (1) only 2 ports of which only one is USB 3.0 (2) battery life is not as advertised.

So! He bought the laptop i advised him to, and it's good! Not as fast as i was expecting (lack of SSD and the Dual-Core intead of Quad-Core show the difference with my rig), but it's prettty good for it's money.

Keyboard feels kind of cheap. That's my only extra complaint.

Screen was not so bad when you get away from the optimal viewing angle. From what i've read here i was expecting quite a shitty display.

Overall happy with the purchase.

edit :
i also want to disable the AMD GPU since from the benchmarks i saw that it's slightly below the HD5500 of the Intel CPU on board graphics card. What do you guys think?

Had one i5 NV740m it was quite good, except for the display - any desktop monitor was better :(

The companies I've been working for always issued us Lenovo X240/X250/X260 models.
They are quite decent, but the build quality is all over the place. Some models are more or less flawless, others have broken keyboard keys or very uneven backlights for the LCD which rendered them pretty much unusable. But over all they are not that bad actually.

Not as bad as Acer laptops, I'm sure.

That's actually pretty bad for a laptop.

It's budget, that's the best I could say. You could get an HP with a new Intel HD integrated graphics (look up the new comparisons of the NEW HD intel graphics, they typically beat out the R5s and can compete with the mid range graphics cards right now) for just around the saem price, if not a little less, with a TB drive as well as 8 GB of RAM. You could get one of those for around 350 Euro. You can also get a comparable Dell computer to what you posted above for around 300 to 400 Euro.

OR, you could get one of HPs or Dells gaming laptops for about twice that with a better card for gaming, more RAM, and other options.

Overall, if you want to browse the net (but no video or video intensive sites, I'd say you should have at least 8GB for that with Win10), play older games, and have a decent work laptop, it's okay, but otherwise, it's exactly what it looks like...

A budget laptop.

If you want a better laptop with better graphics, more RAM and other things, you might need to spend a little more cash on it...

IMO.

PS: My Last laptop that I got for gaming I didn't settle for anything less than 12 GB RAM, and the options to have an additional SSD drive. SSD's are GREAT for gaming, though space is still a little limited on them.

Lenovo is the second best after Sony laptops and generally perfect as desktops. They are basically IBM, produces from Chinese factories that used to produce IBM machines.

When I was IT manager in an other company, I got offers from both Lenovo and HP. HP gave better prices so I worked with them but I still think Lenovo is a very good brand.

If you want a good performance/price ratio, you cant go wrong with Acer. My own laptop is Acer and although it has a serious heating problem, performance is excellent. Besides that, on all the laptops i fixed, Acer cases are by far the easiest to work with. For God's sake you dont have to disassamble the whole laptop just to change RAM or clean the fan.

Recently pulled my dad's old laptop out and updated a bunch of stuff. It was running super slow under Win7 with 4GB RAM on a clean installation, doing the same stuff you're mentioning: light personal use. About $35 and 8GB RAM later, it's MUCH faster. I'd put some money there.

One guy asked the same question on Tom's Guide.

Intel HD 5500 vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

Best answer i saw and quote:

"The Radeon R5 M330 is a bit more powerful than the Intel HD 5500. Most systems that use the Radeon R5 use AMD's Enduro technology to revert to integrated graphics when operating on battery or in a low-performance mode. The integrated graphics paried with the M330 is either the Intel HD 5500 or the newer Intel HD 520.
So you get a "best of both worlds" setup by choosing the Radeon R5 M330. It's there when you need the graphics horsepower and it reverts to integrated graphics to save power and generate less heat when you don't need it."

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did you get it ?

Got a g580 from 2012. Still working but I stream news on it and nothing else. Windows 8.1 so it doesn't really do much but this machine might have longevity .

Crashed a few times in the first 3 years but I realize its limitations and restart it now and then. At the very least, much more reliable than my asus laptop of 3 years.

My 530W is still working, although I seldom use it (mostly as a backup or travelling computer now). Its 16GB RAM cap makes it of limited use for the kind of work I do professionally now. Still, within its limitations, it is still working fine over a decade later.

I got a P51 in april 2017 (a 64GB RAM monster with a xeon cpu, more suited to troubleshooting fleets of vms and containers) and it is still my main working computer today (when my employer doesn't impose their own computer that is, although I prefer to use mine when possible as some employers are still resistant to the idea of maxing out the RAM even though it is a huge time saver for the kind of work I do really) and working fine. It has seen quite a bit of usage over the years.

When my P51 breaks (so far, so good), I'll see what my repair options are, but when I'm forced to replace it (whenever that will be), I'll probably get a System76 desktop if they are still around by then.

With my working remotely post-pandemic, I don't have to move around as much and a desktop is just a more efficient tradeoff given those circumstances and while I love Lenovo's durability with their premium offerings, I want to deal with a manufacturer that puts Linux first for a change.

I also like how you are replying to a 7 year olf thread necroed by a spammer, thats better than any Lenovo Laptop

What can I say, a lot of gamers like to rave about their gpus, game consoles or hand held devices.

I like to rave about my working machines.