Pros & Cons
Pros
The touchpad is very responsive and gives me no problems with tracking the heel of my hand when i’m typing. The trackpad is also really nice on this device and i no issues with accidentally touching it with my palms while using it. I love the keypad a... Read More
The laptop comes with 4 gb of ram soldered to the board, with a user-replaceable 4 gb stick. It supports up to 20gb of ram (4gb soldered) and m. Storage. Wifi is a 2x2 antenna layout for excellent coverage.
I expect this standard hinge laptop to hold up better than that flex 360 hinge that broke. The lenovo vantage app helps to manage the laptop settings, system status, information, performance and updates from one location. The view from this vantage po... Read More
In the long run, it's not good for lithium-ion batteries to be kept at 100% state of charge for days-on-end, so this setting allows you to keep the battery partially charged. This laptop has way better battery life vs my dads old laptop allowing him t... Read More
The amd 5500u is a 6 core 12 thread cpu which is powerful and efficient. It comes with a radeon 7 graphics, 8gb ram and 256gb nvme ssd. This ideapad cpu spec is more than 2x faster, and i do see the performance improvement. It also has a built-in inte... Read More
Cons
The camera has a built-in hood (nice) but no linux support, fingerprint read also no linux support. The laptop does not have amd cpu or amd graphics card, it's intel one. It also does not have gb or gb cache.
Highlights
Quality
To start: i am beyond impressed with the value this laptop offers for less than $500.
Overall with the price and how everything comes together with this laptop i would absolutely recommend it.
Build quality is workable, but the chassis does feel like a $400-500 consumer laptop (read: cheap and plastic.
- the built in webcam is only 720p and the quality is subpar- the touchpad is a bit rattly.
Price
It is thinner, lighter and faster than my old laptop, and the price is outstanding!
It comes with a 6 cores 12 threats ryzen 5500u, a radeon 7 graphics, 8gb ram and 256gb nvme ssd.
* 8 gb ram, 256 gb nvme ssd - for sub-$500 this is great; compare it to a surface laptop for example and watch the price explod... Read More
Shipping
Quick, efficient; delivery was fast and professional
Packaging/appearance
Before moving to the positives and negatives, just a few words about the packaging, as every other budget friendly laptop the p... Read More
Likewise, the 256gb nvme drive is not user replaceable.
Competitiveness
If you're in the market for a laptop at this price point i don't think there is any real competition right now unless you need ... Read More
I have an older laptop with a ryzen 7 2700u and this one outperforms it in every way.
6) ** update 8/16/2021 ** i was visiting a friend and discovered that the realtek wifi card couldn't connect to a ubiquiti access point.
I had to go to device manager and disable 5ghz wireless mode to get it to work.
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A lot of budget laptops have lots of bloatware
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It can be very disappointing and frustrating
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Nothing slows it down not even the cloud when i had to set it up
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It doesn’t freeze after having 10 tabs open with spotify in the background
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Had to send it back and request a replacement
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Screen has a dark area around the corner of the bottom left
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The seal was broken and the box had a big hole
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Moderately serviceable under the hood with one ram stick being soldered on 4 gb