Are Lenovo laptops any good?
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I've been an Asus Zenbook fan for years. The oldest one I still have went on countless boats, cranes and excavators, accompanied an 11 years old to school for 6 months (that was rough!) and is still kicking. Now it's enjoying its retirement talking only occasionally to a 3D printer and doing light duties around the house. The latest one is still a respectable 3 years old but still very snappy and stylish. Love it to bits (and bytes).
Mircea
Thanks for making me look at ASUS again. Asus ProArt Studio Book[^] OLED 16" - Nice! 12th gen core i7 mobile Onboard graphics that don't totally suck. Shame about the trackpad, but that's the only thing I don't like so far, and expect I'm probably going to wind up having to settle for disabling it on whatever i end up getting. Thanks again!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Thanks for making me look at ASUS again. Asus ProArt Studio Book[^] OLED 16" - Nice! 12th gen core i7 mobile Onboard graphics that don't totally suck. Shame about the trackpad, but that's the only thing I don't like so far, and expect I'm probably going to wind up having to settle for disabling it on whatever i end up getting. Thanks again!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
honey the codewitch wrote:
Shame about the trackpad,
Sometimes one has to go with the times. Many moons ago I had laptops that had a trackball instead of a trackpad. I used to love them: accurate, small no accidental movement. I might have been the only one or they were not economical to build because they disappeared and I had to learn to live with the trackpads. Well, times, they are 'achanging.
honey the codewitch wrote:
Thanks for making me look at ASUS again
One is glad to be of service :)
Mircea
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
https://psrefstuff.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/i\_pdf/ThinkPad.pdf u can download the spec sheet , if you are looking for a high end workstation you can go for P series , on the move x series or t series...... they are still the goat or beef... then there is the [dell precision ](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/sf/precision-laptops) hp you need to really compare with the rest....
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Forget about laptops and use a MINISFORUM UM590 Mini PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor: MINISFORUM UM590 Use it with a keyboard of your choice, the integrated Radeon graphics are good enough for gaming btw: Minis Forum UM590 Review - Ryzen 9 5900HX Power In A Tiny PC - YouTube[^] :-\
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https://psrefstuff.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/i\_pdf/ThinkPad.pdf u can download the spec sheet , if you are looking for a high end workstation you can go for P series , on the move x series or t series...... they are still the goat or beef... then there is the [dell precision ](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/sf/precision-laptops) hp you need to really compare with the rest....
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
I had a precision. Didn't love it. My only issue with spending this kind of money on a Lenovo is I don't know what I'm getting. For example, I've bought ASUS products for years. I've had one bad product - a poorly designed netbook from them, but their build quality (even on that device) has always been at least respectable. Lenovo is kind of an unknown quantity for me, and the spec sheet won't tell me if they use good (japanese maybe) capacitors in their boards for example. Not that I'm looking for that kind of detail. More I'm looking for people's organic experiences with them. Did they hold up? Did the hinges wear out? Was their anything about them you hated? That sort of thing. Spec sheets are kind of short on that information.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Honestly Hun, They're all Chinese junk. Take your pick. Except HP they suck even more. We prefer Asus or Acer. They seem to care at least a little.
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Forget about laptops and use a MINISFORUM UM590 Mini PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor: MINISFORUM UM590 Use it with a keyboard of your choice, the integrated Radeon graphics are good enough for gaming btw: Minis Forum UM590 Review - Ryzen 9 5900HX Power In A Tiny PC - YouTube[^] :-\
Hmmm. everywhere I need to go with something like a laptop there's a TV to plug into, and this is primarily for taking to my sister's place. Being able to game a little wouldn't hurt. I'll definitely consider it. Thanks. Very outside the box solution to my overarching problem. I like it. :)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Honestly Hun, They're all Chinese junk. Take your pick. Except HP they suck even more. We prefer Asus or Acer. They seem to care at least a little.
Yeah ASUS has done pretty well by me. I'd consider their laptops if all I was looking at was build quality, but their lineup didn't impress me when I looked before, although someone here just had me look again and they've got some "Pro Art" laptops for creators - like graphic designers and CAD users, with a big OLED screen and nasty processor, plus a half respectable video card for a laptop. Kinda pricey for the specs, but that's probably because of the screen. It's on my short list though.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah ASUS has done pretty well by me. I'd consider their laptops if all I was looking at was build quality, but their lineup didn't impress me when I looked before, although someone here just had me look again and they've got some "Pro Art" laptops for creators - like graphic designers and CAD users, with a big OLED screen and nasty processor, plus a half respectable video card for a laptop. Kinda pricey for the specs, but that's probably because of the screen. It's on my short list though.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Caring costs more.
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
ThinkPad T series and E series are very good - first hand experience...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I had a precision. Didn't love it. My only issue with spending this kind of money on a Lenovo is I don't know what I'm getting. For example, I've bought ASUS products for years. I've had one bad product - a poorly designed netbook from them, but their build quality (even on that device) has always been at least respectable. Lenovo is kind of an unknown quantity for me, and the spec sheet won't tell me if they use good (japanese maybe) capacitors in their boards for example. Not that I'm looking for that kind of detail. More I'm looking for people's organic experiences with them. Did they hold up? Did the hinges wear out? Was their anything about them you hated? That sort of thing. Spec sheets are kind of short on that information.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
well they don't charge money simply ... u get what you pay for ...also they have a three year warranty etc for dell i think you may have to check ..in case of issues there is solutions... you can check youtube they have reviews and teardowns and how to upgrade etc....... asus you can go for the gaming rouge series or so which may match the menioned.................. hinges etc dont wear out if you dont close and open etc..too much... mobileworkstation are u just put it on the desk connect to monitors and forget it......
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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ThinkPad T series and E series are very good - first hand experience...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
Thanks!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Caring costs more.
I was speaking compared to ASUS' other notebooks. :laugh:
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Honestly Hun, They're all Chinese junk. Take your pick. Except HP they suck even more. We prefer Asus or Acer. They seem to care at least a little.
my experience on HP laptops is not great. currently I am using one...
diligent hands rule....
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I appear to be in a small minority here, but I've had good experience with the HP laptops. Over the last 15 years I have bought 6 laptops for various family members. 5 are still working away to this day. (The oldest was junked because its screen broke in a fall) They are not bleeding-edge technology, but they work for us. As for Lenovo, we have had two of them. I don't like the amount of spyware and bloatware that they come with. They also make it difficult to remove - after installing a clean system, using their "driver installation" app will also reinstallmuch of the spyware.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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I appear to be in a small minority here, but I've had good experience with the HP laptops. Over the last 15 years I have bought 6 laptops for various family members. 5 are still working away to this day. (The oldest was junked because its screen broke in a fall) They are not bleeding-edge technology, but they work for us. As for Lenovo, we have had two of them. I don't like the amount of spyware and bloatware that they come with. They also make it difficult to remove - after installing a clean system, using their "driver installation" app will also reinstallmuch of the spyware.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
I have had similar experience. Have an HP touch screen 17" laptop (2 years old) and HP desktop (3 years old). Both solid and not overloaded with bloatware. I use them everyday. My Lenova was retired because I could not upgrade OS and hard drive was weak. I do have a beef with HP is printer systems. But that's another story.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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I just got done telling someone else my experience with Dell laptops was totally middle of the road. I compared it to driving a toyota. Reliable, but reliably boring. I don't know exactly what I'm looking for in a laptop, but I'll know it when i see it. I'm being difficult, I know.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
please share with us what you finally get ...
diligent hands rule....
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please share with us what you finally get ...
diligent hands rule....
I will. It might be awhile. I like to start looking and doing research well ahead of when I buy so I'm all caught up on the latest stuff when I'm ready. I'm also not in a huge hurry, since I don't have a pressing need for it. It would just be nice.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I loved IBM Thinkpads. It's as if they sat me down, interviewed me for two hours, and then built a laptop based on their findings. The little eraserhead pointer that everyone hates I wish I had on all my keyboards. I can use the mouse without taking my hands of the home row and my wrist isn't clicking an annoying trackpad all the time. But it's more than that. They had the build quality, top tier LCD tech at the time, great bleeding edge hardware (first laptop with a mobile Pentium III for example), and stellar support. I had video hardware on one go tits up and IBM sent a tech to my workplace the next day who replaced my lappy's mainboard. I lost maybe 5 hours of productivity to my primary dev machine going out. That's not bad, actually. The only real achilles heel they had were the HDDs - the "IBM DeskDeathStar" drives. Most were good, but they had a run of them that were just junk - but it was a misstep from a company that was usually pretty reliable about quality. The situation stood out for being the exception to the rule. Then they sold everything to Lenovo. I haven't touched Lenovo machines. How's the build quality? Are there laptops that have supplanted the thinkpad's former niche at the high end**? Especially with those little pointing nubs. Love them. ** non-gaming
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I bought one 2 weeks ago. A yoga, since that had what I wanted, namely a fast ssd, metal case, backlit keyboard and a decent cpu. Couldn't give a crap about the 10-point touchscreen, 180deg hinge to make it a tablet or the inbuilt hd camera. 14" 2880x1800 oled, 16g ram, 1tb nvme ssd. i7-1260. Dolby atmos sound, backlit keyboard. It's a sexy machine, with spectacular build quality, though wasn't what I'd call cheap. Everything about it is amazing.. Except 2 things. 0) Windows 11's Bluetooth support sucks big hairy donkey whatsits. All of the bluetooth audio devices I own produce glitchy sound. Both synch issues when watching youtube or locally-stored videos with VLC, sometimes combined with lower pitch. Someone online has pointed out that a 1k test signal was played back at 44100/48000 of what it should be (with a pair of Huwawei laptops) MS bt drivers for it only allow 48000hz BT sound output. I've been back and forth with them for a week and appear to have an admission that their third-party supplier (Microsoft) has let down the team. Think I'll return it and keep working on the old Win 7 laptop I have. 1) The warranty scheme is messed-up. They offer a 12 month warranty, to which they add an extra month. Why the extra month, you ask? Because the warranty period starts when they sell it to the retailer, rather than when the retailer sells it to you. They've even got a button in their support website marked "Problems with my warranty" or similar. I got mine with under 10months left, according to their Vantage app. They fixed that after a single email. Everything else about it though is like my L badged 'toyota'. (Bloody Awesome) Sucks bugger-all juice while going hard, a tank of energy lasts ages. I've been getting about 10 hours per charge from the 71Wh battery, the inbuilt sound is spectacular and it's an absolute joy to use. The sound issue though is not what I'd expect from something with Dolby written on it, which cost over $2.6k. :sigh:
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I bought one 2 weeks ago. A yoga, since that had what I wanted, namely a fast ssd, metal case, backlit keyboard and a decent cpu. Couldn't give a crap about the 10-point touchscreen, 180deg hinge to make it a tablet or the inbuilt hd camera. 14" 2880x1800 oled, 16g ram, 1tb nvme ssd. i7-1260. Dolby atmos sound, backlit keyboard. It's a sexy machine, with spectacular build quality, though wasn't what I'd call cheap. Everything about it is amazing.. Except 2 things. 0) Windows 11's Bluetooth support sucks big hairy donkey whatsits. All of the bluetooth audio devices I own produce glitchy sound. Both synch issues when watching youtube or locally-stored videos with VLC, sometimes combined with lower pitch. Someone online has pointed out that a 1k test signal was played back at 44100/48000 of what it should be (with a pair of Huwawei laptops) MS bt drivers for it only allow 48000hz BT sound output. I've been back and forth with them for a week and appear to have an admission that their third-party supplier (Microsoft) has let down the team. Think I'll return it and keep working on the old Win 7 laptop I have. 1) The warranty scheme is messed-up. They offer a 12 month warranty, to which they add an extra month. Why the extra month, you ask? Because the warranty period starts when they sell it to the retailer, rather than when the retailer sells it to you. They've even got a button in their support website marked "Problems with my warranty" or similar. I got mine with under 10months left, according to their Vantage app. They fixed that after a single email. Everything else about it though is like my L badged 'toyota'. (Bloody Awesome) Sucks bugger-all juice while going hard, a tank of energy lasts ages. I've been getting about 10 hours per charge from the 71Wh battery, the inbuilt sound is spectacular and it's an absolute joy to use. The sound issue though is not what I'd expect from something with Dolby written on it, which cost over $2.6k. :sigh:
I bought its "little bro" Ideapad Flex 5 a few months ago for about A$1.4k. [i7, 16GB / 512GB] Ran Win11 long enough to make it let go of the SSD (kill "fast start") then repartitioned it and loaded Ubuntu. Very happy with it. Much lighter than my other lappies, battery runs pretty much all day, so I don't need to lug the charger around a lot of the time. Feels solid, looks to be well engineered articulated hinges, magnetic closure is nice. About the only beef I have with it is that, like so many others around that size, the cursor up/down keys are half height. Keyboard backlight is a nice extra for late night use. Not a fan of touchpads, so I got a logitech pebble too.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
