It looks like a pretty good deal, if I were correct, the same machine was for $1,999 during the boxing day sale?
Also has ThinkPad Yoga 460 for $1,209.
http://www3.lenovo.com/au/en/deals/current-offers/laptops-fo…
Don't forget cashrewards
I have the same i7 QHD version and also same RAM and SSD upgrades. As far as I know they are intended to be user upgradable? The RAM is expensive for anyone intending to do it.
My digitizer has stopped working for some reason (no touchscreen at all). Lenovo service is very slow, I also paid for NBD onsite but the NBD seems to be optional as far as Lenovo is concerned since they always seem to be waiting on parts. Tech came and replaced the screen first but this did not solve the problem so now a new motherboard is on its way and they will have to come back.
I am a relatively heavy user but would be lucky to get more than 4 hours from the battery. No idea how you get 8 hours… Which 3rd party drivers are you talking about?
I'd think given that there are no access panels for upgrading that it's not intended to be user upgradable (the Yoga 460 that is, not the machine above).
I got a Transcend 512GB M.2 SSD and 16GB of Crucial RAM for mine, i wouldnt say the ram is expensive, just ordinary DDR3 SODIMM stuff.
The stock config with bloatware and poor optimisation limits the battery life, i've done a fresh clean Win10 install from my own install media and fetched the relevant drivers independant of Lenovo.
Only way i think i could bring the battery life down to 4 hours would be with the GPU and CPU running in long periods of high power state, which is probably a fair call for gaming/photoshop scenario.
There i an option in nVidia control panel that turns on an icon in the tray to advise when the discrete GPU is running, that might show where some of your juice is flowing.
Not sure why you would go for this when you can get the HP Spectre X360 that is all metal, smaller, has a better processor, RAM and memory for almost the same price. I got mine on Friday (overnight delivery) and love it. It's got a better screen than my Dell XPS 13 and the battery lasts much longer.
I bought a cheaper/lesser model Yoga X1 for the active stylus and UltraNav input, as well as sufficient processor, sufficient RAM and swapped out the SSD to one of my own choice. The 15W CPU power ceiling puts a limit on how much work can be done anyway, regardless of the CPU model.
It's too small. Text will be tiny or every document/webpage needs to be scrolled to view entirely.
I have the Yoga 460.
My thoughts..
1st one arrived DoA - broken USB port.
Techs came on 3 occasions, each time with wrong motherboard (part# was correct, but it didn't match)
Ended up getting an advance replacement.
2nd one developed a fault, had 2 yrs NextBusinessDay onsite support, after about 2 months i gave up and demanded a return/refund (which i got).
The machine is great but if something goes wrong the support is terrible.
Ordered 2 more of these and both have been fine over the last 6 months.
My upgrades..
I have a transcend 512GB 42mm SATA3 M.2 drive in mine, the room inside for the SSD is limited to 42mm - keep this in mind if self upgrading.
Only 1 x SODIMM slot on board, so keep in mind with upgrading ram.
I put 16GB of Crucial in mine.
SSD & RAM is not supposed to be user upgradable, but is quite easy— vid here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqoLay7QIo
I have no experience with the stock Win10 install, i imaged mine and removed the hard disk, doing a fresh install on the SSD.
The Win10 licence is integrated in the BIOS using magicks and the OS automatically activates.
My experience..
Digitizer is Wacom based and works very nicely, great palm rejection.
Included stylus is a bit skinny, the flush buttons can be hard to locate.
The QHD display is just too small for the 14" display, and scaling in Win10 is still not great.
The nVidia GT940 GFX is pretty good, would do even better with a 1080p display (less pixels to push ~2MP vs ~3.6MP).
With a clean install and a couple of must have drivers from lenovo and 3rd parties the battery life after a few cycles is easily 8hrs screen on doing light work.
With tweaking you can get 10+hrs under some circumstances.
With a few breaks it should handle a 9-5 day with a little power to spare.
The 8260 WiFi supports 2x2 MIMO, lots of AP's support this, but not often a client device does.
With a Ubiquity AC Pro AP in the ceiling and me on battery 6M away i was able to sustain a throughput of 600Mb/s peaking at 800Mb/s
Fastest WiFi i've ever seen.
General performance is excellent with the clean OS, 16GB RAM and SSD, the bottleneck of the SATA SSD seems not much of an issue.
I had models with i3, i5 and i7 CPU, being they are all dual cores and limited to the thermal envelope the chassis can support i wouldn't worry which CPU io got in the real world, only major difference is cache.
Happen to have the i7 currently, no perceivable difference over the most recently returned i5 machine, get whatever is cheapest.
If i could change 1 thing it would be swap 1440p display for 1080p.
PS- No ethernet port, get the USB3 one that you can use on any PC rather than their 'OneLink' one - option appears in checkout.
Happy to answer any questions.