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Looks like a good replacement for the popular Lenovo Flex 5 14" with a slightly better CPU, upgraded WIFI & Bluetooth WIFI 5 → 6, Larger M.2 Drive (double the size) and a wonderful 2-years upgradeable On-site local warranty (+$85.80 to upgrade to 3-Years). This has a 16" screen vs 14" from the popular flex, so it will be bulker and heavier, but does come with an independent numeric keypad (great for people that do a lot of maths or number entry). The case also is made from part Aluminium, instead of 100% plastic. This unit also supports Rapid Charge Boost (15-minute charge = 2 hours of runtime).
Options
Education Store $1120.51 with code EDUEOFY
or
Non-education store $1499 with code EOFY
For non-education purchases ONLY, CashRewards has ~~15% cashback ($224.85) = ~$1274.15 (After Cashback) + you will earn $234 in Rewards through Lenovo, possible making it a better option than the EDU for those wishing to purchase more than just the laptop)
Specs
Part Number: 82RA003FAU
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700U (8C / 16T, 1.8 / 4.3GHz, 4MB L2 / 8MB L3)
Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64
Display Type: 16.0" WUXGA (1920x1200) IPS 300nits Glossy, DC Dimming, Glass, 10-point Multi-touch
Memory: 16 GB Soldered LPDDR4x-4266 seems to only be 32-bit of low powered ram
Hard Drive: 512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe
Warranty: 2 Year On-site
AC Adapter: 65W Round Tip (3-pin)
Graphics: Integrated AMD Radeon™ Graphics
Batter: Integrated 52.5Wh
Camera: 1080p with Privacy Shutter
Pen: Lenovo Digital Pen
Fingerprint Reader: Touch Style
Keyboard: Backlit, English
Wireless: 802.11AX (2x2) & Bluetooth® 5.2
For those wishing to stick with the 14" Screen or spend less, a lower specs version is on offer for EDU customers for $853.51
the ram may/may not be an issue for you according to the article.
It is not so easy comparison. DDR DIMMs are 64 bits while LPDDR are 2 x 16 bits.
From this perspective DDR is twice as fast. But, LPDDR has some improvements in internal architecture and timings what makes it more advanced to DDR.
To achieve better performance LPDDR has additional improvements and one of them is higher transfer rate. While 3200 or 3600 is normal today for DDR, LPDDR goes above 4200, eg 4267. On its own transfer rate does not affect performance much cause much bigger factor is latency - CL. But while DDR supports burst of 8 bits, LPDDR is 16 and 32. And this significantly increases throughput cause 2 - 4 times more data are transferred at once (single CL).
Question is does CPU supports more than 8 bursts. Cache lines are 64 bytes (8 * 64 bits) what nicely fits to DDR 8 bursts.
Also latency, CL, is same for DDR and LPDDR.
DDR is better cause it supports simpler overclocking while LPDDR operating voltage is lower and overclocking is trickier.
Laptops use (primarily) LPDDR and while is possible to buy LPDDR to DDR adapters for desktops they make no sense. Other way around is not so simple.
Btw I just googled some shops and no one sells 4266 LPDDR. Top ones are 3200, mostly being 3000.