My local store still had the tag showing its normal $1799 price, but when I asked them to check they confirmed $1099 until Friday.
Screen is only 1080p but at 14" I don't personally find this an issue, big bonus with this particular unit is the active stylus that's included.
unbelievable, Hardley Normal would do that?
It's his way of returning the ill-gotten stimulus like an honourable citizen.
If he was giving you cash sure… But this means you have to spend more with HN.. Lol
Yeh no thank you. not giving money to an evil dude.
If you have education access, you can spec this with Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM + 2.2k, 300 nits, 100% sRGB display for $1,110.60 shipped using the Build-your-own page
https://www.lenovo.com/au/edu/en/configurator/cto/index.html…
Or Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM, 2.2K display for $1,250.09.
Though an: FYI the build quality on these IdeaPad flexes are quite mediocre and you should probably go Yoga if you want a more durable chassis.
Great option for those with education access that want a nicer screen! +$110 for the 512GB storage.
Agreed on the build quality. Bought a flex for my son a couple of years back for school. He treats his things well but this just fell apart.
Yeah definitely terrible build quality. Got a laptop from one of the Amazon deals like this and got replaced under warranty and then refunded (per my request, instead of another replacement) in an 18ish month time frame.
Shame about the build quality as the battery is great and screen looks good for 1080p.
Had an Acer Spin and still looked in as new condition after 4+ years so it's not me just treating it roughly.
to be fair on the build quality, 'flex' is in the name.
Only Thinkpads are worth looking at from Lenovo. My recent Yoga was a disappointment.
Hey, in what way is the build quality mediocre? 'It's what's in it that matters' right? Like, Lenovo's able to make it a good deal because of these sacrifices
Not about this particular model but googling +lenovo +ideapad +broken +hinge should give you some ideas about quality of IdeaPad line and how much Lenovo cares about this widely known issue.
And no, what in it does not matter if you can't use it.
Okay, now that is concerning. You made a good point. What happened with my ideapad was that camera pieces were not securedly connected so you can see the lens slanted. That was enough for me to get a replacement from JB and am lucky to be under their warranty. Lenovo has this relentless advertising of their warranty extension but after seeing the comments here, I'm definitely going to choose JB over Lenovo. Will stay away from ideapad models and research on products reviews after purchase
The hinge tears off, which severs the connection to the screen and the way it's connected tends to tear the case apart and damage the motherboard. It's a common issue for Lenovo going back years they refuse to fix.
What if you're on warranty? And what if they refuse on warranty who should I go to next?
I'm so confused when they advertised one year retail warranty and next year manufacturer warranty but manufacturer does nothing. Should you directly see your retailer?
@PeeDee: From Lenovo's own forum:
The "premium support" engineer I spoke with insists this is physical damage not covered by my premium support contract
@[Deactivated]: Oh god. What are you going to do? I think it's going to be backwards forwards. Unless you see your retailer.
Is it the hinge that's unreliable? I bought an ideapad IdeaPad Slim 5 Pro 6800HS with 16GB RAM for $1,232.10 on the Lenovo Edu store, hadn't heard build quality issues before.
I had one for work a few years back. Used it daily for 3 years and had no issues whatsoever. Though admittedly I didn't use it in tablet mode all that often. Yes, Yoga would be better, but considerably more expensive too. It's a bit of "you get what you pay for".
This is my story too. Use it every day in laptop mode without problems.
can confirm the case is very fragile, laptop in it's own sleeve inside a backpack that was dropped from a low height resulted in the back cracking in 2 places which shouldn't happen, was amazed to see how thin the chassis is
As an aside, the one in this post is the previous model (Gen 6?). The one on the education portal is the newer Gen 7 model which has a 16:10 screen ratio with a resolution of 1920 x 1200.
Weight is 1.5kg
got the 4500u 16gb 512gb model and is amazing for $960 on education store a while back. no regrets at all great quality
Poor build quality. 1 year & it starts falling apart.
How do these models commonly break? Is it the 360 degree hinge?
Hinge, yes
Not all 360° hinge models have bad build quality, but this line yes.
Buy this if you want to deal with dead keys on the keyboard during the warranty period putting you out of a laptop for 3 weeks while it's being repaired.
Also note this CPU is zen 2 not zen 3. AMD make it so confusing.
According to AMD, Zen 3 has a 19% higher instructions per cycle (IPC) on average than Zen 2. On April 1, 2022, AMD released the new Ryzen 6000 series for the laptop, using an improved “Zen 3+” architecture, bringing RDNA 2 graphics integrated in a APU to the PC for the first time.
AMD and Intel should get slapped for their horrible naming
Lol yep. Especially AMD, it’s almost deceptive and really should be investigated.
At least AMD is on the same 7nm TSMC architecture that Zen 2 and 3 use. You do realise that Intel used two different manufacturing processes for 10th gen mobile. You had 14nm Comet lake with 10nm Ice lake and all were similarly named in 2019.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ice-lake-10-gen-nami…
@shellshocked: Fair enough. (profanity) Intel too, lol. It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s sneaky and deceptive and 100% deliberate.
@[Deactivated]: Unfortunately they all do it. Including NVIDIA on the GPU side. Like below. Different GPUs architecture, same name.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1g986u/completely…
I wonder if the hinges have been improved.
Seems monitor is 16:10 so you get the height (roughly) of a 13 3:2, which is quite good for productivity.
(you basically need 15cm wide per window for 'comfortable' windows side by side).
I think it's 16:9?
Just something to check, but i have the 15" version of this and it only supports one external monitor and no DP over USB-C.
This model might be ok.
Also - be careful as there are spec sheets for the flex and non-flex versions.
:-0
:-(
I do kind of get sick of manufactures hobbling their products to save $8, or even less.:-/
I have earlier model of this from Amazon. It’s great value, but the plastic hinges do have a lot of, err flex.
Would need to be extra careful if using it daily for work, school etc.
I suspect like the early models that the usb-c Is a basic port, no charging , display etc. But this is a guess based on the JB description page.
That is actually a really good laptop. Nice find!
For anyone buying one, please upgrade the warranty to a 3 year plan! Laptops always have issues, so a warranty makes it easy and simple to call Lenovo support and log a support case with them anytime you have an issue over the 3 years of owning it.
Check out the below once you've bought the laptop, enter in your serial # and upgrade your warranty. 3 Year warranty will probably be around $200-300 - but yeah,, highly worth it for peace of mind.
Just beware that Lenovo's warranty does not cover accidental damage, even if you choose to spend a couple of hundred dollars to extend it. You need Accidental Damage Prevention and that is typically not available for consumer devices not bought from direct from Lenovo.
and I think if your initial budget is big enough to spend $1099 on a laptop and a further $200~$300 for extended warranty, you may as well buy a business-grade laptop that is built to last longer in the first place.
'Business grade' is just a marketing term. There is 0 design differences from my experiences of using both business grade and consumer. All cheap crap. Also, 'business grade' only comes with a 1 year warranty as well.
Agreed, just a pro license of Windows instead of home
Is it still worth buying extended warranty for the Yoga 2-in-1? If you can use the lenovo reward points on the extended warranty, it comes to $120 for an extra 3 years warranty (4 total). I can't believe that a $1.5k+ laptop only comes with a 1 year warranty by default though, that's absolutely ridiculous.
Slightly concerned about how the 4th year of warranty costs so much more than the third year though ($64 vs $42). Seems to indicate that the failure rate is a lot higher in the 4th year.
ebay is 999 the 512Gb as per catalogue
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