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Lenovo quietly launched the world’s lightest laptop but it won’t sell it outside Asia
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Anything to qualify that statement or just taking a shot? Who offers better value machines than Lenovo?
I had a Flex 14 which had a broken keyboard. Sent it for repairs and it came back with the same issue happening a minute after I turned it on. Had a bunch of friends who got a Lenovo gaming laptop that were offered at a deal with our school (was a Y-something I can't recall). All of them ended up with strange green bands on their screens within 2 years. The whole superfish fiasco basically cemented that they're not a company I would buy anything from ever again.
I'm currently using a Asus Zephyrus G14 and it's been practically a flawless experience.
The legion series is terrible. Same for HP omen, and Dell alienware. The OEMs just cut too many corners for "gaming" stuff. I've repaired them all. Desktop and laptops, across all these brands.
Aren't most "gaming" laptops quite bad whatever the brand?
Don't know, I've only worked on the 3 brands I listed.
I've had terrible experiences with all brands bar ThinkPad.
ThinkPad specifically too, IdeaPad, and Legion are consumer garbage.
I've worked in IT for over 20 years Lenovo have never released a decent laptop in my experience and opinion.
Thinkpad are one of the finest when it comes to 9-5 jobs
I have a Thinkpad T16 Gen 1 (Price around $3000 based on its configuration, like 48 GB RAM) at work and it's a piece of shit.
For example they fucked up their BIOS, so it sometimes needed 2 minutes to boot. Lenovo admitted they have an issue there.. after I messed with some BIOS settings I got it down to 30 seconds at least (but it's still not great). It also has heat issues and immediately clocks down the Intel 6 core CPU if you do anything demanding (like compiling). And it has a weird tick with the fans, where it sometimes out of nowhere spins the fans up from 0 to 100 for just a second or so. Haven't been able to fix that one yet.
Overall it's an okay laptop, but for the price it sucks. The whole company now thinks about switching away from Lenovo after we had other troubles (like the charging port not working for a colleague).
Wow! Never heard of such issues. I had a t14, great laptop for the time I spend at that company. Now I am at new place doing 9-5 and they gave me Microsoft surface laptop. Its even worst than lenovo. Overall I hate 9-5 and my life now.
Yeah, Surface isn't really a work laptop. My company is starting to think of switching to Dell (probably won't be great either).
Overall pretty much all laptops are overpriced pieces of shit. The only good thing is the mobility, but if I actually want performance and a quiet machine, please just give me a desktop. If I needed my computer in a meeting room at the last company I just grabbed the meeting laptop and went remote to my desktop.
Framework looks promising. I know a guy who started a company and has 3 employees. He got all of them framework laptops. He mentioned so far no one has complained. I am thinking to work for him instead of some shitty mega corp.
So who released a decent laptop in your opinion?
Considering they led with "Lenovo hasn't released a decent laptop in 20 years", I'm guessing they'll go with HP.