sales tax In California, per state law, Lenovo charges an electronic waste recycling fee on this covered device at the time of sale of the product.
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Intel Pentium Gold 6405U (2C / 4T, 2.4GHz, 2MB) (4 x performance of J1800)
4GB memory soldered to systemboard, one DDR4 SO-DIMM socket
128GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe NVMe 3.0x2 (M.2 2242 SSD / PCIe NVMe, PCIe 3.0 x 4 slot), HDD / SATA 6.0Gb/s, 2.5" wide, 7mm high slot
802.11ac 2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5.0, M.2 Card
no Ethernet
4-in-1 media reader (MMC, SD, SDHC, SDXC)
One USB 2.0, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 (USB 3.0, not USB-C), HDMI 1.4b,
0.3MP or HD720p, with privacy shutter, fixed focus,
integrated dual array microphone
14" HD (1366x768) TN 220nits Anti-glare
Integrated Li-Polymer 35Wh or 45Wh battery, 45Wh battery supports Rapid Charge (charge up to 80% in 1hr), with 65W AC adapter
Other Info. Provided by sder:
Caution:
Pay attention not to put stuff on top of the notebook cover. It is very soft and flex. It may damage and break the Lcd panel on the other side.
Internal pics,
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RAM:
works
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C56K...UTF8&
Also confirms RAM could be support to 20gb
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SATA Cable for 2.5" hdd and ssd:
it is the one that works
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...04493
disccusion and official Lenovo part list,
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If you are up to change the web cam,
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So what are the cons? It's not thin, nor light. The camera is hot garbage to me, but the wife uses it for Zoom and hasn't complained yet, so there's that. The screen is ... meh. I mean, our phones have better screens, and I'll bet a $150 phone might as well. At first I was concerned about the 4GB of ram, but honestly, it hasn't been a problem YET. I'm sure, in the future we'll have to revisit this. I would like an ethernet jack, but it's hard to tell because they only use them in the house and we have good wi-fi. If we go on vacation, it might be a different story. Also, 128GB of storage is nothing these days. You will run out fast if you have a lot of media. But this problem isn't exclusive to this particular model, as the majority of laptops are in the same boat. So add the cost of external storage (SD card, external drive, cloud) to the overall price. Finally, the battery life is not good. You'll have to pay more to start getting decent longevity.
Intel Pentium Gold 6405U (2C / 4T, 2.4GHz, 2MB)
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"For the time being, standard video, not HD video, will be activated when 3 or more participants join a group meeting. HD video (720p) will be activated for 2 participants or when a Zoom Room or Conference Room Connector joins a group meeting. HD video (1080p) will only be activated for selective use cases such as large format broadcast events. ". Also this:
"Group HD will activate 720p video quality for the active speaker video layout in a group meeting."
Which pretty much means that anyone using this for distance learning, will be at 480p. If your teaching, and are the active speaker, you probably will have a second camera or a share screen- and that will be the part at 720P; the 480p camera would just be the little tiny box.
As far as ram goes, its 4gb, that is supposed to be soldered. If there is still an empty slot at the bottom, all we would need is a 4gb chip to move it to 8gb, and allegedly *may* run in dual channel.
128gb should be good for the core stuff- stick a micro SD in the slot and we should be golden
Ram shouldn't make too much of a performance difference for your vpn. Also the similiar questions about your remote desktop- Chrome remote, or something else?
the ram will help a lot though with video- as part of that ram is being sucked into the video card I think.
If your using wireguard (which isn't technically certified and whatnot) the throughputs are pretty amazing. Blows openVPN out of the water. Some of the routing is limited and immature however- just depends on your needs.
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"For the time being, standard video, not HD video, will be activated when 3 or more participants join a group meeting. HD video (720p) will be activated for 2 participants or when a Zoom Room or Conference Room Connector joins a group meeting. HD video (1080p) will only be activated for selective use cases such as large format broadcast events. ". Also this:
"Group HD will activate 720p video quality for the active speaker video layout in a group meeting."
Which pretty much means that anyone using this for distance learning, will be at 480p. If your teaching, and are the active speaker, you probably will have a second camera or a share screen- and that will be the part at 720P; the 480p camera would just be the little tiny box.
As far as ram goes, its 4gb, that is supposed to be soldered. If there is still an empty slot at the bottom, all we would need is a 4gb chip to move it to 8gb, and allegedly *may* run in dual channel. (though 12 is supposedly douable)
128gb should be good for the core stuff- stick a micro SD in the slot and we should be golden. However in the other 3's, there appears to be space for a standard sata drive.
Might be upgradeable if good with a soldering iron
Might be upgradeable if good with a soldering iron
From a manufacturing standpoint, a lot of these will be made exactly the same. From what I can see on the board itself (from the video) is that pretty much all models come stock with 4gb soldered- any models with more ram (up to 12 total) would just be a variant of a 4 or 8gb sodimm 2600 DDR4.
One bit of annoyance is that there is a sata ribbon to the motherboard. Its easy enough to double side tape a sata SSD drive in, its that sata connector to the MB which may or may not be present.
I have an extra one lying around.
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