Costco Wholesale has for their
Members:
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14" 2-in-1 Touchscreen Laptop (82R7003SUS) on sale for
$449.99. Shipping is $14.99.
Thanks to Community Member
delz4stelz for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- 14" 1920x1200 WUXGA IPS Touchscreen Display
- Intel i5-1235U 3.3GHz - 4.4GHz 10-Core / 12-Thread Processor
- 16GB LPDDR4x 4266MHz Memory
- 512GB M.2 Solid State Drive
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- Wi-Fi 6 (2x2/160) Gig+ and Bluetooth 5.2
- Backlit Keyboard + Fingerprint Reader
- Integrated FHD 1080p Webcam with Privacy Shutter
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x Thunderbolt 4/USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (Support Data Transfer, Power Delivery 3.0, and DisplayPort 1.4a)
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (always on)
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 1x HDMI 1.4b
- 1x 4-in-1 Card Reader
- 1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack
- 3-Cell 52.5WH Lithium-Polymer Battery
- Approximate Weight: 3.31 lbs
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a solid build when you get it. It was hands down, the worst laptop I have ever owned, and I am not hard on my laptops.
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If you read the reviews on this specific laptop, not a single one mentions the hinge breaking.
I have this laptop from beginning of 2021. My sister has one from early 2022. Open and close many times a day every day, no problems. Either way, most of the hinge issues happened in the 1st 6 months to a year and Costco doubles the warranty to two years so you will be good if something does happen (it won't).
Today is the last day for this deal. It is a great deal for the specs.
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Like someone else who commented earlier, even if it is covered, it is a real headache to have to send it in and be without a laptop and risk security, etc. I have had a broken hinge before and it took almost 3 months to get it back from the manufacturer.
Combine that with reviews of battery issues and they equate to a hard pass. There's a reason these are heavily discounted.
I don't care about the Costco 90-day warranty, I'd rather have a reliable machine and doesn't sound like this is it. Have to wonder if the Ryzen 7730 version on sale now for $600 is either since it appears to be the identical platform, probably just with a different CPU and motherboard.
Had WiFi issues out of the box, but I am amenable to suffering so I wrote a script to soft reboot the WiFi card.
Battery seems to be bulging a little, given how the bottom panel seems distorted slightly.
I play d2 resurrected on it at 70% resolution scaling. The laptop gets HOT while gaming, so I use it with a laptop cooler. Not sure if the Intel integrated GPU is better or worse than Ryzen.
I seldom use it in tablet mode, but it was worked fine when I did use it like that.
No hinge issues whatever.
Also random reboots every so often. Probably some hw is failing. Remember to do frequent backups, folks. Onedrive is convenient.
If you read the reviews on this specific laptop, not a single one mentions the hinge breaking.
I have this laptop from beginning of 2021. My sister has one from early 2022. Open and close many times a day every day, no problems. Either way, most of the hinge issues happened in the 1st 6 months to a year and Costco doubles the warranty to two years so you will be good if something does happen (it won't).
Today is the last day for this deal. It is a great deal for the specs.
What is really surprising is that build quality is like the one thing the laptop manufacturers actually has input on, all the other components are sourced (manufactured) by other companies. It's just really offputting when no other brand has this kind of history with hinge quality.
I'm sending it back to Lenovo manufacture under my warranty. I doubt they can fix it. I updated software bios etc as well.
It's a known problem
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On the fence about pulling the trigger on the Flex 5 7730U or one of the other cheaper laptops (looked at the HP 17.3 13th gen i5-1335U for $499.99 and the Acer Aspire 3 15.6" Ryzen 5 7520U for $449.99) on sale at Costco.
a solid build when you get it. It was hands down, the worst laptop I have ever owned, and I am not hard on my laptops.
took it to a repair shop to see how much it would cost to fix the hinge. Had keyboard
issues too. In the end it was not worth the repair cost. The repair guy said they are one of the worst laptops out there. Based on my experience, I would agree.
took it to a repair shop to see how much it would cost to fix the hinge. Had keyboard
issues too. In the end it was not worth the repair cost. The repair guy said they are one of the worst laptops out there. Based on my experience, I would agree.
If used heavily I don't doubt that any 2 in 1 laptop is more likely to have hinge failure compared to a standard laptop (especially if overbuilt) though. If I'm not mistaken a few years ago there was a lawsuit regarding the Yoga line hinges.
Dell also had a big issue with them as well and there is a class action lawsuit against them currently. Even solid feeling laptops like Macbooks have issues with hinges snapping.
Edit: someone tried and it charges, just a bit slower, with 45W.
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