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They are both upgradeable just one is soldered which makes it a lot more annoying to upgrade for most people. I think about 99.9% of people I interact with think they need a lot more ram than they actually need anyway. It is definitely still a downside but is also pretty much the norm at this point. There aren't many laptops with multiple swappable ram slots and almost none at all with swappable cpu and gpu anymore.
This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
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Really good deal. I got the 6800h/6800s version of this (basically the same thing) for 1050 directly from Lenovo because of an Amex credit and cashback. But if I didn't have those two things it would have been 1280 I think so this is a good deal.
Also, this laptop isn't anywhere near as thing as they claim. They measure without the feet. It's 1 inch thick in reality, not .68 inches.
Mine plays forza, fortnite and even flight simulator pretty well.
This only has a white back-lit keyboard whereas mine has rgb (not sure why they don't both but...) other than that and the 6900 cpu, they are identical. Battery life is pretty bad ~ 8 hours best case. And gaming performance on battery I'd horrible (on high settings) which is par for the course on gaming laptops, but if you game with it plugged in its an amazing machine. I bought the g14 before this and the g14 was way more portable (14 inch vs 16 inch screen) and the screen felt bright/more crisp even though they both supposedly have 500 nit screen, same resolution screens. That being said, the screen on this is still excellent and the full metal construction is what makes this the better buy over the g14 which had some quality issues (in my experience)
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They are both upgradeable just one is soldered which makes it a lot more annoying to upgrade for most people. I think about 99.9% of people I interact with think they need a lot more ram than they actually need anyway. It is definitely still a downside but is also pretty much the norm at this point. There aren't many laptops with multiple swappable ram slots and almost none at all with swappable cpu and gpu anymore.
This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
Bro, it's soldered….for all intents and purposes that's not user-upgradeable…unless you are part of a very niche crowd of people that would want to take this on and trash their warranty in the process if it goes tits up.
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I bought this laptop a few weeks ago and I am very pleased with it. I do use it with a monitor 99% of the time. Runs Minecraft and Battlebit like a champ.
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They are both upgradeable just one is soldered which makes it a lot more annoying to upgrade for most people. I think about 99.9% of people I interact with think they need a lot more ram than they actually need anyway. It is definitely still a downside but is also pretty much the norm at this point. There aren't many laptops with multiple swappable ram slots and almost none at all with swappable cpu and gpu anymore.
This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
Careful saying that round here. The are many Slickdeals commenters who don't take kindly to someone pointing out that 16GB of ram is a normal and perfectly usable amount
Careful saying that round here. The are many Slickdeals commenters who don't take kindly to someone pointing out that 16GB of ram is a normal and perfectly usable amount
Sharp eye I left actual numbers out in the hope no one would notice.
Really good deal. I got the 6800h/6800s version of this (basically the same thing) for 1050 directly from Lenovo because of an Amex credit and cashback. But if I didn't have those two things it would have been 1280 I think so this is a good deal.
Also, this laptop isn't anywhere near as thing as they claim. They measure without the feet. It's 1 inch thick in reality, not .68 inches.
Mine plays forza, fortnite and even flight simulator pretty well.
This only has a white back-lit keyboard whereas mine has rgb (not sure why they don't both but...) other than that and the 6900 cpu, they are identical. Battery life is pretty bad ~ 8 hours best case. And gaming performance on battery I'd horrible (on high settings) which is par for the course on gaming laptops, but if you game with it plugged in its an amazing machine. I bought the g14 before this and the g14 was way more portable (14 inch vs 16 inch screen) and the screen felt bright/more crisp even though they both supposedly have 500 nit screen, same resolution screens. That being said, the screen on this is still excellent and the full metal construction is what makes this the better buy over the g14 which had some quality issues (in my experience)
The battery isn't there to game. It's for normal usage. Battery tech hasn't and likely won't catch up to the power demands of gaming laptops anytime soon
You act like it's welded on or something. They teach soldering in middle school here. A couple of the elementary schools here have robotics classes that teach soldering. If you've ever replaced a bios chip or DC jack which are both extremely common repairs on gaming laptops then you've already done something way more dangerous and involved than replacing some soldered ram.
As far as warranty concerns a lot of the time you voided it as soon as you opened it up to do anything even cleaning. Sometimes they allow cleaning or replacement or certain parts. In the case of Lenovo they list storage and memory as user replaceable parts so changing them does not void your warranty.
"If you've ever replaced a bios chip or DC jack which are both extremely common repairs on gaming laptops then you've already done something way more dangerous and involved than replacing some soldered ram."
Bruh, are you trolling here, how many people do you think that applies to.
There's a huge difference between soldering and de soldering, and de soldering is exponentially more difficult the thinner your device is.
When you apply fresh solder you don't need to worry about constantly cleaning the surface, nor do you have to worry about accidentally damaging parts of the pcb outside the solder target.
Even if you could do it properly (and that's a big if), a lot of this kind of laptop has additional security chips interlocked with the soldered ram that make it impossible to replace without the engineering credentials. Linus tech tips forums has discussions of this with people who wanted to upgrade zephyrus soldered ram.
"If you've ever replaced a bios chip or DC jack which are both extremely common repairs on gaming laptops then you've already done something way more dangerous and involved than replacing some soldered ram."
Bruh, are you trolling here, how many people do you think that applies to.
There's a huge difference between soldering and de soldering, and de soldering is exponentially more difficult the thinner your device is.
When you apply fresh solder you don't need to worry about constantly cleaning the surface, nor do you have to worry about accidentally damaging parts of the pcb outside the solder target.
Even if you could do it properly (and that's a big if), a lot of this kind of laptop has additional security chips interlocked with the soldered ram that make it impossible to replace without the engineering credentials. Linus tech tips forums has discussions of this with people who wanted to upgrade zephyrus soldered ram.
bios and dc jack both involve removing the old one so I'm not sure why the extra emphasis on removal. I used those examples because they are also soldered on parts on almost all gaming laptops that happen to be a common repair. I'm not saying everyone does it I'm just saying it isn't impossibly difficult. I mean to reflow consoles you can throw them in your home oven... It's not super complex. The first result on google for replacing soldered ram is a complete walkthrough for a Dell XPS13 from a guy (https://gregdavill.com/posts/dell...m-upgrade/) who asked on Twitter for help and based on his steps did everything completely by the book including buying a reballing kit instead of using quicker easier methods.
If it's that big of a deal just don't do it or go with any of the Legion models other than "Slim" since it's the only soldered one.
By "better deal" you mean completely different deal? That's a 17.3" screen vs a 16" screen and a 1920x1080 360hz max vs 2560x1600 165hz.
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17.3", FHD 1920x1080, 360Hz, 500-nits, 1ms, AMD FreeSync™, ComfortView Plus
FHD with up to 165Hz speed, FHD with up to 360Hz speed and UHD with up to 120Hz
By "better deal" you mean completely different deal? That's a 17.3" screen vs a 16" screen and a 1920x1080 360hz max vs 2560x1600 165hz.
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This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
Also, this laptop isn't anywhere near as thing as they claim. They measure without the feet. It's 1 inch thick in reality, not .68 inches.
Mine plays forza, fortnite and even flight simulator pretty well.
This only has a white back-lit keyboard whereas mine has rgb (not sure why they don't both but...) other than that and the 6900 cpu, they are identical. Battery life is pretty bad ~ 8 hours best case. And gaming performance on battery I'd horrible (on high settings) which is par for the course on gaming laptops, but if you game with it plugged in its an amazing machine. I bought the g14 before this and the g14 was way more portable (14 inch vs 16 inch screen) and the screen felt bright/more crisp even though they both supposedly have 500 nit screen, same resolution screens. That being said, the screen on this is still excellent and the full metal construction is what makes this the better buy over the g14 which had some quality issues (in my experience)
This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
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This does appear to have one of the nicest and brightest screens of the laptop deals posted currently which is a plus.
Also, this laptop isn't anywhere near as thing as they claim. They measure without the feet. It's 1 inch thick in reality, not .68 inches.
Mine plays forza, fortnite and even flight simulator pretty well.
This only has a white back-lit keyboard whereas mine has rgb (not sure why they don't both but...) other than that and the 6900 cpu, they are identical. Battery life is pretty bad ~ 8 hours best case. And gaming performance on battery I'd horrible (on high settings) which is par for the course on gaming laptops, but if you game with it plugged in its an amazing machine. I bought the g14 before this and the g14 was way more portable (14 inch vs 16 inch screen) and the screen felt bright/more crisp even though they both supposedly have 500 nit screen, same resolution screens. That being said, the screen on this is still excellent and the full metal construction is what makes this the better buy over the g14 which had some quality issues (in my experience)
As far as warranty concerns a lot of the time you voided it as soon as you opened it up to do anything even cleaning. Sometimes they allow cleaning or replacement or certain parts. In the case of Lenovo they list storage and memory as user replaceable parts so changing them does not void your warranty.
Bruh, are you trolling here, how many people do you think that applies to.
There's a huge difference between soldering and de soldering, and de soldering is exponentially more difficult the thinner your device is.
When you apply fresh solder you don't need to worry about constantly cleaning the surface, nor do you have to worry about accidentally damaging parts of the pcb outside the solder target.
Even if you could do it properly (and that's a big if), a lot of this kind of laptop has additional security chips interlocked with the soldered ram that make it impossible to replace without the engineering credentials. Linus tech tips forums has discussions of this with people who wanted to upgrade zephyrus soldered ram.
Bruh, are you trolling here, how many people do you think that applies to.
There's a huge difference between soldering and de soldering, and de soldering is exponentially more difficult the thinner your device is.
When you apply fresh solder you don't need to worry about constantly cleaning the surface, nor do you have to worry about accidentally damaging parts of the pcb outside the solder target.
Even if you could do it properly (and that's a big if), a lot of this kind of laptop has additional security chips interlocked with the soldered ram that make it impossible to replace without the engineering credentials. Linus tech tips forums has discussions of this with people who wanted to upgrade zephyrus soldered ram.
If it's that big of a deal just don't do it or go with any of the Legion models other than "Slim" since it's the only soldered one.
Alienware m17 R5 - R9 6900HX, 32GB DDR5 - RX 6850M XT, 12GB VRAM - $1080 after 10% off email coupon - $960 AC and Amex $120 statement credit.
https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gl0f
Alienware m17 R5 - R9 6900HX, 32GB DDR5 - RX 6850M XT, 12GB VRAM - $1080 after 10% off email coupon - $960 AC and Amex $120 statement credit.
https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gl0f
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17.3", FHD 1920x1080, 360Hz, 500-nits, 1ms, AMD FreeSync™, ComfortView Plus
FHD with up to 165Hz speed, FHD with up to 360Hz speed and UHD with up to 120Hz
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