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Well congratulations on having an opinion. This isn't meant to be a powerhouse laptop, it's a thin and light that has a good balance of performance and power efficiency. Go find some better laptops that have an i5, 16GB of DDR5, and a 16" screen, for $400. We'll wait while you go on the hunt.
tempting for its size and 16 ram, but I'm not an expert. Might buy it for a friend I've been promising one to. And then I'm afraid I'll be jealous.
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1335U is no good so I wouldn't worry about jealousy.
This laptop was a Frontpage deal at this price less than 3 months ago. I haven't been following laptop deals, but I don't think the market has changed so significantly to invalidate this deal. It is still a heck of a configuration and features for this price.
I don't know why it isn't listed in a thread just on its own.
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8 of which are crappy "efficiency" (read slow) cores. I'd take 6, even 4, full-fledged cores over this any day. It's also 10nm so no actual efficiency.
Well congratulations on having an opinion. This isn't meant to be a powerhouse laptop, it's a thin and light that has a good balance of performance and power efficiency. Go find some better laptops that have an i5, 16GB of DDR5, and a 16" screen, for $400. We'll wait while you go on the hunt.
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The market actually has changed that significantly. Both Meteor Lake and Zen 4 make it obsolete. Poor battery life, bad performance, weak graphics. ARM makes it even more obsolete.
And everything you listed costs appreciably more money. ARM CPU laptops start at $1000. If someone wants to game then this isn't a laptop for them. I feel you're trying to compare this $400 laptop to machines way out of its class and price range.
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The vivobook Office Depot deal is a 12450h/3050 for $400 and is still in and out of stock. I got it for $242 pre-tax. This isn't a good deal tbh.
It also has half the memory and is DDR4. In addition, it will be less power efficient, but if someone is savvy enough to upgrade the RAM and wants to game, yes, that would a decent device. That CPU is only 17% faster and in single-core applications they are tied.
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Do these still have the crappy hinges that break the laptop's casing after about six months? Bought a similar laptop for my daughter and had to replace the hinges and the broken plastic pieces twice and at one point, I had to tape something to the lid so that she would be able to use the laptop without the screen flopping completely horizontal. She had to live with it like that until she graduated in May, now it's not pressing, but I might have to buy yet another set of replacement hinges and the bezel and other plastics so that I can get the thing back to a reasonably normal state. The hinges eventually seize and the flimsy plastic holding the anchoring screws breaks. This is a known issue with these Lenovo laptops and I doubt that they have made an attempt to fixed them, so just be forewarned. I have ancient Dell laptops that never experienced this issue but they were not super thin units like these where they don't have the real estate to reinforce the hinges well. Good luck. It had great specs, but when the hinges seized...twice and I had to replace the broken plastics multiple times, I regretted the purchase...hope buyers have better luck than I.
Just google "lenovo ideapad broken hinge" for more information on this ongoing problem.
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It also has half the memory and is DDR4. In addition, it will be less power efficient, but if someone is savvy enough to upgrade the RAM and wants to game, yes, that would a decent device. That CPU is only 17% faster and in single-core applications they are tied.
I disagree that this is not a "good deal".
16gb teamgroup 3200 stick is $30. This laptop has a 45% NTSC 60hz display vs the vivobook 100% srgb 120hz. Neither of these CPU's are workhorses the ddr5 isn't a game changing experience.
Besides the power efficiency (which isn't ground breaking you'll be getting barely 5-6 hours out of either of these laptops makes it a bad deal imo.
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I don't know why it isn't listed in a thread just on its own.
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I disagree that this is not a "good deal".
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Just google "lenovo ideapad broken hinge" for more information on this ongoing problem.
I disagree that this is not a "good deal".
Besides the power efficiency (which isn't ground breaking you'll be getting barely 5-6 hours out of either of these laptops makes it a bad deal imo.
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