...But other than that, yeah... I know I stole my Flex3... that was the only reason I bought it.
And yeah, I get the value of new vs used; that warranty means a lot. Mine was less than half the price it cost new on clearance... so in my mind was the right price. If I'm giving up MFR warranty, it is instantly worth half. PERIOD.
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Yeah aware it’s zen1. 3500U core. Key win is it has 4 cores rather than 2 on the ryzen 3 equivalent. And Vega 8 will actually run things like fortnite and sims acceptably unlike the laggy POS intel integrated shite. A reasonably balanced bit of kit for the right price is what I was after and appear to have won. I may grab another one yet at this price.
The key thing is the pricing. You can get a 3 year old second hand i5 T470 which has been beaten to shit for and needs a new battery or some no brand crapshoot for the same spend here at the moment which is not comparatively worth it.
Ya jinxed me, ya bastahd! Got me crowing about
my Lenovo, and the moment I took it across the living room to set up for another schooling session with my daughter, dead as a fucking dork-nob!
Turns out it was nothing more than the LiPo cable unplugged internally; I noticed as I was taking it apart that every screw in the thing was loose, so I expect chassis flex allowed it to work loose.
But, as others have commented; another device built to a price, not to a spec... inside, the thing is built like a iPad. Integrated flat LiPo battery (I knew this) and while I like the backlit KB, it is integrated into the inner cover with melt-swaged peg assembly.
Amazing actually, how solid & rigid they managed to make this thing feel with just a layer of anodized aluminum sheetmetal over the plastic fantastic chassis; I didn't realize how floppy it had gotten since I bought it.
Guess that means I need to make dusting it out and tightening screws a slightly more regular service, lest brass screw inserts start to break loose from excessive flex.
I still like it... it fits nicely in that notch between ultralight laptop you'd normally think about swapping for a iPad vs business-class or .edu fleet models built like a battleship. Since I started actually using it in tablet mode, I really don't miss my iPad most of the time.
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