This is a great, ultra portable laptop! It's definitely all performance with none of the frills of most other laptops (unless you indulge in a fingerprint scanner). Okay, sure, it doesn't have the best graphics card, but who honestly looked at this and thought, "gaming computer!". It's powerful, reliable, and great for business or for people who like to work when they travel. Plus all of the intense lenovo recovery ware makes you feel safe in the event that it DOES mess up on you. As long as you can turn the computer on, you can get all of your files onto an external hard drive and easily restore the computer to an earlier state-without ever having to log into windows. As a student, I appreciated the ease with which I could travel with this laptop, as well as its speed and processing capability.
Unfortunately there are some serious shortcomings with this laptop, as follows:
unstable, weak keyboard: peeling off the keys to clean makes it impossible to reattach the keys, unlike in previous ibm thinkpads which are ultra rugged. they really cut corners on the quality. even popping off and replacing one letter keys has caused that key to be unreliable ever since; on fast typing it doesn't fire correctly. what's the point of a blazing hot i7 when, when you're typing you have to go back to correct 'coectly'? because i'm afraid to touch the keyboard now, it's gathering dust in the corners and is hard to clean.
rapidly degrading battery. maybe 6hrs instead of the advertised amount.
whenever i'm running on battery, the screen inexplicably whites out (extremely high contrast to an almost unreadable state) for 30 seconds at a time, every half hour or so.
wireless card not very good: everytime i take the computer from standby, it shuts off; it doesn't interface well with access points; it blinks out sometimes -the drivers are no good at all
the latch connecting the battery to the computer is defective; when you drag the computer forward on a surface, it disconnects and the power cuts out, making you lose all your work
the keyboard is the biggest deal for me, but all these other things made me feel like lenovo threw out all the quality and ruggedness that made ibm thinkpads great. i loved that old keyboard and now it's just not the same. tl;dr next time, i'm getting an overpriced macbook
still 3 stars for great processor, ram, and price. i'm not afraid of firing up programs and running multiple browser windows, stuff i couldn't do on my old computer. too bad the KEYBOARD doesn't wok (i mean work).What was the reason to create the expensive machine with all good stuff, but include the cheapest and the low-quality Intel HD Graphics video card ?. The graphic card is the key speed component not only for gaming, but for everything. The answer is simple. Lenovo wants you to change laptop every year. Do not buy.
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