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I personally gave up on Lenovo after trying several of their modern laptops and running into constant issues. The last one was a C940 specced out to the max, an
by owenversteeg 5y ago
I personally gave up on Lenovo after trying several of their modern laptops and running into constant issues. The last one was a C940 specced out to the max, and for such a premium laptop costing nearly $2000 it was an embarrassment. Windows came with bloatware, I ran into several issues trying to run Linux, the battery life was so-so, and the performance wasn’t even that impressive.
I realized that modern Lenovos aren’t even that repairable or upgradeable (even the Thinkpad line) so hell… might as we’ll get a Mac right? I picked up a used M1 Macbook Air for $700 and have been absolutely blown away. Battery life, performance, display, speakers, the thing blows away any Thinkpad I’ve owned. Sure, impossible to repair or upgrade, but it’s not like you can change out the CPU/RAM/graphics on modern Thinkpads either.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoStory is kinda true, but you didn't give any nuances which make it worse to than it may be. C940 is Yoga from the top of my head a consumer laptop. X1 carbon and other thin models have soldered RAM. T, E, L and P models have serviceable RAM.
- owenversteeg 5y agoThat’s fair, some models do still have serviceable RAM. From picking random models on Lenovo’s site and googling them it seems to be the majority of advertised models that are non-upgradeable. That said, even if you can swap it out, a RAM upgrade only gets you so far. Your display, webcam, CPU, wifi, graphics etc all stay behind. In my opinion the age of upgrading laptops easily is behind us - for years, adding RAM and an SSD was the way to rejuvenate an old laptop, but even if a modern laptop is upgradeable I don’t see these things really helping much.