Lenovo computers?

[Grim]

My old computer wasn't able to be repaired so they gave me some money back for it, and I was thinking about getting a lenovo because some friends recommended it to me. The one Im looking at is this one specifically. It is right on my budget price, but I'm looking for opinions/suggestions. I like to game a lot on my computer.
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[jesselt]

I'm currently using a Lenovo Yoga and it is wonderful. The last laptop I owned was a Lenovo Thinkpad and I used it for over 5 years. It was still working just fine when I gave it to a friend.

My last laptop had blue screen of death after about a year, but it was still under warranty so I received a replacement hard drive. Lenovo is great, but unfortunately they are owned by IBM and IBM is terrible. First they sent my package to the wrong address (my neighbor, who decided to keep it for himself) and when we got that figured out they sent me another one and tried to charge me for the one they sent to the wrong address. Then later they tried to charge me for both hard drive because I didn't send back my broken one (was not notified that I had to and packaging didn't include instructions or return packaging). The worst thing was that they were charging me about $100 more than a new one cost off of their own website. They eventually dropped the charges.

Anyways, no problems after that and both computers have been wonderful. Life span is far and away better than I've seen with Dell.
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[Lewnatic]

Lenovo is wonderful. I got a Lenovo laptop for Christmas and I honestly never looked back.
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[Grim]

Thanks guys you made me feel a lot better now about spending $800, I just purchased mine online, I hope it comes soon!!
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[Taiyz]

Wow jesselt, that's one scumbag neighbor.
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[Zacewing]

Yeah, Lenovo laptops are pretty sick. Mine's worked like a charm for 2 years now (the keyboard's dead, but I think that might have been my doing somehow).
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[CovertSushi]

The lenovo I had sucked balls. After a few months of pretty standard use, the screen had issues (vertical lines of pixels stuck on one color, and that spread over a few more years of use). The battery died just outside of a year, and then the replacement died after another year. After relying on the AC adapter for a while, that too died and would basically work for a time approximately equal to the amount of time it was left unplugged.

Hardware issues aside, Lenovo has some of the worst stock software I've ever seen. That nice, big hard drive sounds great until their ******** automatic backups are factored in; your actual available space is actually closer to a third of its quoted amount because it stores two (minimum as far as I could tell) full back ups on that drive. I haven't bought one since; currently using an HP and it's going rather well.
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[Zacewing]

I've had bad experiences with my old HP laptop. The USB ports died exactly 1 day after the warranty expired. :/
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[Fake]

I've heard good things. My roommate was in the market for a new laptop last summer and ended up deciding on Lenovo. A lot of bang for the buck, I guess. He has no problems with it, or playing games on it.

He also broke his adapter and had to order a new one. Apparently the customer service was pretty not-bad, which is saying something.
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[CovertSushi]

[Drake]

That 5400rpm hard drive is probably going to suck after a year or two but yeah. The IdeaPad line isn't exactly their best but they're a fine buy.

Make sure to set up your video rendering software to take advantage of the four cores if it doesn't do it automatically.
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[Has Been]

Fun facts from a self-taught techxpert:

Stop lumping things together as a brand, it will lead you to make very poor decisions. Lenovo doesn't have consistent specs, suppliers, or manufacturers. Models may differ VASTLY across even minor model number/class differences. You instead have to take things as packages: the Lenovo Yoga has been recommended - but which one? As someone who has shopped for these devices numerous times over the last decade, you need to get hella specific. Maybe jesslut's Lenovo was the Yoga ThinkPad 12, and maybe that was a good one. Maybe it was the 11, and in the two years since that edition, Lenovo has changed to a Taiwanese manufacturer from their experienced Chinese assembly plant. I don't know, neither do you - this is why we must think of them all separately, and asking a question like "How are Lenovo?" is dangerous. Quality might vary wildly!

You've got a specific model available to you (Y400 IdeaPad 59371952), now is the time to do the Metacrawler Dance and find out whether it is garbage or golden. Hint: a website with lenovo in the url is not giving you accurate info! It is impossible to gauge how a user has treated their product before reviewing and what level of tech know-how they have at the time of writing, so you must take each individual review with a grain of salt. If someone sounds very reasonable to you, place more weight on their feedback than someone whu tipes lik dis becuz dis persin is obviously lacking a little something upstairs that may have caused whatever problems they are having. My general rule is: if I can find 3:1 positive to negative reviews, I believe the positives and dismiss the 1 as a product of the below paragraph. If it is 1:3 on the other hand, I am VERY hesitant to buy the product, there simply cannot be that much bad luck at play. Numbers mean a lot here, the more reviews you can find the better your understanding will be. A little homework can save you from buying an $800 coaster.

Finally, we live in an age of RMA: when buying any new electronics, a certain portion of them will be dead out of the box because of A) the general strain of international shipment and B) an exploding counterfeiting market. Don't get scared if the first one you buy doesn't work. Like jesselt mentioned, though, IBM handle's Lenovo's stateside business, and they have earned a nasty reputation as bottom-of-the-barrel in customer service.

Now, on to the specs of the lappy: the hard drive, like Drake says, blows. I don't know if 5400 is a laptop standard, but 7200 has been available and cheap for many, many years. It isn't going to be zippy out of the box, and that won't improve. Consider getting an external SSD for all of your larger and frequently accessed files and keep only the bare minimum on the lappy itself to save yourself some slowdown frustration later (this won't be very inconvenient at all outside of the need to have a table for the physical drive - you have USB 3.0 ports available and will have very quick responses). The processor is decent, it is the low-end lappy version of the top tier of yesteryear's lappy CPUs. Low end of the top tier is still pretty good, and for the price, more than acceptable. Memory-wise, you're set. 8 gigs of DDR3 will let you open tabs on tabs without breaking a sweat, but I can't find the brand of the RAM in the listing. That isn't too scary, even counterfeiters can figure out whether a RAM stick is burnt out or not, but it does mean it is almost impossible to do further research. The video card is a peculiar case, they've chosen to put in a card recommended for a minimum of 15" laptops into the 14 inch ThinkPad. What that means is that you're getting a slightly more powerful card than you normally would, but the trade off is going to be significant heating up and above average drain on the battery. Lenovo has no doubt tested the set-up and it runs, but you should know that it might not last forever or run at 100% after any length of On time. Heat reduces the efficiency of every part, not just the v-card, and this is much more noticeable in a laptop (especially when your hands start to sweat!).

Also, it comes with Windows 8. I apologize in advance on behalf of Microsoft.

In short, for the price this lappy will do what you want. But take heed if you anticipate any multi-hour game sessions in your future.

[Soren]

This topic is making me so anxious to sell my laptop and buy a new one.

[Flea]

My sister has a Lenovo that, if it is off, and you press a certain ORANGE BUTTON RIGHT ON THE FRONT, it will format/restore your hard drive.

Yep.

Also that 14" screen would be a total deal breaker for me. But I hope you enjoy it.

[Kajitani-Eizan]