Nice laptop but a few glitches. Twice while using chrome it just locked up, no responses to mouse. Once it somehow activated airplane mode while I was watching a video, also in chrome. I do wish the lighted keyboard was on by itself rather than being on only after hitting a key, not great in the dark but only a minor thing. Still have a couple months to determine if I will keep it.
Honestly it does everything I have needed it to do so far. I haven't tried to download and play any crazy games because I got it for school but it runs Hearthstone good. My only complaints are I am not the biggest fan of how small the right shift key is because I keep accidentally hitting the up arrow. My other complaint is the speakers on it aren't great. I was playing some modules for school and they don't sound great and I don't like watching YouTube on it. I would give it 5 stars if the speakers were better.
This is a heck of a laptop, however, the price comes with some caveats
on July 20, 2025
Posted by: Wayne
There are some peculiarities. Let's list them out. The USB-C power cable appears to have LEDs in them, in that it has dimples where you'd expect LEDs to be to show you the charge state at a glance, but there are no LEDs. That's not a big deal. The LED that shows you the charge status is on the left side of the laptop's frame, but not near the charge port, which is a little odd to me. While the keyboard is illuminated, it seems the LEDs are only at the top, so the light falloff going down is steep. I can live with that. One thing that I found quite unusual was that the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys, in every laptop that I've owned, had an LED built into the key to show you their status. This one does not. Their status LEDs are in the top deck above the function keys to the left. If this is important to you, it may take a little getting used to. And finally, on the 17" model that I purchased, the screen is a little wobbly. With the case open, if you're using it on your lap, if you move the screen is going to vibrate a bit. For table/desktop use, this shouldn't be a big deal.
Performance-wise: well, you're getting what you paid for. For the normal gamut of Office-type applications, it works quite well. You can get plenty of memory and storage space with this laptop, and it should work just fine for normal student and light business/business applications. I can't really judge if this would be suitable for serious application development, i.e. heavy compile/build cycles.
For gaming, again, you're getting what you paid for. It does not have a dedicated video card, you're not going to get decent performance out of top-tier games. Older games, and those that don't require high refresh rates, they may be fine.
I was reasonably satisfied with my 17". However, it was not suitable for what I needed it for, and I had to purchase a more powerful - and much more expensive laptop - to take care of my needs, so I'm returning it. Having said that, I'm probably going to buy a 15" in a year when we take a trip to Europe for photo storage and basic tasks. If it should be stolen, I'm not going to worry too much about it. But best of all, it won't cost much more than the Chromebook that I'd been planning on buying, and will be a lot more functional.
I've had my new Nimo laptop for a couple of weeks now, and everything has been great so far. From the ease of ordering, fast turnaround, tracking the package, then getting the laptop set up was all very good. I also love that the laptop doesn't have a ton of unnecessary programs installed like some other brands. Just turn it on and get to work.