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Only at Best BuyCombine portable entertainment and productivity with this 15.6-inch Lenovo Yoga laptop. Its Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM smoothly handle high-bandwidth activity, such as 4K UHD media streaming and working with Windows 10 office programs. This Lenovo Yoga laptop has 512GB SSD storage, and its 360-degree hinge lets you switch easily between notebook and tablet modes. The wide-angle touch-screen display of this Lenovo Yoga laptop has ultra-thin bezels to let you see more of your videos.
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Great laptop for the price
on May 29, 2017
Posted by: Benjamin
I purchased this laptop nearly 2 weeks ago in store, and I am in love. I upgraded to this laptop from an HP which I purchased a couple of years ago, and out of the box the difference between the two was immediately noticeable. Whether you purchased this laptop for schoolwork, your job, gaming, or just for casual use, you will not be disappointed. This machine will fulfill all of your needs and then some.
Let's start with the memory. The SSD is wonderful to have, and I really think that this is what makes the laptop so great. Boot times are basically nonexistent for most apps, and the 512Gb storage space is enough to store most of the essentials I need on a computer. Granted, some heavier games or complicated pieces of software might take as much as 30 seconds to completely boot, but this, to me, has been a rare occurrence. For those who wish for a little more storage space, you can purchase a solid 1Tb HDD on amazon for around 60$, which is worth it in my opinion.
The processor is also very nice, in my opinion. The 7th gen i7 Quad Core works wonderfully, I I have no complaints. The 16Gb of RAM is pretty OK for the price, it get's the job done. I feel like 32Gb of RAM would really make this laptop shine, but that's just my own opinion. Windows 10 also works really well (duh), and it runs fine on this laptop. Nothing else to say on the matter.
The touchscreen is nice, but I haven't really used it much. To be honest, I don't want to smudge the display. I did mess around with it for an hour or so, (and promptly wiped down my screen after I was done) and I find the touch to be very responsive and intuitive. There are some quirks, but I'm sure some of the controls can be remapped within the settings, I didn't really check. The display looks great, there are a few issues that I noticed, but I am going to address them in the graphics card section.
The graphics card (GPU) in this beast is an NVIDIA GTX 1050. This card probably adds a few hundred bucks onto the cost already, since it is a fairly alright card. It is a little dated, but it will run most games at medium-high graphics perfectly fine. (I tested Witcher 3, No Man's Sky and GTA V and they all ran pretty well at medium-high settings.) The thing is, in addition to the NVIDIA GPU, there is an integrated graphics card (I have no clue as to what it is) and this thing seems to be the default for nearly every application I put onto this thing. This is not nearly as powerful as the NVIDIA card, and has difficulty dealing with higher stress applications. Even with Google Chrome (which was the first thing I downloaded onto this laptop, and I highly recommend any purchaser to do the same) there were some issues. Most prominent was some image fuzziness (which can be attributed to my wireless connection as well) and some screen flickering in-browser. (That's not exactly what happened, it was something more akin to the whites and the grays on webpages flickering every minute or so) There were some issues with gameplay as well, because all of the games I had downloaded onto this laptop were auto-set to run off of the integrated graphics. This was easily remedied by going into the NVIDIA Control Panel and going to "3D Settings" and manually selecting the GTX 1050 for all of my most used and most power-hungry applications. I have had no issues since then. The fan is pretty much always running, the laptop can get fairly hot sometimes. (Not surprising) This isn't an issue for me personally, but when running applications with a high graphics requirement the GTX 1050's built in fan can be pretty loud, at least when the application is booting up.
The keyboard is nice and responsive, it feels great to use. I don't personally like touchpads, but thankfully I had a USB mouse. The battery is pretty good, usually will last 30 minutes to an hour over it's estimated time if you're not running very power hungry applications, with a full charge it can last 3-6 hours, based on what you are doing. This is when the computer is on medium-low brightness, and low power mode is off. The backlighting on the keyboard is very nice, I like it.
This laptop comes with 2 USB 2.0 ports and a USB 3.0 port, all of which I have a use for. I own an external HDD which plugs into the USB 3.0 port, and my mouse takes up one of the USB 2.0 ports. There is no ethernet port, so I had to purchase a USB-Ethernet adapter, which has consumed my final USB 2.0 port. (You can purchase one of these adapters on Amazon for 10-25 dollars, depending on what quality you are looking for). The headphone jack and in-house audio are pretty good, the sound quality is decent for what it is. The Bluetooth functions quite well also.
The fingerprint reader is a godsend, it makes logging into your computer take only a second or two. You can create a password or a 4 digit PIN as well should you choose not to use the fingerprint reader. Lastly, the wireless on this laptop is pretty good, it connected to my modem just fine. I have noticed a bug where randomly the wireless will disconnect from the modem, and be unable to reconnect even if the network is available, but a hard restart should make this problem go away. There was some bloatware pre-packaged with this computer, but uninstalling it was easy enough. Windows does like to pre-set a lot of stuff for it's users, so I took about an hour to set up my preferences, obviously if you're fine with Window's defaults then you don't have to do this, though I would recommend taking a look around the laptop settings menu just in case.
Overall, this laptop is pretty decent for the prince it's at, the GPU is amazing and will run nearly anything at medium graphics or above, the screen looks beautiful and the touch is very responsive. The storage is lacking a bit, and there are some issues with it out of the box concerning wireless and the GPU, but these can be easily remedied and have not impacted my experience in an overly negative way. The issues I have had with it, as well as the fact that I have had to purchase an HDD and an ethernet adapter are what prevent me from giving this laptop 5 stars, but if you need a laptop that will run most anything and you don't mid having to deal with some minor glitches, this laptop is for you. For the price I bought it at (on sale, in store, this laptop cost 1300$ with tax) this laptop will do everything you ask of it and more.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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