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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Carbon: Ryzen 7 5800U (8C/16T), 14" 2.8k OLED 90hz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD $1681.21 Delivered @ Lenovo Education

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The regular Lenovo retail website is selling this laptop for $2899

Processor
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U (8C / 16T, 1.9 / 4.4GHz, 4MB L2 / 16MB L3)
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64
Display Type
14.0" 2.8K (2880x1800) OLED 400nits Glossy, 90Hz, 100% DCI-P3, HDR 500 True Black, Glass, Dolby Vision
Memory
16 GB Soldered LPDDR4x-4266
Hard Drive
512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe
Warranty
1 Year Premium Care
AC Adapter
65W USB-C (3-pin)
Graphics
Integrated AMD Radeon™ Graphics
Second Hard Drive
N/A
Battery
Integrated 61Wh
Camera
IR & 720p + ToF Sensor
Fingerprint Reader
No Fingerprint Reader
Keyboard
Backlit, English
Wireless
802.11AX (2x2) & Bluetooth® 5.1
Integrated Mobile Broadband
N/A

Weight from 1.077kg. Slightly lighter compared to the Yoga Slim 7 Pro which starts at 1.3kg

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  • ChipsChicky on 08/11/2021 - 15:32

    Second Hard Drive … N/A —> Does this mean Not Available or Not Applicable ? Is there a slot for second SSD ?

    If I am unable to receive shipment in December, can I ask them to delay delivery to January or in that case, I shall wait for black friday sales etc. ?

    • shellshocked on 08/11/2021 - 15:40
      +1

      As far as I am aware there is only room for one SSD. Regarding your second question, I would recommended contacting Lenovo sales online before placing an order.

    • tchcrat on 08/11/2021 - 16:50
      +1

      No additional M2 slot. replaceable ssd, wifi card and cmos battery(cmos battery is underneath main battery). Almost same interior design as Yoga 7i Carbon 13. Got provision for two fan's But I think this model will have only one fan and a place holder just like 7i carbon 13. Discrete GPU's models will have two fan's I suppose.

      Hardware maintenance manuals available at lenovo.com which details the interior and disassembly.

  • Dumb Dog on 08/11/2021 - 16:02

    Whats the battery life on this? Can't seem to find many reviews.

    • tchcrat on 08/11/2021 - 16:56

      Well it got 61Wh battery and a frugal cpu than 11th gen Intel with almost double multithreading performance and a display that can run on nothing if picture is black heavy. So should perform much better than xps 13/ 7i Carbon 13 with ~50Wh.

      If still not satisfied then the only other option that can 1-up this is Asus Zenbook 13 OLED with the same CPU and a 67Wh battery. But I've been waiting for that to be available for almost 6 months and nowhere to be seen even in US.

      • EssendonUser on 08/11/2021 - 18:06
        +1

        Not the same laptop, but got Lenovo Yoga 7 gen 6 with same CPU Ryzen 7 5800U, non-oled FHD touch screen, 71Wh battery .. Regular browsing with heaps of tabs both Edge and Chrome on Windows 10 with above average brightness lasted roughly above 10 hours based battery usage pattern in the last 4-5 days.

    • shellshocked on 08/11/2021 - 17:05
      +1

      Their own internal testing says 14.5hrs video playback at 1080p, 150 nits brightness.

      • Dumb Dog on 08/11/2021 - 17:38
        +1

        This is definitely a marketing number, 1080p means lowering native resolution and come on… 150 nits… you can barely see anything at that brightness. No idea how it would last under normal conditions.

        • tchcrat on 08/11/2021 - 17:54

          As I said it will be better than most other premium same class products currently in the market like xps13 and others. The term Normal condition is very vague. Developers who like dark theme atom/VScode etc get a lot more longevity on Oled than managers who stare at excel and word and ozbargain with mostly white back ground. That 1080p is referring to 1080p video being played and not the panel resolution most probably a local video for that matter.

        • tchcrat on 08/11/2021 - 18:09

          For reference from 7i Carbon with 11th gen Intel and 50Wh battery:

          The battery reports a discharge rate of 7.23 W
          The energy consumed was 141 J
          The estimated remaining time is 6 hours, 33 minutes

          Summary: 1973.8 wakeups/second, 0.0 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 41.1% CPU use

          • EssendonUser on 08/11/2021 - 18:15

            @tchcrat: by the way, unless you are planning to use Ryzen 5800U connected to power, you wouldn't be getting the full juice out of it. I had the best performance settings on battery, the cinebench r23 score was very low on battery compared to the one with power connection.

            • tchcrat on 09/11/2021 - 17:08

              @EssendonUser: Totally agree. It is better to throttle while plugged. Are you sure the the cinebench workload behaves the same even if you manually change the power profile to performance while unplugged?

  • AussieMark on 08/11/2021 - 17:13

    I have x1 carbon gen 6 running perfectly but thinking to upgrade to this

    What are my chances of selling the x1 for ,$1000?

    • tchcrat on 08/11/2021 - 18:07

      :) Same here with a Yoga Slim 7i 13 Carbon. Got the Yoga slim 7i 13 Carbon after selling my 5 year xps 13. 5 full years of total satisfaction with xps 13 and decided to got USB type-c only ecosystem and now fully satisfied with 13 Carbon and again pulled the trigger. Not going to discard the 13 carbon though as it is also a gem of a laptop except for the unimpressive 11th gen Intel cpu in it.

      • AussieMark on 08/11/2021 - 18:41

        How much did you get for your xps

        Are you considering the yoga carbon

        • fd9 on 08/11/2021 - 19:06

          Expect 50 to 60% after 6 months use.
          From experience.

        • tchcrat on 09/11/2021 - 16:48
          +1

          Next to nothing. May be 15% of the purchase price at max. But money is not the only issue here in my opinion. I normally don't sell my beloved gadgets and in this case decided to in order to streamline my charger ecosystem. I prefer to carefully pick my gadgets and use it atleast 5 years or even upto 10 years and then save it for memories or sell or donate to someone who can use it productively. if rendered unusable then will recycle parts like lithium cells for DIY projects etc.

          Frequest upgrades cause lot of hazardous E-waste especially in a country like Australia where even the most Recyclable goods ends in landfill. There is no problem in buying cheap mobiles and many cheap mobile/laptops are of very good quality and can last as long as any flagships. But if your purchase is not fit for your purpose then you will be dissatisfied pretty quickly and look for another.

          So if there is an option please try to reduce-reuse-recycle-repurpose-donate to promote a greener ecosystem - cheers :)

      • zjz93 on 09/11/2021 - 09:22

        (profanity) same. bought the 7i carbon a few months ago at same price as this.

    • fd9 on 08/11/2021 - 18:48

      Lenovos are notoriously hard to sell on marketplace and gumtree. Jealous of Mac users in that aspect.

      I guess since used by business people / office workers Who are often supplied with models from their companies unless self employed. Plus since the carbons have such a high starting price the devaluation is huge.

      I posted a mint fully specced out X1 yoga gen 4 in May and only this week sold it. Thing is, wasn't even getting messages yet alone offers yet alone reaching a sale.

      The thinkpads sell well on eBay i.e. Australia wide but then risk of getting scammed plus eBay fees.

      • EssendonUser on 08/11/2021 - 19:04

        are you buying a laptop to use it or resell it?

        • fd9 on 08/11/2021 - 19:05
          +3

          I upgrade frequently.
          Anyways, I was answering his question.

          • EssendonUser on 08/11/2021 - 19:09
            +2

            @fd9: Hei, didn't notice that it was a reply, my apologies.

            • fd9 on 08/11/2021 - 19:16

              @EssendonUser: All good mate :)
              Regardless I understand your point of buying something to use and not buying for someone else to sell to.

              • AussieMark on 08/11/2021 - 19:45

                @fd9: Thanks for sharing.

                • fd9 on 08/11/2021 - 19:51

                  @AussieMark: All good mate
                  Funny story
                  Bought a 2.2k Dell xps touch screen 2 in 1
                  Literally 1 week before lock down happened last year and hence didn't need it anymore as was using a desktop at home.

                  Tried to sell it.
                  The only offers I got were 1.1k, which I eventually sold it at instead of watching it depreciate even more.

                  Was an interesting lesson.

                  This was just due to opening the package and using it for a week.

                  Lenovos are even worse since your average consumer won't be looking to buy a black utilitarian designed computer and so your pool of potential buyers is even less.

                  Regarding apples. They might also depreciate heavily, but they sell very fast and you get people messaging you all day. Nothing worse than having a laptop on your bench which you just can't get rid of for 6 months.

                  I was personally opposed to selling on eBay due to the potential of a PayPal or eBay item not as described scam with an empty box or whatnot sent back. Call me paranoid

                  • AussieMark on 08/11/2021 - 20:21

                    @fd9: yeah id just give it to my mum if i cannot sell it for at least 900-1000

      • jaycasanova on 10/11/2021 - 12:28

        Also apple macbook trade in option is handy.

      • dukeGR4 on 11/11/2021 - 20:58

        sold my macbook pro within 1 week! had lots of low ball offers and scams here and there.

        • AussieMark on 11/11/2021 - 21:31

          lol crazy

          mind if i ask what the buy and sell price was or pm me?

          seems like iphones also dont really drop much

  • vuithe on 08/11/2021 - 19:05

    This or the one on Harvey Norman for $1647

    • shellshocked on 08/11/2021 - 19:56
      +3

      The one being sold by Harvey Norman, from your link, is significantly inferior to this deal.

      • The AMD Ryzen 7 5800U CPU is significantly faster in multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads vs the Intel i5 1135g7.

      https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-7-5800U-vs-In…

      The AMD Ryzen 7 scores 19340 VS only 10177 of the Intel i5.

      • The laptop screen on this deal is a higher resolution(2880*1880), higher refresh rate(90hz), 400nits brightness OLED panel

      VS

      QHD(2560*1600), 60hz, 300 nits brightness IPS panel.

      • Battery is 61wH in this deal vs 50wH of the Harvey Norman link

      • This deal comes with Lenovo Premium Warranty, where you don't need to take the laptop back to a depot or store VS the basic take to depot warranty

      The AMD Ryzen 7 5800u also has superior power management vs the Intel

      You would only chose the Intel version if you are in desperate need of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

  • tnarg on 08/11/2021 - 20:32

    Looks like a nice machine. I would have bought this for wife if I didn't just get this:
    I just picked up a Asus Zenbook for $1250 - i7 11th Gen, 16 Gb 512 nvme ( only a 350 nit screen) through ebay. Asus factory refurbished with full warranty. Looks brand new

  • Guybrush- Threepwood on 08/11/2021 - 21:13

    So how do i get a student ID to buy one (or do I not need one?)?

    • tnarg on 08/11/2021 - 21:22

      Need an edu email

    • djkelly69 on 09/11/2021 - 23:42

      Look for doweyy's posts in Lenovo Edu threads and PM him for access

  • zjz93 on 09/11/2021 - 09:26

    damn this is an amazing deal. bought the previous gen carbon 7i at same price.

  • AussieMark on 09/11/2021 - 17:46

    this or yoga slim carbon for $1300

  • ndftz on 09/11/2021 - 20:36

    Damn i wish i had an edu addy

    • AussieMark on 09/11/2021 - 20:39

      What for

      I use my free alumni email ending in edu.au

      • ndftz on 09/11/2021 - 22:10
        -1

        Good for you buddy. Thats not going to help me buy this laptop

        • AussieMark on 10/11/2021 - 02:38
          +3

          why not activate your own alumni or student email? Or ask a code to access the student portal….

          Could easily send you if you made a little effort and less attitude

  • jacksnake on 10/11/2021 - 15:30

    Can someone help me here. How is this laptop different from the one in https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/661743

    The specs are more or less the same to me, However, Carbon seems to be lighter but more expensive.

  • tchcrat on 10/11/2021 - 16:10
    1. That one is Pro - This one is Carbon( Carbon fiber laced Magnesium alloy means less weight just above 1Kg)
    2. That one uses HS(35w) version of processor - This one uses U(15w) version of processor( Much better battery life and low temperature for most use cases at same performance)
    3. That one has Bad Nvidia Chip for graphics -This one has Integrated Radeon Graphics( Much better battery life, less temperature issues, high reliability over time, open source driver in case using Linux)

    All in all this is worth every penny over that.

    • la ciudad respirando on 14/11/2021 - 20:05

      how would a mx450 kill your battery? your laptop wouldnt use it unless it needed to, no? im asking because im thinking of adding it to this carbon

      • tchcrat on 27/11/2021 - 19:01

        It may not kill your battery, but kill your battery life to power the support electronics and the mx450. Also the mx450 in itself is a 25w tdp part compared to 15w 5800u soc and the added thermal bugget can kill the laptop itself if you are unlucky(heating issues like melting solder balls, burning mosfets, etc, all omnipresent historic issues associated with Nvidia Chips in Laptops in the past).

  • AussieMark on 11/11/2021 - 11:37

    just purchased

    Has anyone ever been able to track cashback on the education store or just luck of the draw?

    I got 6% cashback through LenovoPro on cash rewards $100 but wondering if I should make another order on the EDU store and try my luck.

    Upgrade or side grade from x1 carbon Gen 6 but might try to find a store where I can go and touchy first. Laptop always need touchy first

    • colorlessblack2 on 11/11/2021 - 19:01

      I think both shopback and cashbackrewards specifically listed that EDU store is not eligible.

      • AussieMark on 11/11/2021 - 19:08

        yeah normally what they list and what you get is sometimes different so asking to see if anyone got lucky :)

        thanks for replying tho - you are correct

  • la ciudad respirando on 14/11/2021 - 23:35

    how many watts is the optional mx450?

  • Thrawn on 16/11/2021 - 10:34

    Code no longer work ? or I'm doing it wrong..

    • ult1m4tum on 16/11/2021 - 16:05

      looks like the SINGLE11 code has ended, I was caught mulling it over too long too…
      Next hope is a code will appear for Black Friday to take over.

  • AussieMark on 16/11/2021 - 18:56

    use EDUCOMM its only $19 difference guys lmao

    and you get more pay anyway through cashback

  • BusinessConnected on 26/11/2021 - 14:06

    Anyone received a dispatch on one of these as yet… Still waiting ;)

    • AussieMark on 26/11/2021 - 14:48

      no i dont even have a date on mine but was told early dec. How about you?

      • BusinessConnected on 26/11/2021 - 15:24

        When ordered it said ships within 2 weeks.. which is pretty much exactly now.
        No Date's on expected dispatch date… and my Emails to Lenovo keep stating "we'll get back to you".

    • tchcrat on 27/11/2021 - 18:18

      Ordered on 22-Nov-2021 got ETA as 02-Dec-2021

      With DHL since 24th Nov 2021.

      Processed at Hong Kong on 27th Nov 2021.

      …Expecting by early/mid next week, anyway expecting before their ETA, so no complaints there.

      • BusinessConnected on 28/11/2021 - 16:09

        This is the sort of stuff that annoys me… Ordering like a week after us and getting shipped first..

        • tchcrat on 29/11/2021 - 19:58

          Did you add anything special like mx450/touchscreen? Sorry. Just realized that I made a big mess-up of dates in the above comment. My actual order date is 04-11-2021.

      • tchcrat on 29/11/2021 - 20:17

        Correction: Ordered on 04-Nov-2021. Also in between got couple of email saying delays due to chip shortage.

      • tchcrat on 30/11/2021 - 12:45

        And…..Just received it. Not yet opened.:)

        • BusinessConnected on 30/11/2021 - 17:16

          That's a bit better…. Puts you ahead of me on the queue so I don't feel so bad.
          Hope it goes well for you :-)

  • AussieMark on 26/11/2021 - 16:15

    Yoga Slim 7 Carbon Gen 6 14" AMD Cloud G
    Part Number : 82L00014AU
    Quantity : 1
    Unshipped Quantity : 1

    Ordered
    November 17, 2021

    Expected to Ship

    Expected to Arrive

  • tchcrat on 30/11/2021 - 18:03
    +1

    Got it and here is my 10 minute report:

    The glass is awesome. Never have seen such a screen on a laptop before even though many times I have deferred purchase waiting for something with OLED. Now it is viable and affordable. Lenovo has done it again. Lenovo P11 pro tablet is the first wonder and then this is the next.

    The paint job is okay. Even though silver used to be my one and only color when looking for cars, this non-glossy non-finger touch smear technique that lenovo has adopted for this is not winning me as much as the clean white finish of the slim 7i Carbon. Don't get me wrong it is still a fine finish but I personally like the white in slim 7i carbon more.

    It is a very light laptop. It just is 1/2 inch longer 1/4 inch broader and ~100 grams heavier than the 13 inch Slim 7i carbon. Still the carbon feel way nimbler than this one and feels a lot slimmer while holding.

    The USB type-c port on the right hand side cannot be used to charge the laptop whereas all three type c ports can be used for charging in Slim 7i Carbon 13. Why Lenovo why? As per me this is the only real issue with this laptop. You did this years back and you can do this and still why did you omit this feature in this Flagship laptop. It is a real requirement for a device which people use at many places every day and sometime it will be places where charger sits on the right and sometimes on the left. How can you guillotine this quentessential feature of this era???

    The Touchpad rattles a bit during finger hits. Comparatively much audible than other laptops with me. Not a major issue but still a wakeup call to Laptop manufacturers to use haptic coil based feedback rather then fiddling with 50 year old push button technology. That technology in it's current form is a utter failure. the push button is impletemented in the lower middle and the touch pad is pivoted in the top. So if your finger is in the top pushing will never work. Why don't you discard that fully and just go with tap and multi touch. worst case add a 1 cent vibration motor for feedback.

    Sound is awesome. Night and day compared to Slim 7i Carbon 13. Both speaker placement and speaker+amp quality at play here. No complaints.

    The keyboard is bit bigger and better than Slim 7i Carbon 13 and almost like the dell xps 13.

    The package felt a lot heavier than Slim 7i Carbon 13. This time the charger and type c to hdmi adapter is included in the Laptop box itself whereas with 7i Carbon 13 the laptop box is much smaller and charger and power cable is included in a separate card board box. The charger resembled like almost any other old school charger with type c cable attached. Why? for what savings? why can't you make it type-c to type -c with a pd port in the charger. The only thing that can go wrong in these chargers is the DC cable it self and by separating the cable a lot a e-waste can be saved. But no. Lenovo still didn't learn until now along with most other laptop manufacturers.

    The UEFI BIOS menu's are very limited just like the Slim 7i Carbon 13 and total disappointment compared to dell xps 13 bios(not sure if it still is same). So unless we can unlock the hidden menus nothing much to see there.

    Lenovo this time decided to use Realtek 8852AE Wifi-ax+Bluetooth 5.1 card rather than the intel ax200/ax201 variants. Not that it is a bad card but Fedora 34 don't have it in-built when I just tried booting it. Trivial to fix it as driver code is already available and tested in many other distros. Most probably won't be an issue in Fedora 35 and other new distros.

    Even booting a old distro with 5.11 kernel (just randomly tried with a usb lying around) was not a bad experience. it had trouble showing the boot animation and reverted to framebuffer logging and then it brought the full UI. Only issue was the 8852AE wifi driver was not present as explained above.

    Finally: Windows 11 is a crap and Windows 11 home is utter crap. Window 11 Home won't even support local user only mode. It forces you to connect to network and create ms account to just let you to login to your computer. I hope it quickly and naturally passes away just like Windows ME and windows 8. Not that it bothers me but just for conclusion and completion :)

    • tchcrat on 30/11/2021 - 19:29

      Okay Tried Fedora 35 and everything else seems to be fine except the Wifi.

      Even the bluetooth which is the same device loaded the fw files and worked fine.

      The wifi drivers are supposed to be in 5.15. I will update the kernel and see later.

      Also the SSD is WD Black SN750 which is pretty good.

      I think both the SSD's and Wifi cards can differ based on the batch especially taking into account the current Market scenario. So lucky that these two are still easily replaceable unlike some ASUS zenbook models where they chose to solder the Wfi-BT module.

      All in all Happy days…:) and all the best for people who are waiting for their deliveries.

      • AussieMark on 01/12/2021 - 00:57

        Do you recommend Ubuntu or fedora

        • tchcrat on 01/12/2021 - 09:45

          Not much of a difference. If fedora 35 you can use the steps here: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89/issues/38 to get the realtek wifi up and running and if Ubuntu just follow the steps in the README: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 until the code is mainlined which missed the 5.15. So most probably in 5.16.

          I have used/using Ubuntu/Manjaro/Arch for a very long time and don't feel much of a difference. It's just a matter of apt-get/yum/dnf/pacman/pamac.

          If you are looking for great eye candy desktop experience then give Garuda Linux a try: https://garudalinux.org. It is easy to install this driver using the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtw89-dkms-git/ until 5.16 is released.

          • tchcrat on 01/12/2021 - 13:49

            @tchcrat: Also please note that It will take few months to support all features as sleep/suspend for ryzen 5xxx is still having lot of issues and especially since this laptop is brand new it will take even more time to nail it.

            Don't install linux yet if sleep/suspend/hibernate is a must-have for you now. Even laptops released months before is having issues. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Fedora/L15-AMD-2gen-can-not-wak…

            • AussieMark on 15/12/2021 - 00:52

              @tchcrat: damn you just went next level and I am still lvl 0 haha. I will give it a go thanks. Only used linux once for an hour

    • tchcrat on 03/12/2021 - 12:51

      Slowly and steadily will get it:)

      https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1799

      • AussieMark on 03/12/2021 - 13:32

        What's that got to do with Lenovo carbon?

        That is HP laptop

        • tchcrat on 04/12/2021 - 22:05

          It is a platform issue. Not specific to Lenovo carbon. Any laptop with Zen3/Ryzen 5xxx has this issue.

  • AussieMark on 01/12/2021 - 00:58

    I contacted Lenovo today to ask wtf is mine haha or order update.

    Ordered 12th Nov. And still no shipping ETA

    • denv on 01/12/2021 - 11:00

      You're not alone. Ordered on the 8th, no updates or shipping ETA. Spoke to them a while back (after they attempted to put two authorisations on the same card for the same order, which moved the order to pending because the second authorisation was rejected) and was given a vague early December shipping.

      • AussieMark on 01/12/2021 - 23:40

        they gave me an update yesterday after i cracked the whip

        Lenovo Enquiries_Australia
        10:55 AM (12 hours ago)
        to me

        Hi Mark,

        Good day to you.

        Please be informed that your order will be shipped out by mid next week.

        The delivery process will take 3-5 business days to your location.

        The status on the order visibility portal will be automatically changed once the order ship out.

        Thank you and stay safe.

  • AussieMark on 03/12/2021 - 15:08

    Tried getting them to add the NVIDIA card before they sent it mx450

    No luck

  • BusinessConnected on 07/12/2021 - 08:38

    Just an update guys… Received a Shipping date update this morning… Shipped today DHL Arrival 14th December.

    • AussieMark on 07/12/2021 - 13:18

      Nice mine says 10th boom

  • melon92 on 10/12/2021 - 23:01

    Got mine yesterday - ordered 9th Nov.

    Once the DHL tracking showed up it was pretty quick.

    Looks pretty good so far. Keyboard is nice, coming from an XPS. Screen is awesome, just as good as the 4k OLED.

    Like previous post mentioned, trackpad has a slight rattle on tap (not a fan of this). Not sure if this is design flaw or seems to be a dud? Does this deserve an RMA already?

    Seems fairly quiet for fan noise, compared to a XPS 7590 OLED.

    • AussieMark on 11/12/2021 - 02:29

      I'll try my trackpad when I wake up for you. And listen to the sound.

      I wish I could put my x1 carbon keyboard in it lol.

      I haven't tested it yet as was doing windows updates.

      Funny how windows 11 looks like Linux Ubuntu / fedora or like Apple now

    • AussieMark on 11/12/2021 - 12:02
      +1

      Hey mate I just tested mine for you. Does it rattle when you move the laptop touchpad or only when you press. I hear a slight sound when I press anywhere on the touchpad so not sure if this is what you mean

    • tchcrat on 13/12/2021 - 12:57

      It's just a minor design oversight and there are touchpads which are a lot worse in market. Just ignore and enjoy the laptop….:)

  • AussieMark on 11/12/2021 - 13:32

    Oh my god I just realised it has no USB ports?

    Cannot even plug in my wireless mouse haha wtf.

    Come on world

    • tchcrat on 15/12/2021 - 15:57

      Same thing happened when first laptops without ps/2 and serial ports started coming :)

  • melon92 on 11/12/2021 - 15:49

    Thanks for reporting back. It's when you tap i.e. for a touch sensitive press. There's a. Slight wobble/rattle. Only really happens on the right side of the pad.

  • AussieMark on 11/12/2021 - 16:01

    Oh okay I realised USB 3.2 is USB C size so need adapters for USB 2.0

    😂..luckily I have a few laying about

    • ocyrion on 11/12/2021 - 17:32

      Don't the Carbons come with the USB C > HDMI/VGA/USB-A hub? I've seen that in a few unboxings. If not, grab one of these: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08NXV94QM

      • AussieMark on 11/12/2021 - 23:25

        Thanks man. Couldn't find one in my box but I'll double check. Ended up finding one in my pixel 5. Box 😂

      • tchcrat on 13/12/2021 - 13:08

        Not all Carbon models - Slim 7i Carbon 13 has nothing in the box other than charger.

        Yes this model comes with a converter in box. But that converter don't have a USB-PD power pass-through. Not complaining. Just saying that if you have something with power passthrough then desktop conversion can be done with just one cable.

        The one shipped in the box is a Lenovo branded one with USB-A(3.0), HDMI and VGA(VGA for who? May be for someone who end up in a meeting room with a VGA only projector) Not something to cherish but helps get the job done in some scenarios.

  • melon92 on 13/12/2021 - 13:46

    Yeah I got a Lenovo USB 3/HDMI/VGA adapter. You should get one on the box.

    • AussieMark on 13/12/2021 - 18:44

      thanksI saw the HDMI and VGA adapter but does it also work for USB 2.0 to 3.2? I'll take another look

      It's quite big haha the pixel one is tiny so looks much better.

      I think I will actually list the laptop in the classifieds today and see if anyone wants it for $1700 tho cause I forgot that my new quest 2 needs a graphics card if I link it to a PC :(

      Or i'll sell my carbon x1 Gen 6

      • tchcrat on 14/12/2021 - 13:02

        Yes it works for any usb3.0/usb 2.0/usb 1.1 devices at their respective speeds.

        And…Here are the Oculus Quest 2 System Requirements (Minimum)

        CPU: Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows 10
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon 400 Series or better
PIXEL SHADER: 5.1
VERTEX SHADER: 5.1
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 3 GB

        I don't think it is wise to rely on a laptop's inbuilt graphic card for such an intensive application like high resolution stereo graphics rendering after intense 3d processing unless your main objective is just 3d media consumption. For that any way it is better to go with tetherless standalone solutions itself.

        • AussieMark on 14/12/2021 - 13:04

          thanks buddy yeah may have to get a desktop or some way to to maximise quest 2 later.

          Was going to research thunderbolt if thats just for monitors or can also connect to a graphics card

          • tchcrat on 14/12/2021 - 13:16

            @AussieMark: if you have something with tb3/tb4 you can have a external graphics card which still will be considrably slower than a PC with pcie x16 3.0/4,0 and the added cost of buying and managing a external enclosure/power supply which costs almost the same as a medium range Techfast Gaming PC and still be much lower in performance. So it is always better to go with a Gaming PC for VR/Gaming.

            • AussieMark on 14/12/2021 - 13:29

              @tchcrat: Thank you. Prefer to stay mobile but perhaps can get a desktop

  • ocyrion on 14/12/2021 - 15:15

    Received my Slim 7 Pro (5800HS/MX450/OLED) yesterday after a near 2 month wait. Appearance wise it's a nice machine. Unfortunately my unit is noisy (one of the fans makes an electrical buzz like noise after a bit of load and doesn't go away and under load it sounds like a jet and the whole keyboard heats up - this is completely opposite to reviewers who found it quiet and cool). The space bar is faulty as the bottom half doesn't always register and is mushy, like it's missing a spring or some kind of backing. Performance wise it's a rocket and about half of my 5900X desktop.

    How are you all finding the Carbon? Thinking of returning this because I'm not prepared to wait weeks for a replacement or repair…

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