Seems like a good deal for a tanky laptop
Specs seem decent enough too for the Price.
Referrer and referee get $20 after referee's 1st purchase of $90+.
Good specs though.
Isn't it pretty average for this price?
Solid for a decent spec 6800u chip. Plastic built but not your average HP kind of plastic.
@Flutterby: Actually I have had very good experience on a lot of HP on build quality. I find the Lenovo ThinkPad quality drop significantly since purchasing the brand of IBM and I am not sure if there were any significant quality enhancement by Lenovo lately.
@utsc: Depends. HP Pro/Elitebooks are great. The consumer grade stuff are average. From design flaw with overheating issues to poor welded MB that leads to premature failure.
This is the base model Thinkpad, but at least the basic stuff like heat management is fine. T and X are overkill for an average consumer.
Currently using an Elitebook for home use and Thinkpad for work.
@Flutterby: I have a Lenovo ideapad 14 inch and screen panel broke, this was traveling on a bus with my laptop in a backpack. Plastic case showed zero damage.
My decade old mac (2013) makes the journey every week day with not a single problem.
So they are certainly not designed or built with any rigidity in mind.
(Then as an added bonus Lenovo service agent tried to charge me 70% RRP of the laptop to fix the screen).
*sorry didn't realise it was an old deal.
@Ti-au: Ideapad. I was referring to ThinkPad. Travelled extensive for work at one stage and the ThinkPad all held up. Hinges were made of metal.
14 inch plastic laptop is bad enough, they are taking the piss at 16 inch.
(and yes I have a plastic 14' lenovo - build quality is terrible).
Aluminium lid. Plastic bottom. Friend bought one. Saud it's solid. Another friend bought an E14 and said best laptop he's owned (having come from Dell). It's still MIL-STD-810 or whatever (not that that says much given the photos of Yoga damage I've seen lately). But tbh I think youre better off dropping tough plastic than thin aluminium.
1.77kg is pretty reasonable for a 16" laptop btw. Zenbook S16 is 1.5kg. Plastic doesn't equal bad. I overheard a conversation tonight about how tough poly beer glasses do much more physical harm when full than glass because they don't dissipate force by shattering 🤣
7735U is another one of those deceiving names in the tradition of the big three messing us over, in which where it is actually a rebranded 6800u (zen3+) which in turn is really a zen3 5800u but made in updated nodes, sure slightly better ipc and saving grace being that updated igpu but the point is at this point in time it is a 2 generation old chip and coupled with your good old bottom of the barrel 45% ntsc screen it does not really make a deal anymore.
thinkpad were the tank back in the days but nowadays while they fare better than your acers and msi they really dont go much as far as they used to do, as lenovo is edgeing more n more towards that thin n light trend and the e series being the lowest end ones - only time could tell whether the premium is worth going for over a more consumer oriented Ideapad etc
So with this spec maybe $899 then a good deal?
Largely the same between 6800u and 5800u. But 6800u has a "better" 680M GPU. 7840u has a slight better 780M than the predecessors. Thought negligible difference.
1.77kg is not the industry standard thin and light.
That’s disappointing..
But does this become a deal with 15% cashback?
Money spend - 15% = profit
Yes, saving 15% on an intended purchase saves money and therefore a better deal
Yoga 7i 2in1 16GB for under $1k on the outlet store. Looks like the bottom line to hand on a 2in1 series but only 1 available.
There's a reason for that. They're terrible and have so many returns (speaking from fist hand experience). Unless you need the 2 in 1, buy the E16.
Cheap plastic build and 1.77 Kg.