Hey everyone
About a year and a half ago I asked for laptop suggestions. I was given a lot of good options and I knew what I wanted a ThinkPad. Being a broke college student over a 1000 thousand price tag made me look else where. I ended up with an idea pad. I cannot say enough how much I hate this product. I got up one morning and discovered it would not come on. I take it to be repaired and the motherboard is cracked. It’s un fixable and I’m down 500$. I have an old Chromebook running Linux mint so I’ve got something but it still sucks loosing that. I should’ve known better than to trust Lenovo I saw reviews of that model saying it was junk.
Don’t make the same mistake as me don’t put a penny towards a idea pad
I am still running an Ideapad from 2017. In its entire life I’ve never been able to get an external HDMI monitor working on it, but could at least attach a DVI monitor. The “updated” video drivers make the whole unit horribly unstable and it will hard freeze randomly, so I downgrade back to the original shipping drivers from 2017. However, this means I can’t control some of the video card settings and I think I may be missing some brightness in the LCD because of it.
Some years ago even the DVI adapters stopped working. About 7 years ago I dropped it and bent the metal frame of the laptop, but didn’t affect function. I replaced the battery this year when its original one was only holding a charge for about 40 minutes total. Its back up to a 3 hour charge now using a questionable no-name battery because Lenovo doesn’t even sell first party batteries for it anymore. Recently the touchpad has stopped working, but will start working again with a full power down then power back up. I’m still deciding if I want to spend the $30 on a replacement part from ebay or just put that $30 toward a new unit.
On one hand I should be happy I’m still using it as my daily driver for a personal laptop after 8 years, but on the other, it was flawed from day 1 and is slowly getting worse.