ITT: We review our laptops
I'll start with my IdeaPad 3:
>good value for $400 US
>screen is okayish, kinda wish it was 1920x1080
>privacy shutter is cool
>really like the keyboard, it reminds me of my x230
>trackpad is good but could be improved upon
>system is overall really snappy even with a dual core i3 thanks to the NVME SSD
>has upgradable ram, which is uncommon in this price range. can be upgraded up to 20gb which is awesome.
>battery life is decent
>kinda wish it had USB-C, but the SD card slot is nice
>build quality is mid-tier. keyboard deck flexes a bit but it's not bad
>overall pretty happy with it, would give it a 7/10.
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Acer nitro 5
Shit screen
Non existent battery
Ugly
Ok keyboard
Abhorrent cooling
Abysmal build quality
Has a lot of ports, best part of the laptop
3/10 i wanna frickin shoot this
should've gotten a predator LOL.
Acer Predator Helios 300
>Good screen
>good chiclets
>trackpad is decent... like all trackpads
>good amount of ports
>gayming laptop so average battery life; 1 hour 25 minutes
>USB-C
>Sharp gayming edges for the sake of "coolness"
>pretty good compatibility with Linux, predator sense is easily replaceable (yes, the RBG works too)
>pretty based 8.5/10
What is the GNU support like?
OP here, it's pretty good OOTB. Honestly the only OS I've had issues with was Win10 LTSC but that's because the hardware is so new.
its GNU supported
Acer Espire-5
It's run
>thinkpad x240
it werks
G15
Bad:
No camera.
Screen not as good as my MBP or my external IPS screen, I'd rather edit photos on my phone than on this screen.
Trackpad not as good as my MBP.
Wangblows has shit trackpad gestures but that's not really the laptop's fault.
Good:
5800HS/3060/2x16GB/1x500GB/1x1TB handles everything I throw at it.
10+ hour video playback.
No gaymer design features.
My Lenovo Ideapad 330K
>extremely good value for 25k rupees
>screen is okay, I have no complaints, I don't believe that I need more
>tfw no privacy shutter so have to tape over the camera 🙁
>okay keyboard
>smooth touchpad
>snappy system thanks to the SSD which I upgraded myself and Manjaro, even with a dual core i3 never felt I need more
>4GB ram, made 1.5 GB swap, don't need more
>battery life is okay, could have been better
>has both usb C and an sd card slot
>no flex in keyboard
>pretty happy, would use it until it stops working, 9/10
>A1466 macbook air
OK TN screen, but could have been IPS
Cooling is a fricking joke
Pretty strong
Charger cable is made out of fricking dried cum
Good battery for the time
>Acer Aspire A315-41
I don't even fricking know out of which shit that laptop was made. I think if you go take a poop, then push it into case mold and dry it, shit would be stronger.
Screen is fricking horrible. 250 Hz PWM? Really? Im not even talking about colors, because this is not a class of laptops you b***h about muh sRGB and contrast.
Cooling is pretty generous for that ""15W"" AMD CPU
Motherboard and other shit is OK, because everything is designed by handful of companies, they usually know what they are doing.
Buggy BIOS
>Some shitty HP G7 245
Won fricking AMD lottery and I got unstable CPU, and you can't realistically get warranty replacement as flaw is hard to show.
Hinges ripped plastic in about 1 year
Thermal is pretty decent for CPU it has.
Motherboard is OK. I yet to find a motherboard that is horrible outside of lenovo product.
>LG Gram, older one
Intel i5-10210U is actually a decent CPU.
Screen is fricking fantastic, though could have had more pixels
Battery life is big indeed
Good Linux support
Just one RAM slot, but two NVMEs... Newer grams have all ram soldered so frick you LG.
Really weird keyboard
Motherboard and BIOS are quirky. When you force turn off the machine, RTC resets to year 1998. Definitely designed not by usual suspects. But yeah, it is just weird, not necessarily bad.
Cooling is kinda insufficient. Not macbook air, but could have installed bigger heatsink, especially since there is enough space to install one
Pretty rigid case. Techbloggers that say shit is flexing are applying unreasonable force, way more force than they apply to plastic crap which suddenly doesn't flex.
Screen part of case though... Thin ass LCD panel and thin ass magnesium, doesn't feel that solid.
Oh, forgot to add
LG engineers managed to jam in HDMI and microsd slot unlike apple engiBlack folk. Still not as good as fujitsu engineers with their pop up ethernet thing
This is what you get when you cast a case instead of fricking carving it out of aluminium plate apple.
Thinkpad T450s
>god tier screen for 270 euro
>great build quality
>great keyboard (6row layout is ass but key feel is still great if not better)
>glass touchpad, very nice on Fedora with GNOME 40 gestures
>power bridge
>CPU is utter shit, no VP9 quick sync so it gets warm when watching youtube and wastes power
>battery life sucks because both batteries are 24wh and worn
>soldered 4GB and 1 slot even though there is definitely space for 2
>9/10 for me, the only thing I wish I had was the newer quicksync, probably gonna replace it with a T480 if I ever need more CPU
now let me go into detail about my 2 previous laptops
ThinkPad T430
>chassis is a fricking tank
>plenty of CPU power from the spare 3630QM I had and put in
>everything is nice and replaceable
>battery life will always be shit unless you recell a 9 cell and slice with high capacity shit
>screen is utter ass and upgrading it is expensive and a lottery
>cooling is utter shit for a quad core which is probably why they never offered them from the factory
>7/10 for me, very good machine but not what I was looking for as it turns out
Dell XPS 14 L421X, where do I start...
>Shitty 1600x900 TN screen covered in gorilla glass in an aluminium lid so the laptop weighs just as much as a T430 and looks even worse
>Shitty i5 3537U
>GT 630M rare GDDR5 variant that is somehow slower than the HD 4000 or on par in most games and both are too slow to run anything besides minecraft
>69wh battery that was worn to shit and best part is that you can't find known good replacements either
>1 RAM slot, no soldered RAM either
>chassis hilariously weak for being aluminium and magnesium, magnesium around power button cracked and started pressing it if you picked the laptop up
>LED battery indicator on bottom, quite nice
>keyboard surprisingly good, similar to thinkpad
>glass touchpad surface nicer than that of T450s, not as good as newer XPS though
>3/10 the only good things about it are the keyboard and touchpad, also the case felt nice, everything else about it is either extremely average for the time or more expensive for no reason. what a pile of shit.
Old one was an Intel G56
Intel Celeron 900 (1c,1t) @2.2ghz
3GB (upgraded to 4) of DDR3
250GB HDD
got it for a birthday gift, wouldn't recommend buying it
current laptop
Dell Inspiron 15-3565
AMD A6-9200 (2c, 2t0) @ 2Ghz
4GB (upgraded to 12) DDR4
Radeon R4
128GB SSD
Also a birthday gift
Better CPU, RAM, faster storage, stronger graphics
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Minimal on it and am quite satisfied, I like that the battery is still easily removable, but the fan is noisy. Wouldn't recommend buying it though, will replace with a Pinebook Pro when the come out with a 16GB RAM model
Ok sirs i'm doing the needful
IdeaPad5 14inch
>few ports, single usb-c used for charging, soldered RAM so go for 16Gb (if you want more ports and to upgrade the RAM take the 15 inch version)
>FHD screen (but the brightness is not that good, and the same is for color-accuracy if you care about that)
>Ryzen 7 cpu, a Ryzen 5 would have been enough really
>Kb is decent, better than those on many other laptops. Can't tell if it's the same kb from thinkpads, never had one
>cam shutter
>very small form factor, can take it anywhere
>600-700 muttdollars for new, much less if used
It's a pretty good laptop sirs. Very portable, perfect for students and techlets. Thank you Lenowo.
best Tin & light laptop review WOW from the sir
I only want to know the coil wine situation: does it wine or make any extra noise in any charging state or use state. My dell E5570 positively SQUEAKS coilwile when I even move the mouse and the charger is in. And I heard the lenovos can wine on usb-c charge.
Haven't used a laptop in ages but my last one was 12" Macbook 2015 and it was fricking great. I almost miss it.
>fanless
>comically light and small
>okay performance
>great screen
>godly trackpad
>8h battery life was pretty good for 2015 with hires screen
>butterfly keyboard needed some time to get used to but it's probably the best one I ever had, with a very unique and immediate feel
>price was on the heavy side at 1.4k
>still looks modern despite the bit large bezels
>the 480p webcam was kinda a joke but good luck recognizing me, glowies
9/10 for being an almost perfect portable machine that is still kinda unmatched.
Acer Spin 5
>2k 3:2 touchscreen, 400 nits
>i7 1065g7
>16gb lpddr4 ram
>big precision trackpad with fingerprint sensor
>magnesium chassis
>2x thunderbolt 3, 2x usb 3, micro sd, charge port, 3.5mm jack, hdmi
>56wh
Keyboard is ok, the processor is ok but just 4 cores. The new 11th gen chips have a better gpu. Webcam is only 720p and kinda crap. Battery life varying a lot from like 5 to 10 hours. The 2021 models is better, I can only recommend it, Much more expensive laptops use the same screen from BOE like the Surface Laptop 4 and Lenovo Thinkpad carbon 2in1
Thinkpad 11e.
I bought it for around 100-300 bulgarian shekels.
It's a pretty decent machine for me. All I use it for is watching israeliteTube, and programming.
It needs a proprietary driver (iwlwifi) for wireless functions.
It's a little more thick than I'd like it to be but that's alright.
I don't exactly remember the model number of the 11e I have. I'll reply to this post with the model number when I come back to this thread
I rate it 6/10
samsung Chromebook 3 flashed with mrchromebox's coreboot
atom x5-e8000, 1GHz quad core shit-tier performance, 4GB ram, 16GB emmc memory
Don't buy black friday specials, mine cost $99 but I got bait and switched with a deliberately worse black friday production run.
The walmart ads said it came with a celery n3*** series but it came with a bay trail atom which famously exhibits bizarre errata under linux and even manages to suddenly die under normal I/O northbridge loads in embedded use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvermont#Erratum
As for the build quality, it's better than expected, it's really sturdy despite being entirely plastic and the motherboard being the size of a raspberry pi, I use it as my everyday laptop when I'm not at home. I just wish the CPU wasn't so garbage.
I can't watch videos on it because it'll start to hang and then freeze unless I reboot.
Also, the battery is degrading slowly, I want a celery N4020 as my everyday passively cooled linux shittop, maybe I'll get one on black friday this year if the supply chain hasn't collapsed yet.
>macbook air m1 16gb ram
perfect laptop for work. no fan, doesn't even need one. the only problem is can't really GAYME, but that isn't really a problem, is it
Thinkpad L14 AMD
>$550 on sale
>Build quality similar to old T480
>Ryzen Pro 4650U is amazing, the APU plays most games with acceptable FPS
>No throttling under Linux or Windows
>No soldered RAM
>No soldered SSD
>Nice keyboard
>The screen is a mediocre 250nit 1080p IPS,
>No Thunderbolt
Pic related
ASUS Zephyrus G14
Completed and utter dogshit
I feel for the LULZaymen laptop meme overengineered and underperforming shitbox.
The absolute only thing it has going for it is that I can sell it and receive money.
Thinkpad T460s with fingerprint sensor, 1080p panel, i7-6600U
>Cost $270 used
>Trackpoint shit keeps activating if you rest a finger on the "B" key, since the key tilts slightly and moves the rubber
>Can't disable trackpoint without also disabling the touchpad buttons for some gay reason
>Stupid dual battery system
>Can't replace battery even with legit replacement parts without triggering Apple-tier firmware restrictions/bugs and limiting the charging and discharging of one of the batteries
>Putting the exact same old batteries back in doesn't fix the problem
>Slow, shitty CPU that is slower than a low end desktop sandy bridge i5-2400S
>CPU thermal throttles easily until I replaced the paste with Liquid metal, then it doesn't throttle
>Now that the CPU doesn't thermal throttle, it consumes 25W at full load, which is way more than its 15W TDP rated, even with undervolting
>This causes the VRMs to overheat and the computer crashes
>The screen developed a vertical line of discolored pixels going down it
>Reconnecting the display cables does nothing
>Decide to replace the panel and upgrade to 1440p while I'm at it
>Find out that I need to replace the display cable as well
>Replacing display cable is a massive pain in the ass because it involves taking the hinge apart
>Replace display with much swearing
>Bezel keeps falling off because it was held on with duct tape from the factory
>Overall rating 3/10
Chinkmeme: never again. I far prefer my old Toshiba Portege R930, which is a much older ivy bridge era laptop, but it is robust as frick. The VRMs never overheat even on max combined CPU+iGPU load with liquid metal'd cpu since there is good airflow there. The display bezel is held on with SCREWS and a few clips instead of literal duct tape. The battery is replaceable and uses standard 18650 cells so it is easy to repair. My only complaint is that it doesn't have an extra mPCIe slot for me to add a cellular modem.
>Macbook Pro M1 2020
>barely anything works
>half of software freezes all the time, especially electron
>have to compile everything yourself if you want any sort of usability
>but muh armshit
meme laptop, buy thinkpads
>X230 quad core
>2.1ghz ram
>fastest quad core
>chicony backlit master race keyboard
>perfect in every way
>could use a 1080p webcam
>i hope thinkmods develops it
Pn a scale of 1 to 10, I give an 11 to Mona :3