Lenovo update
Bought early October. Now February and of course it does not mean you will have the same or even a similar experience but it may be useful for ya :) . So it is more than 3 months old and going strong, laptop users and watchers of those users may remember that months in a laptops life can be like years for us. While some of our joints may not wear for years to come, the creaking of the lid can start earlier for notebooks.
The keys have received no damage and I am a VERY heavy user. The South arrow on my Nintendo DS Lite's navigation pad has faded from use reminding me how easily these markers can come of, but not on my Lenovo laptop, or at least not yet anyway. Of course dirt has got under some keys, I would love to know how you can avoid that given despite what the most delusioned hygiene person may say about the health of their house, our houses are like space with debris floating around us all the time but that my keys are as good as new still shows resistance of some sort and we do have a pet rabbit who likes to shed his fur now and again yet my keys have had no issues due to that despite fur landing ontop of keys all the time, when he jumps up next to me.
Sure, there is a "Sound" to be heard when I open and close my lid, however that is far from creaking. It is simply a sound you get with these types of solid items. If I push my feet against the back of my wooden chair I can produce a similar sound yet the chair is in no danger from breaking, it is actually a sound that strong winds replicate at times from these items, simply a sound not alarming but just how things work in this world even if you have hardly used your laptop, you will get it soon enough in parts.
The touchpad has a strange mark on it however I may of caused that. Also bear in mind the 3 layers. First there is a protective layer, a call for a skin analogy here, even before that sentence previous. I actually used my laptop for ages with it still on with no problems, again nodding to us using our outer skin for contact (Although here the analogy gets contaminated as wanting to make contact with the inner layers of skin is not good yet for our touchpad it is meant to be used with the protective layer off) but I eventually took it of. Sometime later I think I scratched it, so very circumstantial, I am sure any touchpad would of gone the same way but maybe I am wrong. But where it is damaged, I can still have full function! There is a 3rd layer that is smoother than the one above and I would be tempted to destroy all of the layer above were it not so difficult to know how to achieve that. So do not fear, the scratch hardly shows and you can function all the same! Plus with a touchscreen laptop it is even easier to bypass such methods or just plug in a USB mouse, I do not like touchpads anyway, I only end up using it sometimes because it is near the keyboard and already set up.
None of the stickers are torn or peeling of or damaged at all actually. The transparent film they put over the ones on the left hand side is gone now because it was starting to come off so I helped it out, leaving the newly emerged stickers shiny and smooth. The lights under the keys are as good as new still.
Running is exactly as I expected. I have no real problems and if there ever are any they are specific and usually down to the lack of software for my specific request rather than the prescence of an error. Again, speed is reduced to a speed I expected. My daily routing is exactly the same as day 1 and it has been able to cope without slowing me down at all. Things like this of course vary with people, I for instance ask Windows to let me decide what and when to install updates so some things may have a different impact on you along with all the different software you use and other variables. As I hinted out earlier, there has been no real drop in speed which is good considering it is now months old and littered with thousands of files that have been dropped onto that 1 Terabyte harddrive, mostly from my old laptops 500 Gigabyte harddrive. Software has been installed and uninstalled, I have even found time to start playing a few games. Browsers have been constantly launched and relaunched, even crashing a few times but that is not this laptop, that is the notorious downside to Chrome. One of the fastest browsers...but when it goes it goes and do you get problems. However, while we are on that subject I would like to mention Chrome has been well behaved, whether it is because of Lenovo, Windows 8, simply having a new system, something else or some of those combined, it has crashed way under 10 times and that is nothing considering I use Chrome everyday without fail for hours for work, play, research, studying, running my businesses etc etc and on my old laptop it used to literally bring my whole empire to a halt at times. Makes me wonder how I would live with a powercut...
Oh one more thing! PLEASE read this! Now ok, first up. My Samsung laptop was good for sleep mode. Do not get me wrong. Sometimes praising something can accidentally lower another into the depths of hell. It was my first laptop and being used solely by me I got to see first hand the joys of "Sleep" and "Hibernation." Now as we know, as time goes on our laptops age. Of course some if not all of that can be undone and it should be taken into account also that although my new laptop has only slowed down by 5%, that is even more brilliant considering I have just been going about my normal internet life. Therefore not taking real precautions or being as careful as I could always be. Obviously if something says "I have come to make wild love with your laptop and then shut it down forever through a complicated procedure you will not understand mwahahaha" I will not click on it but I have also not got around to neatening file locations up, running a disk scan (I have not done one once or fragmented my harddrive) or any other general help. I also immedietaly uninstalled the infamous-McAfee-let-us-save-you-from-viruses-by-slowing-down-your-computer-so-much-you-can-not-go-online-to-get-infected" (Actually makes sense) Whoops I meant the famous McAfee-to-the-rescue software. So brilliant. I let my dog chew on it. And I do not even have one. So I am using Microsofts built in anti-virus software at the moment. Oh yeah I got distracted! Haha, so my original point was if I have understood my past sentence correct, was that sleep mode is evolved! With my new laptop...seriously...you get an instant on! Really...and it is really impressive as it is a functional on, as my old laptop aged it slowly dragged itself out of sleep and sometimes the mouse does not move at first or something.
Well, thankyou for reading Yoshimitsu! And any other potential blog readers...but none have announced themself...will you ever? Why so silent? How rude :P
October 2013- 18th February-2014
Durability-9
Efficiency-9
Speed-10
Overall-9