We're not talking about luck here. I know I know. When you are unlucky, you get a lemon unit. When you are lucky, your laptop becomes super reliable for 10 years and above.


But the problem now is that.... my own Lenovo laptop and my friends' Lenovo laptops are all becoming faulty after 1 year. Some of the laptops could not even last up to 6 months.

Problem that I encounter is in such a way that the laptop overheats, and occasionally shuts down. It gets severe this week, in which the laptop shuts down after 5 minutes of usage, and the laptop is super hot. I already sent to computer shops to reapply thermal paste and do a thorough cleaning, but still the problem occurs. Same goes to my friends' Lenovo laptops, they get BSOD while gaming. Temperature often goes above 95 degree no matter how we clean the inside of the laptop.




I suggest you to avoid Lenovo brand. And ofcourse, based on my personal experience, the most reliable laptop brand goes to ACER. I owned around 3 Acer laptops previously but I sold all 3 of them cause they couldn't meet my gaming needs after few years, now I regret it ofcourse. Those 3 Acer laptops have got no problems so far, I sold them off just because the graphics cards are weak for newer generation games.


Again, please avoid Lenovo.

Lenovo model?

using y500..no problem so far...

Y400, as in my signature

Probably mine is a 14 inch packed with a Core i7, it could be the cause of the overheats.

cheap n powerful but u need xtra care

cheap plastic quality

Noted. Thank you for sharing your experience.

i got the same cpu as u...

I have had many Lenovo laptop in the past, but never have any issues...they all lasted 5 years+ before it either got thirsty or snatched by someone or sold it off to someone else. But then again, I only purchase the ThinkPad line. Where do you normally use your laptop? On a glass top? In bed? On your laps? Or just a regular table?

These are the photos of my Lenovo Y400, I took these photos around 1 hour ago...

You can see how much I take care of it, even the sticker covering and protecting the sides of the screens haven't been peeled away hahahaha....

and it is always sitting inside my bedroom....but the overheating problems cant be avoided, got external cooler fans some more...

Am using Z500. Had some driver problems before, but thats just it..

Overheating piece of crap. Nuff said.


Lenovo beats MSI and ASUS in terms of goreng pisang panas~~~ 95 degree celsius, i can boil one egg at 100 degree

ts have you repasted the cpu?
the only solution i found is to repaste with high quality thermal paste to avoid throttling.
even that temps still reach 90c
sometimes its worth paying more for higher quality laptops i guess

and phone

Am using G405s, reaching two years soon. No problems so farrrr... hopefully won't have lah. Choi choi. But i do notice that the fans don't work as powerful but when I open up my graphic softwares, i can hear the fans suddenly become very strong and even after I close it, the fans remain the same power. So I guess that kinda helps with the heating.

owned y500 sli before i knew

Well, thats the reason.

Newer Y50 and Y40 have better cooling buddy. but crappy screen

ahh y400..same here brotha..

me and my 2 housemates, all use Lenovo Y400..one bought new set, while me and the other one bought secondhand units (around 1 1/2 year old)..

all have problems within 1 year, even the new set

all have cracked assembly case near left hinge (punk-ass lenovo doesn't want to cover warranty for this even though almost all laptops of this model have the same problem)

some keyboard button's not responsive

then one by one, our laptops start to suffer abrupt shut down (no BSOD, just shut down) after several minutes of gaming or medium-high graphic related work

sent to Lenovo service centre, laptop's only able to hold on for just two weeks after acquired it back from service centre before suffer the same problem again..

can't claim warranty anymore afterwards coz expired

sent the laptop to a friend to clean the dusts inside and reapply quality thermal paste..still doesn't solve the problem..

weird thing was, after around 2-3 months, this 'abrupt shutdown' problem fixed itself. I don't know how but till this day, even when i play games like Battlefield 4 that eat up graphic resource and totally heat the laptop up, it works fine..

I've also replaced the cracked assembly case, ordered the spare parts from China..

still, never gonna buy Lenovo products again after this

Exactly my friends and my problem right now....

can't even run the laptop smoothly even after I force reformat the whole laptop....the problem still occurs, still shuts down by itself...

sometimes, when i just switch on the laptop, the temperature rises to 65 degree celsius within 1 minute..and it gets super hot damn.....

You can't expect to pay for something cheap and gain a premium quality user experience

Well did you perform dust cleaning + thermal repaste on a regualar basis ? If you did it each year or each 6 months, it will probably lower down the temperature. Using a good thermal paste do help. Also try to lower down your games settings to medium or low, the GPU can't support much intense 3D game.

Not much choice for you now, send in for warranty claiming lo.

Been using the G50-30 for about 3 months, no issue so far. Maybe because it is low powered Celeron processor emits less heat.