Orly?

I that day went to malls and saw the latest promo leaflets for XMas, they even highlight free Office as a key selling points.

Oh, I think I know the issue already.

They’re using the redemption basis instead of preload.

I gotten my copy of Office with their Merdeka Promo redemption last time, even though I got my unit online.

Was this something new? I didn’t get any free Microsoft office with my purchase. Did you get it with your thinkbook 13s too?

Got free one?
I heard before selected the price may increase for overall cost from what u paid.

I’ve been monitoring the price of the X1 Extreme Gen 2 since earlier this month. This week’s price after discounts is the same as before the sale.

I'm contemplating to buy Lenovo ideapad s540, now have voucher code can save rm400 to rm500.

Only problem is, I was thinking to get Intel core i5 8265U with discreet Nvidia MX250 2GB before discount RM3449, after discount RM2933
Or should I save on the money and get

AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with integrated Radeon Vega 10 before discount RM3099, after discount RM2635?

I will use the laptop for minor video editing and light gaming

>too heavy to carry around lulz
inb4 botak kimsim 
Nearlee

Thanks but I stick to the 1.5k budget.

If you can accept the sucky TN panel, L340 probably is your  best bet. Another thing is the whole laptop is plastic build, which is not the best experience to me as someone getting accustomed to metal build laptops.

BTW, I gotten mine with 3500u for under RM1.5k, and at times it can even go lower than RM1.4k...

All you need is to configure the stock RAM to 4GB onboard and use the remaining money to buy another stick of 3rd party RAM and you got a perfect budget office laptop that can rival i5 laptop costing at least RM500 more than that.

Yes, the TN panel is pretty terrible in terms of viewing angle, even in perfect perpendicular angle view also you can’t get a good viewing angle, KEK. I’m the type of guy that are used to 110-120 degree screen viewing. And the display is showing different content top and bottom due to the colour shift, LOLOLOL. Luckily the display colours and black/white words display are not as terrible and much more acceptable. Yes, mine is FHD one.

To get FHD screen option, you need to change the RAM to onboard 4GB. They didn’t allow further RAM configuration if you opt for the 3500u+FHD configuration. I added a 3rd party ADATA RAM myself, and didn’t face any compatibility problem. BTW, the stock RAM chips are by Micron if you’re interested to know.

Try to get their stock 256GB SSD configuration if the price is cheap, as it comes with a decent SAMSUNG OEM SATA SSD if you opted for the 256GB. If you’re on 128GB, you may get some random China OEM SSD.

I added RM10 for the Blue colour, but it’s as dark as black colour in practice. The default grey colour also looks very decent and easily be found in retails.

No worry, 4+8GB of RAM works just fine. Also since this laptop is using APU, it’s better to have more RAM as part of it is used for VRAM. In fact in 2019, many laptops resolved to the 4GB soldered + 1dimm slot option, that’s why you saw many 12GB or 20GB laptops around.

To me Samsung’s SATA (or even their whole SSD series) SSD is good and it’s what’s best I can get for the cheapo budget laptop. The laptop itself actually has 3 possible bays for HDD/SSD mounting. 1st is the standard 2.5” SATA bay, then next is the ODD bay for 2.5” HDD/SSD too. Lastly there’s also a M2 PCIE slot for NVME SSD.

The colours I try to capture and compared to seamaster blue. Last time during my purchase, they have the White colour option too, but it takes a longer time and also extra RM20 IINM. As I afraid it will get dirty easily, so I skipped it.



Yeah, the screen really sucks and it’s best to see if you really can accept it before you pull the trigger. I’m waiting the warranty to over and source for 3rd party compatible panels in future, haha...

Cons aside, 3 features I’m convinced with the laptop purchases are the 180 degree lid angle (almost all modern Lenovo laptop can do so), under 45W power consumption (it can allow powerbank charging if you can get the proper cables and converter, sadly it has no native USB PD support though) and misc stuffs like webcam shutter+optical disc bay that most laptops in 2020 simply won’t bother to put in, KEK.

L340 (gaming) is abomination for gaming laptop...

The first thing that I cross it out is the 4GB soldered RAM. It’s acceptable for office laptops like L340 AMD, but not acceptable for a gaming laptop.

Also, gaming laptops are another highly competitive segments. There’s many decent offers from HP or the area51 gaming laptop brands

4GB soldered + 1 sodimm slot.

There’s also variant without even the 4GB onboard, those solely run on single channel RAM.

Dual channel should always win.

Those 4+8GB or 4+16GB one will run hybrid mode, where 4+4GB run dual channel while the remaining on single channel.

In short, full dual channel > hybrid asymmetric dual channel mode > single channel.

And dual channel RAM is particularly crucial to APU’s performance.

Guys sorry, in short, is it worth the money to buy Lenovo laptops?

Bump for Citi deals. It is said to be 50% but does not seem to apply at all.

https://www.lenovo.com/my/en/deals/citispecial

for me got 2 deals are worth it

ThinkPad E495

thinkpad E series at 2.2k?  btw there's something wrong with the processor spec maybe they meant to put 3200U

Yoga S740-14IIL-Build Your Own

latest i7 gen 10 with iris plus graphic at 3.3k?
plus MS office home & student thrown in, plus free upgrade to win 10 pro
lenovo shall be making loss with this

this yoga is considered epitome of portability;

4 cell battery + LPPDDR4

coupling with external graphics will hurt the power consumption,

furthermore Iris plus G7 easily beat those Vega 8/10 (in Ryzens):

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vega-10-vs-Ir...0.247598.0.html
https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-RX-V...-Ice-Lake-64-EU

rm3.3k price tag is a definite steal

Really?

being eyeing for T490. now got 3 model, RM3,839.20, RM4,959.20 and RM5,179.00. Which model is value for money?