Lenovo Flex 14 2-in-1 Notebook, $729 or $999

Blackflag123 wrote: ↑ Should I wait for Black Friday? Seems like this has pretty good specs.

alexalox wrote: ↑ if you don't mind the 8gb ram, there is a better deal on black Friday for the flex (ryzen7-4700u and 8gb (soldered).

CanadaCPU wrote: ↑ Honestly nobody should be buying an Intel-based PC in 2020/2021 unless the price is almost too good to be true. They are just so far behind on every single metric compared to AMD. How things have changed....

Blackflag123 wrote: ↑ Oh link?

alexalox wrote: ↑ No link yet, the sale is not live. It's going to be a black Friday special on November 27 only. 789.99$ (+probable 10% Rakuten and student discount if you can get it)

aouniat wrote: ↑ Received mine today, however the AMD 4500U version.

Man, AMD is doing some serious work with their CPUs, and GPUs. The basic 4500U model comes with 6 cores vs 4 cores on the i7 processor in the 16gb ram version above. At least 25% more power in multicore performance (not to mention the superior graphics performance vs intel iGPU).

So I'd suggest to go AMD at a lower price & a much better performance if you can find one.

MrLincoln wrote: ↑ Yup got the 4500U 16 gigs of ram, 749 open box at bestbuy.
Only thing is French keyboard super sucks., . The shift key and enter key have been split into two, different symbol type keys so I had to remap the keyboard.

alexalox wrote: ↑ if you don't mind the 8gb ram, there is a better deal on black Friday for the flex (ryzen7-4700u and 8gb (soldered).

diweidi wrote: ↑ https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/lenov ... verviewtab

RFDQ1016 wrote: ↑ Can you upgrade the ram on this model to 16gb?

alexalox wrote: ↑ Can't say for sure, but most Lenovo nowadays are soldered, so you can't upgrade the ram. I almost believe that they do that on purpose. Anyways, I haven't checked the one at Microsoft, but you most likely can not upgrade it. If you want to be sure check the specs or ask customer service.

aouniat wrote: ↑ Yup it's 512GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. Yeah too bad I couldn't find such config with English keyboard so I had to bite the bullet. I remapped the buttons next to the shift/enter, for now.

BTW the one I received from Best Buy had a faulty mouse pad. Tried everything and they did but couldn't fix it. Then I saw a refurbished item with the same specs from a 3rd party seller for $608. So far so good, seller says it comes with 90 day warranty but the Lenovo app on the laptop says valid until AUG 2021.