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Almost perfect (just fix the keyboard layout!)

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015

After burning through 4 DELL Latitudes in a 3-month period, I decided to give Lenovo another chance. This model got the highest rating on Notebookcheck, my favorite laptop review site.

This model is as close to perfect as anything I've worked with in my tech company. My only beef is the stupid Lenovo keyboard design - the left Ctl key is stuck between the Windows key and a "Fn" key that's used to activate the function keys on the top row. I use the left Ctl in all my Windows shortcuts - e.g. Ctl-C for copy - and all my standard keyboards have Ctl as the left-most key. Fortunately, Lenovo makes it easy to swap the function of the Fn and Ctl keys in the BIOS, so now all I have to do is ignore the labels on the laptop keyboard and press "Fn" when I want "Ctl" (hey, Lenovo, make the physical keys the same size so we can swap them, too!)

Otherwise, it's all good. The machine runs fast yet quiet with its SSD drive and efficient heat management. The battery has at least twice the life as the DELL Latitude I had bought in March.

Now, I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the T460 series with the Skylake chipset - hopefully, in August 2015.

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Scott

Once you fix it's many problems, then it's ok.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2016

Has a lot of problems out of the box; many of which have been reported by a lot of people but not fixed by the company. The computer goes to sleep and never wakes up, requiring a hard reboot. The fingerprint scanner also causes numerous errors on every startup. You have to manually uninstall it.

Also, the computer comes with a ton of "Lenovo" software pre-installed; none of which you will want or need, but all of which will constantly nag you with pop-ups. I spent the first week cleaning off these programs, and now it's finally a decent machine. I wouldn't recommend this.

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Leo P. Vaulin

Almost perfect (just fix the keyboard layout!)

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2015

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Pros
i7 upgradeable to 12gb ram
Light
Great battery
Great documentation both hardware and software

Cons
Plasticy feel
Easy to snap battery latch
Trackpad can be flakey (check the windows options)

UPDATE:
As I was worried about, my plastic case broke near the hinges. However, the process for getting it fixed was so great (2 days mailed from my house) when compared to companies named after fruit I think it deserves even more praise!

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Scott

Once you fix it's many problems, then it's ok.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2016

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GeneV.

too many nagging issues

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2018

I bought this computer from Lenovo's website a couple years ago. It came with Windows 8 (which as we all know sucks) with an upgrade to Windows 10 (which also sucks). Being new to Win10, I was slow to notice certain issues, or maybe they were less frequent, I can't really say now, however, issues there are. Some of them: It sometimes won't wake from sleep mode, and then you're having to play games with the power button, and the only thing happening is the keyboard is slowly flashing the backlight until the screen finally pops up. Every time you open a browser, it doesn't fill the whole screen, so you're having to double-click on the tab bar to enlarge it. The computer won't tell you that you need to restart to finish Windows updates, it just starts doing weird stuff like not responding to certain keystrokes, closing screens, won't let you scroll down the page with a mouse, that sort of thing. Although there's an option buried in settings to auto-restart during down times, but it never retrains my choice, so I'm always having to restart manually.

There are some other annoying issues, just can't recall them all now. Also, fair to point out, I can't really say if all of these are Win10 issues, or Win10 issues due to the upgrade from Win8, or if they're just Lenovo issues. But in any case, it's annoying having to persistently deal with them all.
This is my second Lenovo laptop. My first one is T520 (still using it for work), never had problems with it of any sort. The T450S is notably lighter, has the SSD which is nice, on paper sounds real good, but I regret buying it, too many bugs.

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SuperJon

Not a great value, but it's okay.

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016

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Meh. Works just fine... Probably worth about $500.

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Agustín G. Gimeno

Awesome performance for an endurable ultrabook.

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

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Best computer you can buy. It is intended for "those how do". It has a lot of design details that really make the difference between this and other ultrabooks (e.g. downgrade to win7 because has no touchscreen, water spill keyboard protection, VGA and RJ45 ports, etc, etc). All this mixed with a powerfull i7 core with 8 gb RAM and 256gb ssd. Disk might come short in the future, yet if the SSD technology gets cheaper an upgrade can be made.
It's fully capable with linux (I'm using Kubuntu 15 distro) with an outstanding more than 10 hours battery life (of course, it depends on the use).

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jose pablo

Great computer, great quality

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2016

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Great computer, great quality, great battery life (4 to 7 hours using linux). Sure i miss some stuff of the previous keyboard layout but still it is the best keyboard on the market.

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Alain T

Very satisfied

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015

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I am very satisfied about the quality and the design. The screen could be brighter but it is a non-issue for me. The size and the weight is great.

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Supercell

Keys don't illuminate automatically when lid is opened

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2016

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I'd give this sucker 5 stars if only the keys lit up automatically when the lid was opened. Perhaps there is a way other than selecting "Fn" - "Space Bar" to illuminate the keys(?)

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Cheng

This is a great laptop. Previously I ordered Thinkpad X1 3rn gen

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2015

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This is a great laptop. Previously I ordered Thinkpad X1 3rn gen, but I didn't like it, returned. This one is perfect. Very comfortable keyboard. Complete ports. 12+ hours battery life. Fact i7 core. I think I will use it for a long time.

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