Hunting for a new 2-in-1 for my daughter's birthday in about 10 days...

Although it's very large and heavy for tablet use, the specs seem okay.

It's better to double-check on the drive accessibility if you're thinking of changing it, though. It's probably carrying a standard 2.5" drive, but some of these thin notebooks put the drives on the top side of the motherboard, below the keyboard, so they're inaccessible unless you void the warranty by taking off the screen, then the keyboard, etc.

 

What about this: https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Flex-...&qid=1481303239&sr=1-2&keywords=lenovo+flex+4

 

Why would only certain ssd's work ?
is it not sata, I was going to put a ssd in my laptop only to discover the hdd is 1.8 inch zif

 

Maybe because of drive thickness.
The real ordeal is having to take apart the whole thing and most probably losing warranty in the process, though.

@digitalwanderer did you explain your daughter that the Spectre bundles a USB-C to USB-A?
USB-C peripherals shouldn't be a problem, since that connector type is bound to replace both regular USB-A, mini-USB and micro-USB all at once.

 

I don't suppose there's some really really really short USB-C to A adapter that is basically attachable to the USB-A device

 

Can I suggest a forum wide announcement for this? The more members who are altered about this thread the more will come and help (even if its a 9:1 attach ratio). Only 3 days left. Only 6 members have contributed.

 

It's made by Lenovo

 

Lenovo had some problems with using draconian software pre-installed, about a year ago. They're mostly fine now, imo, but you know the saying "fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice".. Some people now refuse to purchase anything Lenovo.


It's not a bad choice hardware wise but I'd never choose it because it has a single audio speaker, so it's a no no for any kind of media consumption without headphones.

At $525 you're already on the same segment as the Acer Switch Alpha 12, which imo is a substantially better product, imo only bested by the Surface Pro 4.

 

In Indonesia, Lenovo quality consistency, durability, and support is spotty.

Still miles better than Sony Vaio tho. Asus is light years better than both of them at customer support.

But you live in a country with good consumer protection right?

 

A few years ago there was a consumer report study on Lenovo, HP, Dell, Toshiba etc laptop failure rates and they put every brand of PC on the same failure defect rate of a few percentage points iirc 2-3%. From a certain standpoint I can see this. They are all manufactured at Foxconn. I would assume motherboard components and all the other circuitry is pretty standard.

But then I wonder in the era of declining print/magazine revenue if they are reliable and haven't been money hatted. I say this because there was the nvidia Mobile gpu lineup soldering issues and some older studies showing that a few years ago Seagate had some pretty bad failure rates on some of their hdds. That and Consumer reports would literally lie about Apple performance giving their performance 5/5 even though in they had inferior i3/i5 cpus and integrated graphics vs IN THE VERY SAME ISSUE a dell/hp/lenovo which had a faster more powerful i3/i5 and a few had dedicated gpu yet none of them would get 5/5 like apple. Then at the end they had a nice grid table for easy comparison. Sure a techie might know this is blatantly wrong but not grandma. Back in 2006 when print was declining PC Gamer which historically had been pretty good caved on its integrity when it was moneyhatted by Nvidia, and gave the GTX 280 its highest review ever 98%, when most online reviews said ignore this overpriced hardware and go for AMDs flagship instead.

 

@Pixel @digitalwanderer Asus is an exception. They made their products themselves, at least the mainboard, etc. Heck, they also made PS3 mainboard.

In my country they also one of the weirdest: you are allowed to bring back home the product in service while waiting for the spare parts to come.

While other companies (I have experience with Sony, Lenovo, Acer, FSP, Biostar, etc i forgot) will hold your device hostage for 1-3 months.

Asus also doesn't blame the user for anything. They easily accept your complaints (Samsung and LG also good in this).

Heck, on the fifth month, I simply go to them and asks for a new battery. BAM, I got one. On the 11th month I asked for a new LCD screen, bam! They give me one with no hassle. On the 23th month, 1 day before the warranty expires, I ask them to completely clean my laptop. They did it without hassle.

Asus = 2 years warranty (1 years for low end models) including spare parts except battery (6 months).

Now I'm sounding like an Asus fan boy lol