(UPDATE) Lenovo Yoga 730 - 1 Week later! (DO NOT BUY! CHECK DESCRIPTION!)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Hey guys has anyone bought the 8565u processor version of the Yoga 730 15 inch?. The Whisky lake version, I wanted to ask does this one have it? if so can someone confirm how many lanes of PCIe does it have over thunderbolt 3? I wanted to know since the 8565u version has total 16 lanes, 4 more than the older version, do those extra lanes go to the thunderbolt 3 connection to give it 4 lanes of PCIe over thunderbolt 3?
I have no experience or knowledge so I'll pin your comment it's the best I can do
Thank you very much for addressing my inquiry, the 730 15.6" just jumped to the top of my list (earlier being 2nd only to its 13.3" sibling). Nice info on battery performance as well, I know other devices do have better longevity but they're also much more expensive and/or are conventional laptops, not 2in1s.
P.S. Who'd dislike this ?? 😡
Glad I could have helped you and everyone else :) starting to love answering questions. 😊
I picked up a Yoga 730 last month. Wifi cuts out after like 5 minutes. I want to swap to an Intel Wifi Card. When I first got my laptop I almost returned it! (before I noticed the wifi issue), due to the display being absolutely TOO DIM. I bought this to work on the car, so sunlight would have killed it's usefulness. Fortunately after a Lenovo update, I was then able to up the brightness, to my great relief!!. I do love this device. Nice build quality. BTW: If you moisten your finger, the print reader works much better.
Another way to up brightness is to disable adaptive brightness which prevents it from going to 100%
Full disclosure. I downloaded wifi driver from realtek site. Went with previous version, and wifi acted stable. Ok. Well Intel wifi and Bluetooth card arrived next day from A-zon, along with memory, so yep, it now has Intel wifi and BT5. Not yet sure if the BT5 will work better with my Plantronics Voyager headset, but we'll see. The yoga had no issues with the new wifi card or RAM. yay.
Happy for you :)
Really personable guy! Keep up the great work Sander
Thanks man!!
That battery is actually several times bigger in capacity than any smartphone. mAh is not a measure of energy, you need to multiply it by the voltage to get energy. Laptop batteries have higher voltage, so they have higher capacity for the same mAh rating.
What you _can_ compare directly is Wh (watt-hour) rating, which does in fact indicate energy. Smartphone batteries are about 12Wh. Your laptop has 51Wh.
Thanks for the information I'll keep that in mind next time, it's just that more people can read mAh 😅
@@SanderCokart Yes, it's pretty strange why smartphone manufacturers still emphasize mAh rating.
Btw, in your video, the Wh rating is right next to mAh on the battery.
Got it thanks :)
Someone on Reddit (or perhaps Reflagdeals forums) said that you can actually upgrade the ram to more than just an additional 8GB. They had to take theirs in for service and the tech put a 16GB unit in the slot and he has 24GB usable on his Yoga.
yeah but there is a limit that the laptop can use to full potential. It has to do with the amount of bandwidth the southbridge has or northbridge one of those.
I have a 15" yoga 730 with dedicated GPU graphics and more features. I disagree with you about the fingerprint issue. I can see in the video that you're not applying your finger properly for the reader to recognize it. Also you seem to wanna compare it to the fast responsiveness of smartphones' fingerprint unlocking. The fact is, laptop fingerprint readers use a stronger and more secure technology than smartphones' because they house all of our work and documents : they are more sensitive. The yoga 730 uses the latest Intel fingerprint technology and because it is stronger and more secure, do not expect your computer to be unlocked if you do not apply your finger properly. The convenience of smartphones fingerprint unlocking speeds comes at the cost of strong security. It only needs to read a portion of a finger to recognize (making it less secure), unlike on Lenovo laptops which require a full application of a finger on the reader (hence more secure).
Personally I have never (and I mean never) had any issue with it and am happy with it being hard on fingerprint recognition because it makes me feel more secure with it. So you should check that out again
I did and in my conclusive review I said that I applied it wrong 😂 I'm sorry and you're right ^^
Hey Bro ,how is your device holding up now? I was thinking of buying it
It's doing well but do Wi-Fi kept cutting out so I replaced the realtek Wi-Fi card with an Intel one.
Sometimes as far as the finger printer you need reset the reader mine works 100% of the time to the point I have forgotten my pin which I need to figure out
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We bought a 730 -- overall good laptop except the wireless modem simply SUCKS. It is a RealTek real POS, so I had to buy an Intel 8625 WiFi/BT module and replace it. Put in the new Intel module and never a drop signal, and constant, fast internet access.
I know I did make a video about it
Hey there, thank you so much for these videos, there aren't a lot of online reviews for lenovos products for some reason. I would like to know more about the pen experience with this product if you wouldn't mind. I was in the mindset of buying a surface pro, but for longivity's sake, it just doesn't make any sense over the 730 because of the later's specs and usb-c. Can you use the pen comfortably in presentation mode or does the screen wobble too much for example?
And by the way, do you know why the 900s family is being presented as the premium class when the specs are similar between the two? Is it a physical difference? The bending mechanism might be a bit different..? Thanks
Want me to answer it here or would you like to see a video on the screen wobbling? :)
@@SanderCokart Haha if you can show it that would be nice, but I trust your opinion ;)
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@@thischannelhasaclevername5481 lol thank you !
Thanks for this video and all the others related to the Y730! You answered a lot of my doubts! Which country are you from btw?
Netherlands mate :)
Are the letters on the keyboard lit so they can be recognized in darkness, or are only the rims of the keys lit?
Letters and function keys !
hi, I want to buy this laptop. but need your suggestions. Is this laptop is durable enough to use 5-6 years?
Nice video, man. Just one tip, if that can do you any good: try to get better ilumination next time, specially if you're opening up a device to show its tiny details. Not so many videos about this laptop around, I'm inclined to buy one of these and I've watched all the ones you made. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Brazil.
Thanks ! And yes I mobilized my lights 🤣
@@SanderCokart hahaha! That's a step up, way to go! By the way, I was in a dilemma between the Yoga 730 15" and the Yoga C930, specially considering that there's no big difference in their price tags in certain configurations. Your videos about the 730 were very thorough and the one comparing the two was very helpful. Thank you again!!
You're welcome!
Hey, thank you for the video! How long is the battery doing? I mean at usual office stuff and or at the university?
With battery management and use of throttlestop to undervolt the CPU easily 8 hours. I've shown it in the video called Can It Game?
Hey Sander, nice video! About the extra dimm slot, you have any idea what type will be the best for this?
Any DDR4 Sodimm as far as I'm concerned...don't think speed of the ram has to match the internal ram speed
Your comments on heat and thermals is interesting. Mine heats up very quickly just web browsing and the fan gets very loud.
Make sure you're on the latest bios update first of all.
Furthermore I can not continue testing on this machine as I don't have it anymore :(
@@SanderCokart may i know why? Did you give up on it already? Would you still recommend it to 1st time buyers? What brand/model did you replace it with? Would appreciate a reply.🙏
Dell XPS 7590
Better everything.
I love having a matte bright (500 nits) display so I can work outside. I claimed the warranty of this shit machine.
No i highly discourage Lenovo right now
@@SanderCokart thank you v much. I was planning to buy a lenovo legion 5 for my college daughter.
Hey sander how are you getting such good battery life? I have the 4k i7 version which is rated at 9 hours but i only get like 1 hour. I have the cpu undervolted, i put nvidia on optimal power, and I dont have the screen on full brightness. I have downloaded hwinfo64 and my computer is drawing 22watts when i am doing nothing. Can check to see yours? Also for the fingerprint thing if you go into device manager and turn off power saving for biometric devices it works really good.
Remember that every single company lies about battery life,
The 4K i7 model does suck up a lot of power but one hour is a bit ridiculous I think you should bring it back to Lenovo or try and run a command prompt battery test to check for its current capacity.
22 watts is only happening when it's on full power so it's definitely doing something bad in the background
Fingerprint barely cost any power to run and has zero effect on mine as far as battery life is concerned
Excellent video. Thank you very much for your review and help. Very detailed, articulate and full of information. I gave you a thumbs up, subscribed and hit the bell for notifications. Can't wait to see your next video!
Nice to hear that awesome enthusiasm!!!
Hi,
Can I ask how's the battery performance after around 2 months of usage? Gaming wise, is there any heat throttle issue? And lastly, are the edges quite tacky or even sharp as other reviews have pointed out? You are by far one of my trusted reviewer for this laptop!
Battery is solid! Still can do 8 hours on careful use.
Gaming is around 80 degrees or 60 depends on the game.
No throttling for me.
I got no sharp portions on my laptop no...I got an EU version guess that's why it's less broken than other customers are facing.
@@SanderCokart Hi Sander, thank you for your reply. I've finally gotten hold of this unit and I'm so far impressed by it. However, one thing I notice is that battery life is only displayed at 4.45H even after full charge. Do you have any idea why? Also do you know how to distinguish Lenovo Active Pen 2nd gen from its 1st because I'm not quite liking its sensitivity experience to be honest.
2nd gen one has no red ring on the top button.
The battery will adapt over time. But be sure to just lower screen brightness and undervolting also helps and set windows battery management in the action menu (win+ a) to better battery
@@SanderCokart did this happen to you too? Because I just finished recharging and it only says 3 hr 39 min at 100% charge.
I'll see, but test if it's actually that short
Those little damn screws pissed me off when I was taking them off
Same 🤣
All due respect, but saying "battery performance is really really good"? That's VERY false. My Yoga 730 lasts about 3 hours with just web browsing. It's pretty atrocious.
Must be doing something. I did actually achieve 8 hours with tryharding haha
Is there the possibility to add 16gb as many blogs are saying? Im gonna buy this in Spain, and it is insanely expensive. gtx 1050, i7 8550u, 512gb ssd m2. for 1200€.
no idea it's just not reccomended I guess
Hey Sander, how are you doing mate? Can we upgrade our M.2 SSD and if yes, what will happen to our licensed version of win10 and other softwares which comes pre installed on that SSD? Will hardware change cause our warranty void? and will new SSD be validated for fresh install of windows from older ssd? Thanks in advance
it cannot void warranty in my book as it doesn't don't any components plus these laptops are made to be upgraded.
You can upgrade them however but I wouldn't recommend it in my full on conclusive review you can see that it reads at 3000 megabytes per second, it writes at 700 megabytes per second which is on the low side for m.2 but it shouldn't worry. That's still fast enough.
@@SanderCokart Ok thanks a lot .
Any more questions always happy to answer :), if you are not sure about warranty tho just contact Lenovo on email, they respond relativily quick
@@SanderCokart yep, sure. Thanks a lot
U can remove the adaptive brightness right there in the settings
Already did that lol
Hey have u faced the screen flickering issue?
Only when watching dark scenes on movies where there is a small bright light shown as well, the backlight tries to compensate to show realistic white color this causes flickering between a bright and dim backlight, it's rare but can happen
what does this mean (8 GB Onboard + 8 GB DIMM). Does it mean 16GB in total?
It has 8 gb soldered on and it has an extra dimm slot inside for you to add 8GBs of ram
I Believe I opened the laptop in this video :) ruclips.net/video/7_ZYFoGp4aE/видео.html
Thanks Sander. I can see your laptop is 8gb in total. I was going through some other laptops, I found one laptop with 16GB (8+8dimm). My question is the total will be 16,will there be any performance issue because of 8+8?
No the performance is negligible. Like you won't notice a performance loss. Works very well