I have this laptop and love it! The form factor is perfect and the battery life is incredible! I too wish the ram wasn't soldered but I would still love to see a video of opening it up and seeing what the inner workings look like. Get a look at how easy a storage upgrade would be. Great video as always!
Oh, uh, well. You need a torque screw driver to open the back cover. There are 8 screws (or is it 9 screws), and once all the screw is removed, you should be able to open the back cover by carefully prying the latches away. Inside is kinda bare. The RAM chips are covered with its own heat sink. There is an M2 slot and an adapter so you can rotate it to fit M2 2280 SSD from M2 2242 SSD. Fan is serviceable by removing 1 or 2 screws which makes maintaining and cleaning the fan easier. There's a huge battery pack (almost covering half of the system). There's a CMOS battery but unfortunately, it was sealed with two cables with a plug connected to the motherboard.
Definitely a fantastic and capable laptop I love the small size and the 2 in 1, I just wish it was a little more premium in terms of styling. Sucks that the hp envy doesn’t have this level of perfomance, but kills it in terms of looks
soldered memory to the board is always a deal breaker for me. laptops in 2021 should come with 16gb minimum to keep this machine working great on windows. the next model up is 100$ to get 16gb of memory and a better processor.
@ConManliness you could but you would end up paying more for the ram, solder, flux and with a lower end processor. It would save you time and money just paying the additional 100$
I got the 5700U version a year ago from Best Buy , I brought it for productivity and schoolwork. It’s an extremely portable and light laptop, don’t do any gaming on it so it was cool to see some benchmarks here
Ouch, $599. I was looking at laptops with the same specs that were upwards of $450. But HP branded and without the touchscreen. Your wife will definitely be happy to receive this laptop!
I needed a lightweight laptop since my old Dell died. I looked at the specs, price ($396 open box excellent condition at Best Buy), and I ordered it. Can't wait to get it. Great video by the way. SUBSCRIBED!!!
@@masoomraza362 Hey, it did arrive. It works just like new, and it still has the warranty. As for the playing any games, I haven't played any on it yet. I also ordered a larger drive (1tb is the max capacity for it. Be aware that its an NVMe PCIe M.2 2242 drive not a standard pc size; its smaller). Oh, the video didn't mention it, but active pens/stylus (Bamboo pen) work on this computer perfectly. Good luck.
@@nothingspecial_0 might wanna consider the Lenovo deal for the Ryzen 7 5700u 16gb/1tb version for $670. Need to use codes YOGA6BFSP2 & HOLIDAYOFFERS for that price.
Lit uh ruh lee first. It said 1 view lmao. Also, I have this laptop and I love it! Not a bad little guy for such a small APU laptop. Gets some decent emulation performance and better than expected performance on several modern games. It's also my little FFXIV machine.
Hi I got the same unit with 5700U, 1tb SSD and 16gb of RAM at roughly 926USD, Also a gift for my father, he won't probably play games but I think it's plenty powerful for office work.
I have the notepad in 5500u has 1 socket for a sim, but only accepts a 4gb for a total of 12. Love the 5500u performance. I run it with a laptop cooler at 40 watts tdp. Most things are playable on it at lower settings. I have played though cyberpunk 2077 a few times on it. Really happy with it.
I'm not sure about you, but I think Ryzen 7 5700u is a better choice. But this 2 in 1 laptop is a beast. I'm also using 1 with Ryzen 7 4700u and 16GB RAM.
@@ETAPRIME I think mines the ryzen 7 5800H mine came with rtx 3060 I added a wd black sn750 1tb drive and then I have 256gb nvme ssd the Alienware m15 r5 ryzen edtion it's a very fast laptop
@@ANabih-uo3zy Genshin Impact is playable, actually, you can set everything to high and play in 1080p 30fps. However, particle effect may drop the frame a little. I use medium setting and play in 720p just to get it to 60fps constantly. If you have 5000 series Ryzen, I think it can do better. As for the stylus, it's just okay, but not great. I'm thinking of getting Microsoft Surface Pen to see if it works because Surface Pen is quite robust with its rubber tip and have eraser.
I just got this for $430 from Best Buy. I wanted a windows that was also touch screen to compliment my mac. I’ll probably end up using this one more day to day though.
Small reminder, any laptop 5300, 5500, and 5700 U or H processor is actually a 4400/4600/4800 U/H This is actually a good thing. Compared to the 4000 series, where a 4700U was just a 4800U with hyperthreading disabled, which could mean a 10-40% performance loss at a similar power usage because of binning. the only real difference here is Zen2 to Zen3, which, at most is a 30% performance difference, but that does come with lower power usage, which is great for a thin and light tablet/convertible
merry xmas eta prime ♥. in my opinion, i think radeon 7 will perform better in games than what we saw on the video if it was running on a dual channel memory, too bad there is no extra slot for ram.
Lenovo is one of the go-to brands for Linux compatibility, though it might fare better on RHEL distros like Fedora as that's the de facto variant in the enterprise world - You rarely see OEMs target anything other than that or SUSE, especially in the consumer scene which frequently has Windows-only configurations.
@Joseph Sakata Thank you very much for the info! I must go for 2 in 1, so Thinkpads are out of question. You have ruined my day with this info :) :) :)
Alternatively: If gaming isn't necessarily needed, then the Samsung Flex Alpha 2 has also gone on sale on best buy through the Holiday for the same sale price as the Lenovo. i5, 8gb, 256gb ssd QLED screen which is very nice for consuming content. It's a 2 in 1 and is lighter than the Samsung S7+ with its keyboard cover attached. On sale - it's a good alternative to the Surface Pro or a Tablet with a keyboard depending on your use case. Same for the Lenovo in this video ( although it's quite a bit heavier and doesn't have the screen that the Flex 2 Alpha has)
@@ovadyarachman7243 Says the person who just watched a video by ETA Prime showing off a machine running on 8gb of Ram. :) - Friend, you will have a lot of companies to gripe with because most are shipping laptops with 8gb of ram. particularly those in the $500-$1000 price range. For general productivity 8gb should be fine. Power users should opt for 12-16gb ( especially for running multiple programs and/or browser windows open. )
@@TheReal_FishFins I just loaded up 8 fire sticks, and two handhelds using a windows 8 netbook with 2gb of ram and had like ten tabs open in chrome, retroarch and qbittorrent running at all times for days on end. Tf are you talking about?
@@bostownmassive I agree for general use comsumer ,8gb ram is fine but if u have to run more apps at the same time ,you quickly realise that u need at least 16 gb ram,I made the mistake to buy a 8gb ram instead of 16 gb ram as I have to use more demanding apps at the same time ,Therefore I had to buy a new laptop with 16gb ram .
I have had this Yoga 6 since October here in Japan. Ordered it in June but the delivery date slipped to December 2021 (Shock). if you live in Japan, I ended up getting it with office on lenovo's Rakuten page for a little cheaper (original order from lenovo Japan didnt include office but I cancelled it) Edit: it was weird watching in the desktop in full screen because it feels like I was using my own yoga 6 ! Plus ETA, you should have done the peanut butter challenge.
You didn't seem to mention it, so i'm not sure if it's just me being sensitive coming from a high refresh rate gaming monitor - but isn't the ghosting on this quite bad? I noticed the mouse cursor trailing the instant i turned it on for the first time. I don't really notice it doing media consumption, it's mostly just the mouse cursor trailing or when moving a window around that the trailing shows.
if you want good gaming performance on an apu, look for the used T or E thinkpads with ryzen 3000 or newer (ideally 4000) because lenovo turns the APU’s TDP from 15 W to 25 W, which can smooth out the frames somewhat.
Disappointed that the ram is soldered in place, other than that, this is a great little machine. Absolutely love the look and feel, but most of all I will benefit from the portability as my job will require something very portable.
Bro if you have it how long does the battery last and is the laptop shown in the video referring to the 8gb ram one if so does gta 5 actually run in 60 fps?
I recently purchased this laptop for my niece who is adventuring into art. It arrives at her house tomorrow! What emulators were you using? She likes to game but cannot afford any systems. Did you use an XBox controller while playing the emulators? Thank you for making this video!
The thing that confuses me about this laptop is it's Plastic & cloth vs Lenovo's usual metal in the Yoga line- that's not me complaining about that "premium feel" people go nuts for, it's just odd that AMD is the one that gets this chassis. The actual complaint I hear about this is the brightness of the monitor being limited to 300nits- because it's advertised at that but it's actually a bit lower.
I like your channel and appreciate your reviews - I just want to mention, that I get very nervous whey fps drop under 150 in cs.go :-D it's alls subjective ofc, but competitive shooters like cs.go are a different playground.. keep up the good work
Heh, I just got my fiance a similar laptop upgrade for her birthday 2 months ago. Her old one was a 17" HP with a dual core Bulldozer era AMD APU and 4GB RAM in single channel. Upgraded her to a 15" HP Envy with a 5500U and 16GB RAM in dual channel. It's lightweight, has great battery life, and handles everything she does with ease.
The only thing I wish it had was the PgUpPgDn buttons that their thinkpad line had and it would be close to perfect. And maybe 16x10 ratio since that's basically necessary for productivity now.
did you do anything special to get the emulators running so smoothly--particularly the wii u emu? i too have a copy of botw on this very machine, and it barely broke 12fps
Love the fabric top and color scheme. Unfortunately they put a soft touch coating on the palm rest which will degrade like every other soft touch coating out there and become sticky. Complete deal breaker for me.
There are 2 variants of dis Yoga 6 : - Yoga 6 with faux leather 13 inch, - Yoga 6 non faux leather, with AMD Ryzen5 5500 14 inch, (buy dis one, it's more worth than de first one)
Where have you been before I bought mine lol I have the higher version of this Ryzen 7 5700U 8 Core 16 threads 16GB RAM 512 NVME SSD I use it mainly for work and bought it around the end of October. It is fantastic for me. Unfortunately, I didn't really have time to test it's gaming performance just yet. I only did 1 benchmark for FFXV and confirmed it ran horribly on it lol. I know it is not meant for gaming and I don't game on laptops unless I have too anyway and I don't mind doing it on a lower quality. I used to have a Yoga 500 I think it's name was, 14 inch, It was great too until it died a few months ago "some hardware upgrade went horribly wrong" and just needed to buy the new one recently and I can say it is substantial upgrade for me. There are only a few cons for me personally after almost 2 months of use 1- The screen is noticeably smaller for me compared to 14 inch and I should've considered it more carefully but it's not bad. Better for tablet use though. 2- I hate that to use main functions like page up and down and so on, I have to use fn key. It is not great for productivity without an external keyboard. 3- The fans work at 100% most of the time because of the compact design and the heat can be annoying sometimes. Pros: 1- VERY light 2- The battery life is AWESOME. 3- It is a power house in terms of performance in a tiny package :) all my opinions are personal and for my use cases and I LOVE it. If anyone wants to know anything specific about this tiny beast hit me up ;)
Although the specs on this laptop make it a beast, I felt the build quality on the IdeaPad and Yoga series are bit lower than what HP and Dell have to offer.
You should note that the 5500U is just a renamed 4500U...5600U and 5800U are actually 5000 series CPUs but 5500U and 5700U are just renamed 4000 series...
Can you please help me, I have this same laptop today, and I play plugged in on intelligent cooling mode, and the games run fine but out of nowhere start lagging a lot and go back to normal, it happens alot, it doesn't happen in battery saving mode however the fps is lower
A bit late but I have this laptop and have been searching high and low for an emulator I can use on it. I have the emulator you have for PS2 games but whenever I try to load a game it says "Failed to create render device. This may be due to your GPU not supporting the chosen renderer (Vulkan), or because your graphics drivers need to be updated.". Any tips?
Ryzen 3 5425U 2 In 1 Laptop how do I add more storage to it idk where to find the name I loomed on the labels on the bottom idk where else to check its tuning windows 10 pro activated and its on 256gb and I need more I have a sad for the plug their are 2 m.2 slots but when I try adding more storage it just destroys the mother board and I have to switch the mother board every Time I try it
Hi! I have a question about the battery performance. How long does it last? if I do word processing and net browsing. And is 8gb ram too bad for windows 11? Thanks!
I installed retroarch on my laptop "Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3" ryzen 5600h and gtx 1650 but still all games are running with lag even gba(mgba core) without charger. Is any fix to this problem, i updated my all drivers still retroarch give low performance without charger.
Hi! When I first bought this laptop i had pretty good fps while gaming, but now i have fps drops, it can be running at 30-100 fps then it drops to like 1-10 and it happens every 1 minute so i am not gaming on it bc i cant its so annoying, any solutions???❤❤❤❤
Hey! I am planning to buy this one with the Ryzen 7 5700U CPU 16GB RAM, I will mostly use it for productivity for media consumption and some photoshopping. Ocassionally though I am gonna play Minecraft, CSGO and GTA 5 on it, will it be okay or shall I look for something like a Legion 5 (gaming laptop) or so?
cool review. I hope you put the clock speed back down for your wife other wise she's gonna think the battery sux :p he loads a youtube video in a youtube video in a youtube video.... entire internet crashes
I got the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga Titanium. It's an i5 with Xe graphics. It actually is a nice little laptop. I got it when my ipad pro died as I wanted to just use my windows apps. I would of wished to get an AMD APU in it. lol.
"Hey I bought you a laptop but I need to... er.. check it ...works properly first" "OK sure just make sure it turns out then I'll use it." "Sure...." *10 hours later* "And like always... thaaaaanks for wa-" "I thought you were just testing it out? and who the hell is this ETA Prime anyway?"
I went with the LOQ. Besides battery life it smokes this laptop for less money. 2x 2280 m.2 slots, 2x ddr5 ram slots and 1x 2042 slot. Bigger screen, 4050/4060 gpu. Also no power button design flaw.
When it comes to the emulators, can you test Yuzu emulator for the next time. It is worth it for the benchmarks due to its early stage and improving. Yuzu certainly needs a lot of RAM and good GPU. It certainly does a heavy load for my old GTX 750ti. Can only run it nicely with GTX 1650 on my HP Pavilion Gaming laptop.
This has been a great rebound year for laptops when it comes to pricing, performance, and availability. Hopefully desktops will follow.
If this laptop didn't have the ram soldered to the board I would have bought it myself recently. Nice little machine for sure.
Msi modern 14 B5M ryzen 7 5700u ram not soldered to the board.
was about to say this. it'd be basically a perfect low end unit for me if the RAM wasn't soldered and i could upgrade.
just get the 16gb model
The RAM is soldered because people who buy this want a thin portable unit to use the pen, for instance, Artists who are on a budget.
Absolutely terrible decision to solder the ram. Completely ruined the hardware, who cares about slim laptops damnit. Go use a paper notebook
I have this laptop and love it! The form factor is perfect and the battery life is incredible! I too wish the ram wasn't soldered but I would still love to see a video of opening it up and seeing what the inner workings look like. Get a look at how easy a storage upgrade would be. Great video as always!
Oh, uh, well. You need a torque screw driver to open the back cover. There are 8 screws (or is it 9 screws), and once all the screw is removed, you should be able to open the back cover by carefully prying the latches away. Inside is kinda bare. The RAM chips are covered with its own heat sink. There is an M2 slot and an adapter so you can rotate it to fit M2 2280 SSD from M2 2242 SSD. Fan is serviceable by removing 1 or 2 screws which makes maintaining and cleaning the fan easier. There's a huge battery pack (almost covering half of the system). There's a CMOS battery but unfortunately, it was sealed with two cables with a plug connected to the motherboard.
how long did the battery life last ?
Wife "A new laptop, thankyou.....wait, did you buy this used?"
ETA "No, i just tested the living shit out of it"
Definitely a fantastic and capable laptop I love the small size and the 2 in 1, I just wish it was a little more premium in terms of styling. Sucks that the hp envy doesn’t have this level of perfomance, but kills it in terms of looks
soldered memory to the board is always a deal breaker for me. laptops in 2021 should come with 16gb minimum to keep this machine working great on windows. the next model up is 100$ to get 16gb of memory and a better processor.
@ConManliness you could but you would end up paying more for the ram, solder, flux and with a lower end processor. It would save you time and money just paying the additional 100$
I voided the warranty right off and put in a evo980 1tb and boosted the bios. The screen colors is what sold me. It has the nice blacks. 👍
How did you boost bios ? The performance mode he talks about ?
I got the 5700U version a year ago from Best Buy , I brought it for productivity and schoolwork. It’s an extremely portable and light laptop, don’t do any gaming on it so it was cool to see some benchmarks here
Hi , Does this comes with stylus pen. Thanks
Even at 720p games look sharp, because of that pixel density at 13 inch
Blown away by this thin and light and small touch laps ability.❤️ AMD for pushed the CPU technology too far without GPU.
I actually have this exact laptop. It's nice to see something good said about this laptop
I'm looking to buy it now is it still working well?
@@joetheclown1 yeah works like a charm for me. Just find it it on sale first before you decide to buy it.
Ouch, $599. I was looking at laptops with the same specs that were upwards of $450. But HP branded and without the touchscreen. Your wife will definitely be happy to receive this laptop!
I got the 5700U/8GB/512GB version of this laptop on sale & it is crazy good for the money.
I have the prior version with a 4650u pro and i LOVEEEEEEEEE IT such a nice little laptop 13.3 is my fav form factor
I needed a lightweight laptop since my old Dell died. I looked at the specs, price ($396 open box excellent condition at Best Buy), and I ordered it. Can't wait to get it. Great video by the way. SUBSCRIBED!!!
Did you get the laptop delivered. I also want to buy the used one is it working fine and if you play games can you tell how is it.
@@masoomraza362 Hey, it did arrive. It works just like new, and it still has the warranty. As for the playing any games, I haven't played any on it yet.
I also ordered a larger drive (1tb is the max capacity for it. Be aware that its an NVMe PCIe M.2 2242 drive not a standard pc size; its smaller).
Oh, the video didn't mention it, but active pens/stylus (Bamboo pen) work on this computer perfectly. Good luck.
@@nothingspecial_0 thanks for letting me know i am planning to buy this one soon
@@nothingspecial_0 might wanna consider the Lenovo deal for the Ryzen 7 5700u 16gb/1tb version for $670. Need to use codes YOGA6BFSP2 & HOLIDAYOFFERS for that price.
I’m really impressed with the 5500u laptops right now. My testing of them has been really surprising me.
I just bought one of these used, in excellent condition, for $140. Very happy with it.
@@morphineisgod you made out like I bandit I just bought one at Best Buy open box for $315 and I’m still very happy with it
Lit uh ruh lee first. It said 1 view lmao.
Also, I have this laptop and I love it! Not a bad little guy for such a small APU laptop. Gets some decent emulation performance and better than expected performance on several modern games. It's also my little FFXIV machine.
Hi
I got the same unit with 5700U, 1tb SSD and 16gb of RAM at roughly 926USD,
Also a gift for my father, he won't probably play games but I think it's plenty powerful for office work.
I have the notepad in 5500u has 1 socket for a sim, but only accepts a 4gb for a total of 12. Love the 5500u performance. I run it with a laptop cooler at 40 watts tdp. Most things are playable on it at lower settings. I have played though cyberpunk 2077 a few times on it. Really happy with it.
I'm not sure about you, but I think Ryzen 7 5700u is a better choice. But this 2 in 1 laptop is a beast. I'm also using 1 with Ryzen 7 4700u and 16GB RAM.
5700U is an awesome chip, I wish i could have gotten this with the 5600 or 5700
How is the stylus? And genshin impact?
@@ETAPRIME I think mines the ryzen 7 5800H mine came with rtx 3060 I added a wd black sn750 1tb drive and then I have 256gb nvme ssd the Alienware m15 r5 ryzen edtion it's a very fast laptop
Yeah, it would have been a better choice, but given the worldwide semiconductor shortage, I think that it'll do for now.
@@ANabih-uo3zy Genshin Impact is playable, actually, you can set everything to high and play in 1080p 30fps. However, particle effect may drop the frame a little. I use medium setting and play in 720p just to get it to 60fps constantly. If you have 5000 series Ryzen, I think it can do better.
As for the stylus, it's just okay, but not great. I'm thinking of getting Microsoft Surface Pen to see if it works because Surface Pen is quite robust with its rubber tip and have eraser.
I just got this for $430 from Best Buy. I wanted a windows that was also touch screen to compliment my mac. I’ll probably end up using this one more day to day though.
Was it worth it? I wanna replace my chrombeook for windows and this seems like the best option to me.
I really like these lenovo 2 in 1's but would've been nice to have upgradeable ram.
Great Review!! Straight to the point and very informative!! Great job.
Small reminder, any laptop 5300, 5500, and 5700 U or H processor is actually a 4400/4600/4800 U/H This is actually a good thing. Compared to the 4000 series, where a 4700U was just a 4800U with hyperthreading disabled, which could mean a 10-40% performance loss at a similar power usage because of binning. the only real difference here is Zen2 to Zen3, which, at most is a 30% performance difference, but that does come with lower power usage, which is great for a thin and light tablet/convertible
There's also a noticeable difference in the iGPU side of things (5500U > 4600U).
I just got this for Xmas & I must say this lil thing got some power OMG
Happy Christmas Eta prime
Happy Holidays! thank you
merry xmas eta prime ♥.
in my opinion, i think radeon 7 will perform better in games than what we saw on the video if it was running on a dual channel memory, too bad there is no extra slot for ram.
I consider buying this but I want to run Pop OS. It would be nice to see any Linux on this laptop, to see if the fingerprint reader is working etc.
Yes, that would be nice
Fingerprint reader is unlikely, but the rest should work. I have a t480s that I tried that on a while back, and... no dice.
Lenovo is one of the go-to brands for Linux compatibility, though it might fare better on RHEL distros like Fedora as that's the de facto variant in the enterprise world - You rarely see OEMs target anything other than that or SUSE, especially in the consumer scene which frequently has Windows-only configurations.
@@zacharyberridge7239 I'm not giving up hope 😂😂😂
@Joseph Sakata Thank you very much for the info! I must go for 2 in 1, so Thinkpads are out of question. You have ruined my day with this info :) :) :)
Alternatively: If gaming isn't necessarily needed, then the Samsung Flex Alpha 2 has also gone on sale on best buy through the Holiday for the same sale price as the Lenovo. i5, 8gb, 256gb ssd QLED screen which is very nice for consuming content. It's a 2 in 1 and is lighter than the Samsung S7+ with its keyboard cover attached. On sale - it's a good alternative to the Surface Pro or a Tablet with a keyboard depending on your use case. Same for the Lenovo in this video ( although it's quite a bit heavier and doesn't have the screen that the Flex 2 Alpha has)
8gb ram can't even run Chrome
@@ovadyarachman7243 That's because Chrome isn't a good browser.
@@ovadyarachman7243 Says the person who just watched a video by ETA Prime showing off a machine running on 8gb of Ram. :) - Friend, you will have a lot of companies to gripe with because most are shipping laptops with 8gb of ram. particularly those in the $500-$1000 price range. For general productivity 8gb should be fine. Power users should opt for 12-16gb ( especially for running multiple programs and/or browser windows open. )
@@TheReal_FishFins I just loaded up 8 fire sticks, and two handhelds using a windows 8 netbook with 2gb of ram and had like ten tabs open in chrome, retroarch and qbittorrent running at all times for days on end. Tf are you talking about?
@@bostownmassive I agree for general use comsumer ,8gb ram is fine but if u have to run more apps at the same time ,you quickly realise that u need at least 16 gb ram,I made the mistake to buy a 8gb ram instead of 16 gb ram as I have to use more demanding apps at the same time ,Therefore I had to buy a new laptop with 16gb ram .
Great looking laptop. Like the design on the back of the screen.
This man love retro games and emulation
ETA PRIME please make a video about your retro and emulation gaming setup
I have had this Yoga 6 since October here in Japan. Ordered it in June but the delivery date slipped to December 2021 (Shock). if you live in Japan, I ended up getting it with office on lenovo's Rakuten page for a little cheaper (original order from lenovo Japan didnt include office but I cancelled it) Edit: it was weird watching in the desktop in full screen because it feels like I was using my own yoga 6 ! Plus ETA, you should have done the peanut butter challenge.
you don't need to go into bios to turn on perf mode , there is official lenovo utility "vantage" or something
Good stuff man.. good stuff.. have nice holidays . Greetings from Greece!!
I came across this for an amazing deal at Best Buy, but the soldered RAM is really holding me back here. Is it worth it for $425?
Hello, can you please cover gaming laptops too ? Like that Dell gaming one, I really like your reviews
You didn't seem to mention it, so i'm not sure if it's just me being sensitive coming from a high refresh rate gaming monitor - but isn't the ghosting on this quite bad? I noticed the mouse cursor trailing the instant i turned it on for the first time.
I don't really notice it doing media consumption, it's mostly just the mouse cursor trailing or when moving a window around that the trailing shows.
if you want good gaming performance on an apu, look for the used T or E thinkpads with ryzen 3000 or newer (ideally 4000) because lenovo turns the APU’s TDP from 15 W to 25 W, which can smooth out the frames somewhat.
Disappointed that the ram is soldered in place, other than that, this is a great little machine. Absolutely love the look and feel, but most of all I will benefit from the portability as my job will require something very portable.
Bro if you have it how long does the battery last and is the laptop shown in the video referring to the 8gb ram one if so does gta 5 actually run in 60 fps?
I recently purchased this laptop for my niece who is adventuring into art. It arrives at her house tomorrow!
What emulators were you using? She likes to game but cannot afford any systems. Did you use an XBox controller while playing the emulators?
Thank you for making this video!
Cant wait for Ryzen 6000 come to the laptops with Radeon 600 gpu series. It will rock
The thing that confuses me about this laptop is it's Plastic & cloth vs Lenovo's usual metal in the Yoga line- that's not me complaining about that "premium feel" people go nuts for, it's just odd that AMD is the one that gets this chassis.
The actual complaint I hear about this is the brightness of the monitor being limited to 300nits- because it's advertised at that but it's actually a bit lower.
I like your channel and appreciate your reviews - I just want to mention, that I get very nervous whey fps drop under 150 in cs.go :-D it's alls subjective ofc, but competitive shooters like cs.go are a different playground.. keep up the good work
Heh, I just got my fiance a similar laptop upgrade for her birthday 2 months ago. Her old one was a 17" HP with a dual core Bulldozer era AMD APU and 4GB RAM in single channel. Upgraded her to a 15" HP Envy with a 5500U and 16GB RAM in dual channel. It's lightweight, has great battery life, and handles everything she does with ease.
Dude you have a wife congrats
How's Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5i Core i5 11th Gen - 16 GB/512 GB SSD? I'm considering purchasing it.
The only thing I wish it had was the PgUpPgDn buttons that their thinkpad line had and it would be close to perfect. And maybe 16x10 ratio since that's basically necessary for productivity now.
I just got my mom 15in hp amd 5500u!
did you do anything special to get the emulators running so smoothly--particularly the wii u emu? i too have a copy of botw on this very machine, and it barely broke 12fps
I just bought this but the maxed out version with Ryzen 7 7000 series graphics and it's ok not bad
Love the fabric top and color scheme. Unfortunately they put a soft touch coating on the palm rest which will degrade like every other soft touch coating out there and become sticky. Complete deal breaker for me.
You were playing very good Horizon 5.
My yoga with 4700u got 1123 / 6315 (vs yours 1093 / 5214) in Geekbench 5, but it has 16GB 4266Ghz LPDDR4X memory.
Think might be sold on this been looking for gaming laptop
There are 2 variants of dis Yoga 6 :
- Yoga 6 with faux leather 13 inch,
- Yoga 6 non faux leather, with AMD Ryzen5 5500 14 inch, (buy dis one, it's more worth than de first one)
You should've tested Linux on it for us Linux users. I'm looking into this machine, but don't know how well it works with Linux.
OMG YOU HAVE HE EXACT SAME ONE I DO i have that jean cover and i really like it. Yu got literally the same one i have except a 5500u instead of 4650u.
Where have you been before I bought mine lol
I have the higher version of this
Ryzen 7 5700U
8 Core 16 threads
16GB RAM
512 NVME SSD
I use it mainly for work and bought it around the end of October. It is fantastic for me. Unfortunately, I didn't really have time to test it's gaming performance just yet. I only did 1 benchmark for FFXV and confirmed it ran horribly on it lol. I know it is not meant for gaming and I don't game on laptops unless I have too anyway and I don't mind doing it on a lower quality.
I used to have a Yoga 500 I think it's name was, 14 inch, It was great too until it died a few months ago "some hardware upgrade went horribly wrong" and just needed to buy the new one recently and I can say it is substantial upgrade for me.
There are only a few cons for me personally after almost 2 months of use
1- The screen is noticeably smaller for me compared to 14 inch and I should've considered it more carefully but it's not bad. Better for tablet use though.
2- I hate that to use main functions like page up and down and so on, I have to use fn key. It is not great for productivity without an external keyboard.
3- The fans work at 100% most of the time because of the compact design and the heat can be annoying sometimes.
Pros:
1- VERY light
2- The battery life is AWESOME.
3- It is a power house in terms of performance in a tiny package :)
all my opinions are personal and for my use cases and I LOVE it.
If anyone wants to know anything specific about this tiny beast hit me up ;)
Thinking of purchasing the 2023 model of the Yoga 6 with the Ryzen 7 7730U and 16GB RAM, do you think it’s a good purchase for $899?
I think it's quite a good deal on a laptop better than that yoga 3 14 I got in 2015 I guess
Although the specs on this laptop make it a beast, I felt the build quality on the IdeaPad and Yoga series are bit lower than what HP and Dell have to offer.
Galaxy S8 Tab Ultra and Galaxy Book 2 and Galaxy Book 2 (360) in January-February
You should note that the 5500U is just a renamed 4500U...5600U and 5800U are actually 5000 series CPUs but 5500U and 5700U are just renamed 4000 series...
What about iGpu ?
Do it Lenovo!!!💻❤🙏✊
Can you please help me, I have this same laptop today, and I play plugged in on intelligent cooling mode, and the games run fine but out of nowhere start lagging a lot and go back to normal, it happens alot, it doesn't happen in battery saving mode however the fps is lower
I've got this laptop but it hardly playes any game with good fps why does it happen?
A bit late but I have this laptop and have been searching high and low for an emulator I can use on it. I have the emulator you have for PS2 games but whenever I try to load a game it says "Failed to create render device. This may be due to your GPU not supporting the chosen renderer (Vulkan), or because your graphics drivers need to be updated.". Any tips?
Ryzen 3 5425U 2 In 1 Laptop how do I add more storage to it idk where to find the name I loomed on the labels on the bottom idk where else to check its tuning windows 10 pro activated and its on 256gb and I need more I have a sad for the plug their are 2 m.2 slots but when I try adding more storage it just destroys the mother board and I have to switch the mother board every Time I try it
Hi, I don’t know much about computers, but would getting 16 gigs of ram help with gaming?
How much did you snag this for?
Realizing how prices fluctuate so much. Its running $750 at my best buy currently
Hi! I have a question about the battery performance. How long does it last? if I do word processing and net browsing. And is 8gb ram too bad for windows 11? Thanks!
I installed retroarch on my laptop "Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3" ryzen 5600h and gtx 1650 but still all games are running with lag even gba(mgba core) without charger. Is any fix to this problem, i updated my all drivers still retroarch give low performance without charger.
Going from a 17 inch screen to a 13 inch is going to be quite the adjustment.
Hi! When I first bought this laptop i had pretty good fps while gaming, but now i have fps drops, it can be running at 30-100 fps then it drops to like 1-10 and it happens every 1 minute so i am not gaming on it bc i cant its so annoying, any solutions???❤❤❤❤
Do a battery life section for each device, badly needed. Thanks.
Are you sure you are running these games on the 8gb ram version and not 16gb??
Hey! I am planning to buy this one with the Ryzen 7 5700U CPU 16GB RAM, I will mostly use it for productivity for media consumption and some photoshopping. Ocassionally though I am gonna play Minecraft, CSGO and GTA 5 on it, will it be okay or shall I look for something like a Legion 5 (gaming laptop) or so?
Would you recommend the ryzen 5700u?
cool review. I hope you put the clock speed back down for your wife other wise she's gonna think the battery sux :p he loads a youtube video in a youtube video in a youtube video.... entire internet crashes
I got the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga Titanium. It's an i5 with Xe graphics. It actually is a nice little laptop. I got it when my ipad pro died as I wanted to just use my windows apps. I would of wished to get an AMD APU in it. lol.
Would personally like to know how you got these games on the PC
Does this thing support a pressure sensitive pen? Like the optional pen on some old elitebooks
How do you unlock ur fps? Im only getting 35-40
@ETA PRIME question, with a budget laptop like that do you think that Destiny 2 would run on it. Could you do a play test of that game?
Froza looking like a Telltale game lol
been thinking if this can be a secondary gaming android machine
install android x86 now got a 13 inch phone do multi touch works?
270 on ebay got me sold bruh ong
"Hey I bought you a laptop but I need to... er.. check it ...works properly first"
"OK sure just make sure it turns out then I'll use it."
"Sure...."
*10 hours later*
"And like always... thaaaaanks for wa-"
"I thought you were just testing it out? and who the hell is this ETA Prime anyway?"
I went with the LOQ. Besides battery life it smokes this laptop for less money. 2x 2280 m.2 slots, 2x ddr5 ram slots and 1x 2042 slot. Bigger screen, 4050/4060 gpu. Also no power button design flaw.
Time Spy is a much better known score we can compare with, IMO
You were looking a bit short of arrows in Skyrim
ETA. You can sell a lemon 🍋 and I buy it
When it comes to the emulators, can you test Yuzu emulator for the next time. It is worth it for the benchmarks due to its early stage and improving. Yuzu certainly needs a lot of RAM and good GPU. It certainly does a heavy load for my old GTX 750ti. Can only run it nicely with GTX 1650 on my HP Pavilion Gaming laptop.
Looks great was looking for new Ryzen laptop for gaming, personal and work. I m looking for Ryzen that supports pen and had 1080p webcam. Any ideas?
Do you have a video/links for your dolphin emulator?
Dalsim would be proud
The 5500u doesn't support av1 hardware decoding so how come there are not dropped frames in 4K? wow
Would this be good for photo and video editing?
What software did u use to show fps?