The stand closes like the door of a Porsche 911 and the Intel sticker is on the underside of it. Someone on the design team was definitely mentored by David Hill!
£120ish on UK ebay with i5 8gb. Cheaper and more powerful than its Surface competitors with all the cool form factor and some promise of serviceability. What a hidden gem.
It's indeed a hidden gem ! I came across one (the i5 8250U version) on an ebay auction in the beginning of 2024 and won it for only 80€ and have to say wow it must've been the best laptop deal on a modern laptop I've made ever ! I'm impressed: Samsung NVME SSD + i5 8250U (no more dual cores yay, that's why I won't look for earlier than 8th gen Intel in the forseeable future) + all the things you mentioned in the video... I only wish I had a tad more battery and replacable RAM, or the 16GB version sooo... I gave it to one of my relatives who does mostly office & web stuff. It's in goods hands and should be plenty powerful for that usecase :) Now I wonder what similar model exists today, with a good price to performance ratio haha ! Maybe some Intel 11th gen based tablet/lapop ?
same CPU as my T480s, which was a real winner from March 2018 - just recently sadly, as my needs increased I saw slowdowns even with the i7-8550u, and had to begrudgingly upgrade to the P14s gen 2 i7-1185G7 in Nov imho, the i7-8550u just isn't fast enough anymore
I think it really depends on the software you are using. I am on a T570 running 30+ hours/week and I do photoshop, programming, illustration, video editing all the time and it performs still quite well. 1080p video editing is the limit though and the cpu is almost always boosting. But I hope that I get my work done for some more years.
Sorry for bumping this old thread but I agree with @@Olivander12. I bought a second hand Miix 520 and after using it for document editing, Photoshop, browsing, and some "light games" for a month, the i7-8550U still holds okay. It might just because I had the 16GB model but if you're not pushing it beyond its limit it will still feel snappy. My limit would be playing The Sims 4 on full resolution and medium setting, and I still manage a stable 60 FPS on that.
When I tested it they weren't show stoppers and that's to be expected given the form factor, but serviceable. I don't have the device any longer to provide more details beyond what you'd find on the spec sheets.
Yoga devices always had me confused - with a name like that I assumed all of them are 2in1 or transformer kind of device with a touchscreen, but there are classic laptops in the lineup as well. Most of them are a nice middle ground between cheaper Ideapads and business Thinkpads. I imagine if anyone wants a MIIX 520, 8th gen CPUs are preferable, as these are the oldest ones still supporting Windows 11. I haven't used 11 yet, but I assume Microsoft wants to make it more tablet friendly than 10 was. There is something about Windows tablets that makes me want to have one (I had one once, but settled for a "proper" 15-inch Legion laptop lately, as a desktop replacement). Maybe the fact that in worst case scenario, you can actually use it for most work, as all the usual SW will run here, despite low performance of x86 CPUs struggling in thin cases. Nonetheless, among huge IT corps, Microsoft seems like the only one actually wanting me to freely use their devices whenever I might need to. All the other big players want me to be part of an ecosystem of multiple devices. For whatever reason, google has both Android and Chrome OS, and Apple, despite using pretty much the same ARM CPUs in all their devices nowadays, still limits their phones and tablets, though they could run full MacOS without breaking a sweat. But a Windows tablet? Plug a docking station and an 8th gen i5 or i7 will last you for years as a basic workstation, with multiple displays and devices connected at the same time. Try the same thing with expensive Apple or Android tablet - it will simply duplicate the desktop, sometimes struggling to get your monitor aspect ratio right...
Definitely a hidden gem of the Lenovo line up and yes that hinged stand sounds quality😊
I can't believe this channel going rock! Been subscribe 3 years ago and glad you made it!
Thanks for your continued support.
The stand closes like the door of a Porsche 911 and the Intel sticker is on the underside of it. Someone on the design team was definitely mentored by David Hill!
£120ish on UK ebay with i5 8gb. Cheaper and more powerful than its Surface competitors with all the cool form factor and some promise of serviceability. What a hidden gem.
Nice find!
It's indeed a hidden gem ! I came across one (the i5 8250U version) on an ebay auction in the beginning of 2024 and won it for only 80€ and have to say wow it must've been the best laptop deal on a modern laptop I've made ever ! I'm impressed: Samsung NVME SSD + i5 8250U (no more dual cores yay, that's why I won't look for earlier than 8th gen Intel in the forseeable future) + all the things you mentioned in the video... I only wish I had a tad more battery and replacable RAM, or the 16GB version sooo... I gave it to one of my relatives who does mostly office & web stuff. It's in goods hands and should be plenty powerful for that usecase :)
Now I wonder what similar model exists today, with a good price to performance ratio haha ! Maybe some Intel 11th gen based tablet/lapop ?
Glad you found one. They don't seem well known.
that's now on my short list. I never heard of it before.
For the right price, there's a lot to like.
same CPU as my T480s, which was a real winner from March 2018 - just recently
sadly, as my needs increased I saw slowdowns even with the i7-8550u, and had to begrudgingly upgrade to the P14s gen 2 i7-1185G7 in Nov
imho, the i7-8550u just isn't fast enough anymore
I think it really depends on the software you are using. I am on a T570 running 30+ hours/week and I do photoshop, programming, illustration, video editing all the time and it performs still quite well. 1080p video editing is the limit though and the cpu is almost always boosting. But I hope that I get my work done for some more years.
Sorry for bumping this old thread but I agree with @@Olivander12. I bought a second hand Miix 520 and after using it for document editing, Photoshop, browsing, and some "light games" for a month, the i7-8550U still holds okay. It might just because I had the 16GB model but if you're not pushing it beyond its limit it will still feel snappy. My limit would be playing The Sims 4 on full resolution and medium setting, and I still manage a stable 60 FPS on that.
Thanks for commenting!
Nice machine!
Not too shabby I'd say.
How does the speakers sound on it?
When I tested it they weren't show stoppers and that's to be expected given the form factor, but serviceable. I don't have the device any longer to provide more details beyond what you'd find on the spec sheets.
$199 with 8/256 and 8250U,shud i get it??
Why not? 😂
Crazy after one year i found one without keyboard for $89😂😂😂@@LaptopRetrospective
Yoga devices always had me confused - with a name like that I assumed all of them are 2in1 or transformer kind of device with a touchscreen, but there are classic laptops in the lineup as well. Most of them are a nice middle ground between cheaper Ideapads and business Thinkpads. I imagine if anyone wants a MIIX 520, 8th gen CPUs are preferable, as these are the oldest ones still supporting Windows 11. I haven't used 11 yet, but I assume Microsoft wants to make it more tablet friendly than 10 was.
There is something about Windows tablets that makes me want to have one (I had one once, but settled for a "proper" 15-inch Legion laptop lately, as a desktop replacement). Maybe the fact that in worst case scenario, you can actually use it for most work, as all the usual SW will run here, despite low performance of x86 CPUs struggling in thin cases. Nonetheless, among huge IT corps, Microsoft seems like the only one actually wanting me to freely use their devices whenever I might need to. All the other big players want me to be part of an ecosystem of multiple devices. For whatever reason, google has both Android and Chrome OS, and Apple, despite using pretty much the same ARM CPUs in all their devices nowadays, still limits their phones and tablets, though they could run full MacOS without breaking a sweat.
But a Windows tablet? Plug a docking station and an 8th gen i5 or i7 will last you for years as a basic workstation, with multiple displays and devices connected at the same time. Try the same thing with expensive Apple or Android tablet - it will simply duplicate the desktop, sometimes struggling to get your monitor aspect ratio right...