Lol good cpu score,8gb ram 1tb hardrive and windows 10 and people complaining at this price not full HD screen. :man:

heat from me....

anyone had issues with the track pad mouse jumping?

My 2nd one arrived within 2 days and was perfect. Great laptop for the money!

I'm not into MMORPGs so things may have changed from what I've heard in the past which was that specs tended to be kept relatively low to increase potential market share.

guys ended up buying a toshiba s50-b-15n ,its an i5, 1tb hybrid drive, 1080p used but with warranty till april 2018...for the nipper for university..

Just got round to looking at mine. Really happy with it. Don't like the built in lenovo dvd player, but can't work out how to change it.

Ssd in general are more expensive because of usd->GBP rate.This one seems OK, not ideal but good enough and well priced.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01DMQDIGQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1475777172&sr=8-10&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=240gb+ssd

Thanks for all the advice.
Can anyone recommenced a decent SSD from amazon? Got some vouchers i'd like to use. searched the site but only found one deal for a ssd and was £20 more at amazon

​about 2 hours.

how long would that last?

I was checking for a good laptop deal for like 3 weeks... daily!!!

I stop this week for 3 days, and what a coincidence... this appeared and disappeared in that time, damn it!!! :disappointed:

Great value for the price with the student discount.... 2 many fuss bags with there bias reviews unless there is a actual hardware problem or manufacturer fault its great value for cash.. speakers sound great!
Also for anyone like me with a problem using the Dvd drive use this thread to manually update driver
http://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/26287-lenovo-z50-75-no-detect-plds-dvd-rw-da8a6sh.html

The laptop's quality is so-so but the AMD APU is impressive for the price, very snappy. Out of curiosity I tested the laptop in passmark and it scored over 3500 in cpu test (fair enough, my desktop is far quicker but that's level of i5 Sandy / Ivy M's or the newest i3-6xxxU) .It scored almost 950 in gpu 3D, decent for an integrated graphics.

The bad - The keyboard flex is terrible, plastics seems thin, battery is small and the screen is average

The good - on top of performance and VALUE, the speakers - far better than I expected.

No throttling / overheating observed.
Not too much bloatware, just a few programs like McAfee to remove.
Good, seems a keeper.

The first one they sent me had a dead pixel on the bottom right. I returned it, thankfully the replacement was ok.

sending mine back for a replacement... dead pixel bottom left of screen

Windows 10 will guide you through so nothing to worry about, the basic setup is not challenging at all.

Mine arrived how do I set up, I'm a beginner ha x

Hopefully get a better deal for laptops on Black Friday in a few weeks

I wouldn't worry about the offer not being on anymore, it was on offer end of August and will be again soon I expect.

OK cheers...just wanted one for kid

just arrived seems decent quality - tiny battery though.

I tried to cancel although I choose 3 - 5 days delivery but they said not possible to cancel now I have to refuse the delivery

I might be interested...more details please.....or if anyone got the original deal and dont want it ...might take it off yr hand's.let me know

It's 1368x768.

I have an i7 version of this I would be willing to sell for £230 if you really want it and missed out

what's the actual resolution of this laptop is 1280x720 or 1368 x 768 ?

thanks

I can :smiley:

I do not believe in business, multimedia grading now as most manufacturers lowered the quality in general due to falling prices.
Laptop with i5 @£300 has to be nasty as its lower specced version with celeron, pentium or budget amd apu costing £200 will be sharing the same casing and get potentially identical screen and speakers.


I have checked the Z50-75 support webiste and there is a new bios for the Lenovo dated with the end of September 2016, plenty of current drivers so although it may sufferred some teething problems the support is there. I have a good feeling that it's going to be a decent laptop once some attention is given to it.

You are partly right.

G is even lower than Z, I forgot about it.

B is the lowest level for business laptop. It is a different league. You cannot say B is lower than Z.

B and G 50, bear in mind this is 2014/2015 model

Which other series you have in mind are lower than Z?

Lenovo UK now has changed all their model numbers. You have to go back before the change to compare the different series.

It's just a bog standard 1 MP webcam that does 720p. It's decent but not exactly better than your average midrange smartphone front facing camera.

it's not available now

it's not available any more

Do you know what is cam resolution?

​Thought I'd buy this when I got home as I've got an Amazon voucher. It'll still be there...Deal of the Day...8 hours to go. :disappointed:

Would GTA 5 work on this? Because my Toshiba 12.5 inch laptop is able to handle the game with an 8GB RAM i7 processor

120GB is plenty for the C: drive and these start at just over £30 - have a look on Amazon for reviews.

just sorted amazon student out to get more discount and now its oos :')

I'd just convinced myself to buy one....never mind

£325.99 now

1366x768 is classed as a 720p screen.

​Could you recommend an ssd drive for this?

720p Screen lool what is this? My crappy laptop has a 768p screen

I know it sounds incredible but if you read other amazon comments you will see that this is indeed true. I've never seen it before in all the years of building and fixing machines. Even with a clean reinstall of Win10 it will not pickup the cdrive. buy it and see for yourself.

Mine arrived a few hours ago. Got it up and running and installed Planetside 2 which took nearly 2 hours to download just to see if I can play it on low settings. Works well on med settings with most extras turned off. I knew it would tbh since a very old PC of mine with a HD 4670 coupled with a x4 955 seems quite capable of playing it on similar settings. Anyway got it to gift to a family member who is in higher education so it will be perfect.

Should be able to get games like Fallout 4 to run but at native or even below resolution (1280x720) with every setting at minimum with a 15-30 frame rate. I have a A10 8700P laptop which is a later chipset but one down in the model range and I think slightly ahead of this model in performance depending on TDP. The Radeon R7 graphics are part of the APU not discrete and will use system memory. My Toshiba laptop defaults to 512MB for graphics with no option to change.

The Radeon gpu is better than intel gpu's in general. Pretty much standard radeon drivers which means wide support. Where as some games don't support intel gpu's at all or are flaky in operation.

Get what you pay for, I always buy older Thinkpad models because they're bomb proof and even at 3 years old usually look brand new and have good quality metal hinges!

CD drive drivers? what are you going on about? I find it impossible to believe that this laptop is incompatible with every other CD/hard drive in the world as you claim.

Sorry but you either had a faulty machine or you don't know what you're doing, no offence

Just use pcdecrapifier it lists everything and lets you choose what to remove in one operation. I suppose it is similar to other uninstallers but gives recommendations based on what other users have done with a certain program. Www.pcdecrapifier.com

Is the screen g-sync or free-sync?

its sold by Amazon so it should come with standard 12 months

I see at the right hand side it has extended warranty options


Sorry forgot to mention, the listing is being sold by Amazon as NEW

log into nus extra for your code and copy and paste into the promo code.

Took mine down to £204 which is a bargain surely?!

Nice of you to classify a whole genre based on a single 12 year old game.
Believe it or not there are actually MMO games using modern game engines.

Is it brand new? Does it come in original box and with full 12 months warranty?

Okay, the reviews might not be great - though for the needs of many office workers, surely it's okay, for £215! - and the ratio of likes to dislikes on Amazon customer reviews (roughly a third are negative or had to be returned due to faults) might give pause but... at that price, I can't not give heat and if you are unlucky and do get a dud, Amazon's returns process is one of the less stressful ones out there. Have some more heat.

I've got a prime student account but I'm not getting the discount at checkout. Any suggestions?

Good point :smiley:

£204.24 with Amazon Student Discount.

Was specifically mentioned in the 'Stuff' review posted earlier...

'Saying that, Dota 2 running on relatively high settings pushed out a measly maximum of 20fps, and around 30-40fps with the sliders turned down, rendering the MOBA game playable, but definitely not ideal for last click lovers.'

Can even replace the 1TB with SSD (use 1TB for Xbox One or PS4) :smile:

blurry screen

Check youtube

Thanks but what are the real differences ? Any benchmarks for both?

Can this play Dota 2,?

Bargain. Thanks OP.

would this play football manager?

I believe Z series is NOT a bottom of the range, it is still a budget laptop, though.

How does it compare to Intel Core i3 (5th Gen) 5010U / 2.1 GHz and Intel HD Graphics 5500?

All Z50 are cheaply built. It is the bottom range.


For the price and specs, it is worth to take a chance.

good specs for the price.

hot.

Been looking for a decent laptop with good specs for two weeks. If it helps this is the best there has been in that time. I ordered. Heat from me.

just cancelled my i3 4gb 128sdd £269 for this. £215 is great and if I can pick up an SDD and a caddy we're in business!!

It has a non-optical DVD drive :wink:

​Complaining because we're British :smile:

More than capable...

Hope it's built better than the z50-70 I got. After about 14 months the hinges got stiffer (with the ingress of dust etc I guess) pulled all the threaded bushes out of the flimsy plastic case. I've had it apart about 4 times adding 2 part apoxy putty and adhesive to strengthen and repair each time. Adjusted hinges now so they are very free moving. Won't buy lenovo again having seen the thin plastic and poor design. Shame as the laptop works well when it's not pulling itself apart.

how is this for just watching movies, yoututbe and internet?

​It's a dirt cheap laptop, what do you expect.

Tremendous value laptop, thanks for posting

720p screen... eurgh

Not sure sorry! Ive only had it around 7 months now so I cannot check.
You may be able to get a new code from your NUS online account and apply again, but like i say i cannot confirm.

I believe your current normal prime needs to run out, and then you can apply for Student prime.
I had a Prime 1 month free trial before applying for my student prime, dont think it matters if you have had prime before.
If you are currently on a trial, try live chat and they may be able to end your membership early so you can apply for student prime. But bear in mind your NUS card takes approx a week to arrive.
There are some other great benefits of the NUS card too! Not just prime :smiley:

Review seems very bad indeed...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Z50-75-80EC0079GE.139806.0.html

Or should i take the hard drive out first?

Sorry I misread... or rather was mislead by EA, they poorly worded it.

from their site
Minimum Specifications

OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 - 64-Bit
CPU: Intel Core i3-2100 @ 3.1GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4 GHz
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive Space Required: 50.0 GB
Minimum Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GTX 460 or AMD Radeon R7 260
DirectX: 11.0

Recommended Specifications

OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 - 64-Bit
CPU: Intel i5-3550K @ 3.40GHz or AMD FX 8150 @ 3.6GHz
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive Space Required: 50.0 GB
Minimum Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270
DirectX: 11.0

https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/news/2016/fifa-17-pc-specs

EDIT*
a 260 mobile is still not powerful enough though

cheers guys. pulled the trigger on this. is it easy to wipe my x53e and stick it on ebay?

Yeah, but the 1 and 2-star reviews are mainly from people who've got faulty products rather than the performance.

Thanks OP have some heat. Just ordered for the in-laws. It'll be perfect for their office and web-browsing and the large screen will help their eyes.

should i grab this for uni work?

​needed to use 2 accounts as only one per account

Just bought 2 of these, actually after checking can't find anything as good value even anything newish refurbished.

Well it's boost clock speed is 3.3Ghz. This will scale back depending on core usage and power draw to 2.1Ghz when utilising all 4 cores (or technically both modules)

As for the DVD driver not been installed this is strange as they are bulk installed.

Does anyone know if Lenovo has locked the BIOS on this laptop to prevent Linux from being installed, like it did on the Microsoft Signature edition laptops?

Can you re-apply the discount after a year? or is it one year and that's that?

That one seems to have a full HD screen. If this one was FHD it would be an incredible price. Still a good deal. Decisions!

I bought this laptop before and it was so awful I sent it back.

firstly it states its a 3.3 GHz cpu but it wasn't, I contacted amazon about this to get this changed and they obviously still haven't.

also it would not recognize the cd drive in windows as the driver was very hard to find and install correctly. In the bios other usb cd/hardrives were not supported, So become very difficult to use Acronis and reinstall windows

was very disappointed :disappointed:

Apologies for going slightly off topic here, but do you know if it is possible to transfer an Amazon account from standard (non student) prime membership to student prime and still get all the benefits e.g. 6 months extra prime, 5% off and 20% off warehouse items? or does student prime only apply to accounts that have never had prime before?

As I have started doing an online course that allows me to apply for NUS card. Not fussed about the other benefits of NUS but if it would get me the student prime that would more than pay for the card and the course. :smiley:

Heated the deal, seems about the best VFM laptop at the moment.

get a drevo x1 120gb from amazon they use high quality hynix memory

Can anyone recommend a cheap SSD to stick in this, prob around 120gb? Looking to keep laptop + SSD <£250. Ta.

I'm a student and have been waiting for a decent deal on a laptop for word processing and processing. This appears to tick all those boxes. Heat added :wink:

If you were fine with your laptops original speed - consider reinstalling Windows(it costs you nothing). Installing SSD drive will make your old laptop way faster than this one. If you would rather buy a new laptop - this is avery good value for your money + you can upgrade it with SSD if you wish.

Actually yes you can just get an SSD, also if you have all your installation discs for laptop, and programs delete windows and do a fresh install this will take the machine back to when you first bought it and it seemed fast. It may be you have no disc but a recovery partition on the hard disc. back up your stuff first though as it will all be deleted.

If it's gonna cost you more than £60 to replace faulty charging port and new battery.. spend the extra £140 and get this mate.

The question is how much will these repairs cost? If Jimbob down the road does them and the machine blows up then you should have bought this. If Probob the specialist does them because he's married to a relative and does it for free, and this is his daytime job then repair. If there is Nobob and you have to look for one again buy this, because labour of @£25.00/ hour minimum parts socket £2.00 tops, battery £30-50 for quality non exploding you may pay @£100.00 for your 6 year old machine.

Emails and web browsing sort of user? Just get an SSD

Hi guys,
Sorry to be another noob asking tech questions. I have a z500 i5 which is approaching 3 years old. It's become pretty sluggish (despite deleting most stuff from it) so I'm looking for a new laptop. Would this offer a decent improvement (cheaper but newer) or would I be better off getting a ssd for my current one? Really appreciate any replies or insight. Happy to try and get more info if needed

review here, up`s and down`s like most stuff I guess
http://www.stuff.tv/me/lenovo/review

help - pics on amazon show an optical dvd drive but not mentioned in the spec- cheers

I cant see it mentioned anywhere that the laptop has a dedicated graphics card. Assuming that its only the GPU integrated with fx7500, the answer is: "AMD has developed a heterogeneous architecture that allows the CPU and the GPU portions of the processor to access the computer’s entire memory space "
According to notebookcheck, in terms of 3D performance, the GPU is roughly as fast as a dedicated GeForce GT 720M.

Minimum Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GTX 460 or AMD Radeon R7 260

The recommended spec was a R9 270

Do you have Student Prime? If not, you can sign up below:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/student/signup/info/ref=st_join_hp_text

You just need to send Amazon a picture/scan of your NUS card, you will get free 6 month free prime trial, then half price subscription.

Also you will get 5% off all orders sold by Amazon themselves.

If you do have Student Prime, you need to get an amazon discount code from your NUS online account and apply it on amazon website, this will remain active for a year.

guys I've got a 6 year old asus x53e and the charger port has gone... needs replacing and re soldering and a new battery... I can get 5% off this... is it worth me getting it replaced or just get one of these?

honest opinions.

There are people who will say the one you linked isbetter. Even if it is , it surely is not worth over £100 more.

I have NUS - how do I use it on Amazon?

Not worth paying £100+ extra unless you get a laptop with SSD. This deal laptop is a good price for a pretty good processor. If you find this laptop too slow in the future :-
1.buy a cheap SSD
2. image the C: drive to SSD
3. replace existing HDD with SSD
4. either put the HDD in an external caddy OR replace the DVD drive with the HDD (in an internal caddy)
If you need a laptop I'd say - good deal.

One question, will this play Minecraft?

Good for you. Great story, "chump"

is it worth spendinf £100 extra for FHD and better processor ?
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-ideapad-510-i3-6100-u-4gb-ddr4-1tb-319-99-currys-2520864
OR THIS ONE
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5497357.htm?storeId=10151&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fstatic%2FProduct%2FpartNumber%2F5497357.htm%3F&cjsurferid=876403471101982024%3A9xDh6hLVBzWt&referrer=COJUN&_%24ja=tsid%3A11674|prd%3A1546795&cmpid=COJUN&catalogId=10001

Hi guys looking for some advice.

Which one would you say is the better the Z50 laptop or Lenovo Ideapad 100 (link below)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Ideapad-i3-5005U-Graphics-Windows/dp/B019WBDLUS/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1475568773&sr=1-4&keywords=lenovo+laptop+100

how this laptop speed compare to 4th generation intel i5 1.60 ghz ----2.30 ghz ?

Don't be a chump. I Can play elite dangerous smoothly on the integrated GPU of a 5200u with 4gb ram, this will be a lot better in most games and play quite well at native resolution with some options turned down.

Mobile graphics cards are always slower than the full desktop card. this is to cut the heat produced, run down the battery slower and because they have no actual RAM of their own (borrows from the systems total RAM).

Have you ever watched Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy? SPOILER ALERT!
In Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy the question posed of "what is the answer to life the universe and everything?" gave a disappointing result of 42. this was because the question was flawed and so could not be answered. that is why the earth was created, to discover what the question itself was.
you however don't need to go to those lengths to make your question mane sense... you just have to say which version of fifa you are asking about.

btw if its fifa 17 not a cat in hells chance because minimum spec is r9 270 (proper graphics card not mobile). while it will probably load it would probably be a horrific experience on a r9 260 onboard (mobile) graphics chip.

This may seem like a stupid question but is the graphic card good for gaming

thanks very tempted

Thanks.

Any bloatware issues with these?

I do not think this has a HDMI port.

Looking at the pictures, it shows conflicting keyboards, does this have a number pad or not? It makes a diffrence to me.

​would it play fifa? I don't understand which graphics cards are better and what the "mobile" graphics cards equate to so struggling to know whether specific laptops would play fifa.

£204.24 with NUS discount - Bargain :smiley:

MMOs tend to not be too demanding, even the recommended spec is a few years old hardware wise.

Played World of Warcraft Legion just fine for me.

tempted but reviews are putting me off

Seems like a bargin for £215, good find!

Apologies, Lenovos page did mention a Full HD screen, but I notice another page mentions it being optional. So have amended the title.

Not FHD

Reviews aren't impressive..

good spec for the money. The HDD in these is dog slow, only other issue with the one we had was a faulty gpu that caused blue screens but if you get one that's perfect you can't complain at this cost!

GPU AMD Radeon R7 M260DX? 1gb, 2gb or 4gb?
One of the answers to the question on Amazon states 4gb but one reviewer says 1gb... confusing.

Seller says doesn't come in original box and just 3 months warranty?

Easy enough to click the link and be sure.

Seam to have rattled somebody's cage.

get over it,its not £500 :laughing:

Complaining because it's erroneously in the description.

bought this a month ago for about £15 cheaper, absolute bargain to be honest.

Lol good cpu score,8gb ram 1tb hardrive and windows 10 and people complaining at this price not full HD screen. :man:

heat from me....

Lenovo Z50 Laptop on Lenovo Website

just close the box saying item no longer available

Cheers. Just snagged one.

Where does it say it's 1080p screen?

not full hd it's 1368x768

its HD screen meaning 720p NOT full hd 1080p!

COLD, not 16GB ram..............only j/k, nice for the price!

Looks like a bargain.

Only HD screen. :disappointed: