I've been lurking this one for a few days now. Here's my story thus far. My objective to replace my six year old macbook pro with a cheapish windows laptop that could hopefully last me the next two years and cope with watching you tube browsing the web and listening to pod casts. I was armed with all your kind posts in this thread as to what to expect from the challenge that lay before me. Oh my did I want a cigarette afterwards. You would expect ten minutes tops for a sales rep to find the item I wanted and sell it. Nope :disappointed: Firstly 'what are you using the laptop for' said the sales rep. I replied youtube, browsing the web and listening to podcasts. The sales rep then said come with me sir, err ok I said. The poor young chap had to do his up sell and so it began. 'Could I interest you in 365 office ?' no was my reply. 'Why' he asked. Well I won't be using that software as I told you before but if I was I see software as product not a service. Oh he said. Then you would want word on its own then. But I added no, I don't want it. Ok then how about internet security then Norton / mcafee perhaps ? No thanks. How about our online storage solution then its brilliant. No thanks besides amazon offers it in their amazon prime if I wanted (not sure if they have or do but hey :smiley: Ok then how about I give you all this software for half price ? No. He asks me why. I told him I just want to buy the laptop thats all but I realise he is just doing his job and that although I'm not going to listen to him I will make it look like I am for his benefit. Ok then he smiles awkwardly. Ahem he says ' you do realise that the laptop has a lot of updates it needs to do since it was packaged at the factory ? Oh yea been there done that. Well how about I offer you a memory stick 32gb with all the updates to speed your laptop update alone ? Err no thanks I'll do that my self thanks. Ok then £15 is that better. No I just want the laptop thats all. Ok ' what happens if during the course of updating your laptop the software fails and you can't recover the laptop he said. Well I said I either bring it back to you, boot via the bios via the recovery partition on the hard drive using the Novo button or bring it back to you and your tech people fix it. No he said. I look puzzled and tell him then doesn't that affect my consumer rights and I should go to the relevant people to seek legal advice ? Oh he said err ahem perhaps. He then leaves to find the box with the laptop i want in it. He comes back five minutes later looking puzzled. He can't find it. Is there a problem I ask. Oh its just I can't find the power adapter he said. Oh I say but it should be in the box, the box is sealed right, I'm not buying a new nintendo 3ds. He wanders off again. Ten minutes pass. He returns with the laptop in its box. He take it to the counter and I check the seal on the box carefully. It looks ok. Phew :smiley: Then he tries for the penultimate time to up sell me. Would sir be interested in our accidental breakage cover. Nope :smiley: He then walks away with the laptop to converse with his line manager. I'm feeling annoyed and bad for the kid but I just want out. If reading this isn't torture enough for you it was for me. He comes back to offer me to free months of cover and I decline. Lastly as he is ringing up my purchase he interrupts me to ask if I would like a deal on a mobile phone. I tell him I have one and its tied with my broadband. I lie to him about the wonderful deal I have on a rolling contract and he gives up still smiling. I would never want to work for PC World. I feel sorry for the staff and the customers. Its already been 'emotional' as Vinnie Jones once put it. I don't want to go back ever again you can't make me wha wha wha :smiley:

Just bought a white one for my daughter. Whilst at the store i checked the display unit to find the backlit keyboard didn't work. The assistant checked and confirmed the model does not have a backlit keyboard. The manager offered a refund and gave an excuse about the incorrect specification being a human error.

I bought it anyway and checked it once I got home. DEFINITELY NO BACKLIT KEYBOARD. If this feature is a deciding factor, think again!!!

Don't really get why people keep suggesting the 710 from John Lewis, It's not as if it's just an extra 50 or 100 quid, It's an extra 250, Yes you get extra storage space which we all like, But you need to be sure you need and are going to use the extra 4 gig and the i5 to justify the extra 250, An all balls out gaming rig only needs 8 gig of memory, So why it's felt you need 8 gig in this I have no idea, If you do the occasional bit of photo-editing this will still do, But be fair, If your someone that does loads, Your be sitting at a desktop with a all singing 27" and not a 14" screen.
This will do anything the average person needs it to do with ease, And if I'm gonna go to 600 quid for a laptop, Then I'm going the whole hog for a HP Spectre or XPS 13 and not the 710.

Intel® Core™ i3-6100U Processor
4 GB / Storage: 128 GB SSD

Definitely. Best purchase I ever made, such a smooth laptop. And you can easily upgrade it

Back in stock for £378 would u guys still recommend it?

Hey this is back in stock for £378 would you guys still recommend it?

Sounds like you have a fault somewhere. Mine runs very smoothly. No issues whatsoever.

Is anyone else having issues with their laptop in particular using the internet? Using the internet is near impossible on this thing. It starts up edge or chrome very quickly but when i try to search or open a webpage it takes forever most times thats if it even loads at all. The wifi says its connected ok but 95% it just wont load any pages. I have to reset the wifi all the time and even when i do it lets me do a search on the internet but after that it justs cuts out again. Wish i hadnt bought this thing now, it is just totally unusable for the internet.

don't buy this computer if you use it for writing as the keyboard is awful, the mouse path also doesn't respond to the touch as fast as it should be.

Hi Brian,

I would like to do exactly what you have done. 8gb ram and bigger SSD. Can you advise me on how you went about this and where you bought parts from. Would massively appreciate it

finally got my upgrade done. 8gb ram 525 GB ssd.
did a clean install and updated the drivers.

I will kick my self if it was a num lock issue. I have returned it already. Obviously, the staff were quoting I am not eligible for refund etc
But I did manage to refund at the end.

Try turning num lock off

Can no longer find this on the Currys website, looks like it's oos

Can no longer find this on the Currys website, looks like it's oos

What are you going to use it for though? Professional video editing or something?
Otherwise, this thing is speedy as Gonzalez, it boots up faster than an old MacBook I had with top of the range specs. It can handle 2 or 3 internet browsers with 10-15 tabs running, a torrent client running, kindle running, open office running and a downloaded 1080p hd video on windows media player playing all at the same time absolutely smoothly, not a care in the world.
Still pinching myself that this was 350 quid. It's a great laptop and it's extremely portable

Has anyone found a sd card adapter that sits flush when in the slot.
The one i got of ebay which was "Mini Short For SDHC TF Card Memory Adapter Drive For Macbook Air Up to 64G" still pokes out a lot!!

I didn't mean a better deal on this laptop I meant a better deal on any laptop I don't actually need the touch screen part so can sacrifice the cost of that tech for better under the hood performance as the RAM in this is pitiful and the cpu nothing special

Anyone else have a creaky hinge. My left one makes a noise every time I move the screen.

Any ideas on how to fix?

I have a key6 board issue as y6ou can see.
pressing backspace bring me t5o log in screen. I can't5 use a lot5 of t5he key6s suddenly6.
Only6 bought5 it5 beginning of Jan. What5 is t5he chance of get5t5ing t5his fixed by6 Curry6s wit5hout5 hassle?
Please help

About a month late to the party :wink:

OOS everywhere I've checked. :-(
Bit gutted as I was just about to buy it!

Ram, storage and integrated graphics are fine at this point given the screen and processor on offer. This looks perfect for a day to day laptop, or something to edit photos on.

of course MS are saying their product is the best. you hardly expect them to say it's useless and chrome etc are better!

Only issue I have now is Microsoft Edge. On certain websites you cannot scroll vertically and the scroll bar will just stick. I was going to use a different browser but MS says Edge is the best and fastest browser to use with windows. Lots having same issue but seems no resolution from Microsoft.

Seems to be out of stock unfortunately

You may get a better deal than this in a year's time when this tech is a year older, but now or in the near future you have next to no chance.

I'm amazed. I love this laptop, it's brilliant and I can't believe the price. For the screen alone its worth the price - you'll never find a laptop so portable with an HD screen like this for 350 quid.

You nutter

complaints? it's a brilliant piece of kit for the price.

Ordered mine, came back to check this thread before opening it and decided to get a full refund and wait for a better deal after reading all these complaints haha.

Please could you tell me how to do that. Thank you

Yes :smiley: This is how I use all my laptops.

Cpu and display is OK, but the ram and storage is short. Also dont get why 300+ and even 400+ laptops/ultrabooks doesnt have dedicated gpus. Its totally unacceptable. This product, not hot, just at the price it should be(maybe 30-50 over)...

Absolutely banging deal. Great laptop, and I was using a top of the range mac before it (I broke it), and this is more than an adequate replacement. So chuffed
It's fast and the screen is lovely, and its very portable too. I can't believe the price

Quick question: can this be set to wake when opening the lid? Thanks.

Good point about using large capacity SD cards for data storage. They are quite expensive though in much larger capacities meaning that a SSD was the better solution (for me). It's a shame that SSD's seem to be rising in price at the moment. Wish I'd jumped on a SSD deal back in the Black Friday deals! I guess SSD prices will start to fall again when the NAND memory shortage ends (SSD/HDD/NAND shortages)

The SSD supplied in my Yoga510 is a Samsung unit.. P/N MZYTY128HDHP
I think it is about 5mm thick. The Crucial MX300 525GB unit is 7mm thick which is the same thickness as the caddy that fixes it into place in the laptop. The Crucial SSD fitted without any issues relating to the extra 2mm thicckness.

Hope that helps

I was going to put the point forward that for most people that they could just use a big sd card (if its just data) but it seems ssd's are now cheaper in the bigger sizes than sd. How times have changed.

Thanks for your instructions/experience.

Was your replacement SSD a standard size one? On a Yoga 700 I had, it had a 5mm thick SSD drive, instead of the standard 7mm.

You only need to remove bottom panel from laptop, no other components need removing.. except the disk (of course). See my comments a few posts below... Good luck , if you try :smiley:

Good find on the Hardware Maintenance Manual.. I hadn't spotted that when I upgraded the disk on mine, but I managed anyway without breaking anything :wink:

The procedure is quite straight forward... after cloning the existing SSD onto a larger one and re-sizing partitions. Referring to the manual:-

Remove screws on underside of unit. Page 33 shows the 10 screws located under the laptop. It's worth noting the different lengths else there should be no surprises removing these.

Prising the bottom cover off was fairly easy. As shown on Page 34 prise the front edge off first, as there are small locating clip things on the back edge. I would say that these clips may break if you try to lift back edge first.. so beware! As usual when prising these plastic cases, use a thin plastic opening tool (spudger) working your way around the sides and front edge, then lift up from the front edge. I prefer not to use sharp knives for this sort of thing, as I worry that the knife may slip and damage the internals.. or worse, my fingers/hands :confused:

Page 34 mentions removing RJ45 door.. this is not necessary

Page 44 shows 3 screws being reoved to allow the disk drive caddy to be slid out from the unit. One of the screws on my laptop had a paper anti-tamper thing fitted. Having removed the 3 screws, slide the disk (in its caddy) towards the front edge of the laptop to unplug the SATA interface.

The actual disk is attached to the very flimsy caddy using four screws. Unscrew, swap the drive, replace the four screws, slide the new disk/caddy back into the SATA interface. Then replace the 3 screws that hold the disk/caddy.

Replace the bottom panel inserting rear edge first, and clip down other three sides.

At this point (before replacing the 10 base screws) I checked that the Laptop powered on okay, and booted with my new cloned SSD. Then I replaced the 10 screws in the correct order observing the different lengths (shown on Page 33). Do not overtighten the screws and don't worry about the warnings sbout using a torque driver (on Page 31), unless you are a gorilla. :confused:

I accept the comment made by simonbrowne (above). Very good point, well made. But in my situation I cannot live with the smaller SSD (even after wiping the recovery partition and extending the 'C' drive), so a disk upgrade was essential.

lump's comment about not attempting unless confident is a good one. If you are not confident, then it may be better to purchase the new drive, clone it and change partition sizes. Then take it to a computer repair person who has more experience with taking these things apart.

I posted this earlier in the thread. I'm yet to give this a go on mine.

my view on upgrades is only do it when necessary. 128 should last a long time for most user so upgrading now when you dont have to means you'll be paying a premium compared to what the price may be in 6 month or perhaps youll never need to if you just uninstall unused program's or move data to another computer that is no longer needed on the lenovo. I myself think it great to have all that space (525 gig) on the laptop but the question is do i really need it.

Is it an easy fit? I have never done it on a laptop, some of the guides online for certain laptops show you have to remove lots of components.

Yep, popped a Crucial 525GB SSD in mine.. fits a treat.. About a 30 min job including cloning and fitting.

Price of 1tb version has gone up from £399 to £529 in the last day. Profiteering off the back of HUKD...

don't use a virus scanner never have there more trouble than there worth.

the one you have mentioned does not have as good screen resolution. Bigger, but slower hard driver, lower benchmarking CPU but it does have more RAM
than the one in this deal

http://www.laptopoutlet.co.uk/lenovo-yoga-510-14-convertible-laptop-amd-a9-9410-processor-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd.html

How's this in comparison to the above?

i used avast free for the last several year and that seems to work fine if you want another referral.

I use Windows Defender. It should automatically enable itself when McAfee is uninstalled.

If you have removed McAfee what antivirus are you using?

figured it out in the end. under Affitional Mouse Options - device settings. - settings - multi finger can untick "enable zooming"

wolboy where is the elan trackpad software?
dont see it in apps and features.
the constant zooming is a pain

Update on the laptop all pretty good for the price it's quick once McAfee is removed also deleted the Elan trackpad software it's awful and to sensitive causing you to zoom in and out and other things when in use.

bought one of these. pretty good for Windows 10 but needs more than 4GB RAM. I'm buying 16GB from crucial.
good touchscreen in laptop and tablet modes.

Anyone upgraded the SSD to a larger capacity SSD? If so, what type does it require? 128GB is on the low side - I guess I could just use a portable HDD but having the space internally would be beneficial

Hi I bought this for my daughter for Xmas it's a good bit of kit very fast just as good as apple

Thanks - got delivered today and all seems good - whats the Mcafee live safe thats loaded - seems to be a free product ? Was gonna load up BT Homesafe (mcaffee too) but is there a point of doing this ?

People with issues are more likely to complain so posts here might give distorted view.

Quality issue is not limited to Lenovo. Lenovo build quality on business laptops (ThinkPad) is fabulous but same with all other brands: you do get what you pay for: there is cut-throat competition and the cheaper consumer-grade Dell, HP, Acer Asus, Lenovo ... etc. often are very plastic'y and flex and come with not-do-great touchpads etc.

All these complaints about build quality/faults are honestly depressing. I have mine still in my box with me and I think after reading this thread, I will return it for a refund. I've heard things about Lenovo's poor build quality so I don't want to be wasting my time a few months down the line trying to get it repaired.

Thanks, think I'll return this one instead of messing around with the innards! Thanks again

Just tried mine and it is working fine...

Mine is perfect apart from the fact that when headphones are plugged in the sound only comes out of one ear. Have tried numerous headphones and the guy in currys has said its a fault with the laptop.

Managed to reserve the final one in a store 45 mins away, seems like they are selling out of stock. Just hoping there's no issues with the new one, trackpad, light bleed, etc..

Could anyone try their web cam, mines showing up as an error when trying to open the camera application, it's also missing in device manager, it leads me to believe the camera's wire is loose or something as the module is definitely there

Thanks, I was just looking at those.

SSD stands for Solid State Disk, in simplest terms it's a Hard Drive (aka the storage) but with no moving parts, this has two major advantages, 1. it is a lot faster, opening programs and starting and shutting down the computer is much much quicker, and 2. because there is no moving parts you don't have to worry about the computer being picked up and moved about while it is on which is perfect for these type of 2 in 1 devices which are designed to be picked up moved about while running.
The disadvantage is that at the moment they are more expensive than Hard Drives so you get less storage for your money, that's why this comes with only 128GB, only you will know if that is enough for what you keep on the computer but for browsing the internet, films, tv shows and streaming this laptop will be great, and it will probably be plenty of space.

Also ssd increases battery life, reduced noise coz has no moving parts and operates much quicker than hdd

I do believe its a software issue and not a hardware issue so dont want to risk getting a replacement thats in worse condition such as one with a light bleed problem

First time ive used ssd and im never goin back. From shut down to everything loaded in literally 3 seconds. Thats not exagerating. Probs more important than i3 to i5 but i hav no idea. Thats talking about this laptop alone so can't compare with anything else.

Went to get a replacement cos of touchscreen issues but they didnt hav a replacement in stock. Want to continue to use it and mayb just try reinstalling wind 10

Very tempted by this to replace my old Toshiba laptop...Might sound like a daft question but whats SSD. My laptop is 500gb....Im kind of out of touch when it comes to laptops! Itll mainly be used for internet, films, tv shows and streaming.

for the small amount of effort involved, I would factory reset it..

do i hav to factory reset my laptop before handing it back to currys or shall i just trust them?

Did you upgrade your SSD? Did you find the drive was a bit fatter than the one it replaces?

I updated the trackpad driver from the Lenovo website, which actually broke it. It became very difficult to move the cursor, so I rolled it back to the factory driver.

All because I wanted the option to "double tap" to right click, which actually isn't a driver issue.

Anyone able to have access to the camera? Receiving an error when trying to, also the device isn't even found in device manager..

I askd here in case it was a normal software glitch that has nothing to do with the laptop.
But i think i will replace it b4 i go over the 14 days

I'd get it replaced. Just one fault is unaccepable. Don't let your branch mess you around.

I also have that flickering pause/play button as well. Not bothered about it really.

I found that the touch screen randomly starts acting up like right clicking everywhere etc But occures rarely.

Any1 else hav touch screen problems? Might ask for a replacement. Still within 14 days.

Very fast laptop and nice build otherwise.

Quite possibly, I'm not sure as I was really tired when I first typed up my experience that morning. The laptop is doing pretty good this end and I got some internet security from kaspersky on amazon for £13 to cover three devices mac and windows which is also working out pretty good too. Pretty surprised the deal is still on at curry's. Looks like alot of people are having bad experiences with their customer service too :disappointed: I can't help thinking that I could have brought a smart phone with me to play the family fortune wrong answer buzzer sound every time the sales person did something wrong. I really missed an opportunity there. Although I still don't ever want to go back in there ever again :disappointed:

You missed a whaaaaaaa off the end.

​If you've purchased for home delivery , you'll be fine, it's only for click and collect. The sales staff seem to be trying to sell off a useless usb stick for an extortionate amount of money, when you can make one yourself for free, just be persistent

I have ordered mine now for delivery Monday - I am concerned though about all this USB talk - can anyone shed any light as I am confused

Hi
Me and my partner bought one each and both had an issue with the touchpad. It stopped working and the cursor arrow would only move a tiny bit. I went into the device settings, changed the touchpad settings to default then went into device manager and searched for drivers. It said I had the best version of the driver available. Then a box came up saying I need to restart for updates to take effect. After the updates on both machines the touchpad seems to be ok. However I have read on forums about some kind of ongoing issue with the touchpad on Yoga models. No idea if it is Leonovo or Windows causing the issue but if it happens again we will return them.

When is this deal going to end lol

I got an 8 GB sodimm from Amazon.hyperX Impact for £46

Any particular RAM modules you would recommend? Crucial seems to be pricey.

its a 5 minute job ..max. just be careful taking the cover off the ram.

How difficult is it to upgrade RAM overall? 4GB feels quite slow, I mean not that it is slow, just the fact that my memory is at 90% usage almost all the time. SSD helps tremendously because even at that usage everything opens fast, but it would be nice to have 8GB.

just upgraded my ram. be careful doing it. it's covered by a silver case in the middle of the MB. there are clips each of the long sides. be careful pulling them back. a small flat head screwdriver on the short side lifts it up. there are then plastic clips holding the ram in place. all I need now is my broadband back to get an ISO made for my 525gb ssd.

Think a couple of people had mentioned that the cashback hadn't tracked for them and I was the same until yesterday when it finally did, 6 days after buying it.

I mentioned before about the screen seeming dull and, now that I've compared it to another 1080p screen laptop, it's actually that there is a bit of a yellowish tinge to the colour. Does anyone else have the same problem? I can't tell if it's just not the best quality of screen or if it's a simple case of needing to adjust the colour or something. I've tried that though and it doesn't seem to improve :neutral_face:

got mine today tried the hard sell of extras must of taken 30 minutes to purchase the thing!! Anyway three laptop is great for the money once McAfee is removed plus the trial office. Also turned off the mouse magnifier it's annoying when using the track pad.

​it fixes the issues the guy needed resolving

Agree re charger. Might get a replacement like this.

That plug you get with it is proper insane.

Happy with mine but could do with a different mains adapter as the it comes with is horrible for plugging in tighter spaces. Any recommendations?

Why? It's the experimental version, not suited for home users - the regular version/release channel of Chrome is stable, Canary is not:
"Canary is designed for developers and early adopters, and can be prone to breakage."

It worked great did some basic software installed n uninstalled mcafee n office battery showing
6 hours life and machine fast enough
No back lit keyboard

Download Chrome Canary

No need to connect mains first - it just works. Can't remember when Office would come bundled with software, but if you use Office with work you may be able to get the 'Home Use' version for around £10 (I've seen it on HUKDs before too).

Also, Currys are a bloody nightmare - I get the staff have been told to ask these Qs, and they work with commission too, but how many times do they have to be told " I know about PCs, I don't want you to sell me any extras, I don't need them" - also being told by one member of staff they don't do white, and another when and got it a minute later.

The bundled USB i think is actually useful to those not into making their own recovery usbs - I certainly could have done with it instead of wiping all my data because I couldn't be bothered to make the usb myself early on.

Great laptop though - no slowdowns, great screen and looks good in white

I think the battery won't activate until you connect to the mains first.
I agree about that programs. Once upon a time it was given that you got Office with a new computer but now, although the program is installed, you have to subscribe for license. Open office for me I think.
I got Mcafee free for a year but after that I will probably just install Avast.

I got one today went to collect reserved OnE in my sleeping clothes
She did tell me these days machines don't come with anything installed n very useless n vulnerable but they can get me office n antivirus
They didn't try to well me any USB etc but did try on insurance
Little disappointed about hard to upgrade ram unit had no charge in battery so haven't tried yet will report in couple of hours

I had the a similar problem on my end too. I don't remember all the steps I did but I do remember having to access the bios, run the motherboard in legacy mode set the boot order to usb first (to access the windows ten iso I downloaded from the microsoft website) and go into command prompt to access the hard drive. Here it had the hard drive with one partition at 114gb i think. In command prompt I had to set that partition to clean before I could install the windows iso I had made from the microsoft website to a usb stick. I also discovered that lenovo doesn't have a recovery image on their website for this laptop which is the 510 14isk. Looks as if the think pad is the yoga in other parts of the world.

Looks like a dodgy Windows install issue. I'll be wiping mine and doing a clean install asap. Between Lenovo and PC World, god only knows how it's been setup and what's lurking on there.

same thing spontaneously happened to me. I just returned to Currys for a replacement

Adding the stupid recovery stick might be a good excuse to sell a returned one. Most of the customers would not notice the light bleed or coil whine (for Dell laptops)

Finally relented after a week of trying to find something better and bought at PC World Winchester having reserved.

Was briefly asked about AV etc but said no and thought everything was going smoothly until the assistant came back sheepishly to the till and claimed that they only had the previously setup machines left i.e. with a recovery USB and suggested I would need to pay a £35 service charge. Demanded to see the manager who explained that PC World tell them half of the units can go out as is whereas half have to be 'prepared'. However, without me uttering a word he said he would waive the charge for the USB so got laptop and a 32GB stick for £349.

Pretty shocking tactics to be honest and I bet people have fallen for it.

You should be able to create one on any other windows 10 machine. You boot up from the usb and use the recovery partition that is already on the ssd. If this does not work its probably the ssd that needs replacement in which case should be covered by the warranty

So... turned on the laptop this evening, with this - any ideas. I don't have a recovery USB etc.

Any suggestions for 8gb ram for this? Preferably something with amazon prime so I can get ASAP

Thank you!

http://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/Yoga-Series/yoga-510-14isk?tabName=Downloads&linkTrack=Mast:SubNav:Support:Drivers

Synaptics driver at the bottom.

So as recommended by decision in this thread i did a clean install using the USB provided by curry's and it appears to have made my system slower and now the trackpad has lost its gesture features. I'm guessing driver issues. Any fix?

This is more than perfect for any sort of web browsing and Office/Word, Uni work ect., this computer will still be a good and usable in 8+ years time the way the computer industry is now.

Anyone have an idea how long this offer will last for?

Like others I get company vouchers but I've got to wait for them to arrive AND then wait a couple days to activate it. Will probably take until next week :disappointed:

Problem is once activated, I can't refund the vouchers.

I got this one, fits spot on http://www.argos.co.uk/product/4989945

Hello, Please can you let me know how is the performance of this laptop. Did you run any games on it. I'm bit concerned about the 4GB Ram. that's it. do you suggest this laptop as my son wanted to play Games on it. Thanks,

Does anyone recommend a case/sleve for this??

One guy said the Plemo sleve from Amazon but it seems like it won't fit.

Thanks :sunglasses:

No issues with mine at all. No light bleed, bright screen for indoor use. Track pad is actually quite impressive, responsive and no rattles etc. Battery life for general browsing seems excellent. Bought it for the wife after she destroyed her macbook air with coke/coffee. She is very happy, and at £316 (£33 cashback via Quidco)I am very happy too. Just a shame that I did not remember to use a Currys gift card or else I could have saved a further 5% on the sale price.

I had light bleed on two machines. This one is much better. Trackpad is a little clicky, will see how it goes!

​

Can someone please advise if this will get my daughter through Uni. She doesnt want an all singing all dancing machine, just adequate for a bit browsing and work - just an update from her asus notepad. The guy in currys suggested the HP Pavillion x360 (£499) , but the specs between that and this dont seem miles apart - really want an ssd

This is why I've just been reading the thread. Lenovo have awful build quality. I bought one a year or so ago, and after getting to my second replacement (so three in total) realised they're just poorly built.

Shame because the VFM is terrific, but useless if it falls apart after a few months!

Just taken my replacement back for a full refund.

Screen had light bleed on bottom right edge and top left.
Brightness was poor even at full.
The trackpad was just awful, everytime you place your finger on it you get a click and knockling noise as though the pad itself is loose.

Its a design fault with the latest pads where the left and right buttons are part of the main pad making it not sturdy enough so when you place your finger on it you get movement and that horrible click/knocking noise.
I just couldnt live with it so returned it.

Anyone wants to swap white one for black? I've bought black one cus white was out of stock but like much more white model

It's got an SSD, making the RAM less of an issue

Those not happy purchasing from Currys, I have found another 'retailer' selling this model, but at what cost?......
https://www.brighthouse.co.uk/products/computing/laptops/lenovo-14-yoga-510-convertible-laptop-black

Looks like Quidco & Topcashback rates have dropped.

Bought this yesterday. Nice machine though feels a little heavy. The USB wasn't mentioned and it did take a while for all the updates to take place.
Took the cover with one month free as last time my partner bought a laptop, I spilled coffee on it the same day and it was ruined. She wasn't impressed so thought I would play it safe this time. Will cancel after a few months.
Also gave me Mcafee Livesafe free for 12 months.
Hate Windows 10 and had to turn off so many notifications and "send data to windows".
Good laptop though.

Aren't you the one trying to be a s.......e.
You really didn't need to add that.

Just ran battery report (powercfg /batteryreport) and based on past battery drains (1 week), it says the battery will stay for 10 to 11 hours on an average.

Noticed that it drains roughly 10% per hour when I watch videos using the built in Film & TV app.

Anyone with real world battery usage?
Specs say up to 8 hours but I assume it will be less.

Yeah the parent retail group that own Curry's, PCWorld, Carphone Warehouse, Knowhow, Dixons and a few other brands. I believe they're now called "Dixons Carphone"

Would you like to sell it? I'll give you 280? :wink:

DSG?

Bloody hell, a LOT of people in this thread are being suckered/badgered into sales that they don't want or need, and in some cases are illegal (saying you can't buy the laptop without the USB.... You can. That's how it's advertised!)

It has really made me worry about the practices in some of Curry's stores. I wonder if trading standards lurk on this forum much....​

All in all this is a brilliant machine and looks stunning in white. Think it's perfect for when I go to uni.

The only things I've noticed are:

-on YouTube the pause and full screen buttons flicker
-when I'm typing on the touchscreen with my headphones plugged in, there is a buzz with every character I type, even with the sound up.

Anyone know how to fix those?

I managed to get the USB for £10 but the salesperson had to set me up with the care plan which I cancelled the next day

There's 1 slot.

anyone found any reviews out there for this model? all i can find are the i5/i7 models

I ran the Lenovo App on the laptop to update the bios etc.

It showed there being 2 RAM slots...can anyone confirm this as true? thanks

It is, however very rarely used in the UK I believe, and as it's currys very unlikely to happen unless you fight for it. Samsung is the only company giving two year warranty worldwide.

I did bios update before, mine picked up all of the drivers by itself as far as I am aware.
Can't see any light bleeding on mine so far not even when it's booting, will have to take a closer look.

Yes no problem.

more applicable to the 710 thread than this one I would have thought!

710 at John Lewis now sold out.

I had to wait 20 minutes to get my reserved one. Currys is a joke. They won't let you pick up the reserved laptop from the click and collect counter. They told me to see someone in computing. But all the staff were busy, in the end they gave me a ticket, like being at the meat counter. Finally got served, I looked annoyed so they didn't try and sell me any warranties or anything. He still took ages to go and get it from the stock though! Terrible customer service, given the choice I wouldn't have bought it from them, but they are the only stockist of this laptop at that price in the UK. Ever since the demise of Comet, Tempo, BestBuy etc its pretty much DSG or nothing.

I thought under EU law the warranty had to be minimum 2 years?

Will this work on the laptop?
https://www.cclonline.com/product/195907/F4-2400C16S-16GRS/Laptop-Memory/G-Skill-Ripjaws-16GB-1-x-16GB-2400MHz-CL16-1-2V-DDR4-Laptop-Memory/RAM3137/

Done that! did you manually update any drivers? after the bios update everything in device manager is working. I did the yoga one but nothing else.

It's a single slot 4GB DDR4 Sodimm ram. Buy any 8gb DDR4 sodimm stick and it will work. I bought HyperX Impact 8GB 2133Mhz from amazon and it works great.

Yep. Went to store just before, the person couldn't see it at first, lucky I took a pic of it and showed it to him. He then took the laptop back to the office area where the lighting was different and he saw it.

Tried to get a refund there and then but couldn't find my order on their system! He said it was too new and not updated yet. I order yesterday online

I had the sales receipt (attachment in email) with me and despatch note that came with the laptop (you need to take both)

In the end I called customer services and explained the issue and they have arranged for dpd to collect tomorrow.

Iv just turned mine on now and see quite a noticeable light bleed on top left side of screen. Only see on black screen.
Can we take it to store and return it on the basis of a light bleed?

Sorry if this has already been answered, but can anyone report on the battery life please?

Did you buy the 13-13.3" or the 15-15.6" Plemo sleve ? Just the screen is 14" so it shouldn't technically fit

Well picked our up from Currys this morning, reserved to collect, and still had to wait an age for it to come 'down from the warehouse' so plenty of time to refuse all the extra sales dribble. But once it was down, and a quick no to the cover, transaction was done and we were out.
Missus is well pleased with it, using touchscreen for her facebook games, it's just ideal for her. So now i have regained full control of the remote i can watch my tv in peace.

I've booked standard delivery so hopefully will be getting in day or two,will let you know.

just ran a movie in vlc player on full screen, there are 2 areas of light bleed, very easy to see when screen is black, one by the right hinge and other top left of screen, not acceptable in my opinion

its going back :/

WHen's that arriving? Can you let me know how you are getting on with it please after it arrives? :smiley:

Yes, returned my 510 and ordered 710 from John Lewis.

mine arrived today

came out the box like a frozen ice cube, had to let it acclimatise for a bit

seems great so far. the ssd version does have a fan, it came on whilst installing windows updates

a small gripe, that right shift button, its miles away, will have to get used to it

screen is nice @ 1080p

i have noticed some light bleed above the right hinge when screen is all black , i.e at boot up.

going to see how it is when watching films before deciding to take back

I'm gonna try and compare both side by side tomorrow and make a final decision. Have you bought it?

Just came back from Currys after looking at both and can surely say 710 has much better quality screen. Brightness and contrast was way better then 510. (anyone could tell the difference). Yes it's £250 more but you get double ram,better and much faster i5 7th Gen processor and bigger hard drive with 2 Year John Lewis guarantee on top. Anyone who could spend the extra I would advice it's worth going for.

Can see both sides of the argument.

My missus has 4gb and when I used that, I find it too slow when using several apps at same time.

yes £250 more but double the ram, double the storage, backlit keyboard, sharper screen, slightly lighter. Plus you get a 2 year warranty from JL who I would feel safer buying from than Currys.

Mine was exactly the same, just wipe it off.

I wouldn't see why not as long as you put the original ram back before sending it for repair.

i was thinking the same



mine should be here at around 12pm, delivery on a Bank Holiday, great!

Don't really get why people keep suggesting the 710 from John Lewis, It's not as if it's just an extra 50 or 100 quid, It's an extra 250, Yes you get extra storage space which we all like, But you need to be sure you need and are going to use the extra 4 gig and the i5 to justify the extra 250, An all balls out gaming rig only needs 8 gig of memory, So why it's felt you need 8 gig in this I have no idea, If you do the occasional bit of photo-editing this will still do, But be fair, If your someone that does loads, Your be sitting at a desktop with a all singing 27" and not a 14" screen.
This will do anything the average person needs it to do with ease, And if I'm gonna go to 600 quid for a laptop, Then I'm going the whole hog for a HP Spectre or XPS 13 and not the 710.

Just had mine delivered, and it's a very nifty little laptop. Looking forward to using it as my Xbox "screen".

One major concern though, is that arrived with a heck of a lot of condensation on the screen and keyboard! I've left it doing updates so seems to be working ok.

Could it be your internet speeds if Netflix is not streaming in 1080p?

It takes a few seconds on my devices at home for it to change to 1080p. Just a thought?

Thanks again for replying jamesvolunteer. That's really good to know and I think I will take it in to be looked at. It's strange as it looks great at times but as soon as I put a video (say NetFlix) on it looks dull and not nearly as sharp.


Thanks again vipergrm. I'll definitely be raising a claim. And, as you said, it was DPD and they did deliver that day after all! My whinge was for nothing :laughing:


That's a great tip, thanks for sharing!

out of my budget

Just get the 710.

Can anyone tell me is it worth upgrading the ram, i.e is there likely to be a significant performance increase going from the 4gb to say 8gb? and if so, what is the configuration, i,e 1 x 4gb or 2 x 2gb, and where best to buy the upgrade ram? tia

You need an USB stick to create bootable drive because this laptop doesn't have DVD drive so you won't be able to use that. USB stick has to be completely empty before you do that, and all you have to do is download a windows media creation tool which will create it for you automatically. Once created you will have to reboot your laptop using advanced startup and then play it from usb stick, then the process is very simple following instructions on screen. As it is windows 10 it will recognise and activate itself automatically so no need to worry about that.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

There is a lot of tutorials out there on google, but It is very simple and basic.

To them that ask if this is worth the money, Or can they recommend anything cheaper This is about as cheap as a proper laptop gets at 250 quid, So is this worth just the extra 100 quid over that, That's an easy yes, If you look around at what's out there at the moment, For the components you get and quality, This thing is a bargain at £350.

Anyone able to give a basic step by step guide on how to do a clean install of Windows 10?

If someone has already posted it then just a link back to the post would be good!

What if we upgrade the ram within warranty period? Will Lenovo still honour warranty?

Recommend doing a clean win10 install, improves performance as far as I've noticed, although fan still seems to be going on and off quite often with very basic system tasks. Warranty upgrade to two years is available at 24 pounds direct from Lenovo if anyone is interested. Might be useful considering that if things go wrong after one year it will be expensive to repair/might not even be worth repairing.

I wouldn't expect this to be the case on any kind of laptop regardless it's on promotion or not :disappointed:

ipad? Why would you bother with that ?

Recently sold my Ipad air 2.

Bought this laptop today and also bought a cheap Ipad for them times I don't want to use the yoga.

Best of both worlds

​Yep. Same on mine.

Is it just me or USB port on the left side is hard to put a stick into? The first time I tried I almost broke my USB stick and then still failed to insert it afterwards so used one of the ports on the right side. Tried to put USB cable in which required a lot of force too but eventually went in.

Get yourself an iPad if all you want is big screen and general tasks like web browsing,Facebook,YouTube etc

I was tempted by this deal right up until I had a buyer for my IPad Air 2 but cancelled it all knowing I'd likely regret it.

Take back "faulty" :wink:

I find laptops like this a bit of a pain to use in all honesty, they're too big to use as a tablet and I just find them very frustrating to use on my lap laid in bed, I can never find a comfortable position, I just prefer the portability of a 9" tablet really. Beginning to question why I bought this cos I still find myself using my phone cos it's far easier to hold (I'm using my phone now as i write this)

Thanks
The 2GB RAM and Windows filling up the HD is what puts me off those. I do realise i could get a microSD, but 2GB does seem to suggest slow performance with these things, hence even only considering a 4GB Chromebook.

Ditto

​Asus transformer (11 inch windows version) would be perfect for this. The Lenovo is too big/heavy for sustained travel imho.

my missus needs a new laptop, she only uses it for facebook games like criminal case, and listening to music videos on youtube.
I know next to nothing about laptops other then look for a good processor what ever that means and don't worry too much about the ram as that can be expanded easily afterwards?
Would this laptop suit her needs, or is there others out there cheaper that will serve her just as well?
I did let her try my acer chromebook 13, which she didn't like, but said the screen size was ok, but wouldn't want smaller.
Any ideas??

Sorry for late reply. Think the cashbook does work regardless. Also, I had the same issue with no courier name displayed but it was delivered by DPD so maybe try entering the tracking number on their website.

Its very bulky as a tablet tbh. I wont be using mine in that way much due to it being too cumbersome to bother with. Laptop and tent mode for me mainly.

I would take it in to the shop and get them to have a look. The screen shouldn't look noticably dark/dim at all really. In fact, i was just saying today that its more vibrant than my TV.

I'll push you. I was looking at the HP Stream and others like it for a Uni machine doubling as a media player. The screen is worth the extra on this. I believe anyone looking at two side by side would buy this.
Its more quality looking than pictures do justice, and also it runs really well (once set up). For £350 I am well pleased. I couldnt afford it and went back to a credit card after 2 years of being debt free, just to get this when it came up.
Read my previous post a few up for my brief overview on the good and bad.

Its very bulky as a tablet tbh. I wont be using mine in that way much due to it being too cumbersome to bother with. Laptop and tent mode for me mainly.

I would take it in to the shop and get them to have a look. The screen shouldn't look noticably dark/dim at all really. In fact, i was just saying today that its more vibrant than my TV.

Its very bulky as a tablet tbh. I wont be using mine in that way much due to it being too cumbersome to bother with. Laptop and tent mode for me mainly.

Didn't track for me either , wish I went with Quidco instead because most say it tracked for them no problem, however my usual experience with quidco is not that great, but perhaps it would of tracked now.

Ok, I have a dilemma.
Going to travel/live/work in Auz for 5 months at least and so want something small, light, etc.
The dilemma is something basic like the MIIX at £150, 4GB Chromebook flip at £250 from JL (now with Play store), or this at £350.

Obviously it's what I use it for, which would be basic web browsing, emails, odd movie (kodi), and some document editing.

Less spend would be good, the move to chromeOS could be good/bad....£200 extra for this may be better spent?

I'm being indecisive but if someone could push me over the edge, that would be greatly appreciated!

caved in and purchased one. looking forward to it.

​cant understand what the UK is doing. in Ireland it came set up with USB at advertised price.

After much thought, I think I am going to go for the 710 from John Lewis.

Thx - was going to buy the Ebuyer deal - but as that expired :smiley: went for this.
Usual problems with the sales staff - was told unable to buy as the laptop was 'set up' and an additional fee of £35 was required (later lowered to £15) - after some discussion they 'un-setup the laptop (removed the USB stick from box) and was allowed to purchase at advertised price.

Anyone having issues with the cursor randomly moving? I was watching a movie and randomly it would pause or minimise or the cursor would move?

Really tempted to get this after I sold my Ipad air 2.

With regards to the the spec. Is is defo a good buy?

I didn't ask you a question, go away.

Thanks for the response. Even when plugged in and at full brightness videos can look dull which surprises me - sometimes it doesn't looks as sharp as it should either. Possibly a faulty screen.


Didn't track for me either so I'll be waiting the 7 days the TCB website says and then raising a query. When you look at the reviews for Currys on TCB there are a lot of people complaining that they haven't received their cashback or had problems getting it.

I've had no troube with the touch pad, Found it to be very smooth and reponsive,at full brightness the screen is nice and about right for me, There is a bit of wobble in it when tapped, but not a real problem when used in conjunction with the keyboard.
As to weight, If your taking it to work or collage on the train, Walking around with it all day and stuff like that, Then you need something like a Zenbook or Macbook, But if like me and the furthest your gonna carry it is from downstairs to up, Then it's not a problem when you trade it against the quality, And it dose appear to be well built, And very good looking in white.

Those who you used topcashback, did it track? I ordered this when it was on £349, it tracked at 1% and I also used the £10 voucher so around £336.

However I then ordered another two separately, neither had tracked as the tcb was meant to be 9.9% over £249.

May raise a query with tcb as I'm a bit annoyed if it doesn't track.

Ive had mine a few days now and am delighted with it. The full HD screen was why I got this and I'm glad I did. I wont be able to go back to less than 1080 or IPS now.
The biggest flaw is the touchpad as far as I can see. It takes getting used to and can seem jittery at times. I plan to buy a cheap wireless mouse at some point.
Also, it is quite heavy for the size. Par for the course with these sort of laptops but just be aware I guess.
Overall, I feel like I have a £500 laptop for £350 which I hope will last me through Uni.

The i3 processor is quite good by all accounts. Its 'multi threaded'. You can look that up online. It basically means the laptop is specc'd to handle certain tasks well.
Ooh, also ive played a few non demanding games like Half Life 2, Postal 2 and Team Fortress and they run great, which is a nice bonus.

Regards PC World, I never buy anything in the actual shop and havent for ages due to aggressive sales techniques. Order online or pay and collect only. I recommend writing an email to pc world like I did, complaining about it, then stopping going in. A load of people do that, it'll stop.

Sounds like that might be settings. Ive found that it isnt the brightest screen but full brightness should look 'normal'. You can change the settings for plugged in and unplugged use so id suggest just trying that.

(settings from windows menu/display/advanced display settings...or something like that).

Very true :wink: That might have been the last straw for me. "Please trustworthy and knowledgeable sales person without any ulterior motive could you extol to me the many benefits of one of these monster hdmi cables. Oh and by the by are there any must have accessories and an extended warranty I could pay for ?" I would think you be just then that the nice folks would have to of taken me away for my own good :smiley: As Nick Ross used to say in closing for BBC 1 crime watch "don't have nightmares" :smiley: Thanks to the op for posting have a good one every body.

To me the laptop is light. My old tablet was an HP tx 1000 series convertable and it weighed a ton. The fan on it was so loud it sounded like a hair dryer (no kidding). The fan in this lenovo is very quiet and doesn't turn on very much either/ Anybody got the touchscreen working with a stylus?

Yes, like the core m cpus, they're fanless as they don't create enough heat to require active cooling, whereas this cpu requires a fan... I hope that answers your question? :neutral_face:

These convertible laptops tend to not feel like slender tablets in the hand but the weight and size difference will be the most noticeable, this is 1.8Kg and a 14 inch screen the Surface Pro 4 is a 12 inch screen and 786g, if you're going to be holding it up like a tablet day to day for longer periods of time you're gonna feel that extra 1Kg. But if it's mainly going to be used as a laptop and occasionally used as a tablet then these laptop 2 in 1s are fantastic especially in presentation mode which basically turns it into a tablet with a built in stand which if you were going to be using the Surface Pro mainly sat down with it's stand then this does the 'job' it would feel pretty similar.

Another thing to remember is the extra cost of the Surface Pros bring other benefits, they will have much better quality (colour and resolution) screens and also active pen support if that's something you'd want.

odd question, but in tablet mode does this feel really chunky? I like the idea of something like a surface pro so I can physically remove the keyboard, but if this feels pretty close but at half ish of the cost it might be a consideration.

I totally get they are completely different systems, but hopefully im making sense in my request.

Yes SSD version, I am certain that I've heard the fan, can't think of anything else making such noise?

Thanks for your reply Mr Shoogles, it's very much appreciated. :wink:

Was very straightforward. Just remove as normal by going to uninstall programs in control panel. I've done that and installed Avast and it worked fine :smile:

On another note, does anyone find the screen to be rather dark for videos, even at full brightness?

Does anyone know if the McAfee preloaded is very easy to remove? I might want to install AVG instead.

Did a scan using Crucial System Scanner.. there's only 1 slot. Here are the results and compatible upgrade options - http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/scanview/533EB45631D926C3

You should be grateful.. at least he didn't try and sell you a £170 hdmi lead.

Not all laptops have fans, I have 2 fanless ones myself.

much has been made over the ssd being 5 mm and normal ones not fitting. I swapped out and replaced with a crucial 525gb. it fit perfectly.

Thanks simonbrowne. Exactly what I need as I am using a micro SD in a full size adaptor. I did'nt even know such a half height adaptor existed !. Problem solved :smiley:

There is a Lenovo Companion app pre installed on the system. In the app under system health -> memory it shows two memory slots and only 1 being used for the 4GB. The other slot is shown but not being used. Anyone know if this is correct ?

And did you actually extend the C drive?

Great thanks for that. All done!

you may be able to cut a sd card in half. look online.
but at one stage a while back i bought a sd card that was only half the depth. couldnt find link but here are adaptors
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/9054655/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=UK-PLA-_-google-_-PLA_UK_EN_Semiconductors-_-Semiconductor_Development_Kits&mkwid=sF5EYWQBA_dc|pcrid|88057061283|pkw||pmt||prd|9054655&gclid=CLa6tPPlntECFYk_GwoddL4JKQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=half++SD&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahalf++SD
the one i bought long ago was a half size memory card and had a clip on the side to make it normal size if required.

Bit the bullet and ordered the white one last night. Arrived this morning. Quidco also confirmed so in total cost about £320 not bad at all.

2 issues so far. The shift key is too far on the right hand side. On every other PC and laptop I have ever used it is always there under the @ key but on this one is way far off. Guess I'll get used to that.

Second issue is I planned to use an SD card for storage expansion but the card only goes in half way so half of the card is hanging out, not good at all.

Buy a branded USB (Kingston gets my vote) - 16GB for £5
+
Download Windows 10 from here with the USB tool - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
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Your Windows 10 recovery disk

You can boot from the USB, wipe all partitions, and clean install. Though Windows may be able to grab all the drivers from the net, you may need another PC to download drivers if the laptop can't connect out.

Then again, will you actually use up your 100GB of space you got now? If not, and you'll be doing web browsing and office work, then sod it.

If you already have the USB stick from curry's then I'd suggest using that, as creating your own will just add time.
Possibly the easiest way to reclaim the space you need won't even involve a re-install.

1 - Open up the Computer Managment program (Right Click start)
2 - Click Disk Management
3 - As you can see there are 3 recovery partitions after the C: partition.

Using diskpart (Command Line Tool) you can delete these 3 partitions and then re-claim that space by the C: Drive (Approx 14gb)

http://www.disk-partition.com/articles/delete-recovery-partition-4348.html - Follow the instructions for diskpart. Beware though, double check each and every partition before you delete and commit any changes.

Yea - Chrome is power hungry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHeAa4fzVNQ

And yes, they all have fans (Intel will have 1 and AMD will have 2)

All have a fan

I guess if you don't have a 32GB USB flash drive it may be worth buying it from them. You can easily negotiate the cost down.

the cpu has a fan ( it has to otherwise it'd die :disappointed: ), the SSD does not have a fan

The blurry text is apparently a 'known' Windows 10 issue. Windows 10 uses a different way to scale as compared to Windows 8 especially for high definition displays. The laptop by default is set to scale 150% (Right click on the desktop and select 'Display Settings'). Change the scale factor from 150% to 125%.. that should make the text in some of the apps more clearer. Hope this helps.

On the fan noise, I noticed it only when you have too many tabs open in Chrome specifically.. the laptop is quite silent when I use other browsers (Edge, Opera).

Would you recommend using the usb currys gave me or create a recovery disk myself?
Are all these options regarding the partitions available when you boot form the stick?
I wan to try and recover the lost space.

So it does have a fan, after all this?

In that case, I'm out!

Well after A LOT of thinking I'll be keeping my iPad Air 2 and leave this deal.

Would have to sell and pay around £150 to get this deal and all I really need it for is web browsing,YouTube,twitch streams etc

Nothing to taxing and the iPad is super fast at what I need it for.

Was tempted though!

​On the ssd version??

When I had the ssd I never heard a fan at all... It says fanless online too I'm sure?!

The hdd version (1TB HDD) definitely has a fan, it runs constantly if installing a program or there are Windows updates downloading/installing in the background.

Not a deal-breaker by any means, but does anyone else have an unusual amount of "play" on the f5 button? Mine seems to sink down much further than any other button on the keyboard. The buttons either side of it do too, but not as much as the f5. All the rest are fine!

Just looking for faults now

What I just noticed is that text is pixelated on some system apps for some reason, also fan seems to go noisy very often even if all what I am doing is having one chrome tab open :?

Just got mine half an hour ago, white one is really nice, didn't notice any screen bleeding as of yet. Shame that TCB didn't track for me, so kind of lost a hope that I will get any. Keyboard is really nice and clicky, just the way I like it, touchscreen is quite wobbly though. I've seen someone mentioning that this version is fanless but by the looks of it, it does come with a fan.

Exchanged my second black one for a white due to the back light bleed. This one has a little on the right side but more even than the blooming.
Black and white are both nice.
Currys maidstone where first class with the exchange. Got both a black and white out for me to check. Both were setup with the 32gb stick but they just refunded it so got it chucked in!
Quidco should still work as they didn't take any order details at all and he told me it is on a different system as well.

Thanks for confirming. Shame the i3 doesnt have the backlit keyboard.

I dont think I need either of them but I do want one! :confused: not sure I could have one without the backlit keyboard as i'm spoiled by having them in the past.

But I do agree that this is a great price and seems to be a great bit of kit.

I keep having to remind myself 128gb....small drive....cant play with virtual machines....4GB RAM isnt enough....flippy screen might be fun though...no, I dont need one etc etc :neutral_face:

​Backlit is HDD only.

HDD is the AMD processor, and yep £399 on website.

Both on the website and instore. (although, saying that I never saw it in display either time I was in... But each time they had them in stock through the back.)

An new Argos opened recently in my area so I spent £50 there and got £10 to spend on a 32GB thumb drive which cost me about £3. As for the 20% thats a further £69.80 off which would have been £279.20 which is the cheapest I've seen. If you could detail how this is achieved then it might help someone else to get a better price. Thanks :smiley:

So several of you have mentioned the backlit keyboard on the HDD version, is there a link to this? I can only see the i3 SSD version.

Is the HDD version the AMD one on the website at £399?

Is the HDD one in store only??

If you had played your cards right you would have got the 20% discount plus the 32GB USB for a fiver.

I've been lurking this one for a few days now. Here's my story thus far. My objective to replace my six year old macbook pro with a cheapish windows laptop that could hopefully last me the next two years and cope with watching you tube browsing the web and listening to pod casts. I was armed with all your kind posts in this thread as to what to expect from the challenge that lay before me. Oh my did I want a cigarette afterwards. You would expect ten minutes tops for a sales rep to find the item I wanted and sell it. Nope :disappointed: Firstly 'what are you using the laptop for' said the sales rep. I replied youtube, browsing the web and listening to podcasts. The sales rep then said come with me sir, err ok I said. The poor young chap had to do his up sell and so it began. 'Could I interest you in 365 office ?' no was my reply. 'Why' he asked. Well I won't be using that software as I told you before but if I was I see software as product not a service. Oh he said. Then you would want word on its own then. But I added no, I don't want it. Ok then how about internet security then Norton / mcafee perhaps ? No thanks. How about our online storage solution then its brilliant. No thanks besides amazon offers it in their amazon prime if I wanted (not sure if they have or do but hey :smiley: Ok then how about I give you all this software for half price ? No. He asks me why. I told him I just want to buy the laptop thats all but I realise he is just doing his job and that although I'm not going to listen to him I will make it look like I am for his benefit. Ok then he smiles awkwardly. Ahem he says ' you do realise that the laptop has a lot of updates it needs to do since it was packaged at the factory ? Oh yea been there done that. Well how about I offer you a memory stick 32gb with all the updates to speed your laptop update alone ? Err no thanks I'll do that my self thanks. Ok then £15 is that better. No I just want the laptop thats all. Ok ' what happens if during the course of updating your laptop the software fails and you can't recover the laptop he said. Well I said I either bring it back to you, boot via the bios via the recovery partition on the hard drive using the Novo button or bring it back to you and your tech people fix it. No he said. I look puzzled and tell him then doesn't that affect my consumer rights and I should go to the relevant people to seek legal advice ? Oh he said err ahem perhaps. He then leaves to find the box with the laptop i want in it. He comes back five minutes later looking puzzled. He can't find it. Is there a problem I ask. Oh its just I can't find the power adapter he said. Oh I say but it should be in the box, the box is sealed right, I'm not buying a new nintendo 3ds. He wanders off again. Ten minutes pass. He returns with the laptop in its box. He take it to the counter and I check the seal on the box carefully. It looks ok. Phew :smiley: Then he tries for the penultimate time to up sell me. Would sir be interested in our accidental breakage cover. Nope :smiley: He then walks away with the laptop to converse with his line manager. I'm feeling annoyed and bad for the kid but I just want out. If reading this isn't torture enough for you it was for me. He comes back to offer me to free months of cover and I decline. Lastly as he is ringing up my purchase he interrupts me to ask if I would like a deal on a mobile phone. I tell him I have one and its tied with my broadband. I lie to him about the wonderful deal I have on a rolling contract and he gives up still smiling. I would never want to work for PC World. I feel sorry for the staff and the customers. Its already been 'emotional' as Vinnie Jones once put it. I don't want to go back ever again you can't make me wha wha wha :smiley:

Black or white?

​Yes im getting light bleed in black screen on top edge. Will i be able to exchange in store and test new one before taking away?

Thanks for the confirmation...I think I ordered the right one! Will find out soon!

Annoyingly, I had booked in next day delivery so it was meant to arrive today but the tracking number I had wasn't showing anything so I called Currys and they said it now won't be delivered today. Not very good given I had set aside the day to stay in and the only reason I found out I shouldn't was because I phoned!

It's meant as a present for someone so I was hoping to get it today. I take it the cashback doesn't apply if you order online and collect it in-store? There is a separate cashback link for reserve and collect so I assume not but thought I'd ask in case! Thanks :smiley:

I replaced mine a while ago and got a Yoga S with an i5 for the same money. Best swap ever.

This one however is a monster size wise compared to the Yoga S or the iPad so not a direct replacement.

Yes, that well known fact about lenovo light bleed....

Are people having the light bleed issue more on the black or white version?

Thinking of selling my Ipad Air 2 for this...I'm I stupid!?

:smile:

A little lightbleed on my version, slight on the upper edge, toward the left side. Not bothering me though.

Going to take it back for exchange this morning because of the light bleed. Hope that this doesn't muck up my quidco cash back! Going to test it in store before leaving!

Is the track pad metal or plastic on these?

It's Lenovo what'd you expect

Exactly what I was waiting for, also used tcb :innocent:

That's what I thought about white so went for it :smiley:

White looks more classy and is a nice matt white i have the 15 inch version in white.
Edit = black is nice also :smile:

ok on ssd

​No light bleed at all on the hdd version.

What is the battery life like?

My second one turned up today and has more light bleed than the first one. Top centre and bottom left. Is anyone else having issues with it. Visible on black screen. Especially lenovo boot screen.

True but I'm not a fan of touch screen on windows, just feels weird

Hi does anybody know how dim the screen goes to use at night? Does the led backlight turn off?

ordered white one (reserve and collect) and the store (an hours drive each way) did not have the laptop and told me to go away. Collected black one from another store make sure they have stock before ordering apparently there is no white ones left but the web site is still letting people order. Have been expecting a call from manager all day and guess what NO Call

​unless things have changed you should leave 20% of the ssd to be empty to prolong the life and efficiency of the drive, but that's up to u I suppose. the setter upper obviously didn't think it was important and ud have f'all left over o play with

not bad, but the acer aspire is non-touch screen:/

Got one of these for the missus she loves it, great price.

Was going to order one myself but the lack of backlit keyboard killed it for me.

Ended up ordering the Acer Aspire s13 for £459, posted the deal on here if anybody is interested.

Similar specs to this but backlit keyboard 8gb ram and 11 hours battery life

I've been meaning to try Bluestacks. I went wirth MeMu instead. Tried AndyRoid and Remix os Player, which were both below par. So far its been okay. Will give bluestacks a go though.

My thoughts exactly

I just received the white one today and it is definitely touch screen. I think there is a version of this laptop in white that isn't touchscreen but this one definitely is.

Thanks for that. I have queried it with Currys online but in all honesty, even without the backlit keyboard this is still hard to beat.

My replacement is much better, no issue with the trackpad which was totally unusable on the first one. That horrid clicking everytime I placed my finger on the pad is gone, this one is solid, the previous was really loose and moved at the slightest account of pressure.
Just tok me over an hour to queue instore for the replacement. Shocking customer service instore.

I've just ordered this in white and then realised the Currys website shows it as not being a touchscreen while the black one is! I assumed it was an error on the page and, having contacted the customer service team, it is and the white is a touchscreen also. Sorry if this has been mentioned already but it's just in case it helps someone.

Great deal, thanks for posting!

​This is the main reason I returned the ssd version. You're right, I printed it off to show the shop staff that the website listed it as backlit, had no problems exchanging for the hdd version, which is backlit.

My laptop just arrived and I didn't know the SSD version excluded the backlit keyboard. I was sure I saw this on the spec on Currys' website but looks like it has now been corrected. It is still great value but somewhat annoying that it doesn' t have the backlit keyboard.

Bought one in black yesterday. As others have stated defo no backlit keypad on this model.

Really quick start up, stuck on an old copy of Office 2010 and a few other favourite bits and pieces including Kodi and all installed no problem.

Have tried the Bluestacks Android emulator - had never used one of these before, and actually only became aware of it from a previous post in this thread (thanks again "flamingmoose") Absolutely superb and this really has given this machine the perfect balance for me now as was looking for something to replace an ageing laptop and also save me having to carry around my Tablet - the Bluestacks has given me access to my most used android apps. Another post also suggested Remix OS which I may play around with sometime too.

All in all a really nice piece of kit for the money, I had toyed with getting the HDD version but as all my films, music etc. are already on a couple of hard drives wasn't really bothered about the limited onboard storage, suppose can stick an SD card in for extra storage if required.

Only snag so far - operator error - keep forgetting it's got a touchscreen :smiley:

Right click on the Windows button and select Computer Management. Then click Disk management. You'll see that 104gb is usable and the other 14gb is dedicated to recovery partitions etc.. It just means that should you wipe the hard drive or have any issues with OS you'll be able to factory reset.

If you wish to free up some more space, you can create a USB recovery drive, re-partition or erase the entire drive and re-install using custom options (That wont create a 12gb recovery partition)

Having been setting up the one I ordered for my Son (to replace a knackered T400 and needed for homework/study) I am very impressed with the quality and speed and I wish I had one for myself!

No back light on ssd version ? Shame if the case :disappointed:

black or white? white or black?

Yes. If you buy a standard SSD, it most likely won't fit, as I found out when trying to upgrade my Yoga 700. There are ways around it though. One suggestion is dismantling the SSD drive itself. It may void the warranty of the drive, but the case isn't really necessary.

Wait, so the SSD will be 5mm SSD? So is it difficult or i possible to swap out with a larger SSD purchased elsewhere?

​Yeah, this was one of my reasons for returning the ssd version! Don't get me wrong, the no-fan and quiet operation was awesome, but of that 104 there was only 80gb usable. That and no backlit keyboard made it a no-win for me.

Even upgrading the hdd to ssd was the most stressful switch I've ever encountered, the Lenovo bios is locked down and you have to jump through a few hoops to get it to boot from USB. Cloning the drive didn't seem to work either so I had to do a fresh install (possibly for the best anyway) and because it's an x64 version of W10 I had to reformat my existing ssd during the switch-over... Google how-tos took a bashing last night!

I'm afraid it seems about par for the course.

If you press the windows key, then type diskmgmt.msc, it should show you.

Again, not sure if this has been posted before, but below is a link to the upgrade manual:

https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/yoga_510-14ast_510-14isk_510-15isk_510-14ikb_510-15ikb_hmm_201608.pdf

Don't attempt upgrading unless you are confident! :smiley:

​Understandable, but 104gb? surely something isnt right

128GB will show up as around 120GB real world, with anything over that being taken up by hidden recovery partitions.

Went to have a look at this today and was quite concerned about the flex in the screen. Could be as it was the demo model and had been abused by the little ones perhaps but it looked too delicate for my liking. On the subject of trackpads it always amazes me how manufactures skimp on a most important part with exception of Apple perhaps. Quite a nice spec but I will be hanging onto my hard earned for a little longer.

Not sure this has been pointed out earlier on, but these Yoga laptops will most likely have 5mm SSD's installed. Makes upgrading them tricky but not impossible.

I had a Yoga 700, but returned it for something a little meatier (Asus ROG), but I've plunged for this and will probably sell my iPad.

Bought this today in store, SSD capacity advertised online is 128GB but system says 104GB capacity

Anyone else notice this?

Is that the i5 version?

I haven't used that one, but looking at the specs it is the perfect combo of the two I posted about - the only real difference is the JBL speakers (both ones I wrote about have Harman audio). The other difference is that it's i5 (with 8gb ram) so combined with the ssd this will be a fair bit faster than the other 2 above.

Depends what you're looking for? But nah, I wouldn't say it justifies the extra £250.

Would you reccomend the 710 at JL that has the higher spec and backlit as being worth the extra 250 squid?

i'm possibly in a good place to comment on a few of the things in this thread, having had the 1TB HDD, the 120GB SSD and now the 1TB HDD version again... all since Xmas day. (Don't ask).

Anyway, a few points:

- The SSD version does NOT have a backlit keyboard (the HDD version does).
- The trackpad on the HDD version is far better (as is the typing "feel"), the trackpad on the SSD version is more flimsy feeling and felt wobbly to me.
- The SSD version has no fan. The HDD version has a fan (a loud one!) but I'm hoping that settles down now that I've replaced the hard drive and put in a solid state one.
- The screen (1080p) on the SSD version is much crisper, as you'd expect - it's very nice to look at.

All in, I would have loved a hybrid of both but Lenovo have dropped the ball a bit - I guess they're trying to appeal to all customers, but at the most efficient price-point. If anyone has any questions (on either machine) just ask and I'll be happy to try and help.

A note on the customer service - it depends where you go. One of the shops I tried to return the first unit to was absolutely horrendous, no movement on "store policy" as I had opened the box and they claimed they could't re-sell. The other shopw gave me no problems at all and were just happy to sell me the best laptop for my needs, they were very helpful. They did (which I thought strange at the time) remind me to buy a 32GB USB to create a back-up, but I never thought any more of that.

The people being told they need to buy the USB with the laptop. No, you don't. It's not a selling feture of the machine, it's not even an offered "bundle", tell the shop to do one and report them if that's the case. Or if you really want the laptop, speak to the manager of the store. I have a feeling these "bundles" are being sold as a way of justifying the laptop box being opened (ie it being a returned item) as I was told that once the box is open, the store couldn't sell the returned laptop - even if it wasn't used. So if they do this, the can say the box was opened to created this recovery usb AND make a skin on the top.

Anyway, hope this helps. Great laptop (both SSD and HDD) for the money - although the backlit keyboard is what sold it for me.

Got mine earlier, the USB on the left hand side is very tight, literally have to force the USB in and then it does work, is this normal or should I return?

Also I didn't use Quidco, will I be able to go into store and ask them to refund me and literally purchase it online straight away via quidco?

This or £599 for the 710 at JL. I am wanting to do some video editing and general day to day use.

Yep, Currys customer support is pure trash.

Possibly £310 with cashback from quidco, £314 from tcb.

That type of nonsense is the reason I point blankly refuse to buy of those chimps in Currys pc world.
Sure I sometimes miss out on a deal but soon after another deal with a reputable store will come along.

Yeah the i3 CPU should be able to run Photoshop fine, but people would ideally say you want 8GB of RAM but it depends what you're doing, the main problem is that the screen will be nowhere near professionally colour accurate like an expensive professional laptop, general editing will be fine but if you need it for colour accurate work then look elsewhere, or use an external colour accurate monitor.

Wish this deal was on when I started uni as it is just £150 more for what I paid for i3-5005u, 500hdd and 4gb ram with 720p display..

Thanks OP. I bought the black one too. I was also been sold a USB stick for £59.99 which I refused. They offer further discount on the USB.
My opinion of the machine is very good spec for the price. The 1080p IPS screen on a 14 inch is good. Mouse pad is typical for laptop. Right mouse button is not always responsive. Touch screen is very responsive. But far too heavy for tablet use

Heya. Any news on whether this laptop would be powerful enough to use for Adobe Photoshop editing?

I returned mine for the back light bleed. Refund straight away, took a photo.
Re-ordered online for the cashback and delivery for tomorrow which came up as free instead of £4.
Hope this one is better screen wise.
Other than that for the money i think its a great bit of kit.

looking at the images I do not see any black machines with a numberpad. people with white could return it for keyboard backlight problem as the white does show it in the image but cant see any reason to send the black back as that seems to be correct.

if the item is faulty OR DOES NOT MATCH THE DESCRIPTION as in the misleading photographs there is no reason for them to refuse you as you will not see this till you open it. Its their mistake so you should not pay for anything in returning it. In theory I have had refund when I've complained about things like this (but not from currys.)

I just visited my local Curry's to try this out. My store had two models(i5 and i3)
With regards to the touchpad, the i5 version had a slightly jittery touchpad, but it was still usable.
The i3 however, had a better touchpad, oddly. It was still nothing spectacular but what you'd expect for a 350 pound laptop.

As for the laptop itself, it is fast and snappy due to the i3 and the screen is superb. However, power users may want to consider swapping out the RAM for 8GB.

I am still a bit reluctant to buy due to Curry's inflexible refund policy. Apparently, once I open it and use it, I can't get a refund.

slightly on the large size for what i want

It looks stunning in white. However it's personal preference.

I ordered via home delivery. That gave me the amount. My local currys does not stock the white version, other wise I would have reserved it. Nearest currys with it in stock is 14 miles away.

Those being told they have to buy with a usb stick should be complaining to the store manager and threatening to go to trading standards. The item is advertised on TV and on their website for £349. Nowhere does it state you have to buy it with the usb stick and pay an extra £35.

I ordered mine online but if i'd gone into a shop and been treated like that I would have made one hell of a scene in front of all the other shoppers to make it clear what they were doing was illegal.

Think I might have to bite the bullet with the 11% cashback as well. The question is black or white?

Did you order your replacement for delivery or did you reserve and collect for the quidco?

I collected it yesterday, it is touch screen as able up as a tablet. It has no backlit display. The USB creates a back up of windows 10. All you need to do to create the same thing is explained below.

https://mspoweruser.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-drive-for-windows-10/

You do not need the update. I just got roped into it. Plus they also give you a voucher for 25% off a case. They are currently selling a HP one with optical mouse for £19.99 ( was allegedly £39.99). That cost me £15. If you need it, then it's a good buy.

Mines had to go back today for a replacement. The trackpad was very loose and made a horrible click sound everytime I placed my finger on it.
Anyone else had issues with theirs, fingers crossed the replace is better, it's the last one in store

It's not worth it, even if it's for free. The hard drive has a recovery partition.
Someone else mentioned you could DIY with a big USB. Or even cheaper, download the Windows 10 ISO and burn to a DVD...and boot from that. You'd have a clean install with no bloat too :-)

Would this laptop be able to run photoshop?

So you would recommend buying white then?it does definitely have a touchscreen right, but no backlit keyboard?

By the way did you turn the laptop on before returning it?

Do you actually need that USB? I don't understand why you can't use it like any other normal laptop

Does the cashback only work on home delivery orders? Im going to return this one due to the light bleed and get a refund and start again. Just need to know about the cashback.
If instore what do they need to do? i reserved the last one but they put it through as a new sale no reservation info required.

​how do I upgrade the BIOS?

Ok. Have the black one and works well now. Have updated all and updated the bios. Installed office and works well. Quicker than I thought and touchscreen works well. Uninstalled McAfee also which I think helped. Using chrome which I feel is better than edge esp with multiple tabs.

I just returned mine. They upsold me that USB stick. It was in white and looks great. Although the discounted the set up USB by £20, however I could not justify it. Now I have re ordered using quidco. It's been tracked at £29.08 cashback. Happy days

Bit concerned about the light bleed on the screen. Mine is top right and top left. Noticeable on a black screen. I have pic but don't know how to post it. Anyone else got the same?

​i have the black and it's fine. don't like white. sign up to quidco. find the store and click on the link to go to the store. it your product as normal and quidco will track the purchase. you'll get the money back eventually but pay full price up front.
when the cash back is given ,you can transfer it to ur bank account.

So now that both laptops have touch screens and don't come with a backlit keyboard.

Would you recommend buying the black or the white?
White looks more sleek but would it get dirty quickly?

Also how do you use the quidco cash back? Is it trustworthy and how does the money get paid back to you.

Sorry am new to this so appreciate the help.

for any storage and ram upgrades start here
http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/inside-lenovo-yoga-510-disassembly-internal-photos-and-upgrade-options/

Now with 11% quid co:)

Note that i managed to get a different version when i tried again so dont know if this works sorry

Guy selling at currys also said same thing about they cant seperate the usb from the laptop. I calld currys and they said they shouldnt b selling that start up recovery usb thing. he said tell them to check their "compass system" and they should b able to solve the situation. Then said if they still wont budge then tell them to check with their office in sheffield or something. Wasnt very clear to b honest but he was very sure about the " compass" thing

Those are generic Lenovo press shots, they've obviously used the wrong ones, look at the black version it clearly has a number pad but it doesn't have one, this model does not have a backlit keyboard.

Looks like they've removed the pictures of the black version with a number pad which is good, but if you look at the white one it shows a generic US keyboard but you'll get a UK keyboard.

[According to pics, the white version got backlit key board.. on the space bar, emblem for backlit, can any body confirm please ???

According to pics, the white version got backlit key board.. on the space bar, emblem for backlit, can any body confirm please ???

Though if you want it, you could pay for it, then pick it up, I am sure they would be reluctant to refund if you didn't want the stick

That's insane, and strange, they lost out on a sale for 35 notes, it does make me laugh this recovery USB stick, as you can do your own recovery USB image through windows, and there will be in built recovery partition as well on the drive as well normally, as its standard with pc manufacturers

Went to collect mine - also had the sales pitch ref USB and £35.00 extra. Told the assistant that I didn't require it but he wouldn't allow purchase without it.

Ending up not purchasing. Typing this on my Surface 2 RT (with backlit keyboard!) Tweaked, it still seems to cope with what I use it for.

The ssd and ram are upgradeable according to previous posts.

I am also looking at this, currently have a surface pro 3, had for a couple of years, i5, 128gb ssd, fancy a change, as it's not really knee friendly, don't use the pen. Though it's a smooth runner. Would love the hp spectre to pricey. Probably think I am mad wanting to change the pro. Though the specs are lower than my pro, but with an earlier i5 gen.

I am also looking at the hp 360, at 499 which has 8gb and an i5 though the build quality doesn't look as good, any thoughts. I only use it for web, word docs, surfing etc, any thoughts. Just seems on paper a good buy which does surprise me for pc world

I can only go on what I experienced in the shop, others views of people who have this laptop just back that experience up.

I got mine on the 27th and I haven't had any problems with the touchpad so far, it's been accurate and feels just right when using it actually. Whether it will deteriorate over time i'm not sure but right now I'm not sure what all the fuss is about with the touchpad, seems spot on to me

Have you used it yet or waiting for delivery?

What do you think about the touch pad? It definitely isn't ideal but not sure how much it will annoy me!

Ive been looking for about 18 months and this is the one ive gone for. I need a laptop for uni this year (as a MATURE student) and had phases of going from the little cheap HP Streams etc, to spending a lot more for a real expensive one. For me, this one is exactly right. It will be more than enough for a general office 365 machine, will be great for research etc. My secondary use is very much film watching, so it was the screen quality/resolution that stopped me buying any of the others. This IPS full HD tipped me over the edge. I wasnt looking to spend quite as much originally, i'm very poor, but for me, I cant see a better deal coming along very soon. I stress 'for me' mind you. Like everything else, its only worth the money if it'll do what you want it to do.

I have been in the shop to try and:
It is definitely touch screen.
Doesn't appear to have a backlight (not surprising for this price)

I am really torn whether to buy it, I have been looking at a laptop for ages, I need for general browsing but sometimes use a few things at the same time. 4gb ram and only 128gb ssd are downsides but you can't really expect more than 128 for a laptop this price, looking at 256gb with an IPS screen you're looking at paying a minimum of £200 more if not more. The biggest downside for me using though is probably the touch pad, I just worry that it will really annoy me using it daily. It's one of those things you don't really think about when purchasing but could be really annoying.

The pros are that it is really good value, 14" is probably perfect for me. SSD which I definitely want as old style hard drives look to be phased out. IPS screen. Battery life is decent.

Ahh, it is really touch and go, the fact that I am even considering buying it shows that it is a decent deal as I don't part with my cash easily on things like these (I have been looking on/off for a couple of years).

Can anyone with the white one confirm:

- that it is touchscreen as on the website is says it is not. Pretty sure it's an error but please confirm for me.

- whether there is a backlit keyboard.

Thanks very much for your help.

Thanks again. Appreciate the help

Next to the power, it's a cable lock slot used if you want to lock it to something so it's not easily stolen, I'm not sure if it's kensington or another version though.

kensington lock

I can't speak for sound but battery life would be won by the iPad hands down, speed is more complex and they're still very different things the computer has more power behind it, but ultimately websites and apps would load about the same however things you would use an app for on the iPad you would probably use the website for on the computer, if you have an iPhone then that's what an iPad is like but bigger.

There is one more important thing, iPads over time as they get new iOS updates become (painfully) slow which there is nothing you can do about, you can't even go back to a faster version to get the speed back, a computer on the other hand looked after has the potential to stay fast (in relation to the day you bought it) indefinitely.

probs a stupid question but what is that port closest to the hinge on the left hand side?

thanks, there r too many versions of this laptop. had my hopes up with a backlit keyboard :disappointed:

how many times do people have to be told.....This is not a backlit screen.

Whereas there are some models of the Lenovo Yoga 510 with a keyboard backlight this model being sold here DOES NOT have a keyboard backlight, the versions that do have a keyboard backlight have a 'light' symbol on the spacebar and are activated by pressing Fn+Spacebar, the versions without the backlight have a completely blank spacebar with no symbols on it.

Also have slight backlight bleeding in upper corners here but not noticeable. There's definitely no backlit keyboard, read the manuals on the hard drive. It's the 15ISK model only (this is 14isk)

Sorry I should have elaborated, I meant for speed, sound, and battery life.

Thanks

In what way? This is a full Windows computer that can bend round into a tablet, the iPad is a mobile OS running tablet, they are ultimately very different things. The iPad is lighter but the computer can pretty much do anything. Facebook or Netflix would look the same on both.

i cant find anything in the settings about the keyboard backlight

also, how does this compare to iPad?

Hold down the shift key and press restart. You should also be able to do in settings / system / recovery / advanced settings.

Anyone had a prompt to install the lenovo bios update utility? Seems a bit scary and i'm not sure if I should install it really, it's popped up not long after I first started using it, part of the lenovo companion or something I think it is..
Interesting to see someone mention lightbleed on the screen, i've got some as well in the bottom left of the screen but only visible on a black background really, wondering if I should swap it for another one really?

I reckon its McAfee also. In Task Manager, the McAfeee services are hammering everything. Will uninstall if things don't improve.

Would this be suitable for editing 4K content from a camcorder? I have a sony vaio vgn-z5 that I bought from a deal on here about 7 years ago and it just overheats and turns off when doing this. I am assuming although the old laptop cost me around £800 back in 2010, this will be miles ahead of it??

On the bottom right there should be a icon in the taskbar next to the clock.. can't remember which one but it brings up another menu.. and one of the options is to enable/disable backlight..

OK I'm picking mine up tomorrow. Will report back, but I suspect the first thing to do is to get rid of Mc Afee bloatware. It slows your PC down and is useless.

Bought one today. As it was for my daughter and her University, means it will get a good battering so had to opt for the 3 years extended warranty. Additional 150 and I'm not a fan of these but I know the device will get a good kick-in. Need it to survive 3 years!

Doing updates now and although slow, I think someone earlier mentioned, after several updates it kicks into touch. Have left as is for the moment with everything out of the box.
Btw does office 365 come Pre-installed now? I know I need to activate but didn't think they had it part of the build.

got one this afternoon. I was concerned by the screen wobble but my one is rock solid. I think the ones in store get a rough life, I certainly flexed a few!
To answer some of my question, rocksmith 2014 works great, PSPx9 also.
I have a little light bleed on a black screen. has anyone else got this? Has anyone managed a clean install to get back the ssd space for recovery partitions?
This is a great bit of kit so far. Thanks op saved me a fortune!

Went to look at this laptop in the store. My only criticism is the wobbly screen when you touch it and the 4GB RAM. One of the staff tried to flog me the AMD version without the SSD but with 8GB RAM for £500. The staff all have a pitch that AMD is cheaper because they don't advertise! AMD have been falling behind Intel for many years, you will have an inferior, heat producing inefficient CPU if you get that version. Anyhow somebody talk me out of buying it. Surely the chinese laptops from gearbest or ebay are higher spec and cheaper too?

i had the same from currys.. went there after reserving a white one and was told only preset ones are left which include a recovery usb but its an extra £35.. i told them im not going to pay extra so will get it delivered online. I asked him to speak to the manager if he can do anything about the usb and i will buy it right now... he said he cant do it for free and minimum he has to sell for is £10. So then i thought about it and just paid the £10 to take it today... usb is prob worth that amount anyway.

Mine had the keyboard lights.. you have to switch it in in settings.
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Can u pls tell me settings excatly when i can enable backlit light can be enabled?? I cant find pls

To get into bios, shut down the system and then use a paperclip or something to poke the hole on the left side of the laptop next to the card reader (called the NOVO "button" or something). It boots into bios. No idea why they make it so difficult.

My 13-13.3" sleeve arrived from amazon, it's well padded and fits PERFECTLY (just a cm or two of wiggle room max). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plemo-13-MacBook-Surface-Ultrabook/dp/B01AW66PMS/ref=sr_1_10?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1482946156&sr=1-10

Also still massively impressed with how fast this thing boots, even compared to my SSD desktop this wins hands down.

Many thanks for the answer, I figured as much but thought it was worth doubly checking as I'm not the most technically minded person. I guess I'll just have to keep saving and waiting for a good deal on the Surface Pro.

Mines coming tomorrow. Re the non backlit keyboard..is it ever worth writing off to complain with Currys/pcworld? Im not so worried that i would send it back but it is one feature that pursuaded me to buy it more swiftly I guess. Anyone else tried mentioning it yet in an effort to get something out of it?

ok have just got mine delivered and will try and answer question. mine is the black and have no reason to believe the white is different.

there is no numbered keypad
the keys are white printed and are not backlit and there is nothing printed on the spacebar
it is running windows 10 home edition 64bit
on initial boot there is 75.5gb out of 104gb available.
There was a firmware update 1.05 to 1.06 ovcn222ww which i did.... dont know what it did.
will be debloating it later

as always Lincoln Curry's are claiming to only have pre-setup computers in stock that you have to pay the additional charge for.... would you believe it they have 8. Time to kick off a fuss again.

Still currently searching through the internet but does anyone know how to get into the BIOS? Which button is it? I am wanting to turn off the function keys and from what I have gathered, I can only turn it off in the BIOS

Solved it! Turns out I needed to press Fn + F2 a few more times!

​its probably built into the price over here but it's handy for when I swap out the ssd

​On the ssd version?

Are you sure? I just too the ssd version back as it definitely did not have a backlit keyboard... Where in settings did you turn it on?

Does your spacebar have the icon on the left hand side?

I'm a bit out of touch with Windows 10, can someone confirm if this is a 'full blown' version? I.e. can you create RDP sessions? I seem to remember some versions-ago only 'Enterprise/Business' editions could? Home editions were scaled down?

Based on full brightness, wifi and Bluetooth on and light use, estimated around 5-5.30hrs. Could possibly get up to 7hrs with lower brightness, wifi and Bluetooth disabled. Hope that helps :smiley:

Mine had the keyboard lights.. you have to switch it in in settings..

Thanks

Any real world battery usage figures from you guys? Still torn between this and the 710.
The fan noise issues concern me on the 710 for the amount of money it shouldn't have that.

No. Unfortunately the keyboard is not backlit.

Re your other question: I've not opened this myself but as long as there are no stickers/seals that get broken when taking the bottom off, I can't see them knowing (As long as you change it back before repair)

Also does any1 know if the ram upgrade voids the warranty. Youtubed how to do it and seems u have to take off the whole bottom.
Thanks

Backlit keyboard?

I have the black and can confirm there is no num pad on the right of the keyboard. Hope this helps

Just looking at the white a nd black options and noticed the pictures of the keyboards are different. Black has a number pad to the right. White does not. Also the specs are slightly different. 1.75kg white, 1.8kg black. 8.5 hrs white, 8 black. Also keyboard says backlit but people how have it say not.
Anyone confirm if they are the same, particularly the keyboards. prefer the black look but dont want the numberpad really.

Lick of the draw with USB stick, bought a home stream for my lad, sticker on side saying take usb recovery stick out of box and scan for 30 pounds. The guy dealing with me, didn't bother, or didn't have a clue.

​Interesting. I was asked to pay additional £30 for recovery usb and i refused, usb stick was then removed from the box.
can anyone let me know if they got theirs as standard. thanks.

Anyone recommend a good sleeve for it?

I bought this laptop a few weeks ago before the sale and i do not recommend it.. kept restarting with a error message "Critical process died". Had enough of that happening and returned it for a full refund. Currys / PC world also tried to trick me saying the only one in stock is ones which is preset up and Ineed to pay an extra £35 for a recovery memory stick .. which I told them was ****.. I said I'm not paying for something I don't need, started to walk out and they immediately offered to reduce it to £10..

​currys Dublin included a recovery USB with mine as standard. it will be useful when I stick in my 525gb SSD this week. :smile:

This is not really for them. It is a basic touch and no better than any tablet.
Someone in design would need a more flexible controlled input like on a surface pro using a special pen or top of the range ipads that also use a special pen. They take into account angle of pen and pressure applied etc. these will start at about double the price.

Interested to here how you find it I want to photoshop. Some light autocad and browse revit files for work. It must also play rocksmith 2014. Would the i3 handle that?
I was also looking at the 710 and 900 but I do love a bargain. Looking at the specs the CPU benches higher then my desktop i5 650. £250 difference is enough to make it a serious option. Thanks in advance

To hand out or ones he used personally?!

A friend has just bought one but PC World already opened it and created a recovery USB - did anyone else experience the same?
I don't understand why as the laptop should already have a recovery partition.

Can anyone advise if the touchscreen portion for this is any good for artists/designers. I have a graphics tablet already for digital drawings but I just can't get used to the disconnect between the hand and screen so I'm wondering if a tablet like this would be a better solution? The item description doesn't specify anything about art/design specifically so I'm guessing it doesn't but if anyone knows otherwise I'd love to hear your experiences!

Mine's only turned its fan on once for a short while in the last few hours, during a particular intensive bit of set up. Rest of the time it's been totally silent!

No flex or wobble on my touchscreen with usual usage, and I'm a big fan of the W10 touch interface so use it lots.

Also in my experience W10 is much better with memory use than previous versions. Runs fine on my little Click Mini with 2GB! When I've checked on Task Manager on this one, with all my usual apps now installed and running, it's been at about 50% memory usage. Worst case (from the Lenovo service manual I've seen), it's easy to upgrade memory.

​That's the a standard Windows 10 set up, just go to display settings, everything is usually scaled upwards to 125%/150% at the beginning, just move the slider back down to 100%.

Anyone used the laptop fully for some estimates on the battery life?

I picked one up this afternoon, and it's a superb machine for the money!

My old MBP has been on its last legs for ages, and so I've been pondering a W10 2-in-1 instead for a while. I've got a Lenovo X1 Carbon for work and a super portable tiny Tosh Click Mini, and am a big fan of W10 machines with touchscreens as a result. I wanted full HD and an SSD and had been looking at the 710/910 sort of end of things for a while. Decided though at this price and given the typical workload it'll be used for, an i3/4GB would in reality be enough. Currys also had a 710 with i7 in store, and TBH I couldn't see that much difference between the build on them!

Took just a few minutes to set up, and it's flying along, and super quiet too (another reason why I decide to not go for the 710 offer in JL given its ongoing issues with fan noise). If I'm honest it feels much snappier than my X1 Carbon which has an i7 and 16GB!

Did anyone figure how to get rid of the scaling? everything is quite...big

Just received mine. Does not feel or work like a £350 laptop (I've had plenty). Feels sturdy and runs like a dream. The touchpad is woeful, but most are. The touchscreen is responsive and accurate. The picture quality is superb. The laptop runs silent. May be more RAM and increased HDD at some point, but for £350 (well £340 for me as the code worked) it is an absolute steal.

Before getting all over excited how good is this laptop? It has a fan. Is it noisy? It only has 4GB of RAM. Windows 10 eats memory for breakfast. The Yoga 300 had a very flimsy screen that wobbled when you used the touchscreen. I hope this is better?

Really impressed with it. Zips along nicely. Really strange being able to tap on a windows screen!

Sound quality is really good and so is the picture quality. First thing I did was uninstall mcafee.

If you're in doubts certainly has my recommendation.

Need to figure out how to create recovery media at some point.

Has anyone played Diablo 3 on this? Does it run above 30fps?

no i don't and ?

Also in white online....they only have black in-store

I assume you haven't installed Google Translate on it yet?

There's a member called Frank30 who has discount codes.

I'm really torn between this and the 710 at John Lewis. Big price difference the 710 is by preferred but it's £250 difference or £350 for the i7 version. 710 seems to have a better screen from a quick go in currys just now and series 7 processors. Want to photoshop. Some light autocad and browse revit files for work. It must also play rocksmith 2014. Would the i3 handle that? Don't want to commit and then regret not getting the up grade but it's a fair price difference!
Any help great fully received. I want a lightweight touchscreen laptop basically!

Is the battery upgradable in this unit? Are there any powerbanks which would support quickcharge for this laptop?
Thanks

it was special i thiink;p i just get last black friday deal asus full hd for 279 and i claim it its foulty i choose this laptop for exchange and they give me 10% for next laptop becouse off mess and i told them to transfer voucher code for 20 quid too becouse i used it in last buy so the menager agree with me and yesterday i ring them and after 5 consultant's which was rude and don't want give me this discounts from couple days ago grrr but i finnaly i was spoken with nice old english lady and she just change laptops witth out any charges :smile: i got two laptops in front of me for 279 xD but i have to give back the asus im not going to be that much dealer breaker :smile:

[quote=noss88]Bam I got it for 279.95 ?? Is it 20% discount?? How do u managed to get it? Is it speical offer for collegues ?

Maybe staff discount?

Was thinking much the same, where di I get access to a 20% discount?

Where from?!

It depends what you're after. The one you bought doesn't come with a touch screen, so depends if you'd use it. The one you bought has a 2TB hard drive, this only a 128gb. Its a case of size over speed. For browsing and a few games the 128gb is perfect for me. Your laptop has a quad core A10 (AMD CPU) and 8gb of ram. This only has a dual core i3 with 4gb. The i3 and 4gb of ram are ideal for browsing and word processing etc, but for more intense programs your laptop would be more suitable.

Just tried the FM17 Demo and the game played perfectly fine. I even played the first pre-season game and the animation/game play had no issues at all. Increasing the game sim speed didn't cause any issues either.

One thing that bugged me is I couldn't use the swipe gestures to swap to another app or to load the on screen keyboard. I had to fold the keyboard out to type in my details etc. A non issue once you've gone past the setup.

Hi,
is this one better than the one I recently bought?
http://www.tesco.com/direct/hp-15-ba042na-156-laptop-with-amd-a10-8gb-ram-2tb-hdd-dvdrw-black/290-1657.prd?skuId=290-1657
Should I return it and get this one instead?
Thanks

Great deal. Have reserved.

Seems a very good deal especially if you can get a 20% discount ;-)

Bam I got it for 279.95 and now I got Asus x555la and this joga meaby I should not give back the Asus Xd ? What's gonna happend it's interesting

while i have not tried this myself. I would say it shouldn't have any issues playing FM17.
I may pickup a copy, if I find it cheap enough, to test it and report back

EDIT: Downloading the demo now. Will report back soon

Would this run football manager 17 at a decent speed?

On my way to collect mine. Thanks OP:)

I use Youtube on Google Chrome so its just the normal desktop/browser version. There are a few third party youtube clients you can try though I've just downloaded "Client for Youtube" and it seems pretty good.
With regards to the speakers they are quite clear and also rather loud. A lot louder than my previous laptop.

​Yes it's touch screen. Got one the other day

is the battery upgradable?

That's odd as it supports 32GB maximum in dual channel mode so if that is only for DDR3L rather than DDR4 it seems backwards!

http://ark.intel.com/products/88180/Intel-Core-i3-6100U-Processor-3M-Cache-2_30-GHz

i3 6100u can handle maximum 16gb max ddr4 2133 :smiley: i will get this and prably wait for nice ssd deal

No I mean Sky Q so I can watch recordings on my Sky Q box on it

That's not the point though is it, what if you want to run Sky Q on this? Can you, if not why not? I want to do it now, I have millions goddamn some one make it happen!

I also want a four wheel drive Octopus, but I'm a realist.

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Lenovo/yoga-510-15isk.

Crucial list four different models of the 510 all of which are upgradable for both ram and ssd.

​This will run Sky Go no worries. I assume you mean Sky Go?? Sky Q is a different thing altogether.

Bought straight away, cracking deal. Heat added:) (It's available in black and white)

Can you use Sky Q on this?

can you check if youtube opens in desktop mode or mobile with this... and can you just let me know how good the speakers are please!

Typing on this now. Saw the deal and picked it up earlier. Couldn't be happier with this purchase.

Build quality seems much better than other commentators are suggestion
Touch screen seems great so far and I love the flexibility of it.
The 6th gen i3 is surprisingly capable and haven't run in to any issues re slowness.
The SSD means that the thing boots up in a few seconds and feels really nippy.

All in all for the price (£349 as I couldn't be bothered to wait for delivery) I am extremely pleased. Now I just need to test a few android emulators to get the best of both worlds!

Par for the course unfortunately for a 14" floppy screen laptop.

You need to download a genuine windows 10 iso 64 bit onto a usb stick. Enter the bios, disable secure boot and alter to boot from usb. You may have to create a uefi usb bootable disc first using a programme called RUFUS or similar. Make sure you download the drivers required from lenovo first. I always put mine on a separate usb. If yo use rufus it will delete everything on the usb. It's all quite easy but it can be a bit of messing about and the way of doing it can vary from machine to machine. My lenovo miix was easy to do. My yoga 300 not so easy and I lost the secure boot which makes no difference in how the laptop boots. My Asus t300chi was a nightmare but got it in the end. Note you will use your one key recovery but in the scheme of things, it's no great loss. There is plenty of info available. Some say the only proper way to do a clean install is to delete all the partitions when you re-install windows. That is when you lose the recovery option but it gives you more disc space and in my opinion with windows 10 you don't need a one key recovery as you can easily create your own recovery disc.

You don't have to worry about losing your windows key. It's locked to the motherboard and recorded by Microsoft. Just make sure you windows 10 software is activated before you do any clean installs.

Have a look on howtogeek.com

Just booted mine up. Seems nice, much more solid build/chassis than the last sub £400 laptop I purchased. Had a dodgy looking BIOS update after the first couple of boots; that was the only unexpected hiccup so far.

Usual crapware from McAfee/Lenovo removal seemed to be the only other basic setup needed.

So far so good. :laughing:

​here's hoping for a weak pound. we've been fleeced here in euroland long enough:)

Hoping this is the year where we get some great deals on thin, light windows laptops with minimum of 512gb SSD drive and 8gb RAM for sub £500 ... give Apple a run for their money as I'm tired of giving my hard earned money to Apple. Their products are great bit with the weak pound, getting painfully expensive.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AW66PMS/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item

I've gone for this one, the measurements should be within 0.1-0.2" on the 13-13.3in model

Doesn't work - "Sorry! That promotional code is not valid."

Picked one up earlier today and after a couple of hours use I'm really pleased with it. Anybody have a recommendation for a suitable case?

10OVER249 - Sorry! That promotional code is not valid.:disappointed:

​are you absolutely sure that will fit ?

Disappointing but not a deal breaker. Will probably write off and aim for a voucher or something.

Oh crap I just remembered my telecommunications company have the same incentives oh well ordered now

here is nice upgrade https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kingston-hyperx-impact-black-series-16gb-2133mhz-ddr4-cl13-sodimm-kit-of-1-hx421s13ib-16-my-262-ks.html

It is touchscreen. I was looking at them (before i bought one in Dublin)
I was apprehensive of the size having been used to a 15.6" but liked the feel of it and i wasnt much smaller in comparing to the 15.6.
No optical drive but not a deal breaker with USB drives on the market.
Screen is fantastic compared to the laptop it was beside.
In Dublin they are providing a system backup on a USB Drive.

Damn you HKUD :innocent:

Ok, you say its not touch screen, then how do you use the damn thing in 360 mode? Dont tell me you have to un-wrap it everytime you want to do something! What a pain!

will this be ok for using with photoshop and similar software?

This has been this price previously I bought this before xmas

Thanks for posting this, that is a deal breaker for me! :disappointed:

Tempting, but 1.8 kg seems quite heavy for a device like this.

It's a great deal but no optical drive. Shame.

Just bought a white one for my daughter. Whilst at the store i checked the display unit to find the backlit keyboard didn't work. The assistant checked and confirmed the model does not have a backlit keyboard. The manager offered a refund and gave an excuse about the incorrect specification being a human error.

I bought it anyway and checked it once I got home. DEFINITELY NO BACKLIT KEYBOARD. If this feature is a deciding factor, think again!!!

I'm still pondering about which colour to order :smiley: unlucky fella I guess it should have been posted with the black one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-KCP421SD8-16-SODIMM-Notebook/dp/B01B7MM8A4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1482760179&sr=8-3&keywords=16+gb+ddr4+laptop if change is the best option 16gb and ssd from 512 no less i will change for that in future when some deals will be online ;d

Yeah I tried both collection and then changed order for delivery but code still didn't work on either option. Looks like it's no longer valid but there are Nectar points if you click through their website to Currys as mentioned before, better than nothing! :wink:

I'm typing from it right now. Even with just 4gb of RAM it's zipping along amazingly well. In fact, I just ran Half Life 2 on medium-high details at 1920x1080 at an almost constant 60fps to give it a test. Pleasantly surprised. I daresay you could probably even run FIFA on it, let alone footy manager.

Could anyone find me a link for upgradable ram? I only want this for light browsing and football manager and it should be able to handle that no problem right?

Did it for a online delivery to home but no good.

It was working yesterday and only for online purchase not an option for store collection

code 10OVER249 not working
Sorry! That promotional code is not valid.

Good deal. What's the build quality like? Is it metal or plastic-y?

Tried the AMD version in my local currys just now, impressive for the price so it is.

I thought it might. I tried resetting and removing all files via the win10 recovery control panel, but the lenovo software is written into the recovery image already on the hard drive. I've removed most of the bloatware through windows for now, but I'd like to get the 14gig or so back from the hidden recovery partitions. I'm wondering if there would be any consequences of just wiping them and combining them with the C: via partition manager in windows or something...

got it for £280 as a replacement of faulty asus laptop from black Friday deal :smile:
We’re pleased to confirm your product replacement shown below. We will now prepare your order for delivery.
Your order number:*******
New product(s):
1 x YOGA 510 14" Full HD 2 in 1 with faster SSD storage - Black
thanks Santa :smile:

Over 1000 degrees? Yoga Fire! Yoga Fire!

I would image drive with something like reflect first, then you can always restore. Does the serial not get written to the bios now?

​I'd just buy a mouse to go with it. Every laptop I've ever had has had problems with the pad.

Really want to buy one of these but after looking at reviews I keep seeing that the mouse pad is poor and people having problems with it jumping and sticking this seems to be on a lot of reviews so i don't know now! Can anyone shed any light on this?

It's not this particular model I have, but no - I'm not rough on belongings. They are all known faults with plenty of posts on lenovo forums etc.

Should be backlit it says. Not sure where the settings for that would be. Never had a backlit keyboard before lol.

Happy Birthday

Wouldn't you have just been better off buying a higher spec model to start with?

Also just purchased this for myself with next day delivery! Very excited! I plan on upgrading the SSD and the RAM in the near future too. HOT!

For those asking, can definitely confirm it's touch screen. Doesn't seem to have a keyboard backlight however. Graphics chip (IGP) is intel hd 520.

Reserved for collection tomorrow, birthday prezzie to myself :smiley:

what's the graphics card? I don't seem to find that information

Dont know why i quoted you three times there ha ha. Thanks for the info. The screen was what made it hard to pass up for me. Cant wait to get mine.

I upgraded from a linx 8 tablet and the difference is like night and day. The linx chugs and slows down opening more than one program, this so far has handled everything I've thrown at it with ease. Very impressed.

Whats your first impression, other than the annoying bloat?

*Other than the bloat, it's extremely smooth, responsive and sturdy. Gets a little hot on the underside when opening multiple tabs but has absolutely no problem multitasking. The screen is fantastic.

I believe the ram can be upgraded as i saw some instructions while browsing for reviews before i ordered.. There is only one slot though, so it'll need to be totally replaced rather than added to. Im not 100% on that as there are a lot of varying models in this range, but I think thats right.
As for the ssd, I imagine that would be the same. I'm thinking about putting all my media either on cloud or an external drive though. Doing loads of college work on office 365 and Onedrive has shown me the light on that.

I just grabbed one. It's absolutely full of bloat ware and has 4(!) invisible recovery partitions in disk management. Currently researching how to wipe it with a win10 ISO without losing the "serial"

Thanks just had a Google on Remix & the whole concept has me intrigued, might be something I end up not really needing, got by so far without this kind of thing but certainly something to play about with sometime. I have a basic lenovo 10" Tablet but with Remix on this new Lenovo might give me best of both worlds in one package. More Google & YouTube browsing seems to be order of the day. Thanks again for the suggestion..... oh and also to the OP for the deal
Cheers

I may have missed it but can the ram and Ssd be upgraded? thanks

where i can get a review of this particular model ?

I ordered black before noticing you could get it in white. Cant be bothered to change it now but I would have been even quicker buying it if I'd realised it came in white.

Online reviews look good. Ive ordered one based on decent reports. As these are usually mid priced you often get 'premium'buyers expecting £1500 quality for £500 I find. This is why I think you get a real mix of reviews. I generally buy cheap stuff thats 2 years out of date so I'm sure this will seem luxurious for me. The Yoga and Flex lines are fairly well regarded. Any problems with the hinge etc should be covered under warranty anyway. Buy on credit card for extra protection.
This one to me is a no brainer for uni/media playing.

People complaining in this thread about build quality, it's poor, things snap off, hinges break after so many months use....

Are you rough on your belongings? or is it genuinely crap?

Anyone moved from an iPad Air 2 to this yoga ?

I'm considering making the change but may miss the portability of the Ipad.

How long does the battery last ?

Now with triple nectar points

We have the yoga 500 i5 6200u version no SSD no problems had it 6 months.

My finance company offer %s off a variety of sites. Currys is 7% halfords is 9% etc

Some are giftcards. Others are coupon codes

This one or the white one is the question..

Thats me eating super noodles till March.
The laptop sweet spot I've been waiting for. Thanks, and merry christmas all.

Ah ok. It also said no touchscreen but I guess it must be!

If it had 8gb, it would be 'shame it's not an i5'...

Probably buying them on zeek or similar?

So how do you get the discount on the gift cards. I just cant see this happening unless your a employee/ student or something.

You might want to have a look at Remix OS too.

Yes

I
It has 4gig of ram so it will be a 64 bit OS.

Thanks for the Bluestacks suggestion, not heard of it before and actually not something I'd thought about before but makes this offer even more tempting.

​thanks. missed the link in your post :wink:

I know that they do it for price matching because I had to fight for a price match one day with the store manager saying it was impossible for another retailer to have said product, he point blank refused to price match it as he said it shouldn't be sold anywhere else.

My yoga 2 has been awful. Constant overheating, usb ports snapping due to brittle plastic, and now it's out of warranty the screws breaking free on the hinges causing the case to split. Hope they have fixed all these problems in these newer models.....

The link 2 posts above is to Dell Outlet machines - I have bought 8 in the last 5 weeks - the highest I paid was £399 ex VAT and the lowest £348 ex VAT (included discount). These are listed as refurb or scratch and dent but I could safely say I have purchased well in excess of 300 Dell Outlet machines over the years and not one has come with a mark on it. The 3 year warranty included helps too.

Have you a link please?

Thanks very much! I guess I was on the wrong outlet portal :-)

There are only 2 available at the minute - they probably will not reload any new ones until they are back to work. Both of the ones available only have 128Gb SSD and 4Gb, I would hold out until a 256Gb SSD and 8Gb appear, remember there is still a 15% dicount available using code MERRY.

The link which hopefully works: LINK

​how do you buy the gift cards so cheap?

​Lenovo yoga tab pro 2, got it for 290. KK out box, upgrades to lollipop.

13.3 WQHD Tablet with Inbuilt Projector , Intel Atom Z3745 Quad Core Processor, 13.3" WQHD Touch Screen, Android 4.4 KitKat, 2GB RAM, 32GB Storage, Bluetooth, Integrated WiFi.

Hmm

£349 - 10 voucher = 339
340 in gift cards costs 316.20
316.10 to buy this, and then another 1.1% cash back from tcb @ 339 = 3.4 so over all this will cost just 312.70 :smile:
Just need to put the money in the bank first.

I can find the inspirons 5638 but not the 7530's Could you help with a link please :-)

This or 710 at John Lewis?

Would this be good enough to do some basic Photoshop?

I would prefer to spend on a Dell Latitude 7350 (13.3") 2-in-1 with 256Gb SSD, 8Gb, M-5Y71, 3YR NBD warranty - these have been sitting on Outlet for weeks now at between £380 - £450. Much much better value and excellent build quality (what you are paying for in a Latitude I suppose)

Incredible value. I have the 900 series with the i7 but this is far far far better bang for buck. A better ultrabook than my macbook air, better tablet than my iPad, 3 second boot up, ports and expansion galore, amazing premium build and Windows 10 which gets better by the day. This should be scorching!

Think all yoga laptops are touchscreen

This laptop has been this price several time we bought it on Black Friday deal but it is around this price in store from time to time.

Is the OS 32bit or 64bit?

it's only 4GB RAM for Windows,it's really low.if RAM is not upgradeable then this deal is ice cold.

It certainly does say that under the black model. I ordered the white and it says no touch so doesn't make sense. Probably a typing error. Essentially the same laptop and a different colour.

Ordered! Thanks OP and Reaper51 for the voucher code - worked perfectly for home delivery! :smiley:

Just ordered for free home delivery with the £10 off code, there doesn't seem anything better for the money in the post Christmas sales plus 1.1% Quidco.

Heat from me.

It is, Under specifications it says 10 point touchscreen.

An extra 2gb for £100 LESS is considerable. Convertability is important to some though I guess.

How is it a 2 in 1 if no touchscreen?

copy and paste won't work try to type the code in box

You can only get the voucher codes to work for home delivery. I can't find an option to add the code for store collection.

​worked for me

Is it touchscreen?

Can Anyone get the code 10OVER249 to work

I got the white one for the same price.

What 2gb ram more ? Wasn't a convertible either. Can't compare the 2.

Very had a higher spec machine for 250 until yesterday.

I ordered one from Amazon before and can confirm the mouse pointer jumped around the screen which was annoying. The screen was pretty good and very clear but not very bright, eventually it was returned as the screen packed in so Amazon refunded. I think for £349 it's a pretty good buy though, even with its faults

Worked for me just now had to swap from chrome to Firefox to get to checkout page tho.

No SSD and not fullhd

Add code 10OVER249 to get another £10 off

Same machine though just the ssd difference, most of the reviews were about reliability, wi-fi, built quality, faulty mouse which would all apply to the 510

Backlit keyboard too, nice.......

Anyone else having checkout issues just keeps asking for my address?

Any idea if you can hackintosh these?

IPS screen too. Hate those TN panels.

This is a pretty nice option for anyone after a convertible. Uses a regular SATA SSD and the RAM is upgradeable too (there's one slot, so you'd need to replace the 4Gb module).

Instructions: http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/inside-lenovo-yoga-510-disassembly-internal-photos-and-upgrade-options/

is this A9 processor faster?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-yoga-510-14-2-in-1-black-10146159-pdt.html

Thanks for that! Mind if you share the codes with me please?

You can download a program called bluestacks and run all of your play account apps on any device :smiley:. Pretty nifty

Are there any of these which are android based? I like the apps on android.

i cant tell you now i need to call them get one and then i will tell you.:smiley: if their line are open today i will text here what is the story
the lines are closed today so i have to wait until tomorrow:) but i got i got 10% off for next laptop and 20 quid voucher wich used on black friday but laptop was faulty i spoke on the line and they have given 10% off and voucher for 20 off which was used with last laptop buy

Would also be keen to know how to get it for £295 :smiley:

im getting this for 295 !! :d

Some pretty poor reviews on Amazon

Can't see the graphics card is this suitable for light gaming like would it run football manager well ? Or is there one around this price full hd with good graphics card and processer ? Also merry Christmas:)

is it an aluminium build?

Well I hope you're right. Merry Christmas

shame its only 4gb

​somewhere in the product description says:

" .......
Flexible 2 in 1 computing

The Lenovo YOGA 510 has a 360° rotating hinge which lets you move between four modes in seconds.

Laptop mode gives you complete control of your PC using the keyboard, while flipping the screen round switches to touchscreen-only tablet mode for fast browsing and comfortable viewing.

There are two stand modes too which let you get extra-comfortable when watching films or playing touchscreen. However you like to work and play, the YOGA 510 has you covered.
......."
..so you shouldn't worry about this. Also Merry Christmas

If you look in the specifications it says it not. I hope you're right because if already ordered it. Oh well it'll go back if it isn't I guess.

Errmmmm this is touch screen right? Says it isn't in the specifications?

Completely pointless as a convertible if it isn't !!

They say that they order unique kit to fit the customer demands. The kit the order is "exclusive" to them however, so if you know it is a DSG product number then it was made for PCW/Currys. The main reason is so it becomes impossible to price match. If you watch carefully then sometimes they have far too much stock so offload their kit to bulk resellers, then you can price match. I know that they do it for price matching because I had to fight for a price match one day with the store manager saying it was impossible for another retailer to have said product, he point blank refused to price match it as he said it shouldn't be sold anywhere else.

thanks waiting for good SSD deal

thanks waiting for good SSD deal

Will it be easy to upgrade ram?

Thanks OP perfectly fits my criteria. Just what I was waiting for. Ordered. Heat added. :laughing:

I was looking at this earlier and wondering if the ram is upgradeable or a sealed unit?

No need to guess as 6 series = Skylake.

I'm guessing this is the Skylake rather than the Kabylake version?

Intel® Core™ i3-6100U Processor
4 GB / Storage: 128 GB SSD

Looks like a nice piece of kit