 So my daily driver laptop for a number of years with this Lenovo X250 I think it had it for three or four years somewhere around there and It's a slower i5. Well, it was faster than and it's slower now because well computers are faster now So I would just finally in need of something a little bit faster and I got this 480 And but one of the reasons I went Lenovo's this question comes up is you know How what made you go Lenovo Tom? Don't you hate freedom if you like Lenovo because it's a Chinese company that At one time had an incident with some spyware that was being put on by an American company You're not wrong that happened and I run Linux on it So I don't worry about that as much first thing I do in these is wipe them All right now that we addressed that this is what the X250 looks like after a number of years of use You can't even see the think pad anymore. It's just worn off But man Lenovo back in the day. I called this IBM when it was IBM before it was Lenovo They always had been known for great keyboards and that hasn't changed So this keyboard everything worked wonderful for all the years which led me to buying this L480 and I've already started wearing on this one. You can see where I do this with the touchpad a lot This is my daily driver. This is the laptop I use all the time is this L480 now But it died and that's one of the things I want to talk about So this is a follow-up after a 45 days of use on it roughly 45 days I bought it ago and it did die about 30 something days in and it's fixed already This is something I want to bring up because service matters and Lenovo is known for having good service Now my X250 never had a problem in all the years I had it and it's maybe been bumped or dropped a couple times. I'm not gonna lie It's it's been roughed up because I take it out on the field all the time And I've taken this one out in the field a few times and it just it was actually here When just wouldn't turn on before a video. I just decided it wouldn't want to boot and the motherboard was dead as a doornail Check the warranty on it even though we bought it from Amazon who I've heard people tell me if you buy it from Amazon You don't get warranty. This was a new laptop on Amazon. I used one not refurbished or anything so that would probably affect the warranty but Punched in the serial number and away we go go go Lenovo It has a three-year next-day on-site warranty and so I went to the Lenovo site Hit the little chat button Put the serial number to them. They're like, yep That sounds like a bad motherboard after I typed in description took only 11 minutes to find to get a hold of someone and they showed up the next day and replaced the motherboard right here at the office They didn't have to go take it anywhere or no one, you know, no big deal So that is the problem I had with it that they fixed right away and the tech did say this is rare and I got to admit for myself because we see a lot of businesses that we've sold Lenovo laptops to and They have been very trouble-free and I Still have confidence in the product in fact that I got three years warranty means if it did happen again I got three more years of incidents before that's a problem and after three or four years It's probably time to retire it anyways, but my overall besides that minor not having it for a day incident is it's great Now I do run Linux on this at running Papa West 1910 on there No issues at all now. I mentioned when I loaded 1904 The touchpad did have a problem the touchpad problem was you had to Activate it essentially and change a command line switch to make it work out of the box fresh install of 1910 does not require you to do that for the touchpad So this is a now out of the box working laptop and the price is really good now the L series is the Budget-minded if you will series, but the extra features I get like I'm not going to use the fingerprint reader I'm not going to Use a lit keyboard. I mean the light keyboard is kind of nice My x2 50 had it and people say you can swap this for a light up keyboard, but I kind of don't care I bet a touch typist for over 30 I think I learned how to touch type back in typewriter class. Yes I'm old enough to have had a typewriter class in high school would have been in 1992 That's when I learned touch typing and where to put your fingers So I don't really think about the keyboard layout and the keyboard layout is not Dramatically different than my x2 50 had So here's the keyboard in the x2 50. There's the key layout and you can swap function and control in the BIOS That is still a feature on the 480 Where we swapped function and control with the keyboard layouts identical So there was no new learning for me to do to know where my hands are even in complete darkness of The laptop so if I'm in the dark I could still type last thing I'll comment in you'll see a few people commenting that the screen is not as Bright now this is a nice IPS display. It's crisp. It's clear. I had no problems with screen the x2 50 is definitely a brighter screen but This one I do leave it max brightness and I'm fine this one would go brighter But I never had it set to full brightness because it always felt too bright So in terms of Ambient watching it in well even in studio lights. I can use this laptop perfectly fine I will admit outdoors it might be a little bit harder to see but I'm not really using my laptop much outside where and it's not Really a problem still a nice IPS display and it's not glossy So even trying to catch you catch a little bit of reflections because the studio lights will reflect on it It's something we find one of the studio lights. It takes a lot of light to get a reflection on it So it's like yeah, it's not matter of fact I want to say that the touchpad has now become glossier for me using it and so the spacebar from slide my fingers on it So it's it's a great finish on it so my overall I still really like the laptop and I Don't want to hide anything about it. The fact that it did die is unnerving when anytime a piece of hardware dies but we've seen this with every major manufacturer where Out of the box you have had a very short period of time in a dive We've seen hard drives die brand new rate arrays that were less than a month old You know you swap them in there. You're like wow one of the drives just decided it doesn't want to work anymore That does happen what it really comes down to is does the company stand behind our product and support it and a three-year next day On-site warranty them showing up and swap in the motherboard out. That's awesome That definitely made me happy about it. So want to throw that out there So those are my thoughts on this laptop up keep using it And I know some people are upset by this because I put stickers on it I'm going to another event and this is gonna travel with me which will accumulate more stickers on it Which would probably bother more people But I don't know. That's how I brand and sticker my laptops as for my x250. This is now Kind of a backup if I needed it, but it's also our shop Laptop that we're now retiring one of the old shop laptops And it's the one the other techs are going to take onsite and wander around with I Leave links to the hardware review and to take in a part of this But other than the fact that the motherboard died. I haven't had any other issues I know it sounds like a really big issue and it kind of is but they replaced it So I don't feel as bad about it. Thanks. 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