Lenovo IdeaPad 720s Laptop, 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop (Intel Core i7-7700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 1050 Ti Graphics, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe SSD), 81CR0006US, Platinum Grey

The good: this laptop is light, thin, powerful, sleek, Inexpensive, has a beautiful image, and over all just looks awesome.The bad: I expected this to be an i7 gen 8 but the description says “up to gen 8” this is misleading. There will be black light bleed. I tried putting this machine under heavy load. It throttles and overheats due to its thin size. On top of this, while it’s plugged in and battery is at 100%, it will slowly drain! It’s actually consuming more power than it can take in. Why make something this powerful and not have proper heat and power management!?The ugly: I got mine brand new, and some of the pixels on the screen were dead. I wanted a 4K display and it was absolutely beautiful. It plays 4K YouTube like a dream. But this is pretty pointless when your screen had dead or faded pixels. Look closely at the picture I attached. Its easier to see in person, but the white spots with blue around it were permanent! This should not happen in a brand new laptop. I could look past the other issues, but I’d be kicking myself every time I turn it on and see dead pixels if I didn’t return this. From the research that I’ve done it sounds like Lenovo was issuing refunds for the other problems I listed above. I really loved this laptop, but I’m very disappointed at all the bugs. If I’m always spending $1,000 on a laptop, I’m willing to spend more and get something that will last.

I purchased this for an all purpose use, multimedia and gaming mostly, I’m a university student and I wanted an all in one package, I did a ton of research on this unit and I pulled the trigger, a quad core CPU, aluminium thin laptop with 10 series nvidia graphics all for less than 1500 USD,Pros:- Great build quality, all aluminium except the screen bezels, very sturdy.- great display, brighter than usual for a 1080p panel, colours are accurate and somewhat vibrant.-Good keyboard, Lenovo always do provide great keyboards.- loud and clear speakers, JBL branded, not that means anything but they are good but distort on loudest volume.Now the cons which can be deal breakers for some people and why this laptop is not what people think it is!- 90W power supply provided is not suffiecent enough to power this laptop, honestly no clue why Lenovo did this as this does not really benefit anyone looking to buy a powerful laptop, this is a problem because when you are gaming and you hit full load on the cpu or/and gpu, the power supply can’t give more power to the laptop ( this is extremely rare to find laptops that are provided with power supplies that aren’t sufficient) this causes power limit throttling.- inefficient cooling system and garbage thermal management: this laptop gets extremely hot under load, I measured a max of 87 Degrees Celsius on the GPU and 97 on the CPU, this is beyond safe for the Life of cpu which can cause this laptop to brick up sooner, An i7-7700HQ and a gtx 1050 ti Max Q design, both get hot and throttle considerably, the cpu does throttle and is expected but the real problem here is a gpu, Max Q variants are underclocked versions of their full versions, they are designed for “thin and light laptops” I’m sure max q variants are fine on other laptops but god is it total trash on this laptop, the base clock speed is 1152 hz and this can go up to 1689 hz, it does boost, but only for a max of 10 mins and it falls flat back down to the1152 base, it DOES NOT EVEN CHOOSE A MIDDLE GROUND LIKE MOST LAPTOPS do to ensure performance without scarificing too much, I know this is not a gaming laptop, but when I pay for a product, I’d have it performance as it should and not how it has performed with me, this is easily the biggest dealbreaker here. Lenovo really missed the mark here and wasn’t not able to even come close to the dell Xps 15 which is model is in class with ,This model did not go well with an undervolt on the cpu and gpu. Minimal changes on temps but same massive throttling.P.S buy the iron grey colour model, it looks absolutely gorgoues, the silver model is very bland and does not look appealing at all with the bezels being black and the body being silver.

So the laptop's really great!amazing keyboard, beautiful display, beautiful finish, clean and dainty, great touch screen, beautiful colors. now I got 2 problems with it, first I'm doing Graphic design and basic stuff on it. and it freezes occasionally, then comes back. Seccond the sceern cracked 2 weeks after buying (turned of the touch driver, works well) Said 2? ok got a third on, only one reguler USB port. however I'm very happy what I got for this price, made great deal.