Convince me from buying a Lenovo E570

pretty sure the sata connection on the b575 is shot as the ssd I had inside had no issues booting up on my main rig.
I didn't feel like taking my ssd from my desktop out

I would still double check before getting rid of it.
I saw a review of the e470 it has an extra connector ribbon on the drive.

Please explain what you mean by that?

All I can say against it is the casing looks cheap and easy to break and that the battery is way too small. Thats like a battery from 2003 right there.

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What OS are you going to run on it?

Linux and Windows
specifically arch

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idk the specs and price look good. just don't throw it around cause it probably won't be durable

I don't know if it's the same with the e570, but I had not seen it.


Taken from https://youtu.be/1Qux1-1m1kU
Doesn't look like ribbon cables are a thing

Damn it Lenovo


RIP
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@judahnator I see what you mean

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I've been happy with my edge 15 Lenovo laptop. My only complaint is that the stock HDD was SUPER slow. An SSD cured that problem. Now, all is good.

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Loving my thinkpad E565, Decent gaming proformance from the apu

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Yeah, I feel your pain.

After waiting over a month when the order was "Released to Manufacturing" I decided to simply cancel the order. I then went to Best Buy and purchased the model I wanted plus a memory upgrade kit.

It did cost something like $50 more than it would have online, but my time was worth more than $50.

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I like Lenovos handware but after the hole Superfish bloatware I will never buy any of there products.

Mine runs linux just fine :D

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It finally arrived!

so far it is pretty surprisingly light and much thinner than I expected

having trouble installing manjaro tho(I think it might be a compatibility issue with the kaby lake cpu).

Got Linux installed on the computer!!!
turns out that it wasn't a problem with the kaby lake cpu.
The problem was Manjaro's live CD environment and the nvidia graphics. I solved it by using arch anywhere, running through the process of installing it, and had it auto detect drivers.

@judahnator what did you use to get the scroll button to work on Linux, I tried using gpointing-device-settings, but I am not sure about setting up the dedicated scroll button.

I should throw an ssd into my old laptop. picked it up for like 500 bucks a couple years back and its an amd a8 at 2.2.

Slow as molasses booting up

i threw a ssd into a x120e that has a amd 1.6. that thing flys on linux

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I had the same issue.... That must be its death nell.