Lenovo Flex 3-1580 Pointless review

This is just a quick little thing on the Flex 3-1580. Parents picked one up from Costco.
Specs:
CPU- i7-6500U
GPU- 940M with 2GB vram (probably?)
RAM- 8GB (1 stick)
HDD- 1TB something
Screen- 15.6" 1080p LED with touch stuff

Review:
Not bad, for a price of 750 USD, this is now a bad laptop. It is in no way a gaming grade laptop, as the hardware is lacking the punch, but it is a good productivity and good mainstream laptop. Temperatures are not bad, with both OCC GPU stress and the latest version of Prime95 (the hot one) running, the CPU and GPU maxed out at 85C (shared cooler), and started to throttle, but the GPU stress held a good 95 FPS (800x600, DX11, shader complexity 7) and did not fall. Gaming was okay, I was able to get CS:GO to run at a good 65FPS at 900p without any framedrops, and Borderlands 2 to run at 50 FPS with nearly no framedrops.

The tablet feature is meh, it does not have any stylus support like the Surface Pros and similar, so it’s your finger or one of those weird stylus things. Neither are very good and programs like OneNote will be a struggle to use without that stylus support. Nice to scroll through my textbooks though.

The keyboard is backlit, and is reaaalllly nice (the backlighting). But it has a few issues, the keys seem to get stuck on the metal that surrounds it if the key is pushed at an angle. So your keyboard may spasm randomly. Rather annoying, I do not know if it is just my laptop, or if this is a common issue.

My biggest gripe is the HDD, it’s a piece of junk. The laptop I use on a daily basis has an SSD and HDD (Lenovo G510). In the Flex I would prefer to have a similar setup, with either a massive SSD or an SSD and HDD. But… aside from coughing up the money for a 1TB or 2TB SSD, there are no other options. From the dis-assembly documentation I could not find either a m.2 SSD slot or another 2.5" HDD slot, even though it could fit at least an m.2. Not ideal for me.

Verdict:
If ya need a laptop with decent enough hardware to run normal office programs and light gaming, go for it. If you want an cheap enthusiast grade ultrabook, look somewhere else. It is certainly a good ultrabook, and with an SSD upgrade it would be even better, with decent hardware it will get the job done, just not lightning fast.

I will not be swapping from my current laptop to this one because of the HDD slot count, but if that was solved, I would go for it. Also, Windows 10, not quite a fan of it yet. :frowning: