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was a crap machine... a higher end crap machine with a separate video chip, i7 CPU, etc. Everything from the poor quality display to the hard to type on keyboard and the total lack of coherent support for driver updates. Th e list of problems with that machine was too long to even recall. The best thing that happened to it was for it to go belly up after just two years r equiring me to get another computer. I ended up with a Dell Precision powe rhouse machine that actually works, has a clear display and I can type on a s fast as I can think... read into that last one what you wish, lol! I had just bought a 1 TB flash drive to put in the Lenovo when it crapped out... probably deliberately just to tick me off!
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pens to be what I bought after the Lenovo died. There's some irony. The L enovo dies and I replace it with an older, used machine and am much happier ! lol
ell at *any* price. It is the only PC I have ever regretted buying. I alw ays end up not liking my machines when they start giving me problems, but w ith the Lenovo this was in the first month of having it. I bought it by ma il order so I was stuck. Had I bought it at Costco, it would have been ret urned right then. I did buy an HP at Costco for my first attempt to replac e it, but the keyboard and touch pad were inferior and crapped out very qui ckly.
Yes, you need the longer model number to identify the details. This was a Z720 I believe. I'm not finding a Z720 on a google search, so maybe it was the Z710. I recall reading in the Lenovo forums and someone else complain ed how poor the screen was, not being able to see even colors between the t op and bottom of the screen no matter where you placed your eyes. Look at the top of the screen and it darkened while the bottom of the screen starte d to exhibit the reverse video thing... all at the same time!
I paid $800 and it maybe lasted 2 years. At $800 it seemed to be a bargain then, but had I paid the extra $100 or so to get a better machine I'd like ly still be using it. I usually keep a PC for around 4 years. That machin e was a huge step up for me as I usually spend as little as possible. I on ly had one laptop before the Lenovo disaster and I built a desktop from scr atch. Interesting exercise, but not worth the $50 to $100 savings. Still, the Lenovo was the only machine that didn't last 4 years for me. Even at two years, it's not that the thing lasted a short time, it was crap the who le time I had it. I had to use a mouse because the touchpad was so bad and as I've said, the screen was worse than the crappiest Chinese junk I've ev er seen. Heck, I've got a $30 weather station with a better color LCD!
Rick C.