Lenovo Thinkpad E580
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Dodgy laptop - avoid – Purchased this laptop as a new laptop to replace a Dell. Boy was I wrong to swap. Never have I had so many issues with a laptop. Wireless card has refused to connect to my modem. The mouse track pad broke within 12 months. I also ended up replacing the keyboard (!!) after two years. What a complete and utter sea anchor. Clearly the standards of… Read more
your Chinese factories is woeful. This computer sits gathering dust now. It has cost too much to repair/replace. Waste of $1200.
Great laptop shame it won't load – I bought the Lenovo Thinkpad E580 as a back-up system for my business. I had scoured the competition and at about $1000 in 2018 it was clearly the winner on its specifications. The lit keyboard is a winning feature. It is lightweight and has all the memory I need. BUT it has one major fault, and two less important faults. The lesser faults, which… Read more
have been widely reported elsewhere, are that the keys stick - that is while typing the letters don't appear - and rather randomly the cursor takes one's typing from one point to another so part of a sentence will end up in the wrong place. All this can be remedied with a tiny bit of patience and copy-and-paste. What can't be remedied is the major driver fault that means the system simply won't load and goes to a blue screen with the message: "Stop code: DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION" and then - if one waits long enough - it tries to reload and will do that unsuccessfully over and over again. Infuriatingly asking the user to contact Lenovo with the details, which of course one cannot because the laptop isn't working. Eventually, I took a couple of photos with my phone and called Lenovo. A very nice person on the phone took control of my Thinkpad E580 - she instantly recognized the problem as a common fault - and reinstalled a driver (or two). The help session took about an hour but resolved the problem ... for about a month until the next update. This fault keeps repeating but I don't have hours of my life to play on the phone with Lenovo. Eventually the system will reboot, but I can lose half an hour which is precious time first thing in the morning, when I need the system up and running. Great computer, shame it won't start.
I am not buying another Lenovo – When I got the laptop it was awesome. After some time it became suddenly slow to the point that it's unusable. I am now forced to buy another machine, and I must stay that after a decade or more of being Lenovo buyer I will never buy the brand again. I read online and there are multiple users affected with the same problem. It appears to be a hardware problem. Show details
Very bad experience! – I bought this in early 2019 directly from Lenovo online. In a about a month, the hardware did not work. It took me about a month for Leveno service to get it back for repair. Now after one year, it broke down again. I rarely moved it. Rather, just used it as a stationary computer. Be careful if you are considering buy it. Show details
Can't complain...amazing windows machine – I bought it from Lenovo website...great laptop...its bigger, slightly heavier....I just had to use it at home and it met my criteria....e series as I understand is the thinkpad budget series though its real value for money...had no problems with order and setup...like the big screen, speed...miss the backlit keyboard which I have on my work thinkpad T470 and surface pro type cover. Show details
Good laptop at a great price – I recently purchased this laptop directly from Lenovo at a great discount price and must say, so far am certainly not disappointed with its performance. This particular model is an i5 8250U CPU with 8 GB of RAM and a 250 GB SSD. My previous laptop was dying a slow and painful death despite frequent tweaks so the time was ripe for a new one and so… Read more
far it has performed as expected. My only gripes are that it doesn't work with Windows 10 face recognition - but I guess it is something I can do without - and the reversal of the Fn and Ctrl keys. The keyboard has a great feel, (and I think it has definitely improved my typing speed!), the 15.6" screen is clear and easy to read (particularly with its 1920x1080 resolution) and I particularly like that the capslock and numlock keys have an indicator to show they are on or off. I'm not sure about the red pointing stick in the middle of the keyboard. Some people seem to swear by it, but so far I have found little use for it. The SSD ensures that Windows starts very quickly and also ensures that the scanning of the drive is super quick. I have noticed a significant improvement in the way various apps open and the length of time it takes to do a security scan or install new updates. I must commend Lenovo for their delivery time. It was delivered in less than the time given (under 48 hours) and it took only a short time to have everything up and running. Although this is touted as a business computer, it is ideal for home use. I just hope that over time I don't encounter some of the problems people with previous versions of the Thinkpad have experienced, but only time will tell.
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