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Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15ARE05 15.6'' Ryzen AMD 16Gb DDR4 3200Mhz 256Gb SSD - €490

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  • #632
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    dodzy wrote: »
    Yeah, it’s a 300nit screen so not near the higher end machines in that area. That said. I’d say it’s Unlikely your dell is twice as bright, unless it’s a top of the range XPS or similar Which would be incomparable price-wise. I personally think the brightness is fine although I do have it Set at max.

    Its a dell latitude 7490, screen definitely twice as bright but so is the price.


  • #633
    Kolido
    Registered Users Posts: 13,358 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Can anyone recommend an ebay seller I can get a Windows 10 key from? Can pm me if we are not permitted to post names here. Thanks.


  • #634
    kala85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭kala85


    Kolido wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend an ebay seller I can get a Windows 10 key from? Can pm me if we are not permitted to post names here. Thanks.

    Store.computeractive.co.uk

    They look genuine


  • #635
    MJ434
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭MJ434


    Has anyone found any decent sleeves for the laptop?


  • #636
    dos29
    Registered Users Posts: 540 ✭✭✭dos29


    MJ434 wrote: »
    Has anyone found any decent sleeves for the laptop?

    I got this one-
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0719QZBR1/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_TjI0EbKCFQ88F

    Won't know fit wise til I get the laptop, but not too concerned. Quality is good though.


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  • #637
    sibersha
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭sibersha


    What's people's thoughts on below? Obviously not as good as original deal and probably a 6 week wait.

    It's the ideapad 3, no dos software option. But can get the Ryzen 5, 8GB Memory and 256GB storage, IPS screen for around €550. Not sure if you'd get those specs at price point anywhere else..


    Configuration Details
    Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Processor (2.30GHz, Max Boost up to 4.00GHz, 6 Cores, 8MB Cache)
    Operating System : Windows 10 Home 64
    Operating System Language : Windows 10 Home 64 English
    Microsoft Productivity Software : Microsoft Office Trial
    Onboard Memory : 4GB DDR4 2667MHz Onboard
    Selectable Memory : 4GB DDR4 2667MHz SoDIMM
    Total Memory : 8GB (4GB Onboard+4GB SoDIMM) DDR4 2667MHz
    Second Hard Drive : 256GB Solid State Drive, M.2 2242, PCIe-NVMe, TLC
    Optical Drive : None
    Display : 15.6" FHD (1920x1080), IPS, 250nits, Anti-glare, No touch
    Display Solution : IPS Panel Solution
    Graphic Card : Integrated Graphics
    Camera : 0.3M Camera with Array Microphone
    Color : Platinum Grey
    Fingerprint Reader : Fingerprint Reader Power Button
    Keyboard : Keyboard Grey English (UK)
    Wireless : Wireless 2x2 AC, Bluetooth Version 5.0 or above
    Surface Treatment : IMR
    Palmrest : PC/ABS
    Battery : 3 Cell Li-Polymer Internal Battery, 45Wh
    Power Cord : 65W Wall Mount AC Adapter (2pin)-UK
    Language Pack : Publication-English


  • #638
    xDerp
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭xDerp


    Has anyone installed Linux mint on theirs? I've a few driver issues, WiFi, touchpad, graphics are the ones I know about so far.


  • #639
    BikeRacer
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭BikeRacer


    coldfire1x wrote: »
    Its a very good laptop for the price of it. Touchscreen is good but I dont think the screen is that good - brightness and colour.

    Screen brightness is set to 80% still my dell laptop screen is brighter at 40%.

    The screen settings out of the box are awful imo.
    If you go onto the AMD https://www.amd.com/en/support and download the graphics driver, it allows you to customise the display settings - makes a massive difference.


  • #640
    podge3
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭podge3


    Kolido wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend an ebay seller I can get a Windows 10 key from? Can pm me if we are not permitted to post names here. Thanks.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058081930


  • #641
    XsApollo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    I bought my key off cdkeys.
    For a couple of more Euro I couldn’t be assed dealing with eBay.


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  • #642
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    BikeRacer wrote: »
    The screen settings out of the box are awful imo.
    If you go onto the AMD https://www.amd.com/en/support and download the graphics driver, it allows you to customise the display settings - makes a massive difference.

    be great if you could give more details on the customisation if possible


  • #643
    BikeRacer
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭BikeRacer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    be great if you could give more details on the customisation if possible

    Once you download the driver from the link I posted, If you go to the start menu, you should now have a program installed called 'AMD Radeon Software'. Opening it will bring you to the homepage. In the top right corner, click on 'Settings', then 'Display'. It's here in the custom colour table you can make display changes.
    I've attached what mine are as an example, you may hate it so play around with it to find what you like.


  • #644
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    BikeRacer wrote: »
    Once you download the driver from the link I posted, If you go to the start menu, you should now have a program installed called 'AMD Radeon Software'. Opening it will bring you to the homepage. In the top right corner, click on 'Settings', then 'Display'. It's here in the custom colour table you can make display changes.
    I've attached what mine are as an example, you may hate it so play around with it to find what you like.

    mighty, appreciate that


  • #645
    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,914 ✭✭✭dodzy


    Win 10 pro keys

    https://touch.adverts.ie/operating-systems/windows-10-pro-keys/18678308
    7€.
    No affiliation
    Immediate Key post payment
    Less than 24hrs ago.


  • #646
    bfa1509
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭bfa1509


    dodzy wrote: »
    Yeah, it’s a 300nit screen so not near the higher end machines in that area. That said. I’d say it’s Unlikely your dell is twice as bright, unless it’s a top of the range XPS or similar Which would be incomparable price-wise. I personally think the brightness is fine although I do have it Set at max.
    coldfire1x wrote: »
    Its a dell latitude 7490, screen definitely twice as bright but so is the price.

    By any chance is one of you Ray Charles and the other Stevie Wonder? How do you cope with the screen brightness so high? My eyes would be melted out of my head!


  • #647
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    bfa1509 wrote: »
    By any chance is one of you Ray Charles and the other Stevie Wonder? How do you cope with the screen brightness so high? My eyes would be melted out of my head!

    Such high nits are most useful for when using outdoors in the daytime. :)


  • #648
    MidlanderMan
    Registered Users Posts: 663 ✭✭✭MidlanderMan


    sugarman wrote: »
    Good waste of €7. Dont need a key.

    Don't need one, but like myself, lots of people like being able to use things like small icons, custom backgrounds, and don't want a watermark on thier screens.


  • #649
    dos29
    Registered Users Posts: 540 ✭✭✭dos29


    sugarman wrote: »
    Good waste of €7. Dont need a key.

    Why?


  • #650
    MidlanderMan
    Registered Users Posts: 663 ✭✭✭MidlanderMan


    dos29 wrote: »
    Why?

    You can use windows for free without a key and got almost toal functionality, you even get security updates, but you can't change backgrounds, can't use small taskbar icons, there are other minor limited functions, and there's a watermark in the bottom right corner of the screen.


  • #651
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    bfa1509 wrote: »
    By any chance is one of you Ray Charles and the other Stevie Wonder? How do you cope with the screen brightness so high? My eyes would be melted out of my head!

    Nope, I usually keep the brightness low when indoors. Keep it at 40% on dell but on Lenovo anything hardly visible at that. So have to keep it at 70-80%.

    Bright screen is quite useful when you are using your laptop outside. Dim screen is very hard to see when you are out.


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  • #652
    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,914 ✭✭✭dodzy


    sugarman wrote: »
    Good waste of €7. Dont need a key.

    Thanks for the insight. :rolleyes:


  • #653
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    coldfire1x wrote: »
    Its a very good laptop for the price of it. Touchscreen is good but I dont think the screen is that good - brightness and colour.

    Screen brightness is set to 80% still my dell laptop screen is brighter at 40%.

    Quite hard to find a Windows laptop with a bright screen. Tends to be all the expensive ones though.

    https://www.laptopmag.com/benchmarks/display-brightness

    But you need a bright screen if in a room with lots of natural light or outside.


  • #654
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    coldfire1x wrote: »
    Nope, I usually keep the brightness low when indoors. Keep it at 40% on dell but on Lenovo anything hardly visible at that. So have to keep it at 70-80%.

    Bright screen is quite useful when you are using your laptop outside. Dim screen is very hard to see when you are out.
    Dell's own website specifies a max of 300 nits for the model you listed as per https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/ie/en/iebsdt1/latitude-14-7490-laptop/latitude_7290_7390_7490_tgb/display-specifications-for-latitude-7490?guid=guid-f85675db-145e-435b-ad73-923ecd9dc409&lang=en-us


    This review found that the 300nits screen only got as bright as 278 nits: https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-latitude-7490


    Why do people make up obviously untrue stuff on the internet?


  • #655
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Dell's own website specifies a max of 300 nits for the model you listed as per https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/ie/en/iebsdt1/latitude-14-7490-laptop/latitude_7290_7390_7490_tgb/display-specifications-for-latitude-7490?guid=guid-f85675db-145e-435b-ad73-923ecd9dc409&lang=en-us

    This review found that the 300nits screen only got as bright as 278 nits: https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-latitude-7490


    Why do people make up obviously untrue stuff on the internet?

    If you haven't seen both the laptop side by side, how do you know its untrue? Not making anything up, telling this from experience since I have both laptops. I don't need to prove anything but will try to put up pics later.


  • #656
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    It's possible they charged the screen spec during production. Some laptops use a couple of different suppliers for screens and you might get a different make depending on batch.

    Some screens have different filters and coatings and different tech that might make them better than other screens. Same with mobile phone screens.


  • #657
    hazbot
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭hazbot


    xDerp wrote: »
    Has anyone installed Linux mint on theirs? I've a few driver issues, WiFi, touchpad, graphics are the ones I know about so far.

    Not Mint but I have Fedora 32 on mine. Install went very smoothly and the WiFi, touchpad and graphics worked out of the box.

    The only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader because there's no Linux driver for it yet. Hopefully that will change soon:

    https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/


  • #658
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Couple of things I've noticed since getting the laptop. I have the 4500u with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD, USB-C charger.

    You can change the amount of dedicated RAM allocated to the GPU to improve graphics performance. The setting is under UMA Frame Buffering in the BIOS. My laptop has 8GB RAM and it was set to 512MB. I upped it to 1GB. If I had 16GB I'd definitely up this to 2GB unless I was only every going to use the laptop for compiling. I've played Battlefield V, Forza 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider on it and they all played beautifully.

    Another thing I noticed is that in the manual it says that you can switch between the three CPU thermal modes (Intelligent Cooling, Extreme Performance and Battery Saving) by pressing Fn+Q. This does not work and I thought you could only change this setting through the BIOS. However if you download the Lenovo Vantage program, it has an option for switching modes without having to restart. There is also an interesting option in the VAntage program for the battery. You can enable rapid charge or an option that keeps the battery charged at 50-60% to prolong its life. This would be beneficial if you mainly used the laptop while connected to the mains.

    The Intel Wifi 6 AX200 card is excellent. I was getting a near 1Gb/s connection was near my router and a steady 566Mb/s elsewhere in the house.

    The May 2020 Windows 10 update didn't install automatically. Says that the laptop is not ready for it yet. I installed it manually via Windows update assistant and no problems so far.

    The SD card is connected to the USB bus, so speeds for that are limited to USB speed.

    The 256GB M.2 disk is extremely fast. I am getting 2300MB/s + 1500MB/s transfer rates.

    If anyone has any questions, just holler.


  • #659
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    coldfire1x wrote: »
    If you haven't seen both the laptop side by side, how do you know its untrue? Not making anything up, telling this from experience since I have both laptops. I don't need to prove anything but will try to put up pics later.
    Because screens are produced on a binned production line.


    Both devices are specced for 300nits, no combination of tolerances (e.g. 200nits vs 400nits) are ever going to exist in the real world, that's simply not how modern production lines work.


    You're just waffling m8


    Again


  • #660
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭coldfire1x


    Both (latitude & lenovo) @ 40% brightness

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=514890&stc=1&d=1590964435

    Latitude @ 40% and Lenovo @ 80% brightness

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=514891&stc=1&d=1590964435


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  • #661
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Francobegbie wrote: »
    Taken from Hotukdeals
    https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-ideapad-5-ryzen-5-4500u-6-cores16gb256gbfree-dosips-screenbacklit-keyboard-at-lenovo-rewards-with-newsletter-3447308


    The deal in the OP seems to have expired. Could a Mod edit in the latest deal now being discussed?

    Or is this more a general laptop deals thread?


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