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Runs really smoothly and pretty good graphics card. Great laptop for its price.
A little trouble with the processor speed. ** When laptop was charging, processor speed dropped to ~1GHz at maximum performance setting; when laptop was running on battery, processor speed was ~2.45 GHz (which is normal)
I've been searching online at this issue and found a solution: Apparently it's a faulty bios in Lenovo G505s. If you have this issue, look at this forum: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/G505s-slow-CPU-speed-whilst-charging/td-p/1255661/page/6 Lenovo staff gives the solution there on how to fix the issue. Basically, Lenovo released a BIOS 2.05 version, which fixes this issue. You can find the new BIOS at: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?DocID=HT080664 I hope this helps others with the same issue!
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I'd say this laptop is "alright."
Thin and fairly light Although the chassis is plastic, seems to be solid 1TB HD "Quad-Core" CPU Comes with Battlefield 4
CPU seems fairly unimpressive 5400rpm HD is slow Screen isn't very good at all Needs BIOS update out of the box BF4 runs somewhat poorly even on LOW settings Touchpad/buttons are miserable
I needed a new laptop to replace a 5 year old HP that had a 1.9ghz dual core Athlon, and 3gb of ram after the mother of my alleged child smashed it to bits in a fit of rage.
Looking for laptops around $500, I came across this Lenovo G505s here on Newegg, and did a little research. Being somewhat of a gamer, I noted that AMD's APU should perform substantially better in game than a comparable I3/I5 with Intel's integrated HD graphics, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Basically, I sacrificed a little extra CPU power, as well as a 1080P touchscreen for this Lenovo with the A10-5750m/8650G hoping to play a few games here and there, as well as crunch down on my homework, watch movies, etc.
Right out of the box, the laptop has an issue running correct CPU frequency while being connected to AC power. v2.05 BIOS update solves this issue.
Windows 8 seems to be somewhat slow on this laptop, at times even annoyingly so. On my old dual core Athlon laptop, I had a virtual copy of Windows 8 installed, and it wasn't a whole lot slower...
Far Cry 3 seems to run *decent* on medium settings, but BF4 needs to be played on low in order for it to be fluidly playable. I can't understand why AMD would bundle a game with this laptop just to demonstrate how poorly the APU performs. :P
I know I can't expect the world from a $500 laptop, but considering the budget display, CPU performance, slow HD, etc, I feel as though this laptop should fall closer to $400.
Also, the touchpad / mouse buttons on this thing are atrocious. I've been tinkering through the mouse settings trying to get everything ironed out, but so far I haven't had complete success. While navigating through Windows with the touchpad, it keeps jumping from screen to screen just about every time I move the mouse pointer, and it drives me absolutely nuts. I had to add a USB mouse to remedy this problem before I tossed the laptop out the window. I've also had problems in-game with the touchpad. The mouse sometimes seems to "freeze," and I've had problems with the left mouse button not working at all when the right mouse button is being held down. Very annoying.
All in all, had I purchased this laptop locally, I'd probably return it and look for something else, but according to Newegg's return policy they could charge me 25%, and I'm not trying to take a $125 hit just to return a laptop that I'm not very impressed with... You win some, and you lose some, I guess.
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