Pros: > Keyboard. Lenovo hits another home run. These guys know how to design a keyboard. The throw on these keys is short. They're quiet as well, and there's a minor annoying quibble with the ` key being a little wider than I think it should be, causing the number keys to not quite line up as they would on a regular PC, but you can get used to that pretty quickly. Really... this thing is GREAT. I can touch type on it at full speed fresh out of the box. > Battery life. Wait, what?! But most people on this page complain about the battery! Look. If you want an "all day on a single charge" laptop, scroll back to the top of this page and keep shopping. That is not what this laptop is designed for. That said, if you adjust it right, you can get five hours out of this thing in light use. Play around in Windows Advanced Power Settings, I've found that a modestly aggressive advanced setup can get you surprisingly decent battery life without sacrificing performance. Dialing back your "more performance/more battery" slider can get you even more. And when you inevitably do need to park it next to an outlet for a little while, there's a convenient "Fast Charge" function accessible in the Lenovo Vantage "app" to rapidly top yourself back off for your next adventure. It's still far better than the 15 year old things I bought this to replace. > Performance. You aren't going to see top-shelf $1500 gaming laptop performance, but this is not a $1500 gaming laptop. It plays older and indie games handily, maintaining 1080p60 at reasonable settings in most games I've tried. You'll be able to get your CS:GO, Overwatch, DOTA, Hearthstone, Portal, or Fortnite fix here after some options tweaking. Just don't expect it to hammer out the latest AAA releases on full ultra max high res mode. > DVD drive! The drive tray on the side is a 9.5mm slimline DVD/CD writer. Many people will find this to be obsolete. I do not. If you don't like this, you can always take it out and buy a hard drive adapter, or upgrade it to Blu-ray or something. It's your laptop, I can't stop you. > A useful and competent arrangement of ports. Almost any commonly desired peripheral will work when connected to this laptop. HDMI monitors, wireline Ethernet, USB A and C, SD card, and a "headset" jack. The Type-C port is internally wired as a standard USB3.1 port with no special features. You can get an inexpensive adapter to turn the type-C port into a type-A port, or the headset jack into headphone/microphone jacks. > It's thin! This is actually my first "thin and light" class laptop. Kinda blows my mind upgrading from a full size machine to this. > Privacy features. You know how there's a subsection of laptop users who put tape over the webcam? Lenovo includes a hotkey to shut the webcam and microphones down completely. You can also access the feature from the Vantage app. I leave mine off all the time, and only turn them back on when I'm making a call and need them. It's reassuring to know that this is there.

Cons: > Yes, it throttles. In my testing, the machine will run for up to two minutes at full boost, then will roll back to a bit above base. I've yet to see it roll back below base though, and that's with pretty intensive testing. I usually see a rollback to about 75% of peak performance under sustained load, such as prolonged gaming or a stress test application. This looks like a VRM and power delivery rollback, not a thermal one, as the fan actually spools down a little during this rollback. > Out of the box color settings are totally whack. EXTREMELY cold color temperature. Lenovo Vantage uses the Windows Night View engine to compensate it back to whatever color temp you desire. I find it more reliable to use Radeon Settings. - Open your settings, choose the Display tab, and click the Colors button. Then turn "Color Temperature" to "Automatic". Your colors should be about as pure as this thing is able to display (see below). > It's a TN panel. I find vertical view angles to be a little disappointing with the screen. Whoever Lenovo buys their LCDs from could stand to do a little more R&D in their polarizer technology to improve vertical view angles. I've seen monitors from 2003 with better viewing angles. 1080p is a competent resolution for a laptop this size though. No complaints here in that department.

Overall Review: When I clicked 'Buy Now', after reading diverse reviews and watching videos and considering, I had built a pretty reasonable picture of what to expect, and what I wanted, when I opened the box. And when I got it? It slotted perfectly into those wants and expectations. What I wanted: Drop-in replacement for my aging collection of 10-15 year old full size laptops. Each of my machines had a single role it could fill. I wanted one computer that could usurp them all. - One machine could get five hours of battery life, but gets poor performance. And sometimes crashes. - One machine can play games, but gets horrible battery life to do so, and crashes because of a video card problem. - One got both good battery life and okay gaming performance, but is ABSOLUTELY HUGE and unwieldy to try to take with me on the go. And has a problem with the display going blank at inconvenient times. - Most of them are just aging potato. This thing does exactly what i wanted it to do, by getting comparable battery life to the first one, playing games better than the second one, and being thinner, lighter, and easier to handle than any of them. Here's my experiences with this laptop to help you decide if it'll meet your needs as well as it's met mine. - Below, find features and points that I consider neither pros nor cons. > "Proprietary charging port" Wait, what? Since when has the ever-standard barrel connector been proprietary? USB-C charging is more proprietary than a barrel socket. These have been common for many years, and finding SOMETHING that'll provide 20v and fit into that hole should not be difficult. You'll have no problems with a common 19v universal laptop charging adapter if it has a tip that'll fit. My "large battery bank" can power it with no problems at all. But if you really want Type-C charging, there are special adapters that can convert the barrel connector to a Type C port. > Audio quality The built in speakers are just fine. They won't blow your pants off, but they won't let you down either. They get reasonably loud, have acceptable audio quality, but they fire downwards from the bottom of the wristboard. I'd have preferred if they were on top of the bezel. > Trackpad. It's a pretty large, pretty okay trackpad. I find the laptop perfectly usable without an external mouse for most uses, such as web browsing and messaging with friends. Main complaint here is that scroll speed is inconsistent. In some programs it's ultra fast, while in others its modestly slow. > Wireless. It uses WiFi AC, so can connect to 5GHz APs. Range is perfectly fine, as is bandwidth. Bluetooth is present, accounted for, and does not seem to interfere with WiFi. I've had no problems with it. I have, however, had problems with the wireless system going offline after sleep mode or using Windows Fastboot, forcing periodic reboots. This has happened on other computers I've owned too, so maybe it's just me? Turn off Fastboot to minimize time wasted rebooting the laptop immediately after turning it on because of this weird little bug. You'll only lose about three seconds booting out of a fastest-possible eight seconds from cold. - Open Windows Settings, System, Power & Sleep, Additional Power Settings, "Choose what the Power Buttons do", "Change settings that're currently unavailable", and uncheck "Turn on fast startup".

Pros: Very simple, straight forward, legacy-free design. DDR3. Support for those nice, efficient Wolfdale processors. Loads of SATA and USB. Offers some overclocking features. Surprisingly, offers a RS232 serial header. Works well under Linux and Windows alike.

Cons: Watch out! Long term reliability problems may rear their heads. No legacy support can go either way - say goodbye to your PATA drives and parallel printers.

Overall Review: Just over 1 year running, and here's my track record. Two failed POST attempts, one after tweaking O/C settings, one after merely trying to go into my boot device menu. Lots of spontaneous reboots trying to get to boot device select menu. One bone-chilling false hard drive failure notice. One integrated NIC failure. Better bring that Linksys PCI NIC out of retirement. And one year of otherwise faithful service. :) Naturally, your mileage may vary!

Pros: --- PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT --- The black square button just behind the scroll wheel is a RATCHET/FREEWHEEL toggle button. I'll discuss this later in my review. Keyboard: Comfortable to type on. The concave keys feel nice under the hand, and I have no problems reaching my full ~90WPM typing speed on it. Spill-resistant design with drain holes on the bottom of the keyboard. Great on batteries. It'll last forever on a single pair of AA's. LCD panel is intuitive and pleasant to use. I LOVE the LCD panel, and wish more wireless keyboards had something like this. Configurable shortcut keys. Standard, familiar layout with multimedia features. Versatile tilt legs for 4-degrees and 8-degrees. Mouse: A pleasant compact mouse that fits well in my hands. You might have issues if your hands are large though. Browser buttons. All but essential in a modern mouse. Tilt wheel is convenient, although less essential. I LOVE the freewheeling scroll wheel feature! Also great on batteries. Will even work with just one AA loaded!

Cons: Keyboard: The keycaps will wear quickly with heavy use, as other reviews have noted. This seems to be a common problem with Logitech's older keyboard designs, as my ancient 47MHz S510 did it too. The LCD panel can be hard to read in indirect or poor lighting. You can't safely remove the keycaps without breaking them. No back lighting? That said, it's an older design meant to use AA batteries. Installing any kind of lights will severely cramp the whole "3 years on a pair of AA's" thing. Mouse: This is a newer, and slightly inferior, revision of the M705. The old model had a "hidden" thumb button at the base of the mouse. This one does not. Fans of this model of mouse will be disappointed. The toggle button to switch the scroll wheel from ratchet to freewheel is NOT LABELED OR MARKED in any way, shape, or form. It was labeled in the previous version. (It's behind the scroll wheel, in front of the battery light.) Given that the mouse comes out of the box in freewheel mode, this cost-cutting measure has likely cost Logitech and Newegg a lot of money in support calls and unnecessary RMAs, judging by some of the other reviews I've seen.

Overall Review: This is a refreshed version of an old keyboard/mouse set. I don't know if it was sold with a 47MHz radio, but I got these to replace an aging 2.4GHz non-Unifying set. The M705 is a significant improvement over whatever they threw in the box of my original version, which broke years ago so I don't remember its model number. It had the toggle for the freewheel feature on the bottom. The keyboard is largely the same. Aside from them either disconnecting or removing the "Mute" light from the LCD panel (and my old one being worn out!), I can barely tell the difference between them. By the way, the keyboards they're shipping as of me typing this (still) have a black LCD with white icons on it, not a white LCD with black icons as shown in some of the pictures. Final Verdict: It's great, if a little pricey. If you have a need for this set's headline features - the mouse's free wheeling scroll and the keyboard's LCD status panel - then I have no problem giving it my recommendation. Otherwise you can find keyboard/mouse sets for a good bit less than this one, and I would instead recommend shopping around some more for something with a bit less sticker-shock.

Pros: Several "goodies" are included: -Two Y type microUSB cables -An HDMI to micro-HDMI cable -Two branded, neon green velcro straps -Microfiber cleaning cloth -Reusable, thin fabric packing sleeve -Stand/cover Extreme dot pitch full 1080p IPS panel is a beautiful thing to look at. Very efficient power draw over the USB port - the "worst case" 2A draw is at full brightness. It works off a single normal USB port on my PC at 25% brightness. Can be powered from either the touchscreen or main power USB ports - or both! Works on 5v USB "booster" batteries for a truly portable experience. Instruction manual offers pin-outs for all ports on the side, for the tinkerers.

Cons: Very wide bezel around the border (appears to be about an inch). On a monitor this small it's a significant amount of the face real estate. Contrary: This makes the unit usable as a tablet where you can hold it by the bezel without interfering with the touchscreen. The tight dot pitch can make displayed text very small. If you're hard of sight, this might not be the monitor for you. Nonstandard VGA connector on the side, and Newegg does not sell the required adapter. I can't speak for the DisplayPort connector. All three video connectors have the exact same physical connection. It's easy to "accidentally" connect a cable to the wrong port if you aren't paying close attention. Despite the acceptable "getting started kit" that's included in the box, most accessories are still optional. Cannot accept video over USB. Requires one of the three main video inputs. This may be a concern for some prospective users. The manual is legible, but rife with poorly translated "Engrish". For a premium product like this, I was expecting better.

Overall Review: The Stand/Cover included with the monitor, and the prop stand on the back, are both magnetically attached. While there is a screw hole at the top to mount the monitor in, it is not necessary. It did not include a screw to thread into it, but it appears to be a standard PC case screw, or similar that a computer hobbyist is likely to have laying around. The included speakers are clear, present, and about as good as you would expect in something this small. You might want to use headphones for better audio quality. There is no way to get audio to the speakers in VGA mode. The thing as a tablet is usable, although holding it in one hand for a prolonged period of time may cause fatigue. It has a metal and glass body construction, with a thin plastic frame mating the high-hardness (7H according to the manual) touchscreen face to the metal body, lending to its appreciable heft. Little rubber bumpers inside of the cover protect the monitor from scratches. Final Verdict: While it is a little small to be using it as your desktop PC's main monitor at home, it makes an excellent addition to a LAN party rig, SFF machine, cramped desk, improvised tablet, bugout bag, or a secondary monitor for your main PC.

Pros: Attractive Stainless Steel band. Matches matte-black Pebble Steel perfectly. Fits said watch perfectly. Simple to install. Adjustable to fit smaller wrists (like mine). Allow your Pebble Steel to achieve its 50m water resist rating! Works on any 20mm watch, but is designed for the Pebble Steel smartwatch.

Cons: Black paint is wearing off the inside of the band with heavy use. Metal links can pinch wrist hairs.

Overall Review: The links rattle gently when the watch vibrates. I don't consider this a bad thing, but you might if you work in a very quiet office. I believe the "paint wearing off" is due to my particularly aggressive, heavy usage pattern of "never take the watch off, ever", leaving it exposed to natural oils and wear from the movements of me being an active young man. The metal-link pinch thing is a natural consequence of ANY metal link watch band. To adjust your band's size, locate the six (three on each side) "special" links with the arrows and the visible little "clasp" in them. Use an awl or other pointed object to push the clasp piece out of the band in the direction of the arrow, then gently unhook the link. Do this to two of the links on each side of the clasp, to the size you believe to be correct. Remove the excess links, storing them somewhere safe, and hook the new loose ends back together. Reinsert one of the little pieces you removed first to secure the band at its new size.

Pros: Very capable, tiny little router that can do almost any network related challenge you can throw at it! A self powered: - Wireless Router - Wireless Access Point - Wireless Client Router - Network Access Storage via uSD or USB - USB 3G Internet Share?! AND a power jumper for your phone!

Cons: Be prepared to get your hands dirty to get some of these features to work, particularly the wireless client router mode. The unit does NOT support wireless bridging or repeater mode, depending on the hardware configuration you get. Mine did not. MicroSD NAS can become unstable when transferring large files (>10MB).

Overall Review: Research "openWRT", and remember "port 8181" in order to get the absolute most out of this thing. You could get it doing things Loftek never pictured when they made it. The difficulty in use and missing features are worth cutting one egg. The fact that I STILL LOVE IT anyways is worth keeping the other four.

Item shipped and arrived promptly, was what was advertised and what was needed.