@@yasirhussain9837 Hmm I don't actually recall tbh. Its less of an issue in modern laptops btw. Jarrod's Tech has a fantastic video on why this no longer matters that much. Our findings match his
Thanks Josh for reviewing this laptop. I remember you replied Me to wait as it ranked dead last in your community poll. I am glad you reviewed it sooner than expected. ❤
@@JustJoshTech In my country We get the oled 120HZ, Ultra 7 155H, 84 WHr, 32 GB Ram & 1TB storage for $1200. I think its great as I don't need Graphics card.
What's your country, friend?, i recently bought a 14 inch acer swift go 14 with ryzen 5 7530u, 16gb ram, 512 storage for just under 600 bucks from malaysia @@nigarrot
I am watching this video on my Ideapad 5 Pro 16 (2022) version that I bought based on your review at that time. I really enjoyed it, and up to now, I love the portability and power I have with my laptop. Since then, I’ve been following your reviews, and I appreciate how simple and honest they are. Thank you for your incredible work. Your subscriber all the way from East Africa, Somalia. Keep up the great work, and thank you for your support! 🌟🚀👍
I have the 2022 model since Aug 2022 and it has been great. I daily drive it for work and video streaming and editing for my church. I got it for $1100 with a Ryzen 6800HS RTX 3050 4GB and 16/512GB. Following your review of the 2021 model I pulled the trigger as soon as this came out. Lenovo really crushed it with this laptop model. All the important fundamentals at a really solid price. Almost two years later of daily use and the hinges are still solid, its taken a few bumps and has a very minor dent on one edge, and the battery life is still decent around 8 hours of basic office work for me down from around 10 when it was brand new.
Yes Josh this is the THE laptop I want reviewers to check out but so far I've seen one reviewer do it. Now that its you whos reviewing, Im very happy that this product (especially the AMD one) gets more coverage. Thank you Josh 😊❤
Using the 2022 version and it has been my driver, for school and for gaming. The keyboards can get really hot when gaming but nothing an external keyboard cant fix. I've been playing xDefiant at ~60fps and ~48fps when streaming on OBS. A slim and clean design means that I can also pack and bring it to school. It's such a lovely laptop
Please, note that this laptop has some serious QA concerns. The hinge of my Ideapad Pro 5 (Gen 6, AMD R7 5800H, RTX 3050) from 2 years ago broke off the screen only after 1.5 years of use! I managed to buy a replacement part, but luckily, from Lenovo (they are quite good with that), a hinge breaking after 1.5 years is just unacceptable!
It happened to me too at about 1.5 years. I've got the IdeaPad 5 i5 1135g7 version. I got it fixed cuz I had an extended warranty. TBH I thought the hinge breaking off was an inevitable issue for all laptops with metal tops, didn't know it was a QC issue 🤔
@@harigovindsrfortechnology "I thought the hinge breaking off was an inevitable issue for all laptops with metal tops" Man you gotta try a MacBook then. They are all metal and the hinges on them are amazingly good. They rarely ever break unless you really abuse them. There were some laptops that would have that problem like 20 years ago, and I think some during the shit era from 2016-2019, but in general they are wayyy better build quality than pretty much everything else
@@rondobrondo Laptops except macs, I know. Macs are milled out of a single block of aluminium. Forgot to mention that😅 What I meant was that I thought this was inevitable for all metal lid laptops, except macs😁
I bought the 2021 version of this laptop (after watching Josh's video). It's indeed a good allrounder for the price. I upgraded to a MacBook Pro M1 Max for video editing reasons last year. Even after upgrading, I still think this is a good laptop and the keyboard is better than that of a MacBook to me. But the MacBooks do have some magic that I truly appreciate. The long battery life, no fan noise, not getting warm. Oh and my Lenovo had this super annoying issue (it is a Windows issue actually - Linus made a video about it) that the laptop actually went into clam shell mode (so it stayed on) when I close the laptop with the charger still plugged in. Sometimes I opened my laptop again after 3 hours from my laptop case and it was glowing hot 🔥 the webcam was already not good back then, shame it's still that bad. But overall I can recommend this laptop and just wanted to share my experience. Hope it helps someone!
I got a variant of this IdeaPad with Ryzen 7840HS at work a few months back. I was so impressed with the whole package and the price that I recently ordered the refreshed 2024 model with Ryzen 8845HS for home use. Students and employees of science / educational institutions should check if they can get an edu rebate or one of the special configurations available to these select customers. I took a leap of faith and slapped Manjaro Linux on that nice little machine. So far everything just works; but there are a few settings that can only be changed with Lenovo's app under Windows (such as the threshold for charging the battery).
@@gustavoduarte9677 Like the review sample in the video, my laptop got the 2560x1600 IPS display. It is good but not great. In my humble opinion decent for work and play, and surprisingly good motion clarity at 120Hz refresh rate. Black levels are okay but not outstanding. I suspect the product designers at Lenovo leaned a bit towards a "gamer-y" display, but I find the compromise a fairly good one all in all.
One thing to note about this laptop is, unlike most laptops, the keyboard is not a simple replacement if a chicklet key becomes faulty. The standard replacement procedure is to replace the entire top of the laptop. For this the Lenovo repair depot will charge you a couple hundred dollars - even if on extended warranty. The laptop works great until you need it to be serviced. They wanted £208 to repair mine, which I declined, and it came back with a big dent in the corner. Unimpressed with Lenovo warranty and repair service.
I've got the AMD 14" Gen 8 version which is almost marvelous. IPS 2800 * 1800 display. I exchanged the SSD by an NM970 with 4TB, leading to an additional speed-up. It outperforms almost all others in this price range and has good battery life on top. The topping on all was the price: 650 € in Germany 😊 I'm a software developer like you, since decades. Very impressinve machine. Greetings from Gemany to everybody btw
I am really pleased with my Lenovo ideapad 5 pro 16 ( AMD Ryzen 7840HS ) - great screen with vibrant colours and a good looking palette. There is a fairly good Dolby sound onboard, but it sounds great when you install and turn on the brilliant DfX (13) sound enhancer software that automatically raises the level of all the finer and lower level parts of the spectrum without increasing the level of the more powerful parts. ( it litterally sounds, as if you have removed a pillow that was covering your speakers 😂). The keyboard and the trackpad also feel great, and you can even open it with just one hand. The screen feels very well attached to the bottom section - without any flimsyness or strong long lasting oscillations, as you so often see it on other (cheaper) models in general ( all brands! ). The only really annoying thing about this laptop is the very sharp front edge below the keyboard - that bit could have been designed much better with a just slightly rounded profile. And the USB power socket on my model ( without a dedicated graphics card ) could also be made more sturdy and "safer" ( with a deeper and more solid insertion ) instead of just an ordinary USB-C socket - it feels a bit fragile and very easy to break or bend accidentally, when you are sitting with this laptop on your lap.
I have the previous model of this laptop with the AMD 7840HS CPU and i am pretty happy with it. The speakers could be a little better, but overall its pretty good laptop for its price. It even has an extra M.2 slot so i put an extra 2TB SSD in it. And because i don`t have a GPU in mine just the 780M iGPU its kind of overkill on the cooling so it preforms very well.
Great review, Josh! This laptop is surely a good deal, but for me the mediocre webcam is a deal breaker, that and also having just 16GB of non-expandable memory.
Im sick of Microsoft trying to force “features” onto users. I will never use copilot so the key has instead removed functionality for me. Literally any other key would have been better there
It is actually so good, because it delivers what it promises. No throttling, no too hot surface, no comprise on the battery, sufficient port selection, good value. It is that simple. It does not promise luxury or perfection, just what you actually need from a laptop.
Its a little bit exceeded my budget limit and 16gb soldered ram is just not big enough to my liking, but i agree with you that the pricing is good even without discounts (which is very rare in my country). I will definietly consider this laptop for my new laptop. I have no problem with either amd or intel so i'll just choose the cheaper one that's available at the store 😅
Literally TODAY I found this laptop and was taking a closer look at it. Now Josh posts this video... lol Btw for me in Europe, I can spec it up to a Core Ultra 9 with 32gb of RAM. Sadly no dedicated graphics on the 14" tho
I am confused whether i should go for a OLED or IPS display. Other than the great display quality, all i hear are only the negatives like less durability, expensive replacement, dead pixels, burn in,etc.,. I would expect my laptop to last for atleast 5 years. Which one should i go for?
Yeah, I agree. I feel like the 14" is also pretty good considering it's also got an 84 whr battery and the same cpu. I wonder how the temps would be though.
I bought the Pro 5 model with 5600H, RTX 3050 and 120 Hz screen a couple of years a go (you recommended that one too) and it seems that this model has not seen that many upgrades over the years. Sure, the cpu is new but overall not really that many improvements in the same chassis. But what is there is definitely practical and the looks pass for a professional laptop even if you are actually playing new titles. Would I buy it again? I'd might, since there really aren't that many competitors with these specs at that price range. It's a jack of all trades. Though that Legion Slim 7 looks more like something that would've actually covered my use case better as a travel laptop for light gaming with occasional work done on it.
@JustJoshTech Just a warning, the display’s extremely fragile and I doubt it can handle atmospheric pressure. I bought the IdeaPad Pro 5 from their official website, and within 2 months some ink started leaking inside the screen which was tiny at first but continued to black out the whole screen. Even though there has been no accidental damage, their customer service dictates this as a “customer induced damage” when I complained. And if you’ve no accidental damage protection, you’ll be forced to pay and get it repaired.
Thx for the review, Josh. I was considering for the ideapad pro 5 the 14 inch version, but eventually settled with Tuf A15. I'm glad to know the line gets your endorsement, I think it's good value for what it brings on the table.
great review really covered almost everything... i ordered it just an hour ago. wish me luck Josh. and thanks again. hope this good at everything laptop does not disappoint on my life savings...😅
@@untelmorveux 0 regrets, came under 10 days, just a simple nit pick that it does not have mux switch/optimus, but the ultra 9 igpu is capable and 4050 isn't that great either that it will bottleneck ultra 9. overall awesome display quality which was the top priority and zero to nil compromises in other specs. i am just a simple gamer, mostly ow2 valorant or free to play games only, sometimes i play horizon zero dawn, and it runs over 60+ fps on ultra settings at 2k HDR. I AM VERY HAPPY with the laptop, samsung offers the same specs at 1.6 times the price in india, but yes samsung also offers AMOLED, and brand value, concluding this was THEEE PERFECT laptop for my budget.
Another great and clear review... Could you please do a video about a 14"inch laptop around $1000?? (Specifically something with a 400nits screen, 1TB storage and 16/32GB RAM) I'd truly appreciate it.
It's a very fair price for a mid-range laptop. However, I would suggest the Galaxy Book4 (15.6 inches), which is similar in price in the UK, £1100, with Core Ultra 7/512GB/16GB/MX570. It's sold out at the moment. Both get deals now and then, so look for £1000. The £649 8GB/256GB Book4 is cheaper for light users like my parents (in their 80s), who only use it for browsing and media. Again, that is sold out, and I suspect this is because the Book4 is the most popular mid-range ultrabook out at the moment.
Hi Josh & Team, love and appreciate your reviews for the trust you've built in your process. Recommendation: Please look more into 'color accuracy', you're conflating it with color gamut coverage and it really misleads consumers. DCI-P3 coverage is only required for HDR for most consumers, and just having 100% coverage says absolutely nothing about whether it's accurate. Also 100% sRGB gamut coverage should be clearly stated as the standard for all non-HDR Content, and accuracy within sRGB (or any other color space) should be reported separately using a colorimeter. Finally, manufacturers must provide software to switch between color spaces depending on the content, otherwise SDR will look over-saturated.
Well, it looks like we've reached the point where we can say Ideapad 5s are usually good buys. It takes a few generations of decent products to do that. It was the Zenbook 14 before, but now this Ideapad has followed up on it's previous promises for how many years straight? There were some bumps, but nothing ever damning. I just want to thank the first(?) Ideapad 5 14" for making this possible. Heck, let me thank the Flex 5 with the Ryzen 4500 too lol
ouchhhh I was so up thinking it would have been the 14" (sooo sad) ...which is my new target now that the Slim 7 Pro 14" (7840S 32 GB ram 6 speaker) has gone sky up in price where I live. Would you consider reviewing the 14" (8845HS) version?
Hey Josh I find your videos very helpful. I just wanted so say thank you for your intense research and attention to detail in every video. A thing about the laptops you review is that here in Denmark almost none of the models you show on your channel can be bought here. If they can they are normally around 1.5 times the price. Do you have any idea how I can get around this?
@@JustJoshTech Thank you for the reply. If it doesn’t bother you I have got one more question. Is there any upcoming laptops that you know of I should wait to buy or should I go buy one of your recommended laptops? I’m starting at marketing school soon enough and I want to be well prepared with a nice laptop. The budget is around 1000 dollars plus minus at few hundred.
Can you do a review on the Lenovo Yoga 7 Pro Gen 9 as well? I'm considering between getting the Ideapad 5 Pro and Yoga 7 Pro. Mainly gonna be using it for Uni, I'm doing engineering so will be doing some CAD and programming as well as some light gaming on the side. In my country both the configurations that I'm looking at have a very similar price point at around 1100 USD without factoring in student pricing as I haven't matriculated in so I don't have my student email yet. These are the configs that I'm considering: Yoga Pro 7 Gen 9 Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU Radeon 780M Integrated Graphics 16GB LPDDR5X - 6400MHz (soldered) 1TB NVME Gen 4 SSD 14.5" 3K 120Hz IPS Screen 73Whr Battery Pros - Build Quality - Better keyboard - Higher res screen - Lighter at ~1.5kg Cons - 16GB RAM, no option to upgrade to 32GB - Smaller screen size at 14.5" - Smaller battery size Ideapad 5 Pro 16" Gen 9 Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU Radeon 780M Integrated Graphics 32GB LPDDR5X - 6400MHz (soldered) 1TB NVME Gen 4 SSD 16" 2560x1600 120Hz IPS Screen (option to upgrade to 16" 2K OLED 120Hz Screen for about 20USD) 84Whr Battery Pros - Bigger screen, option to go for OLED - 32GB RAM - Bigger battery Cons - decent build quality but not as good as Yoga - Keyboard has a numpad which I don't need and kinda bugs me, also not as good as Yoga keyboard - Heavier at ~1.9kg I'm really stuck between the 2 options, both have their pros and cons, main thing that bugs me is that the Yoga doesn't have 32GB RAM option in my region. As for the Ideapad it honestly ticks all my boxes for specs, and its a bigger screen to, just that the keyboard with the numpad kinda bugs me. Can anyone with experiences with these 2 laptops share their thoughts and experiences with them please? Would much appreciate the input to help me decide.
Should I buy the IdeaPad 5 Pro 16 (AMD 8845HS, 16gb RAM, IPS 3K 120 HZ) or Asus Vivobook S 16 (AMD 8845HS, 32gb RAM, OLED 3K 120 HZ)? Radeon 780M on both.
I have the ryzen 5 5600h version. Great value in overall but I do face some issues with it. The wifi card occasionally lost connection (cant find it in device manager). I also have a weird youtube buffering issue that I've not yet solved. It's not an internet speed issue though, probably a graphics issue.
Hello Josh, thanks for your review, what about the 14inch version of this laptop ? I'm hesitating between this one and the HP pavillon Plus 14 as well as the Yoga 9i (which is quite more expensive here in Europe)... I plan to use my pc mostly for multimedia / browing the internet but I also need a fast CPU because I do casual music production on Ableton Live (with quite a lot of virtual instruments playing at the same time). Thanks in advance !
Costco is selling an upgraded version of this laptop. Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i 16" Touchscreen Intel Evo Platform Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 185H - 120HZ OLED 2048 x 1280 Display with 32 RAM and NVIDIA GTX 4500 6 GB all for $1299. i was going to buy but after seeing this guy criticize the OLED i wonder if i need to go look for something else. but for the price and the specs I couldn't find cheaper.
@@Babigoldfish unsure about @fighter-yo3di but i code a lot and want to game as well. josh's latest video on the asus zenbook 14 had me second-guessing because he recommends the spectre 14 over it, but am not really into 2-in-1 laptops/touch screen ones.
@@rrrr3666 yeah but if you’re going for a ‘Pro’ might as well get the top end processor. I need it for data analysis software so Ultra 7/5 is perfect. Which one are you planning to buy?
Lenovo has also recently fixed the power drainage problems in hibernation mode, that many laptop models ( also from other brands! ) have been suffering from, and many customers have been complaining a lot about. Now we can come back to our two Lenovo ideapad 5 pro 16 laptops ( 5600H & 7840HS ) after having them in hibernation mode for several days ( 2 - 3 ), and they will still have the same (!) charge level that we closed them down at. Previously they would typically have been at half (!) capacity or even less in such a scenario. Have the other laptop manufacturers also fixed this really annoying problem? Or was it perhaps fixed via a general Windows 11 update?
I wish they would do what Apple does: put the computer in sleep mode, so after three days, you can open it and start using it instantly, and it has lost only a few percentage points. I am no expert, but it does appear that Windows is not kind in sleep mode.
@@andyH_England You can now with these newer Lenovo ideapad 5 pro laptops ( not sure about their other models or other brands? ), after they recently received an update. Prior that you had to figure out closing down some hidden power consumers by yourself ( various wake-on parts! ), but this really annoying problem finally seems to have been fixed now. So when getting back to your hibernated Lenovo ideapad 5 pro 16 laptop after 24 or 48 hours, it will actually still be at 100 %, if you closed it down at that charge level.
I'm trying to compare this laptop to the vivobook s 14 with the new ryzen chips you guys just made a review about. 3:01 Is this 200 nit brightness, 60hz and with the best perfomance setting?`
A Lenovo Legion Slim 5i on sale is a better value with an RTX 4060 and a better screen (OLED 1600p). On sale it's about $1k. Love your vids, though -- good to know about other laptop choices out there!
I see it in a store with these CPU specs Intel Core i7-13700H (13th Gen) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (6 GB) Will it be good for heavy software development ?!
What the hell is going on? I thought I was roughing it passing a 650 yoga for a 800.00 zenbook x14... now 1000 for a mid? 2 years ago I got a Predator 1440 with a 3070 ti for 1300.
Hi what is your current take on eGPUs? Are they worth thinking about or are the laptops getting "too good" to buy one? I was thinking about switching from my desktop PC Setup (AMD Ryzen 5 3600X + RTX 3080) to either a powerfull laptop/slim notebook or a less powerfull laptop/ notebook + egpu for light gaming and Office/Uni Work (also some 3D Modeling in REVIT, etc.). Also I cant decide if i want a 14 Inch or 16 Inch Laptop. My friend keeps telling me that 16 Inch is not protable enougth but its better for cooling and performace..
@@JustJoshTech Yup, still an amazing purchase Im considering; despite wanting premium at first for programming & light gaming. I have a question, over here for the AMD 32GB I can get it without dGPU -woosh- for just less than 1000 euros OR with RTX 4050 for 360 more, both IPS. Do you reckon that dGPU is worth the money for light 1080p gaming occasionally? And will you review the new Envy x360 laptops with Core Ultra U-series?
Excellent Review Josh. One question I have though is how does the build quality, speakers, keyboard, trackpad, and overall feel of this laptop compare to lenovo's yoga pro 9i?
This seems so much like the Lenovo yoga pro 9i and so I don’t know which one to get contemplating the one they have at Costco the Lenovo ideapad Pro 5i with Intel ultra 9 processor 32 gigs of ram 1 terabyte hard drive versus the same specs on the Lenovo pro9i
slim 5/5i has only 1 fan, Pro 5/5i has a default 2 fans in most variant (the same to previous 5/5i Pro series) also, slim 5 don't often get dGPU in general
can you please make video on Samsung Galaxy Book 4 series, it is a great addition to your Samsung Ecosystem of products offering more than what a regular Windows device would offer for Samsung phone or tablet user
What is the upgradability for the ryzen 7 ? I am a software engineer, 16 gb is good but soon it would be a bottleneck i feel. I would like to upgrade it to 32gb
@@JustJoshTech i bit the bullet and bought one, its working very well, but I never had the prior versions to know if I got the best bang for my buck eventhough i bought it at 20% off
I still don't understand why they keep putting out such a good laptop with only 16gb of RAM. Maybe they don't want this to get this product to make those in the $1500 range less appealing, so those 32gb of RAM can be the reason why you'll spend more.
What kind of work do you do? I have the 2022 model with the 1600p IPS 120Hz 350nits. Its been a great display for me. High resolution for reading documents, large and 100% sRGB for RU-vid video editing, and 120Hz for game or two here and there. I mostly work indoors under fluorescent lights like most people. I rarely use it outside in direct sunlight. Its kind of large and unwieldy to use without a desk anyways.
Hi, I have such laptop, screen is perfect and windows scale setting as 125%, so you get sizes of elements and fonts similar to what you would get with FHD, but quality of each element is much smoother and sharp. Eyes are not tied after full working day with text
Please do the book 4 pro 16". There is just one video about that product. Rest are pro 14" and pro 360. Why I'm saying that is bcos the 16" version can push more watts and thus is more powerful than the rest. Also a personal request...if possible u could post a section with fps in shooting and aaa titles. Thanks a lot. Ik ur already working on it Josh🤛 Love your videos❤❤
Ban large laptops with soldered memory and .its ridiculous and planned obselense, this takes it one step further by only coming with one config at time of purchase a small 16Gb. Which with all of this perfirmance potential can starve the cpu when you push it and even hurt some cpu bound apps and games. This is true planned obselense but not for at purchase ram upgrade profits ?🤔 Non upgradeability also hurts resale if memory goes bad what you gonna do? The used buyer has to think long and hard on laptops with soldered ram, and even more so with soldered ssds, because if it fails you cannot even.boot up your laptop without an external drive attach adding weight and cables, and on apple m series macs, you CANNOT boot up, not even from a backup external drive, your laptop is truly bricked, and the ssd will fail eventually and with low memory plus the small soldered ssd doing double duty to make the laptop appear snappy with a little ram by being a swap memory disk, but eventually you will pay the price, a bricked lsptop that cannot be fixed in some cases.
What do you think about the Asus Zenbook Pro 15 flip (UP6502)? I am considering buying it because it's currently on sale for -$500 coming in at $1300 CAD.
After he said the amd model got the crappy display it lost me.. This would have been the perfect laptop for me as a student who also wanted to work, game, and watch videos on the same laptop.
