Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga: More than you Think 

it runs 2x 32gb ddr4 2400mhz ram modules just fine

Quality presentation as usual, not a bad little machine!

Wow I was just planning on buying one off of ebay. Now everyones gonna be looking for one

I bought one of these in black a couple of weeks ago for $165 all in off of ebay. I swapped the 256gb SSD for a 1TB, replaced the 8gb RAM with two 16gb for a total of 32gb, I then replaced the cracked palmrest, I informed the seller of a faulty USBC port and shipped me a spare motherboard for free! So I replaced that too, added fresh Noctua thermal paste. Also replaced the keyboard with a backlit T480 board. I love this thing.

I bought the refurbished L390 yoga recently and i really like this and its even faster from my last laptop, laptop is in good shape

Another great video! This looks like a sweet little machine. Did I miss mention of a storage upgrade?

I've got L390 Yoga in this exact specification back when it was new, and it is serving me faithfully to this day. Thankfully I have managed to keep mine in a more pristine shape, although I'm happy to know that it should be able to survive a harsh drop. This was the laptop that got me disappointed with both Intel and component modularity in our day and age: sure, I have really been happy to be able to buy an off-the-shelf model (since configuring it on Lenovo's site was not an option for me) and add some RAM to it, but aside from a single SSD (which just should always remain a separate part), that's about it - I'm stuck with the laptop's i5; and even if I wanted to upgrade, the only _real_ difference between the i5 and the i7 is i7 having a bit more cache, and that is it. What I find especially upsetting in this situation is that I ended up being stuck with an iGPU I do not like because there were neither Ryzen models of this laptop, nor even models with Iris Plus iGPUs - which I could have been able to use if there would have been some kind of a socket on the motherboard I could insert the new CPU into. But hey, it has RAM slots, that's such a MoDuLaR dEsIgN. Blegh. Modularity died with CPU sockets, and I will not budge on this opinion. And as much as I love my L390 Yoga, its CPU is my least favorite part of it, and it especially stings because what I've got is almost top-of-the-line for it, as i7 would not be noticeably better with its 0.2 GHz frequency bump and slightly larger cache. I've ended up buying neo 14 AMD just to satisfy my need for a graphically more capable laptop, although I admittedly went full ham with it; sure, it only offered 16 GB of RAM soldered (32 GB soldered on Intel models, but fuck Intel, they somehow managed to get even worse since the Kaby Lake refresh days), but L390 Yoga reassured me that this would be enough for my needs, so I just decided to buy the spec I would need to begin with rather than count on upgrades. Regarding the body material: PSREF calls it GFRP, which stands for "Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic". It does feel like a sturdier plastic, and yeah, those are indeed black parts that are just painted silver.

I am just buy a second laptop of this model. Thanks for show me the disassembly

Awesome video! However I have few questions. What exact type of ethernet port is it as I'm trying to buy corect adapter. Is it mini rj45 or something else. Also is it possible to swap keyboard without back-light with keyboard with back-light? Can you have 32gb of ram on i5 model or i7 only?

I got the L380 Yoga, comes with i7-8550u, it has very bad case of overheating. I wish there's a way to add more heatsink, the current one is thin like a wafer.

Any idea to unlock the bios without a chip and programmer?

Okay for gaming

A new LR video out = ebay prices goes up skyrocket!!!! :D

In 2023 this series got any replacement model? Or just discontinued?

I had the L13 Yoga. It lasted a few months and had to spend over $100 on just parts to fix it since the pen kept breaking. It's also important to note that its entire chassis flexes like a cheap Chromebook. It overheated and had very loud fan noise, along with typically less than two hours of battery life new. Build quality is pretty awful. Now, it's screen broke since the plastic housing separated and I snapped it back in place...shattered the panel. I got a $17 HP Elitebook instead and I've head a much better experience with it...that L13 Yoga Gen 2 was $600.

Really weird that Lenovo would put some kind of finishing on the aluminum case. Seen the same on a silver X1 Yoga. I thought one of the points of aluminum is not having a finish that can wear off. Otherwise, it's like socks with sandals :-) .

Hey can i know the Pen Model for L390 yoga? SD60M..... ?

If it had a matte display it would be very good.

Screen looks kinda shit, the colors