Why i will never buy a Lenovo laptop! - G50-80 motherboard repair 

Or cars.

hahaha

Yes, it's true.

They will make me design my own damn laptop (which will sure be more than 5kgs and 40mm thick :), but rugged 8-)

THis is the perfect comment. These kind of videos serve a purpose, but still you get the wrong impression, if you rely only on these. A lot of factors, especially factors important to "you" specifically, are ignored. A repairer cannot cover every consumer's need/pov.

I have exactly the same problem with lenovo carbon X1 1st. gen. i think it´s one of most expensive and have same design. But i have X240 for my self and i really like this one.

@@drobino carbon X1 isn't so good either onboard Ram and onboard cpu makes it impossible to be repaired

@@rezakianpour9668 I know carbon is not mine. I've got it to repair and I'm waiting for a new chip. Today have most laptop onboard CPU but you are right with ram.

@@rezakianpour9668 onboard ram and cpu can be repaired, they just aren't socketed.

@@slighter yeah but it takes a lot of work and requires bga machine and sometime it doesn't worth to go through so much trouble depending on the price of the laptop

Yes, it's nonsense. I have a second hand X230 from about 2012 bought a few years ago for $200 with extra RAM, SSD and added an mSATA. No issues, great keyboard. I also have an X1 Extreme (which was not cheap!) for about a year I use daily for work on the road. Also no issues.

Buy Dell or HP

Stale NFS nah Lenovo and Toshiba are the same crap 😅 but the Dell and HP professional products are great 😬

It wasn't always like that. I still have a G565 in daily use. It was somewhere around 400$ back in 2010-2011 and still works perfectly fine.

@Stale NFS I have an HP from ten years ago and it works great even after spilling crap on it and using it outside in the summer, Results may vary I guess.

True, Lenovo picked up many bad practices from Apple but their over-large range includes entry-level machines and the G50-80 is one such. It is not a ThinkPad. Although ThinkPad quality has declined since the fad for slimline took hold the buyer should properly evaluate specs, layout and price. A refurbished 'proper' ThinkPad pre the awful mess that was the T440 should last a demanding user many years and can be upgraded. The pseudo-USB shaped connector was inferior to the barrel type from the start and should be discontinued. People who have pointed out that most Apple products are flimsy and hard to repair despite the enormously inflated prices and lousy official service are right. However, the bad power protection on the G50-80 is on a cheap machine. Sorin might have different thoughts on other Lenovo products but I hope that he has shamed the greedy designers with his cogent points. It is also great to see a true expert at work.

@@stephenhall3515 I could not have put it better

Their phones have horrible screens.

@@rohitk8797 mine is OLED it's even better than iPhone screen u have to try their new OLED phones just amazing

@@souadejeniya1946 the one I used had an IPS LCD screen and it developed screen issues like ghosting as time went by. I now use Samsung A50

@@rohitk8797 but a50 and the Lenovo z6 pro are now both nearly the same price with everything better in the z6 pro and basically twice ram storage CPU Power just everything 😜

@@souadejeniya1946 specs dont always mean device is perfect. Sometimes software optimization and small features make devices more "Likeable". That is what I have learned after using samsung for the first time.

Well the solution is obvious, you put the charging port as they used to on it's own daughter board & you put the circuit protection on that board with it, you blow up the circuit protection sacrificially as a result of a fault, then you plug in a replacement daughter board. Job done, relatively inexpensive fix an end user could do.

It might be old. But you'd expect it to be designed by an adult. Not a 13 year old.

@Sout mkhafef didn't work, had to reprogram bios chip.

Apple obviously.

Apple, Asus

TheUtuber999 with some catchy beat under it and hey! A new song

Be careful when you plug in your charger and you'll be ok.

True

@@DariusIC like it's okay ok ?

Not all Lenovo is designed like that. Especially the ThinkPad

@@emanuelmilani7976 I dont have the thinkpad i have a lenovo 300

Correct, but Louis Rossmann recommends only the Thinkpads. P-50 very expensive. Get what you pay for.

Thinkpad T/P and maybe E/L is not consumer V/Y/G/Ideapad line. Think about it...

E and L series fall apart I very rarely get p or t series with issues

@@ernestmccollum2397 so Louis only recommends Thinkpads that cost as much as Macbooks that are roughly speced equally. Hmm what does this tell us about the whole Apple hate train?

@@RandomUser2401 It's not just specs that matters. Maintenance and productivity is also a key factor to why people buy Thinkpads.

And money is illusion after all

Anything with job security built in is trash these days.

look into Islam brother. It's not about this all materialistic egoistic life that doesnt satisfy

You can vote with your dollars bud.

Don't forget that our money is a trust system too. :P All those bills you are giving will have no value if they "take the money and run" at the first sign of crisis. :P Greece knows.

And force you to buy a new one as soon as possible!!

@@user.fedorman and most people would avoid the brand that just failed, stupid idea If Lenovo done that on purpose

I think Apple takes it a step further and makes the firmware self destruct when read. But Lenovo must not do that if people on eBay are selling them pre-flashed.

@YeshTV this is about us repairing an item that you spent your hard earned money on, where we can fix in a day they want you to pay them and it can take weeks.

@@bazj5392 I know people who have bought Apple laptops which fail, and they go straight out and buy another.

@@andrew_koala2974 What's wrong with you?

@Comrade Of rainbow six seige Yes the older machines were great. The two laps from 2011 are still doing fine one of them being an AMD Turion X2. I do know HP does not solder in their RAM.

@@bocconom Most modern laptops have soldered in ram including HPs it saves space for in 2 in 1 and thin laptops

Lenovo, HP, acer , asus, etc are pretty much the same, when it comes to low/mid end laptops atleast, they are made by the same ODMs like Compal and Quanta.. i saw motherboards from 3 different laptops from asus, lenovo and HP i think it was and they were pretty much identical.. the difference is mostly in the exterior design, screen, keyboard, mousepad etc

just buy apple and shut the fuck up

Yep won't b buyg this brand anymore

don't put probes or pliers inside your charger port, IO chip could burn from a human routed 19v 😉

I am watching this from a Lenovo laptop with broken case (not by force).

@@karama300video WATCHING THIS FROM A LENOVO PC . DAMN THING IS BUGGY

@@Abhishek-C92 Just build yourself

@Coolride17 ?

*rants in hidden*

i saw that hahaha

true story :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

...and the other 10 are sales and marketing managers... Steve Jobs sums this $#!+ up perfectly... "They (sales and marketing people) have no conception of a good product vs a bad one, they have NO idea of the craftsmanship that's required of how to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. They really don't have any feeling in their hearts to want to help the customer..." -Steve Jobs.

@@atruebrit6452 Scuze ca te deranjez, dar alta limba, in afara de engleza mai stii? Excuse moi de vous deranjer, mais vous connaisez an autre langue que anglais? Izvinite što vas gnjavim, ali znate drugi jezik pored engleskog, Izvinite, chto bespokoyu vas, no vy znayete drugoy yazyk, krome angliyskogo?

I buy a Acer, one year later is dies. The Acer laptop was only 399. Well. All cheap laptops suck, and the engineers know it. If you don't buy a Samsung S9+ but a cheaper model, it also sucks.. It is the way it works. You pay for what you get..

@@allroad2008 No but I like to use google translate in chrome. (Nu, dar îmi place să folosesc Google Translate în chrome.)

yes.

Second choice, in voice of Sinatra :)

It's possible, but quite hard to cram these components on such a board. That would not be reliable though.

Of course you can.

What model as of now is good in Lenovo my G50-80 motherboard or keyboard is spoiled they are demanding large amount. Can you suggest best endurable laptop please?

@@HamzaHanma not really! About an hour. But it was never great!

my thinkpad five yrs no problems

hamza ouhammi I have my Lenovo thinkpad for five years the battery last for six hours in the beginning. The last two yrs it last for about 3.5 hours. We have a lot of load shedding in South Africa.

My G50-80(Like the one in the video) is about 6 years old now, and still kicking Mac ass...

@@robertoruiz7069 Imagine you drive a car at 20mph and a wheel falls off. Is it the manufacturers fault if the entire cabin falls apart during the ensuing crash? The manufacturer is supposed to build some sturdiness into it's product. Off course you should expect the charging port to get destroyed. The charging port is the third most physically stressed part of the laptop after the keyboard and the hinges (by normal use, I'm not talking smashing screens). CHARGING PORTS WILL GET DESTROYED. Manufacturers know that. If the SuperIO was not protected against the shorting in the charging port SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY DID THAT.

Are you indonesian ?

@@kholisnur4487 bacot

@@mbahmarijan789 hey hey you didn't supposed to say like that, Dickhead!

@@kholisnur4487 hilih kintil

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Please explain! I plan to buy a used one.

If you search internet you see. Many agree ThinkPad is one of the best laptop out there. I have one myself. Very good design and simply to expand/fix. I replace Keyboard in 2min

And is there any issue with the middle pin?

@@kotaimre1018 hello, I have cheap thinkpad 11e chromebook, and charging port was different. Middle pin have additional plastic housing around. Maby thinkpad was better, or maby lenovo fix charging port already.

I had the same issue with a thinkpad.

They do that often , not only lenovo ,but samsung to.They did that on old note 10.1 , which i have...fuck them

Mine too

Well I knew that motherboard was dead

Just give it a motherboard swap like you do an engine swap on a car.

Same feeling, my friend's Lenovos and my own t440p never had any similar problem lol

I have a lenovo laptop as well and i can say they are good. Mine is six years old and still going strong. I want to replace it but the damn thing is immortal.

copy pasting my own comment cause the point is still the same. His point is not giving a fair review, but bashing Lenovo products. I myself had multiple laptops of multiple brands, and those i never had problems with are the asus and the lenovos, unlike the countless problems i got with HPs after just 3 years of usage. Many laptops dont have such design, he's bashing the whole line in name of the fews that do. Other than that i would never send a repair to this guy, laptop has been handled without care, the whole disassembly was just homeboy stlyle. There's a difference between repairing computers and knowing how to repairing computers.

Thinkpads are great machines but I have experience with a U530 where the hinge cracks (common problem). This forces you to buy a new machine just because some cheaply made part decides to fail.

@@raffaele148 thank you for your comment. This is exactly how I feel. You can't bash the company for an engineering compromise made to one product. I have been repairing all types electronics for the last 30 years and have 3 lenovo products. I only recommend lenovo of I'm forced to recommend anything. And it's so true. I wouldn't send my stuff to this guy even though he knows his stuff. He's too heavy-handed and seems to get distracted easily.

Yeah i think only bios need to program.. but io chip also need..

the board has a 64Mbit bios chip on the other side as well, it's crazy that they split the thing in two places.

The y50 is the worst

Watching from T530

@@iamlabovic I think that’s the last good model. At least, I wouldnt want a T540 or above. Mine’s a T520 and it just works.

put zener diode should be for all model....zener diode is important...

12 years? That was IBM my friend

T410 n now T430... Lol

Bruh i have dell n7110 17" i7 version from 2011 and it still works without problem :)

@@LAskeHosting can you try charging it just one more time? ;)

No, it's not the difference as Lenovo is still responsible in front of customers!

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