Thinkpad's are the best made and offer premium performance no other laptop comes close to. Before I bought this laptop, I bought a Dell XPS which only lasted 3 years and went through 2 service issues with Dell before the motherboard died. Then I bought an Acer Spin 5 which I used for about a year. The Acer Spin 5 is an outstanding mid-level laptop but it had trouble driving 3 monitors without the USB C port. I was also missing owning a well built solid laptop. I finally broke down and bought the Thinkpad L380 Yoga and LOVE IT! Before buying it, I wanted to make sure I could upgrade the memory and SSD and that the memory was not soldered to the board. I chatted with a tech on Lenovo's site and also confirmed this with the Lenovo rep in Best Buy. I was not going to buy it if I could not upgrade the memory. This model is unique in the fact it has 2 memory slots and can take up to 32GB of memory. You can also remove the WIFI card and SSD to upgrade both. The entire unit is completely upgradeable and serviceable. I also have a Costco membership and could have bought the Lenovo Yoga X (top of the line model) but that unit's memory is soldered to the board. Also, it uses the newer type of SSD drive which is much more expensive. The build quality and performance of this machine is OUTSTANDING! It's super fast and the screen and keyboard is amazing. I especially love the touch point for mouse control. Once you get used to a touch point, you will always hate using a track pad - trust me on this. Also, this model has a world facing camera where you can take pictures from the front in tablet mode. It's a very unique model in the fact it's fully serviceable/upgradeable and has the world facing camera. I also love the fact the Lenovo software automatically downloads firmware, drivers and all available updates without having to go hunt them down yourself. The one thing I hate about the Acer Spin 5 I own is the fact they have no software to upgrade drivers and firmware. You have to go look for and load the firmware yourself from their website. Also, their drivers rarely ever get updated so I used a free driver update product called Driver Booster to keep it up to date. Seriously, don't waist your time and money buying a "high end" Dell XPS or consumer grade shiny metal HP Envy other high end consumer grade machine when you can get this laptop for $1000. There is no way you can go wrong with this unit. The hardware is so well integrated that you can put this laptop up against a Dell with an I7 and this laptop will smoke it with it's I5 because the drivers are so well written and the hardware is so well integrated and tested. The specs don't matter if the hardware isn't properly designed to work together. In my opinion, it's better to get a well designed machine like a Think pad which may not have the I7 processor because it's going to perform much better and be much more stable under high stress performance situations. It's also just great to use - the keyboard is so well built along with the touch point/track pad and solid materials used to built it. The thing I also don't like about my Acer Spin 5 is the cheapness of the materials. It really does make a big difference. Honestly, you can't go wrong with this laptop and once you own a Thinkpad, you can't go back. Just compare the Thinkpad Yoga to the regular Yoga quality next time you are in Best Buy and you will see what I am talking about.

I bought this laptop to replace an Alienware 17 R2. I need to be able to develop database environments, create virtual machines and architect database, system and reporting infrastructures, create technical specification documentation and videos. Within a months’ time, the screen cracked on me and I had to shelf the unit until I could find a replacement screen assembly which took quite some time. During that time, I ended up purchasing an HP Sceptre 15 x360, ThinkPad T450s and landed on a refurbished XPS 15 9550. The XPS is an excellent machine, even at its age, it is still an excellent machine. However, I finally got my hands on a replacement screen for the ThinkPad L380 and wow... The machine I have is a i5 8th generation with 32gb of ram. I use the machine to do all the above. The L380 handles the multitasking without a sweat. I tried this on the XPS, but I it seemed to stutter when I cascaded the multiple windows with up to 3 separate operating systems and the host, running web, word, power point and snagit all open at once. I don't have that problem with the ThinkPad. It's light, upgradeable to 32gb of ram, works pretty darn good at multitasking and has the added benefit of the stylus with its own cavity in the base of the unit. The quality of the material is not as high as the XPS, the LCD panel backing is metal, and the rest of the unit is hard plastic. The pen is ok, it's not as good as, let's say a surface pen, but it gets the job done. I use it to help create in developing graphics for my slides and presentations. Battery life is good, I get about 8 - 9 hours of use. Speakers are pretty good; my only complaint is the screen. All the units I mentioned had a better display than the Lenovo. This is probably the only downside. It's not necessarily bad, but it does exist. The keyboard is an extreme pleasure and works far better than any other machine I have used, with the exception of the T450s. A matter of fact, it's the reason I am contemplating selling this unit and getting a ThinkPad P1. The construction, the flexibility of the 2 in 1, performance, the weight and the pen makes this machine an extreme MUST BUY especially at the price. I picked mine up for $999, with 8gb ram, 256gb SSD and the i5 8250U processor. I upgraded it to 32gb of ram, a 512 Pci-e SSD and the machine is really superb.

Overall, I'm happy with the Lenovo Thinkpad laptop. However, dealing with Lenovo in the past, you can expect light bleed and dead pixels on their screens among other defects. (hence the reduction from five to four stars) I have one dead pixel towards the middle-left of the screen that's hardly noticeable with normal use and two spots of light bleed towards the bottom edges. The screen isn't retina, but it's decent. I owned Apple everything (4 Homepods, 27" iMac, Macbook, Apple TV, Apple Watch, 3 iPads, smart home switches, two iPhone XS Max, etc)... However, it was time to purchase another laptop and I didn't want to spend $2k+ on a 15" laptop with a questionable keyboard with scratch-able anti-reflective coating (Apple Macbook Pro). I decided to sell off the Apple and invest in Google and Windows (yuck) based laptop. So far, no regrets and I was surprised how well google syncs with Windows 10 now. There's a lot of features that have carried over from Apple to Windows and Android regarding syncing devices e.g. texting through phone using Chrome browser... good stuff. My favorite features on the Lenovo Thinkpad L380 Yoga are the amazing keyboard (huge plus that won me over from my Macbook), expandable storage - SD card slot (using a 256GB Micro SD), rechargeable through USB-C ports + has two USB A ports, fingerprint read for login, runs fairly quiet most of the time (fan off), but fan does come on once in a while and when it does, it's subtly noticeable in a quite room, corning gorilla glass, that won't have anti-reflective coating pealing off when the glass rubs the keyboard during transport (uuhmmmmm, Apple), sturdy chassis, metal hinges, back-lit keyboard, SSD. What a don't like is the trackpoint, dead pixel (questionable quality control; my first laptop had a bright white spot on the screen), 360 degree functionality (would prefer a regular laptop, not the hybrid Thinkpad, but this will do), does not have water proof keyboard, no magnetic latch (latch in general) to keep lid secured to chassis. Overall, the Thinkpad is a solid laptop that feels sturdy and like quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

I owned this machine for all of 12 hours before giving up and returning it to BestBuy. I really liked the design and price of the L380 and thought it was going to be perfect for my needs. After getting it home the fans were getting pretty loud and the machine itself was getting quite hot. I wrote this off as first time out of the box running updates over stress. After closing the device and going to lunch I come back and flip open the laptop and the screen would not turn on. The machine itself was on but the screen just wouldn't come on. After googling what the issue might be I was able to get the screen on by shutting it down and holding control F8. After running updates and waiting hours I restart the machine and while the screen problem not turning seemed to have been fixed now my screen was about 75% of the size it was supposed to be. YUP after updates my screen SHRANK, for the life of me I couldn't find a way to fix this. After waiting another hour and half on diagnostics and updates and BIOS I said screw it and took it back to Best Buy. I fully admit to not being a very tech savvy person but I don't think I really need to be for a product to just work directly out of box. Maybe if you're more tech savvy and can put up with updates and just all around stupid stuff this might be the product for you, because again I think the concept of this machine is literally perfect, the size, weight, included pen, touch screen, keyboard are all great, BUT ONLY IF IT WORKS FOR THE END USER!!!!!! After returning this device I bought a Surface Pro 6 and it is working perfectly out of box and what I'm writing this review on.

After doing a lot of research online, talking to several salesmen at Best Buy and at other stores this was supposed to be one of the more reliable and tougher PC's available when i purchased it when starting my business in March 2017. It was to be used mainly for running car tuning software (HP Tuners, Holley, Megasquirt EFI, etc), doing online bookwork and regular web surfing. It was a lot of money to spend that i had not anticipated but when my old Dell that i had forever finally died it was go cheap and hope it lasted or buy one i could rely on for years again. Out of the box the only issue i had was it wouldn't get a good connection to the net in a lot of places my old Dell would. That was easily fixed with an external wifi adapter i had to pack with me everywhere otherwise the performance was good, i was happy with it for the rest of a year. At 13 months the speakers quit working so to hear anything i had to plug in HDMI or head phones, after maybe 20 plugins to the HDMI port it went south and would show a pink picture on the tv screen with no sound, i packed earphones now with WIFI adapter. I've owned it 17 months now, last night it worked and this morning it was dead. Totally. Won't turn on at all. First i bought a $65 charger, then searched google and found a video on how a tech shop was fixing the issue so i disassembled it, disconnected the battery, backup battery and Ram. When i pulled the back cover off i found 2 loose screws on the main board and one had fallen out of a wiring bracket that brought my attention to the broken USB port on one side that could possibly be my fault but i'd say there's a 5-8% chance. I've never dropped it, hit it, tossed it, loaned it to anyone, don't have kids, dogs or a cat and it's kept in a nice computer bag with me pretty much 24/7. Just put it back together and it's still dead, charger is working and the battery pack shows 12.2 volts. Guess i'll be buying another PC.

This laptop is fantastic! Working with ThinkPads a lot I wanted something that was user-upgradeable and was higher quality than the typical Yoga laptops. This one was perfect for my needs. Pros: -The keyboard is one of the best I've ever used on any laptop. -Built like a tank, I can tell it's going to last a while. -User-upgradable (will void your warranty), i swapped the drive for a 1TB and added 8GB of RAM and it took me 5 mins. -The screen flexibility is great for multiple purposes. -It comes with a Wacom stylus! -Price-wise, you get way more for your money than the other Yoga laptops. -It charges from 0% to ~90% in an hour, it's very fast. -More than enough ports for most people. -Battery lasts a long time. Cons: -The screen is pretty small, but there is a huge bezel around it. I'm pretty sure they could have made this 14" or 15" without affecting the size. -Screen also isn't great quality, colors are pretty muted. -There doesn't seem to be a way to make the keyboard backlight turn on and off with the ambient light, even though the screen brightness can change with ambient light. The only way to turn on the backlight is to press Fn+Spacebar. Speakers are plenty loud, but they're on the bottom of the laptop. If you have the laptop on anything besides a hard surface it muffles them. On a hard surface they're pretty good. Despite these cons, I still think this laptop is deserving of 5 stars and is worth every penny.

I just bought one of these laptops today, and my initial reaction was regret. However, after installing all the updates through Lenovo and Microsoft I really like it! I know it's not a gaming machine, but it originally ran my games very slow (fps wise), which made me regret it, then I installed the updates and it ran much better. I am getting about 10 fps more in the few games I play after the updates. Enough fps that my games are playable and enjoyable. The computer feels very durable. I actually had a Thinkpad years ago when the IBM logo was still on the machines, and while playing with the demo at Bestbuy I joked about liking the retro look, but honestly I really liked the overall feel of the machine. I also like that it's upgrade able, and from what I've read online upgrading is easy. The only issue I see is the screen isn't the most vibrant, but that's a minor draw back for me. Everything else about this machine makes it my traveling, movie playing, light gaming, and business laptop. I think next computer may be the same updated thinkpad in the future, and I'm hoping it will have thunderbolt then too. Good computer!

I was looking to replace a 17" Lenovo Ideapad which not only turned out to be too bulky, but had a very flat keyboard that wasn't comfortable to type on. I decided I was prepared to spring for a 2-in-1 that was a bit smaller (15" or so) and had an SSD drive for performance. I tried every 2-in-1 at Best Buy, and fell in love with the ThinkPad because of its keyboard. I'm a developer, so having something comfortable to type on was very important to me, and one of the primary reasons I was trading in the previous laptop. After having it for a couple of months, I've really enjoyed the portability and performance. I haven't used the 2-in-1 feature much, but it was very handy to have when I needed to quickly show something to someone at a conference. My only very minor wish was that it had a regular RJ-45 ethernet port for the occasional time I've had an opportunity to use a wired network connection, but that is very minor. Highly recommended!