“I just purchased this laptop and it stated that it had a backlit keyboard. I am having trouble figuring out how to make the keyboard light up. I don't see any buttons for it. Thanks!”
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Here's the correct answer. Some models actually do, just not this one that Best Buy has. According to the Lenovo Hardware Manual for the Flex 4 1470 model, it turns out that there are five different models of the Flex 4 in both 14 and 15 inch designs. They are the 1435, 1470, 1480, 1570 and 1580. BBY probably requested a lot of corners to be cut to save expenses and bring you this product at a competitive price. For instance, This Pentium 4405U is of a 14nm size and uses the newer FCBGA1356 processor socket type design, so any better Core i3 or Core i5 will probably work. Core i7 may overheat this unit. Yes Lenovo is correct, the FN button along with the spacebar will turn on a backlit keyboard but is misleading, the truth is the LED type is a backlit LED touch display and is the lower resolution 1366x768 not the 1920x1080 which the Pentium 4405U GPU on its northbridge chipset is an Intel HD 520 and has a full size HDMI port for obvious external connections. Best Buy requested this model with the NON BACKLIT kEYBOARD FRU part aka Field Replaceable Unit. The part which essentially makes this work is 5CB0L46004 and IS BACKLIT but appears one remove all the bottom screws and then remove pretty much everything as the keyboard and top case under the screen with mouse are all one unit. https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_flex4_1470_1570_1435_1480_1580_hmm_201609.pdf Main differences are in screen size with resolution with processor and keyboard size/type. This 1470 model can be almost improved to the $700 model (which I believe is the 15 with the Core i5/i7) by replacing the slow 5400 rpm 500GB HDD with a SSD 7mm type along with a single 16GB DDR4 2133Mhz dual ranked DIMM module. I personally bought a 240GB Corsair 7mm ForceLE SSD (which is VERY FAST) along with memory from Crucial aka Micro's best of their laptop DDR4 modules. It appears that this model can be upgraded to a different CPU type of the socket number listed above and with keyboard will make this shine, replace the screen with the larger resolution if you wish. But in short, yes the Lenovo Flex 4 1470 COULD have had a backlit keyboard like my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Ultrabook (which is twice as light, Core i7 with a crazy 4k screen resolution one can barely read if upgraded from Win8.1 to 10 and drivers are off but then even with the LPDDR3 lower power memory its only 8GB and no good for great virtualization). I use mine as a pentesting laptop with Rapid7 products, Splunk and various Linux buiids. I personally say if you want all those, spend some money on upgrades like I mentioned, buy an external keyboard, USB hub and external TV, pico projector or monitor of your choice. Expect to spend close to $800 if you want this to have all the bells and whistles of many of the better competition on BBY planogramed endcaps in stores. I trained many of the original Geek Squad long ago, so what does that say? Go for it and do what I recommend or spend more money and demo the features before you walk out of the store. Hope this helps clarify all these questions on this model for all. - ex Special Agent 2727
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I went and talked to best buy employee and was told it is not. My laptop does not have a backlit keyboard just to let everyone know who thinks it does have a lit keyboard.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It doesn't have a backlit key board. It states it has a backlit LED for the display, not the key board.. Here are the spec descriptions: 14" 10-point multitouch screen for hands-on control Typical 1366 x 768 HD resolution. Touch, tap, glide and make the most of Windows 10. LED backlight. That can be confusing to anyone though, but it is not mentioning the key board is backlit, but the display, it has a back lit LED display... I hope that helps.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hold down the Fn key and press the space bar.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It does not have a backlit keyboard. I checked the manual and that is confirmed
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