Looking for new laptop

jimbo45 said:

Or what about one of these !!!! That's how I view AMD processors currently !!!!

(snip)

(Old East German trabant, 2 cylinders ran on two-stroke oil and even a smoke bomb would have emitted less smoke than these things did - and people had to wait 20 years to get them --incredible !!!).

Cheers
jimbo

If you check my "My Computer", you'll see how I feel about AMD processors. They've gone a long way from the early days fo selling alternate (cheap) processors that plugged into Intel sockets. Try and find a Ryzen 9 5900X or 5950X at anywhere near list price.

(My most recent Intel system used an Intel X99 motherboard. The main thing I miss is the quad channel RAM, available from AMD only with the expensive Threadripper desktop CPUs. Not that I need quad channel.)

The Trabant had one advanced feature: a composite body. When they were all trashed after German re-unification, the bodies could be burned in power plants. (I said composite, not fiberglass.)

milford said:

Thanks for the help. I've been looking at reviews, and I wish I hadn't. I don't know what it means but some reviews say this laptop has a TN (?) display which is considered poor, while other websites mention an IPS which is better.

No, the 5i 15 has a 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) IPS 300nits Anti-glare, 45% NTSC display. See:
IdeaPad,IdeaPad 5 15ITL05,Model:82FG000QUS

If more memory is suggested...how about this one? Same price as Lenovo.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-mod...?skuId=6437744

Expandable to 128 Gigs.

milford said:

If more memory is suggested...how about this one? Same price as Lenovo.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-mod...?skuId=6437744

Expandable to 128 Gigs.

For me, personally, 8GB of memory is enough. The CPU performance is always comparatively much more important for the kind of hobby work that I like to do on my laptops, and, I typically buy a new laptop every ~3 years. But then, I don't know exactly what kind of work it is that you intend to do, so, I'm bias.