Lenovo G50 80E30181US 15.6-Inch Laptop (AMD A8, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, DVD-SuperMulti Drive, Windows 8.1)

I write in praise of this laptop, for the money spent, its specifications far outpace anything out there. One brief comparison. For the same amount of money that I spent here at Amazon, Lenovo offered a 15.6" laptop with a dual core processor and 2 GB of RAM; compare that to this machine's quad core processor and 6 GB of RAM! Indeed, to get a machine with comparable specs, I would have needed to spend $200 more.Besides specs, the machine is flawless in operation. When I first plugged it in, the first decision I needed to make was whether or not I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10 from 8.1. Since I have been a part of the Beta testing program since its inception, for me, that was a no brainer. The upgrade went smoothly, with no warnings or glitches during the upgrade, which took less than an hour to complete.Besides text work and illustrations, my most frequently used programs are high-end photography programs, including many of which tend to be high users of memory such as Photoshop and the Franz line of products from Europe. All of these programs run very well under Windows 10, and this laptop has yet to object to anything I've thrown at it. Heck, even the audio quality is good, no doubt due to its Dolby stereo component.Could this laptop be improved? Sure, throw in a SSD and its speed will be bumped up significantly. Which points out another great feature of Lenovo computers - they're very easy to upgrade. Turn the machine over and memory and hard drive access doors are easily viewed, opened, and components upgraded or repaired.As I said, I write in praise of this laptop. I'd easily recommend it to a friend, and couldn't be happier with my purchase.

First off, this laptop is HUGE! It's a lot larger than I was expecting, so if you're looking to use this for travel I'd opt for a smaller laptop... this fit into my suitcase barely but left no room for anything else once combined with the charger.I use a Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 for everyday use, I purchased this for my dad as a spare computer. Going from the Lenovo Yoga to this is night and day, but they are in completely different price brackets. For the money, the laptop is great... has a good processor, memory and HDD compared to others in it's price range. However, if you're used to a faster i5 or i7 computer and switch to this... it feels incredibly slow. Things are unresponsive, takes long to power on/shut down and windows sometimes freezes. But like I said... great entry level laptop if you're using it for basic tasks such as Microsoft Office and the internet.It comes preinstalled with a lot of bloatware from Lenovo... Lenovo is pretty notorious nowadays for loading up their computers with junk (and even had problems loading up malware before). I would recommend to do a full reinstall of the OS from scratch to remove all the junk, or, clean up through your control panel. There will probably be around 10 things running that you don't really need or want when you first get this laptop.

This is a pretty decent computer for the price, however the colors are all a bit off. It's not a big deal if just casually searching the web, however I like to draw digitally, and so it is does get a bit annoying having all the colors a slightly different tone. I've tried fixing it on my own, with no luck. I'm not sure if it's just my computer, or if this is a common issue. It also doesn't have that high of a brightness setting. Both of these issues are noticeable when watching Netflix, youtube, etc. The computer also has a small crack on the screen, I have moved across the country though, and I think that was just me not packing it as well as I should have.I have done some online gaming, and it works well with that. It doesn't slow down, and runs at a good speed. The settings do have to be set a bit lower however. I have played Minecraft and a few MMOs, but this computer doesn't have the compatibility for larger scale games, so just keep that in mind.So overall it works well, it seems fast, and I have no issues with lack of space on this computer. The only issue in my opinion is the screen's display being dark and off-toned. For the price though, if you just want a computer for simple tasks, this works well.

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Bought this laptop to replace my old G540. It came with all of the bloat-ware that is typical, and all of the unneeded Lenovo apps. Once they were uninstalled the laptop worked great, for the first 8 months. Now I am getting the Lenovo splash screen loop issue. Search: G50-45 stuck on splash screen. The OneKey Recovery button failed to work when booting from the System Recovery. At this time I am trying to go through Lenovo to resolve, but it appears that this laptop is done for good. Will update is able to resolve. At this point I wasn't able to back up any of my documents aside from what I have already stored on my other laptop. Wouldn't recommend.Update: 03/07/2016:Was able to contact Lenovo, went through the Tech Support options of trying to boot from recovery and the back up Image. But the Laptop was still stuck on the Lenovo Splash page. The Tech Support then created a ticket and advised that they might have to wipe/ reformat the entire laptop. I mailed it to them 2/29/2016, they received it 3/4/2016 and are currently repairing it. Will post another update when I receive it back.