Lenovo Miix (stupid name) 700: How can a company that’s technically the successor of IBM tear down that mighty name even further? Right, by designing stuff that’s broken and then proceeding to sell that stuff despite knowing it’s unreliable and defective crap.
That lame knockoff of a Surface convertible had problems right from the purchase. Upon research they all turned out to be experienced by other users, some obviously by all. For example trouble with the trackpad that was never solved, every few days it simply stops working in the middle of work and I need to reboot that computer to get it back. It has a fan that turned noisy within a week and effing annoying after a month, after a year the bearings were audibly worn out. The display has a serious burn-in issue and the detachable keyboard has spring loaded contacts that get exhausted after a few times detaching the keyboard. The only quality part on this computer is the aluminum shell.
Every now and then it goes into some kind of deep hibernate mode where the screen goes dark, you hear the fans roaring but the only way to get the screen back on is power-cycling it. Every now and then it swaps the function of the F-keys as if Fn was permanently depressed and quite often it needs a reboot because the trackpad ends up in a state where tapping it stops working and it marks everything the pointer is pointing at on hovering over it.
I would’ve expected this level of sophistication in being annoying from the cheap Chinese “Trekstore” knock-off for 1/3 of the price that was sitting right next to the Lenovo in the shop where I bought it. Instead, the cheap knockoff turned out to be a much better value than this 700€ disappointment from Lenovo.
After experiencing a total disaster with a laptop from Dell, Lenovo is the second name I have mentally marked for deletion and I’m not sure not buying any of their crap products anymore will help – apparently they all have learned that they get away with flooding the world with expensive, non-sustainable crap that lasts from 11am to noon – every day a new fool gets out of bed and is happy to be shortchanged by these companies.