Problematic gift

When I graduated high school back in 2018 I asked my parents for a new laptop. I wasn’t hoping for anything grand, just something new to do school assignments on, something that could run Microsoft word and would boot up fairly fast because my laptop at the time was a heavy thing running windows 7 and wouldn’t run if it wasn’t plugged in. Little did I know, my dad wanted to get me something nice to encourage my pursuit of art school. So he bought me a Lenovo Yoga that was on clearance because someone had returned it (apparently it was the wrong color?). Keep in mind, on clearance this thing was still $1200 USD. But I was excited because it was new and it was so much more than I was expecting. However since having said laptop for 3ish years now I can say that I do not recommend it. It’s doing it’s job I guess, but i’ve had a lot of issues with it. The battery life isn’t very long and the touch pad randomly stops working sometimes. When I have my laptop in tablet mode (because it can flip into a tablet which IS very useful for digital art) it sometimes thinks that I am holding buttons, mainly the Ctrl key which is an issue because that does things in the art program I use. About a year ago I had a major issue where my laptop was blue screening for no reason multiple times a day which made completing online assignments a real hassle for me. I took it to a computer repair guy and he couldn’t figure out why it was blue screening because the code it was giving him was just the general error code instead of something specific. He uninstalled some basic lenovo operating stuff I think and it seemed to fix the issue. He told me that if it didn’t he would give a full refund. He also said he was going to stop servicing lenovo’s because they all had issues like this and he thought they were just cursed. Here recently instead of blue screening it sometimes just gives me a black screen when I start up certain tasks. Half the time it’s random and the other half it’s on the brink of dying and it just forgot to update the battery bar (so it would say I have 40% battery, but in reality I had 4%). Granted I’m not very careful with this thing (my first year having it I accidentally dropped a frozen water bottle on it and it left a small dent on the top which I promptly covered with stickers so my dad wouldn’t see) so maybe some of it is on me, but this just seems like way too many problems and some of them are common among other lenovo users. This thing also gets unbearably hot sometimes, especially when charging. Oh and some of the choices they made for the display really bother me. The recommended screen and application zoom setting is 300% and I agree that it looks best this way despite a lot of the icons being too big for my comfort (the next level down, 250%, is much too small and makes text unreadable), many applications simply do not fit the screen when zoomed in this much. The app windows are too big and it hides important buttons. Some applications also open much too small with these settings, making text and buttons illegible. Anyone trying to open Origin to play the sims is gonna have a hard time with this laptop as the application window opens to be the size of your drivers license and the text is too small to see. I’m sure i’m forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea. it’s not a very good laptop, especially for the price. Things I do like about it: It flips into a tablet and has a touch screen so I can draw (I recommend Clip Studio Paint for an art program, but Medibang is a good free alternative I used for a while). It comes with a pen so you can use it for art or notes in tablet mode (the older model of this pen works better, is lighter, and easier to hold, and has a thing that lets you clip it to stuff) though said pens cap holding in the batteries cracked and I had to use a hair tie to keep it tight enough so my batteries wouldn’t fall out. Just get the older pen it’s better and sturdier. uuuuh I like the keyboard. I like the the keyboard has lights, but I didn’t like that no one told me how to turn off the lights so it took 3 years for me to figure it out. I like that the charger is a type c cord so I can use my laptop charger to charge my phone in a pinch. why it has 2 type c ports and only 1 usb port I’ll never know. instead of a second type c could they not have just given me an hdmi port why did I have to buy an extender? uuuuuuhhh the touchpad is nice when it works. uuuuuhhh it has a built in blue light filter which is neat. That’s about it really idk. it’s pretty hit or miss. I appreciate my dad getting me something he thought was nice and it is fairly decent at being a drawing tablet when it doesn’t wanna give me a black screen and delete my progress, but I def won’t be buying another one after this officially dies. I’ll probably switch to another tablet-laptop hybrid from a different company and hope for the best. I just hope I can carry over my current pen.