I'm a simple man. I see Lisa reviewing a ThinkPad and I click like.

This review includes everthing you need to know. THANK YOU Lisa

Thanks for always including the stylus jitter test, it's the first thing I look for as an artist. Wacom AES is still not ready, as is MS N-trig.

I have a L380 for almost a year... I LOVE IT. Thank you for the review! I've been waiting.

My used i5 8GB RAM 250GB M.2 L390 Yoga arrived today, it was so filthy. I cleaned the fan and re-pasted the CPU, the old paste was probably from the factory, it was dry and crusty. Dusted the board as much as humanly possible. Took a toothbrush with isopropyl to the keyboard, got in between the key gaps, so much crud came off. Brushed some more between all the gaps around the trackpad and trackpoint buttons and the gaps around the keyboard frame. Gave the screen and body a good polish, cleaned the ports. Now I wait for my 1TB M.2 and 16GB x2 RAM sticks to arrive. In the meantime, I updated Windows 10 and used Lenovo's update software, got some extra firmware, driver, bios updates, just for fun, since I'll be doing it all over again for the new 1TB M.2 drive. Gonna dual boot Windows 10, maybe 11, still not sure how well 11 runs tablet mode, and Linux, possibly Mint. I had a tiny bit of buyer's remorse with it being in such disgusting shape, but after some much needed TLC, I'm really liking this machine, especially for the $165 in total that I paid. It's a nice companion to my T480s, though, I do wish the L390 keyboard was the same as my T480, it just doesn't have the same snappy feel as the T480s, it feels slightly mushy. It's not a deal breaker, though, since I will be using it in tent mode with my mechanical keyboard most of the time.

Your shirt and this review were awesome, as always!

The site that I'm thinking of buying this from doesn't bother to mention what ports are on it so I found this review very helpful. Thanks.

Lisa, As usual you set the standard for reviews. The more I look at Lenovo, the more impressed I am with the brand, especially its easy access for user upgradability. Thanks so much for reviewing the "budget" PC's. (Your t-shirt! Funny lady!)

This is my sweet spot. Upgradable m.2 drive and DDR4 memory, and no 2.5" drive bay. I manage to get one during the 2019 Boxing Day sale in Canada with Core i5, 8 GB memory, 256 GB drive, touchscreen, backlit keyboard, fingerprint reader and pen. I upgraded the drive with a 512 GB WD Black and added an extra 8 GB memory module. Total price with my personal upgrades was $960 CAD or $722 USD plus sales tax.

Thank you for the review. I'm very interested on the review of the E490s, and also the comparison with this model.

And as always a great informative technical video👍👍

All her reviews are excellent

Thanks for revieweing more affordable units too. :)

My use to be the Black Cow and switched to Lenovo! Now Love Lenovo but $$$ Great video review! Thank you Ms Lysa!

On the strength of this video I bought the L390 Yoga in the UK, mine has the the core i7 8th gen chip, it's an excellent machine. Mine came with 8 gigs of RAM but I know I can upgrade this. Thanks!

One of the coolest shirt I have ever seen 😀🎉 great video as usual Lisa! 😀 🎉

Oh, Lenovo Thinkpads, how I love thee! Your comments about the Thinkpad X1 Yoga (3rd gen), my dream comp, had me dreaming of the day I can finally get it! Hahaha!

Ah! I'd been thinking about getting this one as my 'coffee shop" laptop. Looks like a good purchase to make! Thanks!

Another great review. Thanks

Great review as always! Lisa, could you please review a new x390 yoga if possible?

Great value laptop. Today (Black Friday), the i3-8145u model was $530 CAD ($400 USD). For another $240, I got 1TB NVMe SSD and 16GB DDR4 2400 MHz RAM. Should be a solid build to last me years to come.

Lisa, nice review. Planning to do gs75 soon? Waiting till I buy. Thanks girl!

Lisa does the best laptop reviews whether you're looking for a laptop or not.

Thank you for this review.

I am a simple man. I see a notification of a Lisa Grade review. I come and checkout the tshirt.

You are the only tech channel I trust.

Just replaced my broken PC with X1 Yoga and don’t need another. Saw a review from Lisa...I clicked.

right on the money. thanks ma'am!!!

Great video lisa. Now thinking of getting this for some employees

I'm going to buy one.

I used it and wonderfully performance

I never had a glance for Thinkpads, probably out of ignorance. You opened my eyes! My next laptop IS going to be a Thinkpad.

I'm just a personal home user, not a business one, but I still want one of these. I actually dig the design, and the durability and upgradeability is great. I can see getting it and just having it last me years. Looking to do casual web browsing, media consumption, some FL Studio beats, very light/legacy gaming or just streaming my Xbox One to it, and maybe a bit of digital drawing if the AES pen works enough for me. Do you know if any art programs are somehow able to compensate for the jittery lines at all?

Please, *Lenovo T590* . I only care about laptops with numeric keypad, which is an absolutely must for me.

Hi Lisa, love the reviews. Can you tell us what your top picks for laptops are for 2019 thus far? Thanks!

The thermals are interesting. I have an xps 13 and I am in a warm room that is regularly over 75 degree during the summer. I have found that the machine regularly hit 100 C according to to Core temp. I have noticed that the machine goes through a restart when it comes out of sleep mode. I think it is shutting down during heat while in sleep mode and hten cant correctly come back out of sleep mode without restarting. So I would recommend you spend time testing this feature on the L390. I think some BIOS updates that Dell made recently have also contributed to this issue.

I love my L390. Ordered it with an i5 and 16 gigs of ram. Fingerprint sensor, and backlit keyboard for 850. Keyboard is amazing, blazing fast, very sturdy, and thin. The screen is perfectly adequate and the overall size makes a great choice to carry.

excellent review / looking lappy

2 ram slots, replaceablr m.2 2280 ssd... This is a really good platform.

I was going to buy Lenovo Carbon X1 tomorrow , now I'm willing to buy the yoga !

Close, but no cigar. No option for a dedicated GPU means no sale. I've got the Thinkpad Yoga 14 20FY (the one which strangely was only sold at Best Buy) with a 940m, and that little dGPU made a huge amount of difference in what I could do with the laptop. Opened it up for light gaming and GPU acceleration for more demanding productivity apps. Really disappointed that none of the current Yogas have an option for a dGPU, out of all the 2-in-1s I've used I liked Lenovo's design the best with the trackpoint and the ability to store and charge the stylus in the PC (plus Lenovo's keyboards are always good except for the ctrl key being in the wrong place). What I would really like to see is a Yoga version of the Thinkpad X1 Extreme. It's already got the stylus support on the screen, all they need to do now is add the Yoga hinges.

Darn, I have the l380, and one thing I complain about is that all usb c ports aren't charging enabled, I don't care about thunderbolt 3, but having the option to charge it on the right and left would be helpful

Appreciate the upgradable RAM. Really wish it had a better screen.

I bought the L390 Yoga Thinkpad, i5 -8265U, 1080p Touch with backlit keyboard, then upgraded to 32GB RAM + 1TB SSD... It would be the perfect laptop with a slightly bigger battery, still I get 6 to 8 hours of mixed usage. Note: I accidentally dropped it on its side, not a scratch! Other laptops would have broken the screen... It's VERY robust.

Thank you very much for posting this review. Would you guys do a review. Of the Lenovo Thinkpad W500. I have one myself right now. I’m looking at upgrading it. Changing out the CPU, & the Ram. Thank you very much for posting this video.

Still use and love my Thinkpad yoga 12. Unfortunately I need to upgrade for my workload. i5 5thgen and 8 gb RAM barely gets me by. This will make an excellent upgrade while keeping everything I love about mine.

I like your T-Shirt! And your Videos. thumbs up.

Lisa, unless I'm mistaken ( I'd be very glad in this case ), they have not released any model with power bridge or swappable battery this year, T490 has only a single internal battery. I'd really love for them to just keep a single persistent model that retains this distinct and useful feature - similar to how the old MBA ran for several years.

My work L470 is old and it is meh. The T series I had used were tanks. You could not kill them. Used as invoice, and music demo machines at our hifi shows. They are still going today! Slow as hell, but still going strong. The new premium are nice, but dubious on pricing for what you get. But the Carbon X is sweet.

DDR3+ can also work Double Data Rate with uneven modules. The Larger Module is partitioned to match the Smaller and the rest is used as Single Data Rate Memory. It is better to perfectly match the modules (same product code), but, needed to add this to the talk. Query your laptop/board documents to whether this hybrid ddr configuration is available for your system.

Great review! I love Thinkpads. Are you planning on reviewing the X390 and the T490 (s and non s versions) anytime soon?

Thanks for the review, cannot understand why manufacturers don't sale in almost 2020 thunderbolt 3 as standard? And as for hadmi why not 2.0 which allow 4k 60hz... Make choosing laptop very hard to pick... Glad that my 480s at least have 1 thunderbolt 3.0 so I have all I need ...

The battery looks big but it's only 45Wh???

I played the video twice because i’m used to your 20 minutes reviews

I wonder when or if these will be updated with the 9th gen processors, I'm waiting to find a good offering with a 9th gen that I can afford.

My favorite lenovo laptop

My Lenovo think pad l390 has a black screen and I don’t know how to fix it, can you help me?

Great review, does in support LTE

I am just a bit annoyed with the position of Fn and Ctrl key, most of other keyboard were the opposite. It makes me harder to do Ctrl key shortcut.

I know this was reviewed a while ago, but I have a question. I jest got my laptop, and it seams to be running a little hot, and I was wondering if you had the same problem. Looking at cupid, my cpu goes up to 90c.

just got this bad boy in my position, initially fell for the 270 series at $400 and i tell ya, that thing came with the 6th gen processor, TIN display, no Fingerprint reader, no back-lit keyboard, horrible track-pad and began lagging shortly after the initial setup. sent it back and the L390 is light years ahead for the roughly $300 more you pay (at sale price), the 8th gen CPU is still very fast, the upgradable ram slot is something that missing even from the X390 series, touch screen is very sensitive, and the trackpad is indeed "very mac-like", the 360 rotational hinge is very stiff and feels like it was built to last, the magnesium-aluminum lid inspires confidence in the device to be used as intended and keeping the screen safe, the keyboard is very tactile and the backlit function is a great attribute, and most importantly the garaged pen is perfect for those of you with occasional need of an stylus (i have heard multiple complaints about the pen being too small and i have to say this is not my experience) i am comfortable drawing or taking notes with the galaxy note stylus and this is pen is in fact much bigger and houses comfortably in the device, i have also heard complaints about the bezels being too large, a and this is not my impression at all, specially if you intend on using the device in tablet mode, the roughly 1cm bezels allow for a better grip/palm rest from any side while not being overwhelmingly huge (minor differences that are noticeable when comparing 100's of devices but not really noticeable or bothersome in person), all and all this is one well rounded machine and i highly recommend it.

Thanks for the review! Where do you get you T-shirts?

try drawing lines with a ruler,.. otherwise its not clear how much jitter comes from coffee vs the digitizer. ;)

Nice review. Hi Lisa, what is the brand of your mic?

how come the keyboard buttons didn't suck in when turned into tablet mode?

Seems like it would be a great laptop for school students.

If only Thinkpads were a bit cheaper. If this had a 4 lane thunderbolt 3 port I might have considered buying it.

Please, How to boot usb from Lenovo L390?

YOGA FLAME!

Your age inspires me! Thanks.

I hope this new model has improved quality. Got the previous L380 and after 2 months it was sent 3 times for repair. 1st issue was the trakcpad stopped working. But after their service repaired it they've created other issues after returning. Digitizer didn't work then hinge were misaligned.

When are you going to review the T490(s) ?

Still waiting for your review of Lenovo Thinkpad P52.

This with Ice Lake or 2nd gen Ryzen (assuming new mobile Ryzen is incoming) and a better screen with reduced bezel would be my perfect notebook. I know Lenovo will screw it up by soldering the RAM and only having coffee lake next generation though, as Lenovo giveth and Lenovo taketh away. There will never be another perfect Thinkpad :(

The text of the L390 review on your web site is for a Sony VAIO laptop, not the Lenovo L390 Yoga.

Do we know if it has thunderbolt 3 support? I thought I saw a little lightnign bold icon by one of the USB C ports, but nothing said about it...was the icon just to indicate which one should be used for charging?

I doubt anyone will answer my question but is this compatible with a SIM card?

Could you make a review from the newest asus rog strix g g531 with the brand new I7 9750h with Rtx 2070?

Can i make a request for ideapad s540 with 1050 15.6"?

Can you do a smackdown with the Lenovo C930?

Do a review of the new X1 Carbon 7th gen!

Honestly lenovo is the only brand laptop i have ever own

I like it the price is right the bezels are really the only turn off thanks Lisa....

Can the storage be upgraded with a m.2 sata ssd

Thunderbolt 3 port? If so, how many lanes?

I'm looking at the L13 which is evidently the same as this L390 but with frustratingly soldered RAM. Lisa, go lay the smackdown on Lenovo for that

Could you please review e485 thinkpad

So guys i got mine yesterday and I'm wondering... Can i upgrade the ssd to 1tb?

If it's meant (mainly) for schools, they could've put in a bit higher capacity battery. Btw. it's a dead ringer for the TP Yoga 260 from a couple of years ago (which is only a bit smaller, 12.5").

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Does it have lift and lock keyboard.

Can i prefer it to macbookair 13 please tell me

Msi PS63 creator Please. I'm getting old 😂

Hey can i know the Pen Model for L390 yoga? SD60M..... ?

which is better the l390 or the latitude 7300 ??

Yoga Book C930 review please.

still waiting on the L380 Thinkpad yoga review

Can it operate without a battery?

i’m looking for a new laptop, is this good laptop?

LOVE that Tee shirt.