Lenovo ThinkPad A485

Lenovo ThinkPad A485 User Review and Ratings

• CPU and Graphics are great model
  Amazon Customer (Oct 1, 2018) on Amazon
  This laptop is very good product because it?s good cpu and gpu.
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• Great ThinkPad for the money.
  Rumpy5 (Dec 6, 2019) on Amazon
  I was looking for a good ThinkPad on a budget and this fit the bill perfect. I was looking at refurbed units until I stumbled upon this one priced only a little more. My only hesitancy was it coming with a HDD rather than SSD but it's running fine so far and I'm still debating swapping a SSD in. Processor, ram, and integrated graphics have been great for what I'm using it for. (I wanted something portable I could do light gaming on rather than my huge desktop replacement MSI.) For reference I haven't really tested the components too hard yet.. It's mostly been used for Rim World so far. That is when the battery gets sucked down in a couple hours.From my researching, it sounded like the A series was on par with the T series. That was a big deciding factor to go with this one.
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• Decent laptop
  Lucas Holt (Aug 20, 2019) on Amazon
  I purchased this laptop to run an open source operating system on it called MidnightBSD. It required some tweaking to the boot loader.conf in order to get it to boot. Once it did, everything seemed to work except the wifi card. I'm using an external usb adapter with it. The network adapter detects as two and the second port must be used with MidnightBSD. (re1)I also had initially booted it into windows to get it registered and make sure everything was working. I found that in windows the performance was just OK. It seemed to run slower than it does on BSD. I'm wondering if the power profile is not quite right for the ryzen CPU in windows that ships with it. It might be worth trying to install the AMD chipset drivers on the unit to see if it improves performance.I found that it shows fingerprints very easily. This is quite noticeable by the trackpad and keyboard. The keyboard itself is one of the best to type on I've found on recent laptops though. It's not as mushy as some of the other brands.It's a good value overall.
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