1. Don't buy touchscreens. They are more vulnerable than a chopstick.
2. Yogas and Idepads tend to be more "cheap" and "bad." Yes, it may be more expensive, but buy ThinkPads and Thinkbooks. They are much better in quality.
3. Don't buy "ultra thin slimmer than a paper laptop pro max." Put a glass of water on it, and they are broken.
4. If possible, don't buy Lenovo. I see lots of problems with Lenovo and the main one being with graphics and the monitor showing glitches.

>looking for lenovo laptop

>implied thinkpad because we're on r/thinkpad

>says they want a yoga

redditors at its finest

If you do plan on doing CAD, it's a P-Series like the P14 or P14s. If it's just studying, T-Series (T14/T14s) - used or new depending on budget.

If you're on a tighter budget, I think the E and L Series are 'fine' but they suffer in build quality.

X1C if you get a Gen 8/9 or older, then it should still be budget friendly.

You want to double check the battery life though.

Hi! I have a Lenovo Yoga 9i that I got for a really great price open box excellent at BB. I use it for studying / taking notes during class and I love it! The pen it comes with works great (I use Goodnotes for note taking and it is chef's kiss). The camera and sound is great - I love the speaker in the center bar as when you're in 360 mode it sounds clear.

It's not too heavy, and even in its case it slips right into my purse to carry to class. Highly recommend!

I have the same laptop (assuming it's either core ultra 5 226v or 7 256v) thanks to the same deal at Currys (Student discount ends on the 23rd if anyone is still looking). 

This is a great laptop for most students and you should get excellent battery life on it. I've been using it and it can last me multiple days on a single charge. If you want antivirus, it should come with 3 months McAfee but don't use it as  another Redditor has said. It should easily last 3 years and since your doing essay based subjects, the performance will not be an issue at all. 

Books and written documentation take up very little space so don't worry about lack of space. I'd say enjoy the screen and battery life as movies are excellent on this. 

One piece of advice: it uses an OLED screen so it may be subject to burn in over time so try to implement some protective features like hiding the windows taskbar at hiding the address bar and tabs in apps like Chrome and Word by using f11 key. This is to reduce the amount of static content on your screen. It's not a major issue so you don't need to do any of this, but it might be helpful in 4+ years time as the laptop should otherwise still be perfectly usable by that point. 

You don't need antivirus software anymore, the antivirus built into windows is good enough nowadays. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to get an MS office lisence from the Uni so don't worry about that anyways

I have the same laptop but 2 in 1 and had another (worse) lenovo before it. In the year 2025 you do not need antivirus software, just go to your settings and make sure Microsoft defender is turned on.

Lenovo laptops are not "easier to get viruses on" dw, as a fellow free movies advocate, just don't click on any links and ignore pop ups that say "chrome piracy is illegal click here!". It's less about the laptop and more about your common sense.

The laptop should be more than good enough to get you through a 3 year humanities degree - 1TB is So Much storage, and you'll also have free cloud storage on OneDrive from the university. Tasks like reading and word processing aren't very heavy for laptops so you're gonna be fine

Warwick provide a complete Office 365 suite for staff and students - more complete on Windows rubbish but still extensive for Macs 😀

To add to the comment above, Microsoft Defender is all you need on your system, but I would also recommend installing an extension such as uBlock Origin or similar in your browser to block popups and ads etc.

Are you limited to Lenovo for some reason? If not, check out /r/SuggestALaptop. You can either follow their guide and post, or they have a monthly post with the latest recommended laptops per use case.

what are you use cases accurately like anything specific to your course and what country are you from? and would you extend your budget for better options if needed?

T480 and T480s or the Dell Latitude 5410 equivalent in refurbished.

we use both, the Lenovo and Dell seem to handle the durability check list if that is important. make sure it will upgrade to Windows 11 or better yet come with Windows 11.

cheap laptops break easily even if new, so why bother?

https://www.dellrefurbished.com/coupons

I created a link for refurbished laptops for students, sorted from low price to high. The first one I see is $55 for 16 GB RAM. It's a Chromebook, but if you go further, you will see more options. You can get something decent for study, including proctored exams, for about $350 - $400. Check the requirements with the proctoring provider. https://amzn.to/3Jg5aaF

Maybe some Lenovo Yoga would suit you. The oled screen would be worth it

This isn't really the sub for this sort of advice. Plenty of better ones.

>some people have also said that Lenovos can be slow,

Some people are idiots. Brands themselves aren't slow, some configs are slow.

>But are there any antivirus softwares I should buy?

Windows Defender, included in Windows, is pretty good these days. Just don't buy McAfee... r/antivirus has a load of recommendations in their Wiki if you want something better.

>And do Lenovo laptops easily get viruses

No more easily than any other Windows laptop, especially if you are visiting dodgy sites, which you really don't want to be doing on the University's Internet connection.

>if anyone owns this laptop please tell me if it’s going to be good enough for university, for 3 years with a heavily essay based subject meaning I’ll probably have to write a lot, do a lot of readings etc, which is why I got so much storage.

Specs should be fine for just essays and web browsing. It only has a 1-year warranty by the look of it, but thats what you get when you buy a consumer laptop rather than a business laptop.

I hope you have planned how you are going to do backups.

Yeah it's good, just don't be fooled by the £1000 RRP, most brands (particularly Asus and Lenovo) should only be bought when they're "on sale", like now. Not that they're bad machines or anything, not at all, it's just that the RRP tends to be insanely high.

Lenovos tend to have pretty decent keyboards too, so I'm sure it will serve you well.

You probably didn't need to get that much storage though. word docs, PDFs etc don't really take up much space. I'd be surprised if you produce more than 1GB during the entire course (unless each doc is full of images).

It'll be fine. Any Internet device is liable to viruses, just don't do anything dodgy and have a decent antivirus like you would any other laptop. And yeah a cheap lenovo is slow but that's the same for a cheap anything

What do you want it to do? Gaming? Writing up notes, essays etc? Redesign the Internet? You'll be fine. Other people are idiots

I bought a Lenovo Yoga for my first year and it hasn't done me wrong yet! If I recall it's not the best for graphics intense course like graphic/game design because of the CPU. But it's extremely easy to transport (extremely light). The laptop came with Norton protection on it but I never paid for any anti-virus and haven't had any issues :)

Extra power (i7 vs i5) and storage (512 vs 256) never a bad thing! I buy lots of Lenovos for customers, I’m happy w em. Got one in the car right meow actually lol

Something to keep in mind despite you having purchased the IdeaPad is upgradeability.
My business does deploy T14s T480s E14s and so on. As u/rangerm2 has stated they are business grade. This makes them easy to upgrade whether it's Ram or more drive space.

The Ideapad does not look upgradeable.

In the long term if you change your mind the ThinkPad may have been the better option depending on how long you plan to keep the Laptop.

I've seen these ThinkPads come in from the field looking like they have seen better days... Yet they work as they did new.

The Thinkpad is business-grade. The Ideapad is consumer-grade.

If this is something you plan to keep for a long time, the Thinkpad is the better machine (even with the worse specs) because it's better made.

How much money are you going to be spending? The reason this Reddit sub is so strong is in part because a great many of us are running older ThinkPads. We can do that becasue even a ThinkPad from ten+ years ago are viable daily drivers. this is unlike many other brands. So the asnswer you are going to get will vary wildly. From brand new Thinkpads costing $1500 to second-hand units that cost $150

I would go ahead and suggest a t480s. I've purchased one a couple of months ago, and it was a very very good purchase. At 14", with relatively small bezels, it's a pretty compact device (easy to carry around), with very good battery life (I get ~10h at 50-60% brightness, under light loads). It has an 8th gen Intel CPU which is quad-core, the 1st generation to do this for U series CPUs. I ended up needing more RAM today, got a stick delivered and I was running 16GB instead of 8 in like 3 minutes. But I have to mention, as compared to previous Thinkpads, the t480s is not really upgradeable, outside of one stick of RAM and SSD.

I usually recommend 2 Thinkpads, the T495 or the T440p. Your use case is more on the T495 side (newer and lighter) than the T440p (cheaper and more upgradable).

T450s

Light and portable with good battery life and a nice screen.

Probably less than $200

Checkout Lenovo Campus for student deals. You will also get a good overview of the current generation of thinpads.

AMD Ryzen 7000/8000HS CPU Legion 5/Slim 5 16"?

Avoid the Ryzen 5 7235HS and Ryzen 7 7435HS if you care about battery life.

Legion or LOQ