Lenovo ThinkPad E495 Review, Benchmark & A Look Inside For Future Upgrades Ryzen 7 3700U / 2.3 GHz By Nev's Tech Bits

Ladies and gentlemen, what's going on once again, I'm your boy there from that's tax bits. Today we are checking out a Lenovo ThinkPad e495. This is one of the more affordable units since it's a Adm system. Of course, it's super affordable and will blow intel away. But my big question is: will it outlast? Will it outlive uh an intel? I've had intel chips. Last me, you know until I just refuse to use the systems anymore, AMD systems.

I constantly get old, AMD's being brought to me where people say it just stopped working. Sometimes they say it made a loud pop, and then it just starts stopped working now uh. Once again, I don't get that problem with intel, but this is a new generation of stuff and a lot of times we're buying things. We don't really think too far ahead forward about how long we'll use it for all of those systems that were AMD, though that died early, I shouldn't say, died early but died before the user was done with them um they were all five years old, and five years is a reasonable life. Although Jesus I see best by selling computers through other contractors that are about eight years old, and they're still going fine with them, but anyways, it is what it is.

This is once again one of the more affordable units. The whole thing feels a little cheap, but as far as the cheap goes it all right, I have to say it's not so bad, it's not like horrible cheap. Where you're like. I can't believe I actually bought this. It feels sturdy, there's only a little of flex on the keyboard, there's about the same amount of flex on the keyboard.

To this as I've seen in many other systems. The monitor is a bit small. When you look at it, but you don't really notice it. You don't really notice how small the monitor is. Usually a Lenovo monitor will take up further down, but if you don't notice it.

But if you look long enough, you'll see it there's no slide over the camera. This is all just straight, straightforward, good stuff, I'm thinking it's good quality. I'm going to do a thorough review on it, but anyways. Lets uh: let's talk about what we get with this unit, all right, so we got an eight core CPU and as far as the GPU is its a Vega, 8 graphics and, as you can see over here, 2.1 gigahertz, 8, gigabytes ram good stuff, not so bad, and of course, here you can see that we have an internal SSD at 237 gigabytes. Now, let's wait until grand theft.

Auto is loaded here. Everyone always asks me to test Grand Theft Auto on these systems. All right folks, let's run a benchmark on it and see how she does. Okay, let's try the ports. We got an USB power connector, we got cad 5 input networks.

You know good stuff, it's always good to see that micro, SD, us block notch usb HDMI. The only USB we have here is the power, and then we have a headset in at the bottom. We got lots of uh lots of places for fan for heat sink and lots of Phillips, yes, Phillips, head screws for my laptop okay. So next up we're going to try some pass mark benchmark before I do that, I thought I would try an uh a light test. I definitely think this wouldn't be.

The perfect unit to take outside the screen is clear. Instead of acid wash, it has a mate anyways, let's get into the benchmark. Yes, so I will be back when it comes to the video part of this and uh and at the end, okay, DirectX 9 we're getting 17 frames per second off the radon Vega 8, not bad I've. Seen these things fly a lot faster. I expected them to fly faster for a new system, but once again this is the budget.

This is the this. Is the lower priced here, DirectX 11, not going too fast, not even 6 frames per second have definitely seen better. I was expecting better, but we'll see what uh the DirectX, 11 and 12 does next up all right. DirectX 11, coming in at 21 frames per second with the space squids and the DirectX 12 14 frames per second okay. I was seriously expecting a little better than this.

You know not bad, not bad, but I've I've seen about the same off of an older computer with some minor upgrades I was expecting more somehow. Maybe I shouldn't, I'm just talking about the frames per second, let's see what the overall score is all right. So that scores is not bad, not great! You know what did I expect for it. She's like this thing was even under a thousand dollars like 800, Canadian rupees. So let's give it uh.

Actually, let's see what's on the inside of the sucker next all right, so it's pretty standard your Phillips head screws. Then you get a guitar pick or something to pop the tabs off with all right now. Here we have a look at the inside with the Wi-Fi two heat pipes, not super warm. I don't like uh the fan, blades they're, so super thin you're definitely going to get some dust in there. I don't know.

Maybe they made them so thin, so you wouldn't get dust in there. It's sticky enough that, so it'll stick anywhere. Uh we've got ram. We got two spots for ram, so we can run in uh. Dual mode got a battery here.

That is, let me flip this over. If you want a better look, kick it up to 4k. This is a 4k 2k 4k, one of the other video uh 388, zero meh battery cute. So look how cute that little hard drive is NVMe, hard drive and look at the cute little speakers they're. So cute.

Look how cute all right now! One thing that everyone always asks me about again is: can I play Grand Theft Auto? So, let's see if it can, I mean why do people ask me because these Lenovo are made for gaming? I guess some are but like this particular unit is made to be on a budget and like an office budget generally. Lenovo generally is office budget. If you want true budget you're, probably going to be going for Acer all right, okay, so I would like to take back what I said about this game or sorry about this system. I mean I'm really impressed with how this thing handles the graphics. It's a lot better than other system within its price range.

You can definitely see the pixelated outlines of things. The screen gets smaller when it goes into a cut scene, but all in all, it's very responsive, I'm not getting any lag. I run into intel systems that are slower than this. This is definitely very responsive. I'm not seeing any frame lag, I'm definitely seeing some pix elation around the outlines, but I'm not I'm not running into any lag, I'm not running into any lag at all and that's a perfect sign.

So I have to say I was a bit hard on the system on the way into this, but now that we've actually tried a game. I can actually say this. That's pretty good! Now, honestly, I'm not a big fan of grand theft. Auto one player, I love the. I love the multiplayer.

I bought this game for full price because everyone always asked me to play this game to test my systems and then, as soon as I bought it like a month later, it came out to be free to play. What really that's just my freaking luck, anyways moving on okay, so all in all, I'm really impressed with the price that we paid for it. It doesn't feel as rugged as most of the other Lenovo that I've been around. Will it do its job? Absolutely, do I have faith in the brand? Absolutely? Is it cheaper with the AMD Ryzen? Absolutely it's a great chip, it's much faster than I thought it would be based off of the score. I'm really happy with this thing: um yeah, you're, buying your, buying good stuff.

When you buy Lenovo, that's for sure anyways! That's it for me folks like and subscribe. If you like this stuff, always appreciate it and, as always, take care of each other.

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