Great laptop! However...
It has just about every bell & whistle one could ask for at this price. While there is an empty slot for an M.2 SATA SSD, I wanted to clone the 1TB hard drive to a 1TB SSD I already had as a spare. The problem was that there is an adhesive foam pad under the drive, right at the SATA connector, presumably to reduce shock to the drive. The problem, though, is the drive was effectively glued in place!
It took me gently working the drive out, while my wife directed hot air from a blow dryer under the drive, to get that pad to loosen its grip enough to let go. Once removed, cloning the drive went smoothly. I put a piece of paper between the pad and the SSD to prevent such adhesion from happening again.
With the SSD, this thing screams! It boots up to the desktop in seconds. I almost upgraded the 8GB RAM to 16GB... but this laptop does everything I need it to do just fine. Everything works and works well.
UPDATE: if you buy a refurbished computer, make sure you can get into the BIOS right away!
One year after purchase and I still love the laptop, but I've hit a big problem. The media control keys now act like function keys: I have to press FN+ whatever button. They're reversed! Thinking the hotkey setting may have changed in UEFI/BIOS, I tried booting into BIOS to check it and was met with a prompt to enter the system password. I never set one up!
The UEFI/BIOS can be protected from unauthorized access with a supervisory password. Since this is a refurbished laptop, the previous owner obviously set up this password and didn't remove it before returning it. There is no override, and Lenovo's only solution is to replace the entire motherboard. I'm 100% permanently stuck from ever accessing, or updating, the UEFI/BIOS.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned