I’m looking to buy a Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16IRH8 Intel® Core™ i7-13700H up to 5.0 GHz, 16", 2.5K, IPS, 16GB, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 6GB GDDR6. Mainly used for programming, rendering, CAD work and occasional high resolution gaming.

I like everything about it, the face recognition capable camera, under 2kg weight, quality materials and so on.

There’s one thing I hate about it though. 16GB soldered RAM.

Also, what are your opinions about the price? It is 1000$ brand new in Eastern Europe.

  • MoChuang@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have the 6800HS RTX 3050 4GB model from last year. I’m not too concerned about the 16GB RAM. Nothing I do is that RAM instensive. Mostly office work, 1080p video editing, and light gaming. And the office work is the only thing I have to do on this laptop, everything else I can do on my desktop. With PCIe gen 4 SSD support, if and when 16GB RAM feels limiting, I will just invest in the best SSD I can for swapping and keep going. Idc about fps in games, if there is something I cant play then I’ll play on my desktop or stream it. Video editing will more or less work off swap, just gotta be more patient. And office and browser work is totally fine running into swap, just need to wait 100ms for tabs to load back in from swap rather than 10ms for them to load in from RAM…no big deal for me.