I’m so exited! Mom bought me a new laptop for my 50th birthday which will be in a month. It’s a Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G6; we bought it online on Monday and it was ready for pickup yesterday afternoon in the store! I of course went immediately! 🥳😍
It’s 16″ and has 32GB of RAM, Ryzen 7 and 1TB hard drive with Windows 11 Pro. I got it all done installing Windows and Lenovo things yesterday and it laptop seems wonderful! I love the keyboard, how thin and light it is, how quiet it is and that it stays cool all the time so far. It also doesn’t that much smaller than my old 17,3″ one which I was worried about – I don’t have a TV so I watch TV on my laptop and it needs to be bigger because of that, and larger also feels more comfortable to do work on my websites or whatever.
I don’t think I’ve ever owned a computer/laptop that didn’t have problems when just bought – this time is no different. There’s 3 problems:
- The mouse pad doesn’t react to clicking its “buttons” but moving the cursor and tapping works normally. I noticed from the settings that tapping with two fingers works to open a context menu (which is a new feature to me) but I’m unable to click a button and drag items or click and select (text) or click and scroll pages. I’m not sure whether this is a Windows 11 problem or a Lenovo problem.
AMD error notice says that AMD software and AMD drivers are incompatible – I’ve googled a bit and might be some hybrid setting that needs to be on (or maybe off?). I just need to find where that hybrid setting is to try it. Otherwise it needs googling more.Colors seem very yellow (although some videos I’ve been watching in MPC-BE maybe don’t but I’m not sure?). I’ve disabled all the “protect your eyes from blue light” settings I could find and that helped quite a bit, but there’s still a definite yellow tint. I particularly notice it in Chrome. This might get solved/be able to solve if and when I can solve #2.
EDIT 1,5 hours later to add: #2 and #3 solved! All I had to do was to install newest version of AMD Adrenalin, and that solved the software + driver being unsuitable problem, and once AMD Adrenalin was working, there are settings there for screen colors which solved the yellow problem ❤️
EDIT October 3, 2024 – today single finger tapping twice and dragging to move and resize windows and scrolling the scrollbar is working and easy to make it happen! I couldn’t get it to work yesterday – not sure if it was me or the mousepad. Either way I can now do everything by the mousepad like in my old laptops even though the pressing on the lower right corner to right-click still isn’t working although I think it should be? Maybe this is actually Windows 11 feature and you’re suppose to use tapping instead?? I don’t know!
The mouse pad problem is only on the mouse pad – I tried my physical separate wireless USB mouse and it worked as it should!
I actually like quite a bit that two-finger tap opens context menu and I’m getting used to it), but it’s cumbersome having to use the keyboard to select text because using shift + arrow buttons to do it are so slooooow. So I hope I can figure this one out quickly!
But I’m very excited and quite pleased (and a little frustrated because of the 3 problems) so far. This laptop seems like mine right away!
In other news, I of course had a migraine coming in since Monday evening 🙁 and it got active going towards night yesterday. Didn’t get sleep really last night because of it, maybe 2 hours plus some resting until midday today. Now feeling better but my head is feels like it threatens to re-start, maybe.
Also, interestingly – I don’t have that as much patience and energy for computer problems solving as I used to have. I have had my previous laptop for 10 years and whatever problems that one had, I solved them 10 years ago and haven’t had real new features or new problems if drivers or anything since then. It used to be I’d be happy as a clam to spend hours/days/weeks troubleshooting some problem, but now I’m kinda wishing I could just bring over the Lenovo to someone who’d fixit for me! Unfortunately, I’m the most computer savvy person among my family and friends, so I’d have to pay for it.
I noticed this as well 3 years ago when Mom bought a new laptop and I set it up as I always do – I was happy to do it, luckily there wasn’t real problems just one or two things took time to teach Mom to do, but I noticed I didn’t feel like spending time to get real up close and personal with Windows 11 like I had with all the other operating systems I or we’d had had (Windows 95 all through to Windows 10 by then, Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint). I myself have had Windows 10 until this Lenovo so Windows 11 was new to me and things seemed to harder to find than in previous versions. If I didn’t have to, I didn’t really want to explore it just for the hell of it. I just made everything work for Mom and her SO, and figured out and taught Mom the few things she needs to know to do herself. So I guess this is one of the downsides too of not being healthy: not having the mental wherewithal to do explore the same things as before even though I’m still interested.
But yes, I’m excited! I watched some HDR 4K h265 tv episodes and this Lenovo played them without problems! My old laptop can only play 1080p easily. I’m so happy to finally be able to play HDR 4K eps and movies 🥳
Oh, and the Lenovo was on sale – 200 euros off the regular price! So that was really good 🥳