This review was done after 2 months of using this laptop. Wootware, you guys rock! I'm giving this laptop 5/5 rating because after using it I can't find anything wrong with it and it's really cheap. All the negative comparisons I made are with a laptop beyond it's price group.

I got this Lappy (R8,500.00) to replace my Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2012 (R17,000.00). For traveling I prefer Apple, when using external screen, keyboard and mouse I prefer this Lenovo V510. Prices from Feb 2017. Apple's built in keyboard/trackpad is a lot better.

Lenovo's CPU is 8% faster (Ivy Bridge i7 3520M vs newer Kaby Lake i5 7200U). Both had 500G mechanical HDDs. I had the non-retina version so both screens are not the best quality. Battery life on both laptops are not the best. I get about 4 hours when turning the screen brightness down a bit. Lenovo has 2.4GHz and 5.8 GHz Wifi AC which is very useful to me.

I installed Crucial 8GB DDR4-2133 and Samsung 850 EVO 120G SSD myself, if you have the right tools it's not difficult. With this small upgrade my Laptop competes in a whole new class, these days I really can't go without a SSD! One interesting thing is the Laptop ***ONLY HAD ONE EMPTY*** RAM slot on the bottom, so the initial 4GB RAM might be embedded into the motherboard. I only check the one side I did not remove the entire board.

Newer Macbook Pro laptops obviously kills this laptop, but they also cost 5 TIMES MORE! I'm using this laptop for work, Google Chrome is the most resource intensive application I use. Archlinux (Kernel 4.10) runs without any issues, the BIOS allows you to disable secure boot which is nice too.

PS: This laptop is also very quiet, it's fans hardly every goes on, probably thanks to the 15 Watt CPU.