oh oh what am I doing
I'm not smoking crack lenovo's Engineers
are smoking crack when they design the
power button on this yoga I'm just
trying to figure out what strain it was
this
is a Lenovo Yoga 720 13 whatever the
motherboard on this computer the
power button is on the side
right there so you push that in and then
it somehow pushes the power switch
itself and the computer turns on why is
this a bad design okay so this customer
came to me because the laptop was not
turning on when you press the power
button on the side you couldn't feel
that click so obviously there was an
issue with the power button I took it
apart and I noticed the power switch
itself is supposed to have something
that goes on top of it
to actually click it when you press over
here now this button alone
can't press that switch by itself it
needs something else to transmit or to
transfer this horizontal motion to a
vertical motion and I couldn't find it I
was like well where is it and then as
I'm looking inside the laptop
I see this
microscopic piece of metal
it's super hard to see so the most
important component of this laptop is
reliant on this piece of chrome switch
that's made of cheap aluminum and it's
attached to cheap plastic that you can
see is so brittle it's actually
deteriorating on the power button itself
this is the most commonly used you press
this power button thousands of times
during a laptop's usage and this plastic
is so brittle so why is this so bad
I can't replace this piece of metal
because I can't solder on a new power
button right here first of all you can't
even buy this power switch they don't
you can't you can't find them anywhere
and that's the only way to turn this
computer on unless I drill something
like drill a hole or something right
here where the mechanism is it's a
stupid stupid stupid design I don't
understand how this was even approved oh
oh let's not forget don't you click off
yet folks all right they have another
switch just in case the power button
fails they have what's called a Novo
switch it's a reset button I don't know
why they call it Novo they want to be
special it's a reset button so there's a
little hole on the side of the laptop
right there it's about as wide as Lupes
so the idea is that you push a needle or
something through this hole and it
presses on the reset switch but guess
what
the reset switch uses the same design
that the power switch does and this
reset switch is also broken because
Barbara probably shoved a needle in
there you know after she was she was
done trimming her her nails I don't know
why she needs a needle to do that but it
broke the the reset switch completely
um you probably can't see it from that
angle but this reset switch is is
completely snapped off so the Fail-Safe
for a shitty design is another shitty
design if you look on the forums if you
go online you look to see who else has
had this problem this is a known issue
so on Lenovo Zone forums everybody was
complaining about it how the power
switch is broken and this guy actually
the mechanism itself failed because it's
again cheap plastic and this guy had the
switch come right off just think about
it when Barbara with her six-inch Nails
tries to push this power button it's
gonna push it too hard right and it's
going to snap the power button right off
it's like making your gas pedal made out
of cardboard you know what I mean this
is the most important component of the
entire laptop and they cheap out uh and
make and create this stupid design to
turn it on it's infuriating
so basically this entire laptop is is
I'm gonna have to either replace
the motherboard or again just drill a
hole which I'm gonna do I'm just gonna
drill a hole right there but why should
you have to do that this laptop's only a
few years old uh and it costs like 1200
bucks brand new
so this is just another example of
laptop manufacturers not giving a
when they design your product especially
these consumer
products the ones that they don't care
about they want this thing to break
right because then you buy a new one in
two years I always talk about these
Lenovo yogas and that's why because it's
you think it's a fancy nice laptop but
you take it apart and everything is just
shift quality how long has Lenovo been
making computers
how long have they had power buttons all
right the power button design should be
a simple design it's a button
that you press and it activates a switch
on the computer maybe it's in the
keyboard which I don't like but a lot of
people are doing that too HP doesn't Mac
or apple does it yeah this is me ranting
because every day I see this
in these consumer laptops and
it frustrates me and you know I see
reviews people going to CES and
reviewing all these nice new laptops and
all I can think in my head is I wonder
what's going to break on that thing you
know in a few years bad things going to
come into my shop I wonder what's going
to be broken on it is it going to be the
hinge the power button uh the trackpad
it sucks this is what I think about
because I clearly have a life that's
full of excitement
right