What's the body made of? Aluminum or ABS? I'd like to buy the CTO version, but I'm not sure what material to expect.

And to expand to the "no current APU" criticism: AMD is charging premium for current generation APUs (Intel did, too, when they had good stuff) and Lenovo's E or 'entry level' series is designed to take advantage of the price advantage last generation chips offer: turning that into a point of criticism is cynical or naive, but not good tech journalism.

(of course, I rather much dislike AMD trying to hide the fact that this is an older chips by rebadging Hawk Point for the 3rd time...)

Thanks for this review!
The CPU benchmark scores are good, but why are the gpu scores so poor? The gaming performance of this supposed 780m is worse than a 660m ?! Could it be the Radeon drivers?
Also, there seems to be 100% srgb display option with the and as well.

While I can see if someone opts only for screen, I don't think slightly better bursty performance would make the intel option "more modern and efficient".
It's louder and has slightly worse battery life.

That screen is an utter disgrace, absolute trash tier bottom of the barrel specs that would have been unacceptable 20 years ago. I've never seen such pathetically bad colour gamuts.

The main advantage of Lenovo is that they give you a lot of choices.

Yes, they don't do all possible permutations at all times, but not all of them make sense... which in this case means "reach enough scale to justify its existence".

Intel and 3k displays go well together, because they are sucking for suckers.

Which is to say they suck power and are for people who go for "bragging rights" or for specs (of which there are aplenty), while they counter-productive in terms of productivity and power cosumption and thus for the more experienced and critical buyers.

3k and 120 Hz on a 14" screen? Not when you're typing and this isn't a convertible, it only wastes energy.

And yes, in my X13G4, which uses pretty near the same insides, I opted for the 3rd screen, which is better and power optimized, too. It's also pretty ok in terms of colors, while sticking to 60HZ... again much better for the power consumption and because high-refresh is much less important if it's not a touch screen, or a gaming rig.

So yes, if you are a sucker for specs the Intel variant may be for you, but if you value return on your $$$, the Hawk with a 2k screen is very likely going to offer you more and for longer on a single charge at most likely a much more reasonable price. I got my X13G4 with 32GB, the bigger battery and the power optimized screen for around €800 a year ago.

Strix point would be perhaps 25% faster on the iGPU, which still doesn't qualify it as a gaming machine, not even the Strix Halo is all that great for that, while it cost an extra kidney.

So no, this is certainly not the better choice all around. It very much depends on what you aim for.

And here the solid build and the solid hardware combined with economy in power and expenses make a very compelling case and a rounded, well made machine for those who prefer that over "bragging rights".

And of course it runs Linux perfectly as well, just in case you want the option.