I’m from Mexico City and I recently got this amazing machine via FB Marketplace and made the best purchase of my life because of the price, until I discovered maybe it wasn’t.
Everything was ok until I started noticing weird stuff around Windows and while playing games, the games or apps that use the gpu will show a “nvidia confidential” legend following by the driver current version. Also it started showing a Windows Test Mode legend which is really weird for me since Ive always thought that all the laptops -more so at this price tag- came with Windows Activated and this wasn’t. I searched it on Lenovo and it didn’t came with warranty, actually it does not even show that the laptop exists. This didn’t gave me a red flag at first because the guy told me that the laptop was out of warranty time but now everything that I’ve found leaves me with some concern.
The Legion’s Specs are:
Ultra 9 275x
4tb SSD Nvme
192gb RAM
RTX 5090
The SSDs have roughly 60hours of use. Both of them
I asked grok what could be wrong with it and it suggest it might be an engineering sample.
So what I did is installing the latest bios from Lenovo , uninstalled all nvidia drivers and stuff from them and reinstalled them from the official website . I also purchased a original key from windows. Everything is working fine now ,like if it was a normal laptop I guess… but leaves me with the concern of where is really this laptop from and is it going to last me long without breaking down. I don’t know if the engineering samples are made the exact same as the final units .
So my question is. What would you guys do if you were me? Would you keep the laptop? Would you sell it?
I honestly was expecting to maybe resell to make a profit of it but now I’m not too sure I can still do that
I would use it for traveling because I travel for work every 2 weeks and stay 7 days but it’s a little bit too chunky and heavy… my zephyrus g14 does a better work at that.