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I bought the 2020 model of the G14, which has the absolutely cursed combination of both an Nvidia and AMD GPU. The fans never shut off, it randomly fails to wake up from sleep, the touchpad requires an inconsistent amount of force to click, and the battery life is really only 2 hours rather than the advertised 10.

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I have the all-AMD G14 and until I laid a beta bios on and then fully updated itd overheat like crazy, power off, shut off when you do a reboot, fail to boot past black screen and USB4 didn't work and PD was flaky.

Now I love the laptop but it's still not my favorite. I really prefer 11 to 14in laptops and I'd love a Lenovo T14 AMD in the A285 package. oh well. I absolutely do not trust liquid metal to last either. foam surrounds keep the metal in place and if you've ever opened anything somewhat old that has foam...well it just turns to goopy dust.

Do you by chance mean the beta bios that enables USB4 functionality?

Is that on Linux or windows?

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