Lenovo G780 review

A 2012 17-inch G780 selling remaining runtime

The Lenovo G780 (2012) is a big-screen budget machine of its era: a Pentium B970 with 8GB of RAM in a 17-inch chassis, now $167. The measurements frame it as a runtime purchase: performance reads 3.4 against a category median of 43.1, reliability reads 2 against 54 — among the lowest in the catalog — and no discrete graphics register. The large display is the one feature the numbers can't diminish.

What a Pentium B970 can honestly do

Two cores, 2012 vintage, and a reliability reading of 2: the G780's honest scope is a fixed-position screen for documents and video — a plug-in-the-corner terminal with a large panel. No game or software coverage was measured for this configuration, and the zero graphics reading retires any visual ambition. The 8GB of RAM keeps a browser alive; nothing else about the platform reaches modern thresholds.

Price and value trajectory

From a $900 launch price the G780 has settled to $167, losing 6.41 percent per year, with a projected $146 (a further 12.4 percent) in two years. The curve is flat and terminal — the remaining depreciation is beer-money territory, which fits a machine whose value is now measured in remaining years of screen time.

Against its price neighbors

Just below it sit the Pavilion G7 at $145 and the V145-15AST at $149; just above, the HP 14-dk0002dx at $179 and the Flex 2-14D at $182. This is the budget band where the 17-inch screen is the G780's only real differentiator — the smaller neighbors are newer, but none offers this panel size at the price.

Bottom line

Buy the G780 if a cheap, large, stationary screen for light duties is the actual requirement. The reliability reading of 2 says the purchase is about extracting remaining runtime, not building on capability — at $167 it prices that deal honestly, and nothing in the data suggests more.