Just to confirm that I have the exact same issue, with the 4k touch version from microsoft. When the fan is under low loads a distinct clicking sound can be heard. Sitting half a meter away it is definitely noticeable. Anyways for a quick short review of all the little things that are bothering me:
The body also has a very small (0.8 - 1mm) gap in the joint between the plastic body and the metal underside - the gap can only be seen in good lighting, and runs from the kensington lock to the usb port. you can actually see the bottom of the usb port through the gap. I tried squeezing it and it wouldn't budge, and it seems to me to be caused by the kensington lock box being a hair too thick. Wondering if its just on my model, or just a small design defect.
When I first was setting up the laptop, the screen was flickering a bit. That issue seems to have largely dissapeared, but it might hint at some future problems.
As other users have found, the yellows on the uhd display are horrible. On low brightness, it can look brown; yellows on my msi gs60 remain yellow even at the lowest brightness. An hp tn monitor I have with ~70% srgb gamut had better yellows than this display. I tried changing some settings in windows display calibration, but it didn't help. By the time yellows were colour accurate, whites became pink.
The trackpad out of the box wouldn't right click when double tapping. I solved this by replacing the lenovo elantech driver with an asus one instead. The trackpad also doesn't feel very solid; tapping with any more force than slight brush would make a sound, which was a bit annoying because I had gotten used to the ghost's rock solid touchpad.
One thing that surprised me though is that I don't have the missing keypress issue. I can definitely recreate it, i.e. press very lightly at corners without the keypress registering, but normally typing I have not had a single missed stroke. I usually use a mechanical keyboard though, so maybe I just pound the keys really hard because I'm used to that way of typing.
Build quality overall I would say is very good. The laptop creaks veeery slightly if you squeeze it at the back, between the hinge and the vents. Doesn't creak anywhere else. However, I did notice that the vent grills themselves were flimsy, and the filter underneath the vent grill was more akin to a paper towel than a wire mesh.
Best thing I like about the laptop - believe it or not - is the sound. Easily the best speakers on a laptop I've ever heard. Mess with the dolby equalizer to bring out the bass a bit more, and you could almost forget you're on a laptop.
So yeah, sorry for the long post but this is just highlighting some of the things that stood out about the laptop. I'm really OCD about the small things, so most people probably won't notice or care about the fan ticking or the chassis gaps or the yellows.
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Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
