NIMO 17.3" N179, Ryzen 7 7735HS, 8GB, 256GB SSD, Rose Gold

Great Ryzen 7 chip, embarrassingly low RAM and storage. It's a fixer-upper, not a finished product.

The Ryzen 7 7735HS is the star here. Eight cores, sixteen threads, boost up to 4.75GHz. That's a legitimately strong chip for multitasking and heavy business software. But then NIMO paired it with 8GB of DDR5 and a 256GB SSD, which lands in the bottom quarter of our database. You'll feel that bottleneck the moment you open more than a few browser tabs. The Radeon 680M integrated graphics are fine for light work, but gaming performance scored 11.9 out of 100. That's not a gaming laptop. That's a laptop that happens to run Solitaire.

The N179 sits in a strange spot. The Lenovo Legion 5i gives you a real GPU and better build quality for not much more money. The ASUS Zenbook UX3405CA is lighter, more reliable, and has better battery life, though you lose the big screen. And the Apple MacBook Pro M5 is in a completely different league, but also a completely different price bracket. If you need the 17.3-inch screen and a numeric keypad for data entry, the N179 is one of the few budget options. But you're making real compromises to get it.

At $580 USD, the N179 is cheap for a 17-inch laptop with a Ryzen 7. But you're paying for the CPU and not much else. The 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD mean you'll probably spend another $100 or more upgrading it right away. If you're comfortable opening it up and adding RAM and storage, it's a decent budget workstation. If you want something that works well out of the box, keep looking.

The NIMO N179 is a weird one. You've got a genuinely strong Ryzen 7 7735HS processor paired with a measly 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, which is like putting a V8 engine in a car with bicycle tires. The 17.3-inch screen is nice for spreadsheets, but this thing is not compact, not reliable, and definitely not a gaming laptop despite what the retailer listing says. The one thing to know: great CPU, frustrating everything else.

If you want a laptop that works well right out of the box, this isn't it. Go get a Lenovo Legion 5i or an ASUS Zenbook instead. The N179 is for tinkerers who don't mind cracking it open and upgrading the RAM and storage themselves. If you're not comfortable doing that, you'll be frustrated within a week.

The NIMO N179 is a budget 17-inch laptop with a surprisingly good CPU and a frustratingly cheap everything else. If you're willing to upgrade the RAM and storage yourself, it could be a solid workhorse for spreadsheets and business apps. But out of the box, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in 2025 is just not enough. Buy it for the CPU, not the complete package.