Lenovo Y50 Owners and Information Thread

I wish more high end laptops used AMD.

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Porque????

 

I'm just a big fan of choice. A lot of people I know use AMD on their high end gaming rigs and they rant and rave about it. So it'll be nice to get higher end performance at a less expensive price.

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Either that or the emulators (and emulator developers) don't play nice with (or don't own) AMD!

 

The green team has traditionally held the performance crown for notebooks. AMD doesn't make its presence known for some reason in the upper end segment as well as it could. Take the 7870m, for example. Lots of potential, crappy drivers. Then the 8870m, same card as last generation, still crappy drivers. Now we have the abomination r270m, which is still the same card. It's like they're not evrn trying. At least nvidia changed core count throughtout the gtx x60.

 

From what I've heard AMD is a far better choice if youre also going to need some usage in stuff that involves opengl

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What timing. Today is literally one of the best times to buy PC games. Steam summer sale (Day 1) is today. Time to stock up on modern games!

 

well from a consumer's stand yes it would be better for AMD to participate more in the market to lower some prices but here are some problems

1. amd is just so bad at developing new architectures
7970m is rebranded into 8970m with just factory OCing
8970m is rebranded into r9 m290x with just a DRIVER UPDATE, if you go into the bios it still shows 8970m

2. amd isn't power efficient enough. let's just ignore maxwell's insane efficiency for now, even kepler isn't that bad with power and it gets reasonably hot
AMD can't even fit L3 cache in without overheating the chips, so that just shows how bad they are on mobile platform

3. there aren't even enough mobile GPUs out there to correspond with NV's equivalent.
this isn't back in the days when we have 5470m all the way to 5850m, right now we only have m290x, m270, m265 and m230. you can count the current gen amd mobile GPUs in one hand, not to mention m290x is only the performance of an 870m. even if we count the soon to be released r9 m295x, the one with a new architecture, there's still not enough

this is not fanboying on nvidia or something, this is objective reality. AMD sucks a$$ on mobile platform for both CPU and GPU. A10 can barely beat an i3.
AMD's got quite a few cool features that they didn't utilize well on mobile. crossfiring APU with GPU is cool but amd doesn't have any good ones, that's just sad

 

Intel cores are stronger than AMD cores, meaning more efficient use of power and per core performance is what is important with older programs and many current programs and games. Most games only use up to 2 cores, then triple A games use 4 cores, leaving 8 core CPU's a bit pointless.

Basically 1 intel core is equivalent to 1.5 AMD cores.

 

Posted this in the other thread(why are there two threads?):

Well, I believe it now that I see it... This screen is terrible. 62% sRGB, 44% NTSC, 47% AdobeRGB were my readings. Viewing angles are terrible. About as bad as the Razer Blade 2013 screen. The y510p and y500 screens were much better than this so I don't get it...

This is the BestBuy version so it does have Intel 7260 Wifi, 2GB vRam and is a touchscreen. It also came with an external DVD player. I won't have this in my hand past the end of the day, so if you have any questions, please ask.

 

is the ram 2x4gb or 1x8gb?

 

2x4GB. Allows for faster speeds (especially in terms of iGP performance) but more costly upgrades.

Offtopic: Did octi get banned?

 

Are you serious...44% NTSC?

That's...very bad. Most average screens get at least 60%.

Man. Maybe I should cancel my order.

Anybody got readings for the non-touch version?

 

OMG JOBINE SINCE WHEN ARE YOU BACK?
2x2 ram only benefits the integraphics which pretty much no one needs when you have a dGPU. plus if it's 1x8gb then I can just throw in another 4 or 8gb with boosted performance and better iGP

offtopic: yeah I saw octi got banned when I was reading the razer thread, didn't think he would get banned before I do. how so LOL? but now he's back i think

 

Hi, I just got my y50, I ordered from Canada and it does have a bilingual keyboard for those who were wondering. However some text on screen appear to be blurry and I was wondering if anyone figured out how to fix this.

 

Does the screen subjectively still look bright and vivid though? Being a glossy panel, everything should still seem to pop more than on a matte panel. Non-professionals like me probably can't distinguish 62% sRGB from 80%+ sRGB unless the screens are right next to one another. The good thing about displays is that the eye adjusts to them really quickly. Unless they are legitimately terrible and dull like the matte version seems to be. Anyways, I should be getting mine very soon and can give a subjective opinion from the point of view of a regular user. What's most important to me are really vivid reds, blues, and greens. Fantastic colour accuracy would be nice but I doubt I would ever notice it unless someone specifically pointed it on a better display. *shrug*. Can't wait to see for myself!

 

it's bright, I'll give it that. Colors are sharp but noticeably off, especially at angles. If you are looking at the screen dead on, its not that bad but IPS is still better by a long shot. It's impossible to like this screen because of the viewing angles though. I would get extremely frustrated having to adjust the vertical angle just right so the hue is correct. For example, with a solid white screen, it looks slightly red when I tilt it forward and slightly green when I tilt it back. When I tilt it to the extremes, the colors get worse. I would not buy this laptop for the screen alone. Lucky for me this it's my friend's unit and I got to preview it.

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so is the ram 2x4gb and did you experience any connectivity problems like others?

 

Could you upload a screenshot of the keyboard?

 

How do you take a screenshot of a keyboard...?

 

Yeah, good call. I meant a picture.

 

Picture of bilingual keyboard as requested.

 

Okay guys, I received my Best Buy version of the Lenovo Y50 and honestly I'm impressed. All the bad viewing angle talk and keyboard flex talk had me worried. Yes the viewing angles aren't the best and there is keyboard flex, but I feel like it's only there when you try and find it. For me I set it up on my desk and in most scenarios the angle is just fine. Occasionally I'll stretch my back or move a bit and I can see there's a bit of wash, but it's only when I notice it, Sometimes I'll keep my back straight and it's doesn't occur to me that the colors just washed out until I go hunch again.

Long story short it's bearable like others have said.

From what I've read on this thread, the best buy version is not any different than the other reviews out there. The only perk for me is I can return it to a best buy if I end up not liking it within 14 days. I also get reward points because of this purchase.

It's not bad.

It's definitely not IPS lol and I really doubt the Tiger Direct version is, but I'm still interested to get a conclusive answer.

 

2x4gb

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Theres a small chance the BB model is IPS right? but its not explicitly mentioned on the BB website

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I had the BB model. It's not IPS. Do you mean the TigerDirect model?

 

Man, those are some small shift keys.

 

Did you try calibrating the display?


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I have the Best Buy model, it's 100% not IPS

 

I forgot to add the BB model comes with a external optical drive that's USB powered. I don't know if the others are.

Secondly, I have Windows 8.1 Pro, should I do a clean install on it.

 

Oh ok, so BB is confirmed TN.

Looks like we ll just have to wait for the other guy to confirm the TigerD IPS panel

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Oh BB comes in PRO by default? Nice, keep it! Pro is nice!

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I should have been more specific, sorry dude. No it comes with standard, but I personally own Pro from when I ran it on a VM with my Mac. However I want to install Pro and others stated that a clean install fixed a lot of stuff so I wanna give it a go. Hopefully I can still install it since I already used the license once.

 

yes, see back a couple pages for my results

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After playing with the settings I was able to get it as close as possible to a normal color pattern, it was a combination of color calibration and intel settings. I will post a picture with an ips display next to it with the same background. At first it was quite bad, also a lot of programs are showing blurry text, which was easily fixed in properties/compatibility/disable dpi scaling. The boot time of the 512gb ssd model is 10-11 seconds.


The display on the right is an IPS full hd display (surface 2); The display on the left is the lenovo y50 after my calibration. I think it's not as bad as some people say it is, and I am editing a lot of pictures, so my display test is usually opening my website and checking if my pictures look the same, and although the color accuracy is not 100% sRGB it's pretty close I think. If somebody wants me to run a tool that gives specific numbers about the color accuracy can feel free to tell me which one and maybe drop a link and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
edit: attached the picture.

 

im jealous, i ordered mine on the 4th from klick on ebay. its been stuck in customs near mexico city since the the 12th. just now at at 9pm cst on the 19th it finally cleared and thats after a week of having to send in forms and answering odd questions like what wifi bands the wifi cards uses (lol ?). worst part of it all was the global shipping program on ebay supposedly is setup so things arrive with paperwork all ready an nothing left on the receivers end. yet i had to sign documents saying i wont re-sell the item and all types of stuff i could barely understand since it was all in spanish. i have 0 complaints about klick online since it was out of their hands but i give -million stars to ebays global shipping program. And for some reason an ssd i purchased the same day arrived and passed customs same day and to my place 2 days later so no clue happened.

 

Settings please.
Also the colour profile file.


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Could you give a step by step on what to do when my Y50 arrives? The DPI thing, calibration, etc? How do I get the most out of my Y50 Touch display??? Thanks!

 

For those of you that did a fresh copy of Windows, did you guys clear all the partitions or just clear out the Windows partition. Just in case.

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hey guys,

does any of you guys know if you can change the sharpness of the panel? i was able to mess around in the intel graphics property to change of the brightness and color saturation since the picture mode wasn't saturated enough for me. Now it's as vibrant as ever. The only thing i wish i could change is the sharpness. Thanks.

 

Is the Lenovo Y50 Touch accidental damage protection worth it? For $120 it warrants for 2 years against "drops, spills, electrical surges, failure of the integrated screen". Will be using on a college campus, so lugging it around quite a bit. Just wondering if y'all think this is a good buy or waste of money. Thanks.

 

I mostly did it by feel, I started with the display calibration from the properties on the desktop. And I checked how the colors look after each change. I think the biggest change came from the display calibration. The DPI thing, I actually googled that one. If you see an app that has some blurry text, dont worry it's not the display, you just have to disable the dpi scaling through the steps I wrote. I don't know for sure what the situation is going to be with the touch model. I have the non-touch, from what I've heard the touch has a better display.

This is a One Drive link to my color profile https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=CBB25F73AD8E9CC!1294

 

will tigerdirect y50 IPS save us from the TN panel?!

ctrlalt please update us soon

 

Does the Bestbuy touch model ($1149) have the red backlit keyboard?
I read somewhere That backlit keyboard is also optional

 

all y50's come with the backlit keyboard, if you want to turn it off, theres an option to do so

 

I saw in few sites that it's optional..

 

yea vish, all usa y50 models from the users who bought here have backlit keyboards, dont worry

 

That's a relief
It's not easy for me to return one..

 

If you're definitely keeping the laptop, then yes. Hope you never have to use it! I've had to use accidental damage protection a couple of times, but it was with Dell.

 

My Y50 comes on Tuesday. To owners: would a design professional be able to get past the screen's shortcomings? Here's a new video of some color comparisons: Lenovo Y50 Another Color Monitor Comparison - YouTube

Another thread seemed to find a replacement IPS screen, but we wanted the touch functionality and I'm worried we would lose it.