Upcoming Y480/Y580 series feat. Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA graphics!

Placed my Y580 order a few days ago. Should ship on the 19th.

Will definitely be back with impressions, pictures and benchmarks. Have high hopes for the 660m.

Right now debating whether I'm going to go through the whole process of doing a clean install.

 

Does it have 2 hard drive bays

 

If you swap the odd.

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I asked a lenovo chat operator and his answer wasn't 100% straightforward. I really want to throw in a 64gb boot drive...

Oh and my order for the 580 was placed on the 9th. Lenovo is currently showing the ship date as today, with an estimated delivery of the 20th.

 

Y580 estimated delivery on the 21st

 

Damn, I'm jealous.

How long did they take to get the Y580 shipped from the date you ordered?

My order status just says "released to manufacturing". Wonder how long they actually take to build it and how long shipping takes.

 

of-course it does not have 2 hard drive bays those usually found in 17.3" laptops not 15.6"

but u can remove the optical drive and get a caddy that fits in its place that holds a second hard drive if you so desire

 

pics / review plz when ever you get it and congrats on the purchase

 

greetings to all fellow Y580 information hunters, I have found this public Google+ gallery
https://plus.google.com/photos/101793131934224147604/albums/5752861622657524737
you can check some photos of notebook and screens of temperatures in idle and when gaming. looks like GPU even in Turbo mode doesn't have a problem with throttling.

oh and I forgot, it is i7 version and dude is from Poland, if you can you may even ask him for more info

 

looks awesome! My y580 is "in production". Hopefully I get it by next week

 

Just received notice that mine has shipped! I should have it early next week

Now lets hope my mSATA drive arrives by then...

 

When did you order yours? I ordered my this past Sunday and yesterday my order status page changed to In production and the estimated ship date was yesterday. Is this similar to yours?

 

I ordered mine the morning of June 7 (the first day it became available). First it showed the 21st as the expected ship date, but later in the day changed to the 19th. Then on Friday it changed to the 10th (woo!), but on the 11th it changed to the 14th (today). I guess they couldn't really make up their minds as it's still showing as "In Production", but the email I received this morning said it has shipped so my guess is that their online tracking just hasn't updated yet.

 

I'm in the same exact boat as you.

 

I JUST got an email that said my 480 has shipped! YAYYYYY!!!! finallY!!!

 

Hey Good for you man! Enjoy that and let us know what you think. I'm excited to hear word of mine shipping soon.

 

Will do - for sure. I tried to lookup my UPS tracking and it's not even there lol... hopefully only becuase there's a bit of lag / timing in the flow of information (had literally just received the lenovo email). I'm hoping I'll receive it by Monday!

Now gonna have to get me a copy of D3

 

Is there still no word on 650M in the 480?

 

my y580 shipped today, est delivery 21st, i hope it comes a few days sooner

 

Not to my knowledge, but who knows - maybe when it arrives and boot it up I'll get a nice surprise - (doubtful)

 

My UPS tracking is finally up and it's coming clear from Shanghai so I probably won't get it until the estimated date

 

I just phoned up the UK Lenovo sales department asking about the Y580 and they told me that "the Y series will not be introduced into the UK or European market until the middle of 2013". Which I thought was odd as I'm sure I've read that it was/will be released in Eastern Europe somewhere... maybe that's a different market though.

I thought I would let anyone wondering know this. I will now have to hunt for a similar spec/price laptop. Grr.

 

Interesting, considering that Y580 is already avaible in Polish shops and few people already have it (like the guy which uploaded photos).

 

The pics on Google plus made the screen look quite reflective... sigh.

 

I decided to cancel my Y480 order and go with the Samsung Z5C. Main reasons were:

- terrible battery performance
- serious heat dissapation concerns
- 640M LE GPU
- glossy screen
- only 768 lines resolution

I prefer the matte screen, so even though the Samsung screen sucks I'm hopeful it can be replaced, and you can't beat 9 hours of battery life. With a 15" screen, it's only .6 inches longer than the Y480 yet the same depth and is thinner.

 

I contacted a lenovo rep. They have mSATA slots for sure.

 

y580 owner (just today) checking in HOLLA

 

Yeah I think I might have seen that at some point. Maybe the European market is split between East and West? That or the guy at the sales department was talking BS.

 

Could you check the temperatures of the laptop?

 

Impressions? Pics? Is it AWESOME!?????

 

My ship date just went from the 19th to today! That was a great surprise.

Estimated delivery date is the 21st! Can't wait to join everyone else who has gotten them already.

Anyone planning on doing a clean windows install on theirs?

I will be taking a ton of pictures with an SLR and will probably do a small review as well.

 

Same question here, i will surely do clean install when i will buy mSATA SSD.

 

Arg this is vaguely infuriating... I have heard so many conflicting reports about the UK release and I really cant afford to wait anymore! In same boat as you needing to find something else. I had pretty much settled on the Y580 but I'm currently working on a 5 year old HP-G7000 thats screen has pretty much gone / is not worth replacing....

 

It is annoying. I've been waiting for the Y580/Y480 for a couple of months. A lot of the GT 650m/GTX 660m alternatives are not available in the UK either. The only one I can find is the MSI GE60, which looks ok, if a tad 'gamery'. It's expensive though, £940 - which translates to $1,474 - about $300 more than it is in the US.

After all my research into different machines, all I can conclude is that the UK gets a sh*t deal with laptops. I am still no closer to buying a powerful mid-range laptop.

 

Just a heads up the dvd/8gbram/i7/bad screen/500gb y580 is on sale until probably tuesday night for 850$ cad on lenovo canada. After tax the 1080p model comes out 300$ more. I'm probably just going to get the 850$ one (i return to canada in 1 month) and hope by then some third party store will carry the 1080p screen which should be around 70$.

 

My estimated ship date was yesterday, the 15th. Estimated arrival is the 21st. It's the 16th now and I haven't gotten any shipping information. Order status is the same. Says it's in production and that it was supposed to ship yesterday.

Their system is extremely slow and they don't seem to update it very often. Not sure if that's the case, or if my 580 hasn't actually shipped.

Would be a bit disappointing if the dates changed and I didn't actually get it on the 21st.

Have everything I need for a clean install. Only thing bothering me are the video drivers. There are no new drivers for the 660m. The ones that the Y580 ships with are very old. Could use newer ones with a modified inf file from laptopvideo2go, but support is never guaranteed.

My copy of Diablo 3 arrives today and I'm really hoping I don't have any issues because of outdated drivers when the laptop gets here...

 

I'm pissed. I ordered my y580 on the 11th and the original ship date was on June 26th. However, this quickly changed to my relief to the 14th (last Thursday) with an estimated delivery date on the 21st. However, not only did it not ship on the 14th, on June 15th the ship date changed to June 28th with an estimated delivery date of JULY 8th!!

I'm gonna try to contact Lenovo support tomorrow, but this is pretty ridiculous for these dates to switch around like this. I wouldn't be surprised if it changed again, but I'll be damned if I get this much needed laptop a month after I ordered it.

 

That post really scared me. I ordered mine on the 11th as well. We might have gotten different models though.

I'm definitely going to call them on Monday if I don't get an update by then.

 

My estimated ship date was also the 14th, ended up shipping yesterday on Friday the 15th. Got the e-mail and the tracking number which wasn't showing up in the UPS system yet when I checked this morning. Estimated arrival is the 21st still.

 

Hopefully no one has posted this already, but here's a video demonstrating the viewing angles of the Y580's screen (in a dark room):

LENOVO Y580 viewing angle - YouTube

It's the FHD version, by the way.

 

Ordered the Y580 on the night of June 7th.
Estimated ship date was 2012/06/24.
On the 12th, ESD changed to 2012/06/14 with estimated delivery date of 2012/06/21. Was pretty happy about that.
Waited for a shipping email, nothing came.
On the 15th, ESD changed back to 2012/06/24 with an EDD of 2012/07/02.
Now I are sad.

 

Mine still says that the estimated ship date was the 15th and estimated delivery is the 21st.

No shipping email. I doubt they actually shipped it. Guess I will find out tomorrow.

 

I was looking through that guys channel after watching th viewing angle video and it seems that he has an underpowered version. Its got a 2.5 ghz i5 and 6 gbs of ram.

 

1,199 good price and 1080p screen .............

Buy Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 - 15.6 inch notebook PC, Full HD widescreen display, Intel Core i7 processor - Microsoft Store Online

 

was curious does the Y580 case have a faux metal finish on plastic or is it actually made from an aluminum/mag metal?

 

its aluminium over plastic in the base the screen is aluminium with a plastic inner frame.

 

Don't know if people have seen this, but this is pretty good:



The temperatures are taken after running Furmark and AIDA64 (CPU benchmarking software) for a full hour. Looks like it's well within acceptable range to me

 

Is the 32gb ssd a msata? I talked to two different reps and they gave me conflicting answers. Also, is there a msata port where I could hook one up too?

 

Yes, it's an mssd, I don't think there are any external sata ports.

 

What all do you have or need for a clean install? I should be getting mine on Thursday and was thinking of doing a clean install or would just deleting all bloat ware work as well?