Y50 Thread

Y40 is officially out today and Y50 is really (without being rick rolled) suppose to be out by end of week

 

Yeah, check the last 46 pages we've gone through today.

 

You are the reason I have trust issues...

 

That's so cruel

 

4k screen for $1k?! wow this is toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cheap, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good

 

Hey guys I'm new and looking for a laptop for college. I just used for multimedia purphases such as playing games, photoshop, classes etc. So i was wondering if the y50 pricing might not what we expected would the y40 sufficient in gaming with the r9 m270? would it benefit with mantle supported game like bf4? i know not many game supported it yet but just wondering if it can last longer because of it. i know it's a rebrand of a nother unit from earlier post. here some extra raw spec thing i came across about this unknown gpu AMD Radeon R9 M270X | techPowerUp GPU Database not exactly 270 but only thing i can find about it.

 

Of course I've heard of Clevo. I'm saying that Clevo, and the various resellers that assemble and sell them, is an off brand of questionable build quality, and they don't come close to comparing to a Lenovo from a design, quality, and support perspective. Clevo excels in the bang-for-your-buck department, but really leaves something to be desired in the design department.

Nicely done. :up:

 

Is the lcd panel on the Y40 an IPS one?

 

The more I read up on the Asus N550JK, and the longer the Y50 takes to even debut its specs, the closer I lean towards the Asus. While my current Asus' touchpad leaves a lot to be desired, it's not enough of a deal breaker to make me unsatisfied with the performance of my nearly 5-year old laptop (N71V). Also, the likelihood that the Y50 WON'T have an optical drive, WON'T have space for a second hard-drive, and that the touchscreen version may be closer to $1500, it's looking more and more like I'll be getting off this train soon. The 860's advantage over the 850 is simply not a big enough deal for me.

Truth be told, I won't be purchasing till I return to the US in July, so things could change by then. But the N550JK is looking like a pretty sweet deal. I hope the Y50 page is down because they're fixing the pictures to the version WITH an optical drive.

 

Better not hold your hope up since it is very unlikely for it to have an optical drive when they have already showcased a prototype without one. It is a slim design with compact interior so adding an optical drive without major redesign is near impossible.

 

Sorry to burst your bubble, but no model of the Y50 will include the optical drive. The Asus N550JK is in a different class really than the Y50, as the Y50 is going for more of a thin-and-light status, and the Asus is about 1.15 inches thick. You can put a hybrid drive in the Y50. The benefit of the Y50 is that it is a lot more portable, but the aluminum chassis of the N55 series is a nice touch.

 

Nice find on the card page-I don't think that anyone has seen that site yet. Yeah, that's the card (I think). The R9 will be sufficient, because the GTX 860M is actually only 1.6x the power of the R9.

 

only 160%? if you get more than 20% performance, that's a lot already, 60% is almost the difference between a x50 and a x70

 

No 860M is about twice as fast as M270 if the latter is indeed a rebadged 7870M/8870M which in all likelihood will be the case. And of course the much faster i7 CPU makes a difference in many well multi-threaded DX11 games today which can take advantage of the extra 2 cores/4 threads. And due to the next-gen consoles and Mantle/DX12, games will finally start to become truly multi-core aware as the norm in the next few years. Definitely something to keep in mind if you game and plan to keep this laptop for a while.

Computer Games on Laptop Graphic Cards - NotebookCheck.net Tech

 

We just have different needs. Portable to you means something different than portable to me. 1.15 inches thick is a negligible difference from a .94 inches (as are 6 lbs vs 5.7lbs). I'll still be carrying it in a protective case, I'll still be carrying a power brick. I'll still be carrying usb sticks, a portable optical drive (in the case of the Y50), I'll still be carrying a portable 1TB HDD and probably a few blank discs just in case. Our needs and uses are simply different. There's no bubble to burst. If the Y50 doesn't supply me with the option to buy the laptop I want, I will purchase from someone else.

 

no I'm saying how 60% is a lot of difference

 

It does look like a nice deal... but looking more carefully, it seems that Asus skimped on the VRAM ( it's DDR3 rather than GDDR5) so that particular version of the 850 is going to have about half the memory bandwidth of the 860. It's really a pity too -- I haven't seen 15" laptops with a 1920x1080 IPS display and decent CPU/GPU combo going for anything close to $1100 before. I wonder what the Y50 will cost.

 

Well if 60% is already a big difference for you, then 100% will be huge.

 

Honestly, I don't know much about the difference between GDDR5 and DDR3 and how it will affect gameplay. Looking at the benchmarks from notebookcheck.net though, and given the fact I'm not an intensive gamer, I think an 850 DDR3 would be sufficient for most my gaming needs.

These 2 paragraphs stood out to me from the review:

Sounds to me like the difference in DDR3 and GDDR5 in this card don't make any major differences. If you know differently or could give me a better idea of what the difference means, I'd appreciate it though.

 

Go search on YouTube gddr vs DDR as fast as possible

 

The difference means the GDDR5 version has 2.5x the memory bandwidth of the DDR3 version, which really hurts the DDR3 version at higher resolutions (900p and up) and when hardware antialiasing (CSAA, MSAA, SSAA, etc.) is applied.

 

Wow Y50 starting at $1299....
Lenovo Y50 Laptop | 15.6" High-Performance Gaming Notebook PC | Lenovo (US)

 

Y50 is live, finally. But umm... no UHD option yet?
Under "tech specs" tab, UHD is still listed.
Under "features" tab, it isn't anymore.
CSR chat rep said maybe listed by Saturday but that sure seems odd!

 

The site is still down for me!

Can you please post a screenshot!

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Wow man, that prices!!

And even with a discount. I think I am leaning towards a y510 with SLI given that it only costs about 1000$

 

That link doesn't work for me. I wonder why. For anyone that is able to see it, please post a screenshot of the price table.

As for the pricing, remember that all of Lenovo's products have higher retail prices and then they almost always offer discounts, so it's very possible that the real-world starting price will be closer to $999.

 

Base model 1920x1080, i7-4700HQ, GTX 860M 2GB VRAM, 8GB RAM, Hybrid 1TB 5400 RPM+8GB SSHD, Intel 3160 AC card at 1299. This is way way way better than Y40.Add 50 for additional 2GB VRAM + 8GB RAM, and another 100 for 512GB SSD. WHAT!?I don't see any touch or 4K option on any model, though.

 

I had the same problem.

If the link is not working either:

1) clear you cache
2) go to google any search for lenovo y50, the first one will be to their site and it works

 

And is that $1,299 price before any of the typical discounts, or are those included? On the Y40 page, two of the four models had a discount applied, which made the pricing look very strange across the board. Hopefully the $1,299 price on the Y50 is pre-discount.

Edit: And while I was typing, bishop225 posted the screen shot showing that $1,299 is after a $200 discount. Color me very disappointed. I was hoping the price of the Y50 would be comparable to the price of the N550JK.

I will say that just a $50 bump to double the Memory to 16GB and the VRAM to 4GB seems like a no-brainer, though.

 

The $1449 offer is pretty good for what it offers ... 512gb ssd ...

 

Sure it's better than Y40 and the base model is also a touchscreen, however "the high-end for now" model is a little bit pricier than we anticipated at 1449 with 4gb 860m, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, antiglare FHD, and i7 4700hq

 

also disapointed.

Prices higher then expected and horrible storage configurations....

1tb spindle and 8gb ssd then jump to 512 ssd? ?

 

Should we assume that the display on all three of those models is a touchscreen, even though it only says multitouch on the base model? Or is that possibly why the base model says it's not available for at least 5 weeks, while the other two are available within 10-12 business days? It would be pretty surprising if the cheapest model had a touchscreen and then the next two more expensive models didn't.

 

wow... a little disappointed.

So $1500 for the non-4k AFTER discount? That means the 4K is gonna be in the $1700-2000 after discount. My chances of getting a Y50 are not looking too good. No optical drive is already a strike against them in my book.

Still a great computer... just not for me... yet.

 

I dont think all the cofigurations have been released yet... they'll probably release the other ones soon

 

Hahaha the butchery continues. And to think that people waited months with bated breath for this?!

Lenovo, nobody is gonna buy this unless you slash the price. You're completely out of your league here; there are way more competitive offerings for what you're asking.

 

So still $600 under, BUT the 870m version with 3k screen, 16gb, 128gb + 1tb spindle will retail at $2099.... Going to have to wait and see what the price on the UHD will be.

GOOD NEWS. Similar speced gs60 (i7 4700, 860m, 512ssd, 16gb ram)....... $2049.99

 

Looking at the "Features" section of the Y50 Lenovo page:

Integrated Optical Drive
Watch movies, burn music and photos, and load software and games without an internet connection with the integrated DVD or Blu-ray Disc™ drive.

 

im going to say no. Hit the show the difference button and they are different.

 

Seems the backlit keyboard is standard. The spec sheet released yesterday made it sound like that was an option. Also, look where it says ODD - External BD/DVD. Does that mean it comes with an external optical drive? I'm not sure why they'd list it there if it's just an accessory that can be purchased separately.

 

$1299 model - expensive coz of the multi touch...there will be a base model without touch and im sure that will be priced around $1199 Approx
$1449 model - a 512gb ssd costs $250 minimum? meaning the laptop is priced at $1199 again....

I dont think all the configurations are out yet... i think its a great deal for what they offered but il probably wait for the other models to come out...

 

Sorry wrong post

 

That really sucks. Thank goodness I went for the GS60. Guess it was right after all, no mSATA/M2 SATA drive in it. If Dell XPS15, GS60, and GS70 can have 2 storage systems, I'm not sure why lenovo can't have it.

 

MORE BAD NEWS....

Looking at the weight on the product page they have this listed at 5.3lbs... That is almost a lb more than the gs60

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I'm not into these new models. Especially the way they seemingly gimped the 14" versions. Plus the lack of optical drive or option for multiple hard drives. I'm not sayign this just to defend the Y400 I have, but I have indeed found it to be eeeeextremely useful having the option of putting in THREE hard drives, and upgrading at my leisure, plus the ultrabay graphics expansion. But as far as graphics go, it looks like the gtx card in the Y50 may far surpass the SLI y500/400 models. Does anyone know how the card compares to the 750m or 755m (or overclocked 650m) SLI configuration?

 

It does pretty good:

 

These are a bit pricy. I may have to go with my original plan of getting the Y410p. More upgradeable, and more powerful for around a similar price.

 

No one needs an optical drive!

 

look at apple site, a good example (Apple.ch), a $1,499.00 macbook pro costs CHF 1,699.00 so go figure. The exchange rate is 0.88 dollars for 1 franc so a CHF 1699 laptop is $1930 but the same one in US costs $1499 or $430 less. US price for this y50 should then be around $400 less or $1200

cba to doublecheck my numbers but the 1599 could be a major placeholder that may have absolutely nothing to do with what the price will be