Y50 Thread

I mean there are many reasons why a tray loader is better, but it's getting to a point with slim designs, that optical drives of that ilk are becoming obsolete.. I personally think a slot loader has it's benefits over a tray loader these days, newer ones are more quiet than ever..

 

NOOOOOOOO!! Shipping for my 4GB Touch 4710HQ DELAYED TO JUNE 30-JULY 8TH!!!! BS might cancel and go to amazon if they have the highest touch model.

 

Klick is going to get crowded soon!!

 

So I just remembered that I have a WiFi link 6200 wireless card sitting in the wrapping.

Is that theoretically better/faster than the stock wireless card in the Y50? Is it even compatible?

Here is the link : Amazon.com: Intel 6200 IEEE 802.11n (draft) Wi-Fi Adapter - Mini PCI Express - 300Mbps: Electronics

 

I'm not sure if anybody else is selling on amazon but I think Klick are just getting the base touch model, not the highest, although that shipping set back is a killer. Is it possible it could go back to the original date?

 

I ordered the base model i7-4710HQ model literally minutes after it appeared online, and my shipping date was shot back to June 30th. I called them last week to see if this was still correct, and they confirmed that my original shipping date of May 29th (today) was the expected shipping date still. Yet, I have not received an email saying it has shipped. Definitely calling them tomorrow for an update - getting tired of waiting.

Lenovo really does have quite terribad customer service, so I won't be surprised if they're leading me on and the real shipping date is actually June 30th

 

Can you link me to the klick touch model? Do they ship faster? I'd rather upgrade it manually then than waiting a whole month.

 

Theoretically it is not better. Realistically it is not better. AC 3160 should be fine for most people, the biggest reason I can see for upgrading it would be if you did MMOGs or something.

As for compatibility, I really don't know. heibk201 is the one to ask about technical info.

Klick is getting the touch models next Thursday. Ships from them in 1-5 business days once you order it. Plus you can get the notebookreview forum discount.

 

What is the major difference?

 

Same here. Disappointing to say the least. I need a new laptop bad.

 

The touch model isn't up on Klick right now (unless I'm mistaken) but should probably be put up in the next day or two as they're apparently expecting them before Thursday. As for pricing I strongly advise emailing them to ask, you'll probably get it a touch cheaper (which is nice as so far all their laptops have been cheaper than the lenovo price anyway). I ordered the base y50 from them last night and have an est. delivery for 5-14 June and I live much further away from Maryland than I expect you do (in the UK). Even if it took just as long getting to you as to me and they only got their hands on them thursday that still works out sooner (although obviously I can't confirm this will be the case etc).

 

The AC 3160 is Wireless a/b/g/n/ac. The 6200 is Wireless a/b/g/n. Unless you have a current router (by current I mean AC technology router), it won't make a difference having an AC card. The benefit of the 3160 is that you will get really fast speeds when you are in a place with AC routers, which you know will be standard in a year or two anyway.

The AC 3160 is 433 mb/s, while the 6200 is 300 mb/s.

AC 3160 runs at a the 5 ghz range (not sure about the 6200). The downside is that you cannot run at 2.4 ghz and 5.8 ghz at the same time, since the 3160 is a 1x1 card.

Personally, I would actually get the Intel Wireless AC 7260 if you are going to upgrade. It is dual band AC and has gotten really good reviews with respect to signal strength and consistency. Link: http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Network...402399&sr=8-1&keywords=intel+wireless+ac+7260

Also, timothyz plans to upgrade to the 7260. Stay tuned for news of how well his upgrade went.

I'm thinking that they will go up closer to 3-4 days from now, but I honestly have no idea. Nice play on words with "a touch cheaper" too, haha.
Klick's contact for kingfirejet: [email protected]

 

Oh my god, I live in northern Virginia. I live in northern Virginia; I can literally get it the next day or I can drive there if they have a physical store retailer. Yeah, I'm gonna cancel more order and will email them if they have a touch with 4710HQ.

 

They don't have any 4710HQ models and will not be getting any. 4700HQ is pretty much the same though.

 

I was just guessing that as the one that came up today was due for wednesdayish and the touch for thursdayish, but however early they put up the listing it'll still ship the same. Gotta love a little pun.

I'm impatient as all hell so if it were driveable to I'd be tempted, although I have no idea whether that'd be an option, either way it'd obviously get to you far quicker than mine'd come over the Atlantic. Unfortunately I don't think they stock 4710 - the price difference on getting that for them was way higher than the price difference for us mere mortals getting it through lenovo - although this may just be the case for the non touch models. Either way it'll come a lot quicker and I'd bet money on it being cheaper to boot, I'd get in touch for sure.

 

Alright, I was waiting for reviews, specifically about the touchpad, as I don't use a mouse much (crank up the touchpad sensitivity). Hearing that it is good is a relief, so I'm going with the base Y50 from Brian, from Klick Online, directly. Communication with them is great, quick responses and everything. I would really recommend that any of you still on the fence about getting the Y50 to go with Klick.

 

Sure, I'd love to meet people in a dark alleyway with them carrying over $1,000 in cash.

Time to pop back in to answer a few questions that I read over the last couple pages:

1. We have the base model in stock, 16GB/4GB Graphics/1TB HDD model coming middle of next week, and the base Touch model coming late next week as well, probably Thursday. Basically once we get the confirmation of the specific day the delivery is coming, then we put it on Amazon.
2. We can't do local pickup - basically because of the fraud possibility we have to have proof of delivery to the buyer (ie a signature on delivery). The only way we could do a local pickup would be a cash purchase. I personally have no problems doing this, but again, I myself wouldn't really want to be carrying around over $1k. We don't have a fancy retail location, so I'd have to meet you in a dark alleyway.
3. Extended warranties - you'd have to contact Lenovo directly after you receive the system with your serial number, or as others said, SquareTrade is an option a lot of people prefer, and I believe it is cheaper than Lenovo. I've heard mostly positive things about SquareTrade.
4. At this time we are not getting in any of the 4710 versions due to the much higher cost we have to pay for those (a lot higher than the $10 difference that Lenovo has currently).
5. Take this with a grain of salt, but our Lenovo rep says that the Blu-Ray drive is an internal one. Yes, they have definitely been wrong before (ie saying the Y40's all had a backlit keyboard, even up to the day we received them)! We do not have the Blu-Ray version coming in ourselves.
6. I have a mailing list I put together for updates on when we are receiving Y40's/Y50's - if you want to be put on that list, send me an email at [email protected].
7. I had a lobster roll at Panera tonight - pretty good!

 

7. I had a lobster roll at Panera tonight - pretty good!

 

The alleyway method may not be the safest but it'd make for a pretty interesting buy at least, hah. Also, I've never had Lobster. That stuff is insanely expensive over here, it's like Caviar, and I'll never get used to the idea that some places have so much of it floating around they can use it as a sandwich filling.

Back on topic, thank you for the warranty info, genuinely didn't know you could purchase more from lenovo after the fact - although as the warranty stops covering me as soon as the laptop leaves America (I believe) that probably would do me much good until I get another laptop anyway.

 

I was in the process of canceling my Y50 order with Lenovo and going to order from Klick instead, but according to this lenovo rep the model I ordered (The $1249 model with the blu-ray/dvd optical disc) option is the least troubling of them all?
This is the exact quote: "To be completely honest, the all of the Y50s are a little bit problematic right now, but your model is the least of them all. I wouldn't imagine that we would face more issues with this model. "

This is really hard to believe as this model has the 4710 processor and the optical disc options which seems to be the two main sources that causes delay. Is this rep just lying to me so I will stay with lenovo? I'm confused as to whether I should really cancel as they keep saying the optical disc is for sure internal according to this rep.

 

If anyone's interested, there's a plethora of new Y50 pics if you google image search "lenovo y50" today. I guess that more people are getting theirs.

Did you tell the rep that you were going to cancel? If so, maybe they are trying to keep a customer like you said. If I were you, I would be more worried that they told you that "I wouldn't imagine that we would face more issues with this model." More issues? What were the issues in the first place? My best guess is the lack of 4710s.

 

That makes no sense as nobody even has the Blu-Ray model yet, so it would be impossible for him to say ... unless he was referring to "problematic" as taking a long time to ship or something.

 

Yeah I gave them my information to cancel the order.
They stated this when I asked them: "And I don't really get how my model is facing the least issues when it has the 4710 processor and the blu-ray/dvd option which seems to be the major reason why many ppl are facing delays. I'm also looking at the lenovo website, and anything with the 4710Hq processor is going to take at least 3 weeks to ship as the estimated time while anything with the 4700 HQ processor is much shorter."
Their response was: "There are many other factors that going into the estimated ship date beyond what kind of processor is being used. I cannot guess or speculate any further into the reasoning for delay besides what I've already given to you, unfortunately."

Lenovo should get an award for confusing their customers the most .

 

Lenovo rep told me there are part constraints on the SSD and ndi (whatever that is). Ordered may 23 with eta of june 24.

 

that's assuming lenovo doesn't whitelist 7260 in their bios, which although unlikely, is still possible. for y510p they whitelisted all the killer cards i think

 

I just talked to a rep too. I asked, "why are the Y50 models taking so long to ship?" He gave me probably the most realistic answer yet: "We have had large amounts or orders for the Y50 and have not been able to fill them quickly enough. We are working to get the shipping times down." Taken with a grain of salt, all the reps have different info anyway.

 

Holy , I sent a paragraph full of questions to Klick and got a reply in less than 1min. If I could marry a company I would. <3

 

Yeah, many new images of the Y50 if you Google Image it

If you filter by last week or last 24 hours you get some weirder pics xD

 

I still have no clue how they will fit an optical drive on the body without it being a slot loader that was prebuilt with it.. I have seen some tray loaders on a few slim Asus models, but those are rare...

 

How do I search filter based on date?

 

L1ght, if you were in the process of cancelling you probably got through to a retention department - the guys throwing 5% discounts to get you to stay aren't going to admit your model will ship late. They can say basically anything about the shipping they want as you can't hold them to it, and what they said doesn't really stack up. If we take what the normal reps say with a pinch of salt I'd take a bucket of it when dealing with the ones trying to get you to stay when you've made up your mind to leave. Plus 'more issues' sounds like 'more delays', but if your current date is too late that's no help anyway.

When they're online they're super quick, they must have quite a few orders going I bet. My replies were a little more spaced out but me being in a different time zone meant I was probably emailing at 3am so that's fair, and they always answered well.

Search Tools (at the top next to Web, Shopping, Images etc) -> Time

 

On the Google link I posted, just click on "Search Tools" (I have it on Spanish) and then "Date" "Last Week" or "Last 24 hours"

 

Hrm, but now I don't know if I should cancel or not. They said: "I will have to submit the request to have the order cancelled through our distribution team. It normally takes 3-5 business days for a response. However, if your product is too far into the manufacturing stage, the order may still ship. In case that happens, I would advise you to contact Lenovo Customer service upon the receipt of the shipping confirmation e-mail. Once received, do let us know so we can authorize a return for a full refund and free shipping. You will not be charged anything."
I really don't want to deal with that hassle as this rep keeps saying it's very possible for it to ship before my prior date of shipping of June 11th. I also don't want to kill my bank account if I were to order it from Klick and then I actually get it from lenovo if it does ship . Oh the confusion.

 

More company's should take note and realize the importance of good customer service.

 

cough*Lenovo*cough

 

Nope, not an English teacher. Just someone who values good writing and punctuation, and who loathes the way the language is being treated by the upcoming generation that is learning to communicate via text messages and social networking.

Can you elaborate on why a tray loader is better? I've never been able to understand why tray loaders are so popular and slot loaders so rare. Seems to me that tray loaders, with more moving parts and flimsy trays that stick out, would be a lot more prone to break.

Can you post some links? I just did a search for "Lenovo Y50" on Google image search and pretty much all the pics I found were either professional pics or appeared to be taken at CES or other such trade shows.

 

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Good Pics/Performance screenshot at this website

 

I was told the same thing on May 23 when I canceled the base model and ordered the 4710. I think it is just a standard reply. I received the cancellation confirmation on May 26.

 

Tray loaders for the most part are more quiet when running a physical disk.. Also they can play mini disks such as mini DvD and mini CDs that most slot loaders can't.. Usually tray loaders have faster read speeds as well..

 

I just don't want to cancel the order if it does on a slim chance ship. It would charge my acct and if I order the Y50 from Klick, I think my bank account would be crying. It's also probably gonna be hassle if it does ship as I have to return it to them.

My Estimated Shipping Date is June 11th, so at the same time it doesn't seem plausible it would ship out in the next 5 days.

 

If anyone wants to see Temps

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This could be the greatest compliment we've ever received! Definitely going on the Wall of Feedback!

Brian

 

3-5 working days seems like a very long time just to email/ring somebody and let them know to stop the order. If I were a more paranoid person I'd say they're only bumping up that time frame so you can't buy it somewhere else this week at least and it makes it that much more likely you'll stick with lenovo instead. Although if it is 3-5 working days it'd have to ship before, what, the 6th at most? That'd be nearly a week early.

I read a really interesting thing recently about how texting (evn w/abbrvs) and the like is actually really helping to improve English and communication skills in this generation, as counter-intuitive as it seems. Turns out writing at all even if it's hardly prose is still way better for the skill set than not writing at all like they would be doing, and with the advent of texting and the internet and all this written communication way more people are practicing their skills like this. It's actually beneficial. Even if difficult to decipher and sometimes painful to see.

 

Hm would you recommend just canceling it and just wait until I get the notification that it canceled before ordering it from Klick? At this point in time I don't even care about the optical disc anymore as I will probably bring an external one instead to school.

 

Guys please enlighten me

As you can see I have a 95% gamut screen, a really good screen. Compared to the Y50 screen, will I notice a significant change in lcd quality? how less?

 

well a 95% gamut is like the highest you can get with consumer grade product. if you are used to that, you'll feel like y50's display is complete sh!t. 95% gamut, wow. yeah you should either wait for the 4k model or get used to the HUGE quality drop...

 

If you wanted to be 100% and you were definitely going somewhere else I'd cancel now, wait a couple days for them too confirm, and then order from Klick so no crossed wires would happen. If you want to take a bit more of a risk, but still a pretty negligible one imo, you could always do them both now and get the laptop a few days earlier. Although I'm saying the latter with a brain state that probably really values the y50 over my bank account consistency right now. But a couple days extra wouldn't hurt and you'd still get it before lenovo would give it you, plus you're going to be getting it cheaper from Klick to boot.

 

When you guys say 95% gamut, do you mean sRGB?

 

Do you think 2GB VRAM is enough to handle a heavily modded Skyrim? Or should I get the 4GB?

 

That's the i5, right? So those of us with the 4710 may have keyboards that are between 140-150 degrees Fahrenheit to the touch when gaming? That's pretty toasty. In fact, according to this that is hot enough to burn skin on contact! So...are these temperatures just what is going on beneath the case? Or is the thermometer reading the surface temp of the laptop itself?