Y500 price vs the competition, for college machine

Hey guys, I happened to notice a Y500 deal today (The single 750, with the SSD) for under 900 shipped. I'm purchasing the machine for my first year of college in August, and have started to look at machines. I haven't looked far, but I feel as if the Y500, specifically the 59371972, at my door for $900 is a fantastic deal. I was thinking about the model with the SLI'd 750s and 16GB RAM, but I figured for the few extra hundred dollars it isn't worth it, especially given that battery life will plummet with the extra card. I plan to put a 2.5' SSD in the main bay, and put the stock drive in a DVD slot caddy, which is another reason for me to skip on the SLI model. Any opinions about the competition? Do competitors (Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc.) offer anything that's a remotely similar deal to the Y500? Thanks guys!

 

No, not really. For that price you will not get anything at this performance, screen resolution. Only keep in mind that the quality of Y400 / Y500 is not that great. So what Lenovo did, put high end hardware on those 2 systems and kept the quality at a lower range. I guess overall since this is for your college, it is good to have it for rough and tough situation and I guess in time if something goes wrong with it you won't cry about it. If you have the money, go for the SLi model as you get the power adapter in the bargain and later you will have to pay much more to have those 2 in your system (I am sure you will not settle for the single card in time and the extra cost will be over $300). The dvd-rom and hdd caddy you can always get them later from ebay and so on.

Good luck and I hope you will enjoy it when you get it (By the way, you can place the order now, but I think they are going to refresh this system with a new CPU shortly; as long the system is in production you can always cancel it and place a new order and even better, if you get it, you have 21 - 30 days return policy at no extra cost).

 

To ship it to my house will cost me 873 and change, with the single 750 and hybrid drive. I'm contacting customer support to see what the price of the non-hybrid machine is, since I likely will be replacing it with an SSD anyway. How is the hybrid performance? Worth an extra 50 dollars? Also, comparable dell and toshiba machines seem to be not even remotely close to existent at this price point.

 

The build quality is not bad at all, its the quality control that suck. Most units ship with flaws that shouldn't even be shipped. Yeah there are little things that my be a little lacking but what you people have to remember is what lenovo is offering for a performance to cost ratio. I mean people complain about the build quality but their forgetting what a package there getting for a fraction of the cost. Yes some units have flaws that should have never left the factory with but it is what it is.

 

From what I've seen, the trackpad seems to be the biggest problem, although apparently current revisions have had that fixed, which was confirmed by a lenovo rep. I have looked at dell, toshiba, and HP, and frankly NOTHING comes close in price to value.

 

since you are going to college, you should ask for a student discount on top of the discounts they already hand out.

i got a deal.

2 yr warranty
wireless mouse
lenovo sport slimcase

all for just about the same price SHIPPED.

 

I got everything in my sig for $900 & mouse/2yr warranty + tax for $999 total. Just negotiate

 

How? They gave me a college and the barnes and noble discount, making the machine only 819. It's the single 750, 8 GB RAM

 

They're offering me the single 750 with 8GB RAM for 819 before taxes. They said the lowest they could do was 1100 for the SLI'd 750s and 16GB RAM. What should I say/ask for?

 

Remove the 16GB cache, call them on the phone; tell them you're about to buy an ASUS if the price cannot go down; get a school discount...

I posted my receipt awhile ago in a thread as proof lol . Time and patience my friend

 

i just asked for a student discount. and they wanted me email address from my college. gave them that and my y500 dual graphics is 1154.78.

price is already taxed and free shipping included.

2 yr warranty
mouse
case

 

Can get cheaper trust me. They asked for the college email? If anyone needs one they can use mine just let me know.. I was never asked.

Negotiate via phone

 

do you have the SLI setup?

 

My signature says so doesnt it?

 

Ah, but you're technically a special circumstance, given that you initially received the wrong machine

 

My school isn't a lenovo partner, the discount wasn't very much...as a matter of fact, when I applied the MEMORIALDOORBUSTER coupon under barnes and noble, the discount was greater than for students. Also, I wasn't sure I wanted the dual graphics since I'd be using the disk bay as a HDD slot, and I assume the second card eats battery like no tomorrow

 

I did receive the wrong machine but I got $100 extra off and I think I am trying to drive you guys to be ambitious an match mine . Also it doesn't eat battery.. The battery is only like 5hrs maximum no matter what..

Get the SLI and buy an external HDD I did that

 

i got the deal through an online sales rep via chat. maybe if i call i would get something better? who knows. 1154.78 shipped is not bad with me.

currently, the machine with dual graphics is 1149.00 with the ecoupon they have right now. that's before taxes. after taxes, it would be like 1200+.

 

If you call you can easily drop some excess

 

i think this is what i'm going to do. call and maybe get a better deal. but otherwise, the price they gave me is okay by me.

 

Make sure your laptop has no impurities once you Recieved it

 

819 for me felt good too, but I'll call up

 

Correct, the trackpad has been addressed, I have the current 750m sli model. It's different for sure then a normal track pad with dedicated left and right mouse buttons, but that's the over all fit and finish lenovo was going for and its not even bad, people just needing something to complain about.