The Lenovo Y50 Thread.

[seamon]

So far the pics seem like they're definitely legit. And from the GPU-Z screenshots, it seems like the GPU is DEFINITELY the Maxwell variant of the GTX 860M. And from the clock speeds, they seem like they haven't under clocked it so it should give the same performance as that of the regular GTX 860M.

But the Y50 is currently available only for pre-order on the Lenovo Website. I still don't understand as to why didn't they make the same panels as that of the Y510P. Maybe to save costs, they had to cut some corners? But I was watching a video where they were showing off the Y50 UHD touch model and it was looking fantastic to say the least. But of course the UHD model might never get released in India. But on that Facebook page, Priyank did say that the screen is not as bad as the reviews say it is. So I guess for general use and Gaming, it should be manageable.

And [MENTION=248727]seamon[/MENTION], I was afraid the GTX 860M might not be good enough for gamin on Max settings at 1080P with MXAA and Textures turned up to full. But if we disable Multi-Sampling and turn the textures to High then it should give a decent FPS (>30 FPS). But an year down the line, the GTX 860M may not be able to handle even High settings for the next-gen games. So I guess a PS4/XBOX ONE + an HDTV combo still dominates the Laptop segment sans for the portability.

GTX 860m can max out everything@720p.

 

[rishi_sethi]

GTX 860m can max out everything@720p.

720p + max out is great when you have attached your laptop with a tv or something.
A little less details at 1080p is much better on a laptop with full hd screen. This is my experience based on playing on my cousin's y510p. I might be wrong though.

 

[prometheus]

Yeah, that's true. But the price drop will happen only after a few months time. Until then the price will remain at around 77k. But when the price drop will happen, there will be more laptops from other manufacturers with similar specs in the similar price range which might not make the Y50 as tempting as it seemed before. But I agree that the Y510P was an awesome laptop at that time.

I just hope that in a few years time, all manufacturers release their laptops at the same time as that of the other countries. This will mean fair pricing and more availability as people do buy gaming laptops in India as we'll and not just mid-range laptops. It will also increase the competition in the gaming segment laptops which will result in aggressive pricing also. Let's hope for the best!!!

yeahh...but price cut (of abt ~72-74k) will take some time...+ manu. such as gigabyte (P34G V2 absolutely rocks!) might try to expand their OPs as well; maybe not in India but other countries should see some strong competitive models coming up from diff. manuf.(s).

lenovo+GTX880 anytime? (err..standby for graphene chips..2015+)


[MENTION=277192]rhyansy[/MENTION] MSI's gotta speed up their remaining process + as I said earlier pricing has to be competitive if MSI really wants a pie of Indian gaming market share (I know MSI's launching for near abt in the same $$ segment in US and other developed countries but not in India? (yes..yes...the BSI bs+ other things do take their toll) but hey there is absolutely no need to increase $$ by a whole lot of margin just in the name of taxes; am sure still people will buy and my support goes to GS60/GT60 2OC anytime..only thing that hurts..is the non-competitive pricing strategy in India for the GS60)

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I was not talking about price drop bro, what I meant was that in some offer (like 3000-4000 cashback or interest free emi etc) we might get the laptop with effective pricing of 73k, which is excellent given the fact that it is the only gaming laptop in this range currently.

Heard MSI is having some issues with Indian government, which is postponing their launch.

+1 for the price cut(my comment above^^ was orig. for you); won't be happening soon..so its k; chill
oh n govt v/s MSI..? yea..that's been going on for sometime..lets c

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It is out of stock there.
Lets wait for the y50 indian review or personally check it out at a store, if the screen is decent, I think an 860m with a lighter n cooler body , plus an i7 is worthy of the extra 18-20k.

oh..k

yep.

..imagine a single755m(damn y510p indian variant) vs this now..that too for near about the same price(y510p w/o SLi card); confirmed from Lenovo's support(US+India) Y510P and series has met it's EoL (end of life)

 

[prasoon2211]

Are there any other Indian reviews available other than this Priyank guy. He seems biased towards his new and shiny laptop

Btw, the only reason I haven't ordered the y50 yet is because some people on this thread expressed discontentment with the 2GB video RAM. I frankly don't know whether the 860m can make use of more than 2GB VRAM but people have let it be known that it can. So... I don't know. I'm waiting for the MSI announcement again, I guess

On an aside, the other day a Levono rep called me to ask about my interest in buying y50 (I have no idea how they got my phone number) and I asked him two things:
1) When is y50 coming out in stores, and
2) When/if we'll get the 4GB variant.

He told me that:
1) The y50 is not coming to the retail stores anytime soon (though I suspect that he was just trying to make me do the pre-order), and
2) The 4GB version will come out after a whole year.

The second response was quite unexpected though, he might have been giving me the wrong info, trying me to buy it sooner.

 

[rishi_sethi]

Lenovo has changed the Shipping date now to 5th August

What are they doing? Changing website daily for the shipping date but not taking the initiative to update the details about gpu etc

 

[prometheus]

Lenovo has changed the Shipping date now to 5th August

What are they doing? Changing website daily for the shipping date but not taking the initiative to update the details about gpu etc

goddamnit!
I just saw 4th around 1 hour back; wth
I mean..seriously lenovo?

 

[pr94rr]

I was gonna order the lappy this afternoon at the dostore website. Even filled up the shipping address,details etc but when I clicked on Continue to payment and entered my card details - transaction declined due to a daily limit on my card.
Well I talked to the people at Lenovo and I will be sending them the money via NEFT and they said that it might reach me during Friday-Sunday.
Oh and they also said that the first batch of Y50 is ready to be dispatched to the Lenovo exclusive stores and should reach them in a week's time.
And that Priyank guy on Fb said that he received an external DVD RW for free but the Lenovo people denied about the free DVD RW although they said that there might be some goodies at the Exclusive stores initially as a promotional offer.
And when asked if it comes with Maxwell or Kepler GPU - Nope, they don't have a single clue.

 

[prometheus]

I was gonna order the lappy this afternoon at the dostore website. Even filled up the shipping address,details etc but when I clicked on Continue to payment and entered my card details - transaction declined due to a daily limit on my card.
Well I talked to the people at Lenovo and I will be sending them the money via NEFT and they said that it might reach me during Friday-Sunday.
Oh and they also said that the first batch of Y50 is ready to be dispatched to the Lenovo exclusive stores and should reach them in a week's time.
And that Priyank guy on Fb said that he received an external DVD RW for free but the Lenovo people denied about the free DVD RW although they said that there might be some goodies at the Exclusive stores initially as a promotional offer.
And when asked if it comes with Maxwell or Kepler GPU - Nope, they don't have a single clue.

hmmm...trying it in store might clear our way for s/n, stock #s and ultimately to clarify maxwell/kepler (though I can safely say it's maxwell but to be doubly sure is cool)

fri-sun whoa..thata hot service

I guess he did received the ext. dvdrw....well..? :s

oh don't bother Lenovo India abt maxwell/kepler they're running this company allright

 

[pr94rr]

hmmm...trying it in store might clear our way for s/n, stock #s and ultimately to clarify maxwell/kepler (though I can safely say it's maxwell but to be doubly sure is cool)

fri-sun whoa..thata hot service

Ordering mine tomorrow morning. According to the Lenovo sales team - ETA ~ 4days. I really need a laptop ASAP and the product might take almost/over a week to reach the stores and my work is stuck so I don't really want to wait for the product to arrive at the stores (My VAIO that I used earlier had some issues with the motherboard and as I found out today - will cost 17k to replace it).
I know the Maxwell architecture is a great tech leap in GPU and cooling system but the performance of the 860M Kepler and Maxwell isn't very different and I will not be gaming a lot and probably won't ever overclock it plus it's gonna stay on a table with a cooling pad under it 90% of the time.
That said, Yes I definitely still want the Maxwell card in mine.
Oh and the 4 day delivery time is what they estimated for me at Bangalore, for other cities it might vary.

 

[prometheus]

Ordering mine tomorrow morning. According to the Lenovo sales team - ETA ~ 4days. I really need a laptop ASAP and the product might take almost/over a week to reach the stores and my work is stuck so I don't really want to wait for the product to arrive at the stores (My VAIO that I used earlier had some issues with the motherboard and as I found out today - will cost 17k to replace it).
I know the Maxwell architecture is a great tech leap in GPU and cooling system but the performance of the 860M Kepler and Maxwell isn't very different and I will not be gaming a lot and probably won't ever overclock it plus it's gonna stay on a table with a cooling pad under it 90% of the time.
That said, Yes I definitely still want the Maxwell card in mine.
Oh and the 4 day delivery time is what they estimated for me at Bangalore, for other cities it might vary.

best of luck!
in any case do post the GPU-Z screenies

 

[eruku.ade]

Lenovo has changed the Shipping date now to 5th August

What are they doing? Changing website daily for the shipping date but not taking the initiative to update the details about gpu etc

Of course they will change the dates, and I don't know why people are getting so much fussed up about that. There is nothing wrong with the changing dates! Those who ordered before 30th had theirs shipped on 30th, those who ordered after 30th but before 4th had theirs shipped on 4th, if anyone has ordered today it will be shipped on 5th. Check again tomorrow evening, the shipping date will again be advanced by a day or two. Simple enough!

 

[ritikagrahari]

Lenovo Y50

 

[vineetpratik]

Hey guys , Priyank has registered here as new user and still he is unable to do new posts so i am posting direct links of these images on his behalf.
It contained External optical drive , you can see in the images.

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he told that he is going to add a 512GB SSD too in it , its image is also above.
And now some words he asked me to post too

This ain't the first shiny laptop
It's good for the money..people do buy more expensive ones too.
77k cannot get anything more...atleast in India.
I game on ps4..2gb vram is more than enough.
And 2nd thing..it wasn't even a review

Do tell me if you have any other queries for him , i will let him know and post the reply until he is able to post himself.

 

[seamon]

Hey guys , Priyank has registered here as new user and still he is unable to do new posts so i am posting direct links of these images on his behalf.
It contained External optical drive , you can see in the images.

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he told that he is going to add a 512GB SSD too in it , its image is also above.
And now some words he asked me to post too



Do tell me if you have any other queries for him , i will let him know and post the reply until he is able to post himself.

Ask him to run 3D Mark 11.

 

[prometheus]

Hey guys , Priyank has registered here as new user and still he is unable to do new posts so i am posting direct links of these images on his behalf.
It contained External optical drive , you can see in the images.

Spoiler

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he told that he is going to add a 512GB SSD too in it , its image is also above.
And now some words he asked me to post too



Do tell me if you have any other queries for him , i will let him know and post the reply until he is able to post himself.

looking sweet
+1

ask him if he could post the laptop's outer packaging's sticker(the one which has config listed on it) now carefully masking his laptop's serial# there is the MTM code for the laptop including "IN" listed somewhere between this code (ex. 50-70 xxxx or 59-3980xx) also there is one field "country" which specifies the country code..can he get some more pics up'ed?

these two details will point to the exact same boxes packing the ext. DVD drive for sure! not to mention the kepler/maxwell saga too..

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Ask him to run 3D Mark 11.

hehe..

 

[amey2606]

Could you also please ask him how much did the 512 GB SSD cost him and from where did he get it.

Thanks.

And a general question guys.
Does an SSD really makes THAT much a difference against the included Hybrid Hdd..?
I mean, is it really worth spending a lot on an SSD right now or should I wait for the prices to go down drastically, that is if they ever do.

Thanks again.

 

[Kamal17]

Could you ask him about the screen quality and keyboard ? I have heard both have issues.

Coming from Y500, I dont want screen to be bad than what I am used to. Also, has it issues registering key strokes ?

I am looking to order today if it doesnt have these issues.

 

[vineetpratik]

looking sweet
+1

ask him if he could post the laptop's outer packaging's sticker(the one which has config listed on it) now carefully masking his laptop's serial# there is the MTM code for the laptop including "IN" listed somewhere between this code (ex. 50-70 xxxx or 59-3980xx) also there is one field "country" which specifies the country code..can he get some more pics up'ed?

these two details will point to the exact same boxes packing the ext. DVD drive for sure! not to mention the kepler/maxwell saga too..

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hehe..

Ok will ask him to post those images too , and for 3D mark 11 also

Could you also please ask him how much did the 512 GB SSD cost him and from where did he get it.

Thanks. ??

And a general question guys.
Does an SSD really makes THAT much a difference against the included Hybrid Hdd..?
I mean, is it really worth spending a lot on an SSD right now or should I wait for the prices to go down drastically, that is if they ever do.

Thanks again.

You can definitely be OK with Hybrid HDD , although SSD do make a lot of difference , everything from boot times , to app load times will get increased . But You can always upgrade it anytime near future , when they become more affordable.
He told that he got it from Flipkart,from primeabgb , you can check price there.

 

[Kamal17]

Ok will ask him to post those images too , and for 3D mark 11 also

Could you please ask him about my issues too, in above post ?

 

[prometheus]

Ok will ask him to post those images too , and for 3D mark 11 also

thx :]