Lenovo Y50 4K Laptop - Loving it! (Mini Review)

[chanchan]

Just wanted to share my first gaming laptop purchase! For the longest time I've been holding back on buying ultra-books/gaming laptops in general, as I don't see the point in dropping $1000 for a ultra book that's just powerful enough to do some daily computing and no gaming.

Finally, Lenovo comes up with the Y40/Y50 which is a gaming machine in a slim package! I did lots of research and decided for the money I was getting the most for my hard earned money!

Anyone looking to buy a gaming laptop should definitely give this a look! I'm quite picky and I was thoroughly impressed. If you're a video/photo/graphics professional I wouldn't get the UHD version I noticed this panel has bad yellow reproduction, it's too brown.

Specs
What I paid: $1400 CAD + taxes
Model: Lenovo Y50
Form Factor: 15.6" screen, but 0.9" thick, approximately 5.3 lbs
Screen: 3840x2560 IPS
CPU: i7-4710HQ - Haswell quad core 2.5-3.5 GHz
RAM: 16 GB
Graphics: GTX 860M 2 GB (Maxwell with GDDR5)
HD: 256 GB SSD
Optical: External Slim DVD
Keyboard: Island style with red backlighting
Sound: JBL speakers with a sub-woofer

Noteworthy Drawbacks
-Lack of color accuracy with the UHD IPS panel, I am going to see if a color calibration system can fix/improve this
-Wish it was all aluminum (only the cover and bottom is, the palm rest is a soft touch plastic)
-Battery life could be a bit better
-Wish the screen bezel was thinner

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[FrEaKy]

I got the Y50 touch recently, tn panel 1080p excellent res, etc, I enjoy the Y50 myself, but am seriously on the fence thinking of refunding and waiting till October for the 960m graphics chips to be released.

 

[Obi_Kwiet]

Wasn't there some worry about the 4k panel only doing 40Hz? Do you know if this has been fixed?

 

[chanchan]

Wasn't there some worry about the 4k panel only doing 40Hz? Do you know if this has been fixed?

The panel does 48 Hz actually, and I believe it's an Intel hardware limitation. Because the video output is handled by the IGP I don't believe it has enough bandwidth to output 4K@60 Hz.

Honestly, I've played a few games and watched some videos of FPS @ 48 Hz and it's completely acceptable. So far I've only been playing Diablo 3 and League of Legends, I have no problem with v-sync enabled.