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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
Pros: Great processor. Graphics car is really good. Trackpad and buttons have a good feel to it. speakers are amazing
Cons: Bloatware, which can be removed.
Other Thoughts: Overall, i am really happy with this laptop and would recommend to anyone
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A fair entry level device for the price
Reviewed By: Tom Cougar on 2/2/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: The price is right, the LCD display is crisp and bright, and it gets good 4 hours of typical use (word processing, email, low animation web surfing) out of a full charge from the batteries, and the 320GB harddrive has plenty of room for photographs, media files, documents, and virtual machines. This is a fair entry level device for the price. My customer service experience with the warranty department was good.
Cons: At the time of my purchase, Lenovo touted the CPU's virtual extensions but disables VT in the BIOS. At present the VT extensions are not available nor has the vendor indicated any intent to release a BIOS that makes them available. The touchpad is extremely sensitive off to the edges which sometimes causes work to be completely selected and deleted or the mouse pointer to fly off in random directions. The vertical resolution is only 768 pixels which is rather small considering today's HD media and information crammed web pages.
Other Thoughts: My Y550 was bought direct from Lenovo approximately 6 months ago, it came with the Core-2 Duo 2.53GHz CPU, integrated graphics, 4GB RAM (expandable to 8GB), and a 320GB harddrive that unfortunately just failed, but Lenovo is replacing it at no cost since the laptop is still under warranty. Due to the sensitive nature of the touchpad, I recommend using a mobile mouse with this laptop if possible, disabling the touchpad altogether.
Over all, this is a fair choice for the economic minded buyer, ideal for students or casual users on a budget, the CPU offers enough processing power to support processor intensive functions such as gaming and multimedia editing and system resources are enough to run several virtual machines simultaneously if there are no other processor intensive operations in progress.
I would not buy this model again based on the lack of virtualization extensions and the sensitive nature of the touchpad, but those are my pet peeves and not meant as a slam of the prod
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I love it!
Reviewed By: Snipazer on 1/30/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
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Pros: Great computer overall. The screen is bright and very crisp. The specs on this thing provide for some serious gaming. So far I've only played Borderlands and Empire: Total War but they both run great on high settings.
Keyboard is great, and the touchpad is awesome! The scroll function actually works, as opposed to a lot of other laptops that I've used.
Its very sleek, the overall look is very nice. Not too heavy.
The sound is absolutely amazing! Its Dolby Digital sound is seriously amazing! It really adds bass to your music. Sounds amazing!
I love the e-sata/USB combo port. It mad transferring my music from my external drive take almost 1/3 the time!
Battery life is phenomenal! I watched a movie off the hard drive (not DVD yet) and it lasted about 2 and a half hours. I've gotten about 3 and a half out of just browsing the web and writing papers.
Get this laptop!
Cons: Lights. There are waaaaaaay too many lights on this thing. It gets annoying when watching movies. Theres a light on the front that tells you its on, one near the screen for Wi-fi, another one near the screen for HDD indicator, 2 more near the screen for no reason at all, another one that I don't even know does, another one that brings up the sound options, and another one near the bottom right of the keyboard that just says "Ideapad". So again, waaaaaaaay too many lights! Turn them off!
The function key is on the bottom left, instead of the control key which takes a while to get used to for us gamers.
Resolution could be higher. 1366x768 on a screen this size? Really? Needs to be higher.
Bloatware. This is going to be there on any PC you get which is a sad reality of buying a PC now. Luckily, I know how to wipe the drive and start with a fresh Windows installation. If you know how to do this, I highly suggest it.
I know this is a lot of negatives but they don't outweigh t
Reviewed By: on 2/7/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
