Lenovo Y470 and Y570 Official Owners Thread

[lepenseur]

Hey guys, just wanted to give you guys an update.

I called UPS yesterday and got my Y470 today.

First impressions...:

The bottom is very plasticy... although no keyboard flex at all. Keyboard area is solid, but there are two parts on the keyboard area where I keep getting "clicks" because the fit is not perfect.

I wish it had the book style design of the U series, which are very solidly built.

Lots of bloatware, but I kept some of the Lenovo stuff.

Screen is pretty nice although not 1080P (yes, I already knew that before buying). The plastic around the screen can be pried apart, but I don't know why anyone would that. I guess if the laptop is dropped, the first thing to go will be around the screen.

Has a nice weight to it, not too heavy, not too light.

Battery life is around 4-4.5 hours with the GT 550M and high performance stuff on and around 6-8 hours with normal use.

Speakers are amazing for a laptop.

For some reason the GT 550M is not getting recognized by the Nvidia driver update software so I'm stuck the older Lenovo provided drivers for now. Also, the windows experience index is not recognizing the GPU either so it got a "5.9" for the graphics score.

It comes with a unusually ginormous power brick.

Overall, I'm pretty happy although I expected it to be a little more "tough" and well built from all the user "reviews." Maybe I'm just spoiled from my previous thinkpads...

[cruzzer]

mine y470 come with 1x4gb

[ShammyShakes]

How do you change the graphics cards back and forth?

[ekokinex]

How do you change the graphics cards back and forth?

The Optimus switch on the front of the laptop activates the Opitmus software which does the switching for you.

[lepenseur]

mine y470 come with 1x4gb

I've got 2x4GBs.

[Eunkipark92]

i got a question can y470 run Grand Theft Auto 4?

i have the i-3 and 4g ram version

[liner]

Hey guys, just wanted to give you guys an update.

Battery life is around 4-4.5 hours with the GT 550M and high performance stuff on and around 6-8 hours with normal use.

Do u actually get 4-4.5 hrs on the y470 with games like SCII on??

If so i will jump on this laptop immediately.

[Nemix77]

@ Eunkipark92

Should be able to play GTAIV fluidly however, GTAIV like ram so an upgrade to 8GB would help.

@ liner

4 hours of gaming on a 6-cell unheard of, I think he meant high performance Window power profile.

[lepenseur]

Do u actually get 4-4.5 hrs on the y470 with games like SCII on??

If so i will jump on this laptop immediately.

Yes, I meant the high performance profile. I haven't tried anything spectacular as I'm not a serious PC gamer. For example, I've played "Braid" so far...

I highly doubt you will be able to get more than 4 hours max with a game like SC II.

[winforlife]

Hi I'm Italian. How run Empire Total War at native resolution (1366 * 768) on Ultra with Directx 11 ?
thank you for the reply