Lenovo IdeaPad Y480 Review: A Solid Mobile Entertainment PC Discussion

[Jerry Jackson]

Lenovo's all new IdeaPad Y480 is a 14-inch multimedia notebook designed to give you a perfect balance between serious performance for work and multimedia power for play. Whether you're editing HD video for a school project or playing the latest video games, this laptop has you covered. Keep reading to find out if it's worth the price.

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[Mr.Mischief]

Give me 900P or give me death!!!

[Jerry Jackson]

Considering that an ever-increasing number of tablets are coming to the market with screen resolutions of 1080p or better, it's only a matter of time before notebook manufacturers are essentially forced to use higher-resolution displays even in budget laptops.

We're fast approaching the point where 1366x768 won't even cut it on 12-inch laptops ... not just 14-inch and larger laptops.

[Syberia]

I'm still hoping that the backlit keyboard is interchangeable with the one on my Y470. If they're not too expensive on eBay in the coming months, I might have to buy one and try it out.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

We're fast approaching the point where 1366x768 won't even cut it on 12-inch laptops ... not just 14-inch and larger laptops.

I am very much looking forward to this day.

[pokiworms]

This is such a terrible offer for 1500.....

[AboutThreeFitty]

This is such a terrible offer for 1500.....

It's currently $850 on Lenovo's site.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

This is such a terrible offer for 1500.....

It's currently $850 on Lenovo's site.

Lenovo tends to be generous with coupons, make sure you do some googling for coupon codes. As AboutThreeFitty said, it's already almost half the "MSRP" listed without any coupons (not that the MSRP means anything ... Lenovo likes to make it look like you are getting a huge discount when you're really not).

[JuiceForTheSoul]

I don't see what problem people have with a 1366 * 768 resolution on a 14-inch. I have this setup and have to increase the size of on-screen stuff to 125% to make it comfortable to read. At the native resolution and DPI everything is painfully small.

Sure if you're gaming a higher resolution wouldn't go amiss, but why would you game on the laptop screen with terrible colour, contrast and viewing angles? I plug mine into a proper monitor for watching video or playing games.

Anyway I contacted Lenovo UK and apparently only the Y580 is coming out here - maybe on that a 1366 * 768 would be too little. But a 1920 * 1080 would definitely be too much. I don't like holding my head 6 inches from the screen to read.

[Jerry Jackson]

The older I get (and the older my parents get) the more I understand the argument that resolutions higher than 1366x768 make it difficult to read text in a Windows environment at native display settings ... but that's an issue with Windows and one that Microsoft knows it has to work out.

The reality is that we are globally becoming consumers of "greater than HD" content. 4K cameras (between 4096x1714 or 3840x2160 depending on which standard you use) are increasingly becoming available to the makers of movies and TV and 4K displays are just around the corner (LG showed a 84-inch 4K HDTV at CES this year with 3840x2160 resolution).

The newest iPad has a 9.7-inch display with 2048x1536 resolution ... and reading text on that small screen isn't a problem at all because the OS and applications understand what they need to do in order to display text clearly for human eyes.

We're already at the point where most tech enthusiasts don't consider 1366x768 to be acceptable and we're fast approaching at the point where even average consumers are going to expect AT LEAST a 1080p resolution on whatever digital device they buy.