Lenovo Y540 - main thread

Tech Specs
Processor

• 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-9750H
• 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-9300H

Operating System Windows 10 Home
Graphics

• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 3G

Display 15.6” FHD (1920 x 1080), IPS, up to 144 Hz, 72% color gamut, and 300 nits
Memory

• 8 GB DDR4 2666 MHz
• 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz (2x8G)
• 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz (2x16G)
• 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz

Battery

• Up to 5 hours
• 52.5 Wh

Storage Up to 1TB PCIe SSD or up to 2 TB HDD
Audio Harman® speakers with Dolby Atmos® for Gaming
Dimensions (W x D x H) 14.4″ x 10.2″ x 1.02″ / 365mm x 260mm x 25.9mm
Weight Starting at 2.3kg
Color Raven Black
Connectivity

• 2 x 2 802.11 ac + Bluetooth® 5.0
• 1 x 1 802.11 ac + Bluetooth® 4.2

Ports / Slots

• USB-C
• Mini DisplayPort™ 1.4
• 3 x USB 3.1 Gen 1
• HDMI™ 2.0
• Ethernet
• Kensington® lock slot
• Audio combo
• NOVO hole

Keyboard White-backlit

 

I'm currently torn between this and the Y7000P/Y545 (same model, different markets).

Seems mostly to be an aesthetic difference.

 

Y545 cools worse than the Y540. It's not mostly aesthetics, it's the literal internals being that of the Y7000, a model that cooled poorly. Lenovo's just calling it Y545 in the US, probably to mislead people.

 

Do you have links/references alluding to its poor cooling? The only two reviews I looked at both praised the Y7000P for its cooling, which is something I value greatly in laptops. The YouTube review looked at the new 9th gen, and even mentioned it was relatively quiet for a gaming laptop with good thermals.



https://www.techradar.com/reviews/lenovo-legion-y7000p-review

 

This is the Y540's heatsink

This is the Y545's heatsink


As you can tell, there are two less vents on this machine, making overall less surface area that the fans are cooling. Everyone I've talked to that has one of these units, be it the chinese version or the US version, faces high temps at 45w (like 85-90C under gpu/cpu full load) as opposed to lower temps (75-85C, sometimes higher on combined load) on the y540, at 55W or so. Keep in mind the wattage increases are WAY more important than the temperatures alone, as higher speeds result in higher wattages, and vise versa.

YouTube reviewers generally do a poor job of determining how well a laptop performs thermally, and I'd say the Y540 is a better option performance wise in ANY situation.

Tech Radar is no exception, either.

 

Any update on 76Whr battery mod? Cause if it works this might just be my next laptop.

 

Battery and laptop still have yet to arrive.

 

What do u mean by battery mod?

 

Replacing the small battery with a larger one from the 17 inch model

 

Well my order of the Y540 just shipped, once I've gotten it and played around I might post a quick review.