Can you spot the difference?? 

Yep. Which is why you'll notice 3 different driver versions. Only tried it on Splinter Cell and I would say it's really smooth compare to previous driver. Whenever I start up the game, it'll lag most of the part include starting menu. Even after I lowered the details to medium to make it smooth, it just won't do it. After driver is updated, smooth, all the way, with some settings tune up a bit, still performs better than older driver. Heat wise is the same as switchable graphics on ATI with new BIOS, ave. 50-54C, lowest 48C, highest 74C.

How bro? Set BIOS for "Switchable Graphic"??

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Ehh... Did you check your driver version?? It's still the same as the original one, which means you only have Catalyst 10.4 software installed w/o new driver upgrades on HD 5650 

You can see my last pic. Left: New Catalyst w/ latest driver ; Middle: Original Catalyst and driver ; Right: Original Catalyst and driver for switchable graphics.

Nice. Any improvement compared to Cat 10.4?

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Thanks for all your help. Anyone knows which shop (which sells lenovo y460) offers 0% installment plan (without charging any processing fees)? Would like to know so that I can go straight to that shop to purchase.

SPOILER ALERT!!

Maybe you're right. The games I play are like Rise of Nations and Medieval Total War and playing both of them will always distort my cursor. I'll try newer games to test if it's the case.

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Added on May 29, 2010, 9:21 pmA correction, the game is actually Medieval 2 Total War. Is it really such an old game that ATI newer series do not support?

what is the average battery life for y460? hahah i went to lowyat today and all the seller quoted me 3699 for the laptop, some even went up to 3799. so disappointing.

Sounds like you've played with 1 before    Mind share us your experience?? 
I would assume Sony uses better material/heat design hence better air circulation on GPU+CPU. It's a bit rare to find a thorough review on EA16(maybe didn't find hard enough...) and I can't find tear down shots like what 4820TG and Y460 has so can't figure out how EA16's heat arrangement look like  . One thing for sure, Sony hardly does bad designs on cooling.

just got the y460. why is the right palmrest warmer than the rest of the laptop? isnt the cpu and gpu at the top left? also there some sort of whistling sound under the palmrest.

anyway, for my cpu temp, its around 33C with intel gpu idle, and 65C with ati playing games. way cooler than my last laptop, hp dv5. now deciding whether to change to ssd or not.

how come u can get such a nice temperature?can give me some tips and guides?

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Added on June 18, 2010, 10:26 pm

read at china article..it reduces idle state temperature but the gaming part..still maintain at high temp..

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Added on June 19, 2010, 10:13 amregarding the reinstalling of win7..i am still confused about it..hopefully somebody can englighten me..
1)what is the purpose of making recovery disc?what kind of things do we store inside it?
2)since we dont have win7 disc installer,we need to download it(win7 home premium 64-bit) from microsoft?
3)after successful clean install of win7,we install driver from D: back to C : right?
4)after i am satisfied with my new OS,can i set OKR to format back to this OS(new) in future(virus or etc)..?
hope someone can solve my confusion..xD

sorry for late reply,

1st u need to disable out those bloatware that is on your laptop,
you can do this by:
on the start menu, on the textbox, or, you can just press the windows + r button (on ur keyboard), and type in msconfig.
then, go to the startup tab, & disabled any non-useful application (untick those selected application)

NOTE: just make sure that the you didnt disabled out the important one (wireless, bluetooth, intel, ati, ur antivirus)
by doing this, less processes that involved, & less heat that will be produced,

you also need to set out ur power plan setting to power saver mode, and make sure that ur power play is set to
maximize performance: Previous Post regarding on power play setting

and use cooler pad 

just now i've use the OKR disc, yes, after i use the OKR, it reverted back to the factory setting
(just like 1st time when we switch on the laptop), all the previous data that stored on the HD will be erased.
bloatware also pre-installed LoL  nevermind, can disabled those bloatware...

hey guys,
great news, i've managed to install MAC OS Snow Leopard OSX86 on my laptop,
i've made it by creating a new partition (that new partition is for MAC OS)

windows 7 still can be loaded (on drive C:) 
i just use the OKR, then install & use the EASUS partition manager for creating the new partition,

insert the Chameleon + install MAC OS Snow Leo OSX86,
and then, on startup, u can choose between OSX86 + Windows 7 (but need the chameleon to boot up both OS)

i've tested it out on the MAC OS Snow Leo OSX86, things that can be used so far:
sound, keyboard, touchpad...

but still need tweaking on the touchpad part (there's bug where my cursor sometimes, move randomly on the MAC Screen..)
i've also tested it out by watching video's on that OS, so far so good.. 

i bought my y460 today...may get it after 1 week...for y460 users out there...can we make harddisk in y460 into 2 partition? C and D?saw at previous post...the third partition is being used up by OKR(in C partition)...

thx a lot toh..may i ask u what is the boot-up time for y460?

Last fri onli sent bac my y460 bac to sc due to the HDD got sound & my keyboard's button is not in good function...
I'm lucky enuf that thy changed a new HDD for me again for this time & a new keyboard also plus thy helped me to updated my bios