Any local y480 will get 2 years warranty. Unless stated from shop. If u got only 1 year warranty, that means ur item is not from local.
Check warranty status on 1st page.. Ignore the laptop box information mate.

as long you have receipt ,ur warranty is valid even the page not update

hi all, would like to know from any owner of Y480:

1. Does your gear having any overheat problem? can you post temperature data showing temperatures at idle, and full load?
especially interested to know if Asus N56 runs cooler than lenovo or not.

2. I read from here and cari.com that some owners of Lenovo modify their gear by taking out the dvd drive and place the hdd there with a caddy, and put an ssd in the original hdd slot. reportedly this lowers temp by 10c. - would this violate the warranty?

3. can we do step 2, by just moving the hdd to the optical drive bay but not putting any ssd (leave the hdd slot empty)?

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actually i have asked this in another thread, but place here too hope to get more answers...
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry53686897

seems to have a bit too many Y480 threads...
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youtube video i dont know, but saw this if you can read chinese (but with lots of pics):

http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2232884-1-1.html

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Added on August 9, 2012, 7:45 am

from design maybe, but in actual world, lots of ppl complain abt this, iincluding the China users where Lenovo is based. that's why many owner modify them by moving their hdd to the dvd drive bay. so far haven't heard similar cases on the asus n56.

would like to hear more from owners...

haha sorry for giving u a chinese page... but quite informative, those guys are crazy and brave...

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Added on August 9, 2012, 1:35 pmanother thing folks:  when we buy from online sellers, or even from a shops, how do we know if they are AP set or not?

U using Beta Driver or Lenovo give one?
Lenovo give one is lousy, beta driver better a bit(but still got some bug)

I using the modified 305.53 driver which is dev version, so far I see it does improve the performance.....

that you can set the setting in nvdia very easily. just right click and enter nvdia setting set the default graphic card for your particular game is nvdia instead of intel

the 304.79 is forcing NVIDIA GPU running with HD4000
305.53 seems like solve that bug....
although Performance Information and Tools still cannot use NVIDIA GPU for rendering the Gaming Graphic...lol

View this
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=53819671

Ya, I think our stock is from China but ship to Malaysia to sell...
My BOX there origin is CN, but country is MY....

hmm...should i sell the 1600 4gb ram stick and get 2x 4gb 1333 ram stick?

Since price difference between a 1600 and 1333 is about 20,which makes it a total saving of around rm40.

why would i want to trade a more expensive ram for a cheaper ram when its new?unless theres some problem with my ram..otherwise why would i trade it..

I got mine (Y580 FHD) from Mid Valley few days ago. Totally rocks and gaming out of the box is fuss free. Not sure why but the 1TB 5400RPM is a little sluggish compared to my work laptop (also spinner HDD). It takes awhile before I could even start a browser.

Am now considering of getting a mSATA ~60GB or more for use as a Windows boot drive. Don't think the new Y580 supports Intel SRT (only HM76 chipset). Any recommendation or advise (for or against)?

LOL, I need to use this laptop for entire 4 years...lol

I plan to buy one SSD, one hybrid drive, and HDD candy bay for it la...
SSD just need to boot OS(so 64GB/60GB) should be enough, and hybrid driver(think of buy 500GB) is to store program and personal data...
That default 500GB HDD take out and become external HDD..lol

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Added on August 16, 2012, 8:41 pmPS: next year

Wow, OS need 60GB?
I thought its around 20 ~ 30 GB nia?