http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo...ok.87585.0.html
Review of Y500.
Lots of benchmark for lots of games.

KittyKat was asking about battery performance.
Y580, Nvidia Optimus enable GTX660M when required. Under normal usage, Intel HD 4000 will be used, which is a lot more battery friendly.
Y500, on board GT650M is on all the time, which drain battery a lot faster compared to Intel HD 4000 (Nvidia Optimus is not enabled).

Ask your friend to follow the instruction in the manual lah

Sorry, don't really understand you
Suppose you insert the ultrabay GT650M into laptop.
The Y500 will have 3 GPU, Intel HD 4000 (which is disabled by Lenovo), the onboard GT650M, and the ultrabay GT650M.
The onboard GT650M is always on, so you may say that is the primary GPU. The ultrabay GT650M will kick in when you play games that can utilise Nvidia SLI.

That re-seller most likely BS you . Normally there is no "warranty void" sticker around mSATA port

Please just read the 1st post of this thread lah

1. Lenovo don't release GTX680M in ultrabay. (and no one else is )
2. To run SLI, you need 2 of the same GPU model.

Laptop speakers generally sucks for anyone who are used to decent speakers (nothing fancy or expensive, just normal decent). All we deal with is the level of "suckiness"
Generally, the bigger the laptop (17" and above), the likelier the chance that the speakers will be slightly better (and may even come with small tiny build-in subwoofer).
To enjoy the soundcard in the Y500 (Realtek ALC269), connect it to cheap pair of desktop speakers with sub-woofer For best sound, use the HDMI port to connect to any fancy audio setup you have

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Mar 5 2013, 09:52 AM

The cable you guys mentioned is for SPDIF / TOSlink.
TOSlink is Optical, SPDIF is either coaxial or Optical.
Basically it is to tranmit sound data via digital format (the normal speaker out port is analog). Guarantee no loss of quality
If you have a Home Theather or nice sound system, you could connect your laptop to them using this type of cable if your laptop has this type of port.
For example, the Asus N56VZ has this port, and the sound card in it support 5.1 native. Connect to HT for surround sound baby
The sound card in Y400/500 only support 2.1, iinm.

http://forum.techinferno.com/lenovo-ibm/28...telist-mod.html

In case anyone is pissed with the Wireless Card and brave enough to flash BIOS

^ Come on lah. GT650M and GT750M is based off the same GK107, clock differently. You are not likely to see something like 20% outperformance

Battery performance 4 cells, i5 M CPU Don't have a option to equip with larger capacity battery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojX_vwR7K0

Z400 / 500 is not easy to maintain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVYvJhlhL8

Compare to Y400 / 500, the Z400 / 500 is "high maintenance"

You don't need beast like Y series or Illegear (Clevo).
i5 or i7 ULV CPU in ultrabook is powerful enough for you

No, the 95% NTSC gamut screen, once calibrated (illegear sometime do this for free), is practically one of the best screen money can buy right now. Only the Retina (again need to calibrate as well) of Apple, Dell PremierColor, HP DreamColor can match it.
The IPS in Acer V3 is no slouch though
Ultrabook aim for portability - battery performance and weight.

You are in a strange position You have good budget. But you don't need powerful GPU. You also don't want ultrabook
Spend your money on warranty extension (depend on brands you go for), SSD (go for 256G ~ RM600), RAM (8G stick ~ RM200, get 2)

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Apr 10 2013, 10:44 PM

What I meant was depends on which brand you go for, spend your remaining budget on those things
i5 is powerful enough for your usage. Same goes with whatever GPU since you don't game at all.
Order of priority:
SSD (without a doubt). Then either go for the screen or the warranty.

putting in a mSATA SSD will not void hardware warranty.
mSATA SSD is slightly more expensive than SATA SSD for the same capacity.
Don't go for 60G mSATA, price/capacity is not ideal.
120/128G mSATA SSD is ~ RM350+ now.

^
All consumer laptop model should at least has 1 matte screen spec
If Lenovo intend to keep Asus G series in the warehouse, having a matte screen is a good step

Practically all laptops in the world are manufactured in factories in China