Y400/Y500 leaked details gather from the China Lenovo insider in chinese sites.
http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2477291-1-1.html
http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2440179-1-1.html
http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2443047-1-1.html

- Factory engineering Y500 sample with i7-3610M, SLI GT650M, 8GB DDR3 1600mhz, 1TB.


- Y400 with i3,i5,i7 & Y500 with i5,i7
- on board gpu with GT650M + HD4000
- Y400/Y500 come with optional GT650M in ultrabay cost around 1500RMB according to rumour. (around RM720)
- dual GPUs are good in running some hardcore game
- cooling are good with better workmanship & thicker heat sink pipe.
- 170W PSU for dual Gpus
- ultrabay with 5 choices~ ODD,HDD,discrete GPU,fake ODD, fan blowing air out
- Y500 with optional Full HD. Y400 may come with 900p screen, low spec with HD.
- red backlit keyboard optional, JBL speaker, msata interface, Windows 8
- available in market around 1st half of Oct 2012
- Y400/Y500 are not replacement product for Y480/Y580, its a new Y series
- Y400/Y500 will price much higher than Y480/Y580(except for low spec version), they still tring to lower its costing.

Y400/Y500 selling point is the swappable ultrabay with optional GT650M, but fallshort in battery life & weight.
If the price is not very far from Y480/Y580 for ultrabay with ODD/fan, than it may be good alternative as we can upgrade
to more powerfull future gpu in ultrabay. Will it bottlenet by on board GT650M when SLI?

Now the question:
- What its price/performance vs Y480/Y580?
- How effective is the SLI GT650M? can get more than 50%? Worth?
- How good is the driver support for SLI?
- How effective is the cooling & battery life?
- Did HDD's temperature improve?
- whats the durability of swappable GPU?
- How portable is Y400/Y500 with 170W psu?
- Will it affect the pricing of existing Y480/Y580?
- Is it worth waiting?
- When will it available in MY?

This post has been edited by ytlay: Sep 15 2012, 03:35 PM

Good info you got there.

This post has been edited by CidBunansa: Sep 15 2012, 03:28 PM

edited*

This post has been edited by brian_woo: Sep 26 2012, 01:26 AM

So any interesting news? Its almost october

=.= never think SLI will invade notebook so soon........

And 120w adaptor already super heavy for me .

^notebook already got CFX/SLI since long time ago..

5 more days~ this seems promising~ better wait just to compare with y580~

Imagine my 11.6" gaming laptop with a 150W adapter

Good thing you can still use your Asus adapter.

Hmmm

Thats sure very rare on malaysia market .
Or very expensive cause i never consider/look at laptop over 3k before .

Any official news that when will this be released?

This month

New Lenovo Ideapad Y500/Y400 coming soon in Lenovo US sites.
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/i.../y-series/y500/
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/i.../y-series/y400/

Y500/Y400 specs.

Y500 picture.


Y400 wallpaper.




This post has been edited by ytlay: Oct 17 2012, 05:34 PM

Y400 picture.




This post has been edited by ytlay: Oct 17 2012, 05:51 PM

The main question, is the screen FHD?

Anyway, I really love the build design.
It looks super awesome! The design is sexier than y580.

This post has been edited by CidBunansa: Oct 16 2012, 08:03 PM

when will it be out?

How good is this 'Dual' graphic card ultrabay features ?
I might not be very expert in hardware, feel free to educate me a little about this laptop.

May be getting y580 soon, but this one pops out and wonder if this can be better option instead of y580?

gt655m?
wad sort of graphic card is that?

Surely it'll be better than gt650m. I guess...

dual gpu? surely is gonna be hot hot hot? probably most suited to be for SSD
i think y500 is definitely FHD, not sure y400...

probably gonna end up one of these when made available