i never heard before windows xp windows 7 windows vista need to "clean install"

Only windows 8 start to become "dirty" and need "clean install".

BTW suggestion to u all, install ur Win 8 pro in EFI mode, ur Windows partition will be format into GPT partition

BTW suggestion to u all, install ur Win 8 pro in EFI mode, ur Windows partition will be format into GPT partition

the previous sandy bridge laptop from Lenovo used to have issues with WIFI & freezed shutdown problem if u install win7 in EFI mode/GPT partition.  Hope this problem will not happen again. Hope Lenovo engineers solve this problems.

BTW suggestion to u all, install ur Win 8 pro in EFI mode, ur Windows partition will be format into GPT partition

i never heard before windows xp windows 7 windows vista need to "clean install"

Only windows 8 start to become "dirty" and need "clean install".

Y480 user's,well i kinda confuse which part is those component..In this pic is my y480 been partially take apart cover. The bottom right corner is ram,wireless card at the bottom left as i know. The upper left,middle (is it HDD?) and right side..i cant be sure what component is it. Any idea?

err.... gpu, cpu, msata... anything??? can't confirm if there's no pics

Y480 user's,well i kinda confuse which part is those component..In this pic is my y480 been partially take apart cover. The bottom right corner is ram,wireless card at the bottom left as i know. The upper left,middle (is it HDD?) and right side..i cant be sure what component is it. Any idea?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y3aknb50gttqnb/IMAG0679.jpg

middle left is optical disk drive, middle is HDD, right side is vent, CPU is under it... GPU is on the top left... IINM...

Can I bring my laptop together with newly bought ssd and caddy to the lenovo service centre and ask them help transfer my current windows 8 from the hdd to sdd ? then my hdd will replace odd place, ssd insert into hdd place. hdd will act like storage drive after that. I really dont have idea on how to do it on my own.

Was testing something and i accidentally clean my whole SSD   so i decided to experiment something which end up that it works.   Now on my SSD i have dual boot OS of Win7 and Win8...
1. You will need to do a recovery media of your Win8 which you will need a 16GB pendrive or ext. HDD, by following this: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/...?DocID=HT076024
2. On your SSD, format and split the partition accordingly if you need 2 type of OS on it. If not then just leave it as it is...
3. Install Win7 on the partition which you wish to recover your Win8 into, so this step is just to create a dummy so that the recovery media will enable you to do recovery onto that partition.
4. Finish the Win7 installation until you can get into the desktop wallpaper screen, plug in your recovery media pendrive/ext. HDD and then restart without any need for driver or software installation.
5. Press F12 so that you can choose the bootup media to your USB recovery media.
6. From here onward again you can follow the instructions from the link above and then wait for the recovery to be done...
7. After finish, you will see the Win8 like a freshly installed ones but all the drivers will still be intact so no need to do driver installations, unless for the graphic drivers that you want to update to the newest.
8. And for me, i plug in the Win7 installation pendrive again and then reboot to install the Win7 on my other partition. So on every startup i will get to choose Win7 or Win8 for the bootup.
That's all folks~!

My one comes with Synaptics. So far no problem yet. Many Y500 and Y580 users complain about their touchpad malfunctioning but so far I dont have any problem with it.
No the Original window 8 64-bits come with the picture lock function
For Y500, standard one comes with 2 years Carry-in warranty. You need to register your product's warranty at lenovo's website. You need to attach your invoice with date and company's chop in order to register for warranty. So one thing you HAVE to be careful is that you need to make sure that there's a CHOP in your invoice.

Regardless to the hardware problem, as what i see in the community forum, most users have touchpad problems (but I dont have), so if you are the lucky one, you will get the good one. Then, Lenovo Y500 comes with different specs now. Some comes with Blu-Ray optical drive, some come with DVD drive (which means they are not GT650 SLI). depending on what you want.

The GT650 SLI is not that stable yet. Need to wait for Nvidia to release the latest drivers to solve the slacking and glitch problem in certain games, most identical one would be Dota 2. The vertical sync problem still remain unsolved yet.

Will the windows 8 be able to support games like gta Iv, bf3, cod and sims ?

i have a question ! if lets say im watching a 1080p movie on my y500 and i connect to my tv which can only support up to 720p via HDMI cable, what will happen ? :/

downscaled when play in fullscreen i believe. if not full screen, probably overfilled