What is the price/ spec of Y500? Bought where?
Can u register the warranty for imported unit on-line?
Are you extending the warranty service via Lenovo US site or Malaysia site?

Fyi, the full details of the problems posted in http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2659150&hl.

The standard caddy bay for HDD might not fit Y500 due to special design on its ports/shape/thickness.
Even Y500 & Y400 ultrabay are not interchangable due to its designs.

There are special design ultrabay for Y500 and Y400 from Lenovo, but not yet available in local market.
Optional hotswappable ultrabay are for cooling fans, HDD, dvdrom, GC(gt650m) as pic:



This post has been edited by ytlay: Jan 12 2013, 10:30 PM

Local set Y480 already phased out already and replaced by Y400 with better designs. Most of the Y480 available in the market are grey imported set (AP set). You might get a refurbished set or end up with major warranty claims problem. Its best to avoid and go for local set Y400.

Buying laptop is not like buying vegetable. We need to look at price/performance and also good service/warranty support. What happens if we are unlucky to get a refurbished set or bad apple for cheaper imported set and local Lenovo reject your warranty as reported in http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2647407.

Dont get carry away by the good offers on cheaper imported set (AP set)
and overlook the important of good service & warranty support before we

Spend a bit extra for local set Y400 and you get better designs, cooling and optional swappable ultrabay.
You can check the Y400 pricing in garage sales & nego for it.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Jan 13 2013, 04:57 PM

Y400 & Y480 have similar spec/performance but different designs.
Y400 has the options to add extra ultrabay gt650m/170w psu for sli when you need extra horsepower later.

Y500 with SLI only results performance boost in gaming and not with your above work assignment.

Get the cheaper Y580@2999 with longer battery life and better single gpu will help to speed up your work assignment. Use the remaining money for SSD to speed up system response, get a u3 cooler and upgrade to 3 yrs on-site warranty.

If you use at home, you are better of with desktop which are much cheaper, more powerfull, customizable, better cooling and longer lifespan.

Y500 SLI are meant for budget hardcore gamer.
You can ask for second opinion in the recommendation thread or pm our sifu [PF] T.J. and nexus2238 for advice.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2656652/+700
Local set Y580 have limited stock in the market due to overwhelming demand, they are restocking it according to Lenovo facebook. They might replace Y580 with cheaper variant of Y500 like Y400 replaced Y480.
Beware and avoid those grey imported set(AP set) with potential issues.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Jan 28 2013, 11:52 PM

Y500 vs Y580
3799 vs RM2999
gt650m sli vs gtx660m
Y500 with better build/design/cooling and swappable ultrabay.
Y580 with optimus and longer battery life

If you are hardcore gamer, get Y500. Else get cheaper Y580 and use the remaining money for SSD, u3 cooler and upgrade the warranty to 3 yrs on-site warranty.

So, yours choice.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Mar 10 2013, 11:24 PM

I'm not a seller, check it out at garage sales. selling around RM34xx. nego for it.
Some forumer get it during Mid valley IT fair with free upgrade to 4 yrs warranty and 4 GB ram.

You can refer to more details gaming performance review in notebookcheck. The sli gaming support is quite impressive according to notebookcheck.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo...ok.87585.0.html

Local set Y480/Y580 already replaced by Y400/Y500.
If you happen to see Y480/Y580 in the market, most probably is the grey imported set from US (AP set) which might end up with warranty issues.

If you are gamer, wait and grab the upcoming Y500/Y400 +GT750m(GDDR5) which have better performance above GTX660m (ie Y580), much better cooling system, poisoness red backlit, optional swappable ultrabay, removable battery, slot for mSATA SSD and easier self upgrade of HDD, SSD, ram and dust cleaning compare to new Z400/GT740m.

Y400/i7/gt750m is best bang for the buck compare to Z400/i7/gt740m iff around the same price point.

Look and keyboard is more on personal preference, best is to test and check it out the display unit at shop. Screen quality should be about the same.

Read here for more info: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2765182/+80

This post has been edited by ytlay: Apr 10 2013, 12:32 AM

Have you check with Devour for the upcoming Y500/GT750m?

You can get the current Y500/gt650m sli from Hikari**. Check whether he can arrange cod in KL.

Its normal for gaming laptop to get the warm keyboard since cpu/gpu is below it. Higher specs laptop have better performance and generate more heat as usual. Its not overheat as overheating will results laptop shutdown.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Apr 18 2013, 12:01 AM

hikari is selling around 34XX. Have you check with rickyrich and arrange cod at lowyat?
You can also check at lowyat and some resellers selling around 34XX according to user feedback.

If Y500/GT750m sli pop up together with Y400/gt750m around the same price in 1-2 weeks, than he will

Dont make him disappointed . Best to advise him not to look back and enjoy his new baby.
gt650m sli still a good choice on par with gtx670mx , its cooler and more headroom for OC.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Apr 18 2013, 01:13 AM