hi there, im going to buy lenovo y510p. may i know what are ur opinions on this lappy? got any issues? i heard it doesnt come with msata slot anymore unlike it predecessor right? and is the ram soldered?

guys may I know what driver version you guys are using? I updated to the latest 332 and I cant run my assassin creed 4. I reverted back to 327 but very lag.

RAM is not soldered, SODIMM is used... I've never saw any laptop with soldered RAM actually... is there any?


I heard that the latest driver gave problem... last R331 version should be ok to use.

owh, okie.. so how is y510p with single gt755m? so far u heard any issues from owners here?

MacBook Air is an example of the soldered RAM laptop/ultrabook
And also the MacBook Pro 2013

This post has been edited by sss2sssss: Jan 25 2014, 11:21 PM

I dont think I heard lots of complains, but I do heard failures after a while owning it though in my view it's not that often... I could be wrong cause it's been a while since I'm here...

aaahhhh... well, I didn't consider Apple products when I mentioned it... not familiar with them anyway...

though I'm surprised that MacBook Pro 2013's RAM is soldered down...

i heard w8.1 will mess up the system right? does it happen to y510p coz it comes wiv w8.1... and does it hav wifi problem just like what i heard some dell inspiron got this kind of problem?

I use Win8.1 Pro on my Y580, no fault found from there. I use Win8.1 Pro on my gaming rig as well, I didn't find any fault as well. Though I dont know if there's any model specific issue but I bet it's caused by the driver, get a proper driver and you should be fine...

as for wifi issue, it happens on any Win8 machines... I have trouble with wifi on both of my machines, Y580 and my desktop, forced to run on LAN right now... I've tested multiple machines, observed my friends' Win8 PC vs Win7 as well I can confirm Win8 pretty much has wifi issue unless you have full wifi signal...

for wifi issues, what does it meant by full wifi signal..? if my router is outside in the living room and i had my lappy inside my enclosed room which is around 7 meters away, will it affect my wifi connection? oso, just wanna make sure the y510p with single gt755m, does it come with dvd burner? what is hot swap-able?

last time I tested, I have the router right beside me so that I always full signal (all bars highlighted in your taskbar) and ping is always <1ms...

7 meters away, I guess your wifi will be affected though the performance of the wifi varies greatly with how many walls it has to go through as well... my room is probably less than 7 meters distance but separated by 2 rooms, even with high gain antenna it's hard to keep stable connection in my room, though to be fair to the laptop my Nexus 4 can't even get signals at certain spots in my room.

though my friend in another room, separated only by 1 room to the router, he can manage his connection pretty fine though lately even he is convinced that Win8 got problems with wifi and changed to LAN as well...

This is only per my observation, I could miss something... though if your phone can get stable connection, chances are you will be able to get stable connection as well on your laptop...

As for the DVD writer, as far as I know if you are on single GPU you will always get the optical drive. Hot-swappable, may be not... I'm not 100% sure...

This post has been edited by mrl: Jan 26 2014, 12:44 AM

Hi guys, i am a owner of a lenovo y510p

Wanna ask, when i try to run Dota 2
My resolution will change to 800x 600 then the monitor goes blank, before sending me to the desktop?

Is there an issue with my graphics card?

hi Jinsterz, since ur an owner of y510p, wanna ask u whether ur laptop comes with hot swapable dvd burner or not? coz i oso wanna buy y510p

i took out the dvd to install ssd. the Dvd rom converted to external. Not sure if its a burner or not..seldom use dvd nowadays

Hi,i just bougth a y410p, think to upgrade the ram to 16gb, did it mention need to buy a specifik ram ,or just ddr3 ram is enough....

anything 1600MHz should work as long as it is SODIMM... lots of them out there...

I think 1833MHz works as well... not sure about anything faster than that...

in short, nothing specific... any DDR3 should work...

Hi guys, it's been awhile since I've been here.

I'm thinking to upgrade my HDD since i'm using 500gb which is not enough for me right now.

I've found out that seagate released a new product named SSHD and there's a seller in LYN who sells it.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3088190/all

So, may I ask if it's compatible with Y580?

I'm not really that good with hardware stuff so lets say it's compatible, how do I copy all my files from my previous HDD to the new one?

Clone it or do a clean installation?

Kindly advise.

Thanks!

hi, dont think both y410p n y510p messed up by win 8. afaik, both these models are made for win 8. even though most of the drivers are for win 8.

i'm y410 user, should i update to win8.1?

I dont see a reason it's not compatible, unless the BIOS has whitelist which I dont think it has one. the caching is controlled by the drive itself, not the BIOS like mSATA + HDD combo. So I guess it should work out of the box.

If you are on Win8 already, just update it... it's better than Win8 anyway... if you are still on Win7 somehow, I'd say try it yourself first before comitting to Win8.1

Thx. but what HDD size is on Y580? I mean it is 2.5?