END ? END of august? i am still planning to get it before i go oversea study.    leaving in early september 
Y410P got any complains about it recently? if really cant then i will take that one maybe

you leaving malaysia too? 

haha same here...here got alot promo, storm88 selling Y500 with free headset and logitech mouse :limited unit:
what uni are u from?

sorry ts i offtopic abit

oo..richfag detected 
spending 5 years there for whole course? 
why u no consider Y410?

Hi! 3 weeks y500 user here! 

Well, FOR ME, it actually depends on the type of game i'm playing, and the overheat is not "OVER" at all. The temperature around the keyboard area is actually quite "warm" and "ok-ok" la... but the graphic card section gets hot after playing 2 to 4 hours of gaming (around high settings for new games)...
But the heat dissipates around 30 minutes after i exit the game (shows that y500 cooling system is top-notch!  )

Be aware though, I'm playing this laptop in a quite cramped space, non-air-conditioned room, no cooler-pad, and my laptop is not lifted a bit to allow maximum ventilation for my laptop...

So if u wanna play on this laptop with max performance while increasing the time-limit before laptop gets hot, u have to:
1. Play in a spacious place to allow max ventilation (Spacious room, vents of laptop not blocked, good air circulation in room)
2. Play in air-conditioned room (Well, it's cold, so go figure! )
3. Use cooled-pad if possible (costs some $$, someone told me to get CoolerMaster U3 Pad or something as the size of laptop is compatible with this cooling pad, price around rm75)
4. Lift the laptop a bit (place a book or something to raise laptop, as y500 has another vent-with-fans below it, which blows heat outside from CPU and RAM)
5. Don't play at bed or ur lap or something, it blocks the vents, reduce function of vents, and may cause ur lap to burn! So be careful.. 

i rather go y510p

Because of the additional GPU which really make a difference

I rather buy the newer model which is just 1 month away

additional GPU = SLI

y500 oso got additional GPU.. only advantage of y510p is that it has Nvidia Optimus, which means have longer battery life (approx 4~6 hours) compared to y500 (3~4 hours)....

But for nvidia optimus to function, u have to disable SLI (I'm not sure if optimus is enabled when sli is disabled thru nvidia control panel, but nvidia optimus will 100% enable when u remove the additional gpu from the ultrabay and replace with other ultrabay items such as DVD-rom, HDD, etc)

All in all, y510p's advantage over the y500 is only regarding the battery life.. and also QuickSync function (i have no idea what that is.. other forumer told me about this)

Curious where do you get the info Y510P will arrive Malaysia next month?

dont misleading people bro..even buy US set..for sure that item buy at US...thats why US set...then import to Malaysia...thats called parralel import for some statement...but it still have 1 year Internantional warranty...what if i export my Malaysia set to US and selling there? izzit my item cant claim warranty there? if cant why they call it Internantional Warranty? just put there Local warranty...like previous 4-5year ago..

ok, first and foremost, bear in mind that y500 has 2 versions. The old one is the one with gt650m graphic card, while the new one is the one with gt750m graphic card.

Well, as i've said, the most noticeable difference between y510p and y500 is the battery life. Others are y510p has quicksync function (i'm not sure what this is) and also the processor use new ivy bridge or something, which in a way could increase performance by a little to none compared to the y500..

the touchpad and wifi issues that occur in the old version of y500 is no longer present in the new version of y500...

overheating actually never happens... the only thing that overheats during all my time owning this new version of y500 is that the graphic card gets overheated. But this only happen after i've played games on high settings for 4-5 hours at non air-conditioned room and without cooling pad.

i think better u get SLI version as the price with SLI is rm3880, while without SLI is rm33xx~35xx... price for additional GPU is rm6xx~8xx...

Urm, i'm not sure about PES as my installer disc is with my fren, and he already further his studies 

I tried copying my PES 13 and some other games from my desktop PC, but due to this stupid McAfee antivirus that came with this laptop, I can't play some of my games (the pirate ones) as the antivirus automatically deletes the crack files as it thinks they are virus/trojan... 

But i really do think that y500 can run PES 13 and FIFA 13 with high settings on single GPU as both of those games are seriously not demanding.

i don't have Battlefield, sorry. haven't even tried one of the games from the Battlefield series.

COD i only have COD 4- Modern Warfare and COD 5- World at War.. I don't have the latest versions of COD 

Racing games? Well, I've only got NFS Undercover and the latest one is NFS The Run.. Undercover can run fine, but NFS The Run I have problem running in SLI, so I ran in single GPU mode, and yes.. it runs perfectly fine....

Removable fan i'm not sure, but I think better buy cooling pad than removable fan as most ultrabay parts are expensive, price varies from rm2xx to rm8xx based on which ultrabay part... (for y500, someone recommend me buy Cooler Master U3, costs about rm75 only)

p/s: I'm not a sifu yet ler~ >.< I'm just a junior member of this forum who had read the whole V1 thread before buying this y500 laptop of mine, so yeah... It was worth it..

hahhaa ur welcome.. I'm still waiting to further my studies, so i've got lots of free time to be active at forum xD

o.O rld.dll is the crack file for PES 13 rite? Lol, no way it will break down a laptop lol... I play my PES 13 on desktop pc with same crack since the game released last year, my pc no break down oso... weird liao~ 

btw, did u claim warranty for ur lappy?

wow, only 2 months the price for single GPU y500 oredy drop that much? crazy weh~

well, as @Devour said, better dun buy removable fan liao... not worth to waste ur ultrabay slot for that thing.. better buy external HDD lol~ xD

Size difference? i think same bha... 15.6 inch with FHD resolution (1920x1080)

Lol, nvm bha... Lagi byk menanya, lagi luas pengetahuan xD

Just got my y500 from hikari yesterday. Great seller - excellent prices and layan my every pattern as a fussy customer.

I've beem tinkering around with it but never really made any significant changes to the settings because I'm still unfamiliar with the laptop and win8. Any kind sifus here can provide a quick guide on what new owners should do (eg check drivers,  download monitoring software,  remove bloatware etc)?

well i just got my Y500 single GPU in plaza lowyat yesterday ,still try get use to it.
as for warranty , yesterday evening i email lenovo for the 2 year international warranty, today morning they already update my warranty staring date and will update my 2 years warranty soon.

impossible.

by lagging, u mean when gaming? My y500 during gaming very lag when on battery... only option is to go to lenovo energy management, and set power plan to high performance...

it's common to face lag when playing games on battery with most gaming laptop... This is because the gpu consumes too much power to process the graphics... When playing ur laptop on battery, the much advanced the graphic of the game that u run (such as Skyrim, Hitman Absolution, Remember Me, Dishonored, etc...) then for sure ur GPU going to consume much2 more power to process the game's graphics, and as such, the battery power can't cope with the demand.. hence the lag.. if no lag, then for sure ur battery finish after 15~30 mins xD