Is it worth to spend extra few k for Y740 instead of Y540?
RGB is not my thing, and I hardly play games now, and for sure I won't OC my machine.
The reason I am considering this machine is because I need to do some heavy development and I run a lot of programs at the same time.
Or is there any alternative? I'm also looking into Thinkpad T-series and P-series, but unfortunately they don't have a powerful GPU.

This post has been edited by rockccf: Mar 26 2019, 06:01 PM

Thanks for the reply.
I am speculating the price difference to be in 2k MYR at least.
Here what's taken from lowyat.net article.
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Prices for the Lenovo Legion Y540 starts from US$929.99 (~RM3827). The company says it will be available starting May 2019, though chances are that we’ll have to wait a little longer before it’s made available in Malaysia.

The Lenovo Legion Y740 models, on the other hand, will be made available a little bit earlier, from February 2019. Prices for the 15.6-inch model starts from US$1749.99 (~RM7194), while the larger 17.3-inch laptop will have prices starting from US$1979.99 (~RM8140). But again, these are not the dates and prices for our market, and we’ll have to wait for an official announcement by Lenovo Malaysia.
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- built material (aluminium body) - Might have to look at the real laptop to tell the difference, but it's not a big deal for me I guess.
- better thermal cooling performance (but y530 is also decent) - since y530/540 is quite decent, so this does not really matter to me as I don't OC my machine.
- RGB - not my thing
- thunderbolt 3. - I doubt I will ever use it, even if I do, very rare occasion I guess.

Oh BTW, graphic card matters to me because I'm into machine learning that's why I am looking for a laptop with a decent GPU.
So I guess, Y540 seems like a better choice for me, if the price difference is 2K MYR.

This post has been edited by rockccf: Mar 26 2019, 06:43 PM

y540/740, just a speculation bro.
so based on your speculation, around 5800 to 6500 for y540, so yeah it's basically 2k difference compared to y740.

No specific model.
But since now it's era of RTX, rtx is a good choice.
For nvidia GTX 10 series, minimum 1060/70 i think?

Yeah, not going to get it now, let's wait and see.
Mostly going for Y540, unless Y740 does not really cost much more compared to Y540 which I doubt so.

Lenovo Y540 is up on lenovo malaysia website now.

https://www.lenovo.com/my/en/laptops/legion...5/p/88GMY501214

2 models are available, rm5599 and rm6199.

Given that Y740 models are given discount now, Y740 is the better choice to go with.

This post has been edited by rockccf: May 30 2019, 02:52 PM