Comments on: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y550P: The Most Powerful Core i7 Notebook? http://blog.laptopmag.com/lenovos-ideapad-y550p-the-most-powerful-core-i7-notebook News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:58:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: William Kunkel http://blog.laptopmag.com/lenovos-ideapad-y550p-the-most-powerful-core-i7-notebook/comment-page-1#comment-27666 William Kunkel Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:17:22 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=22535#comment-27666 I own one of these and I am very pleased with the purchase and performance. I would recommend uninstalling the Veriface (esp if you wear glasses) and the ReadyComm application included Lenovo software as they bog the system down. Other than that very good. Also I used the DPC Latency checking utility which shows sub 1000 scores /very low latencies and that the unit "...should be able to handle real-time streaming of audio and/or video..." I found that if I disabled the on-board Broadcom gigabit ethernet that the DPC latencies were better. Also disabling the 5300AGN card further reduced latencies into the sub 500 range. At the time the driver version was 13.0.0.107 (9/2009) I own one of these and I am very pleased with the purchase and performance.

I would recommend uninstalling the Veriface (esp if you wear glasses) and the ReadyComm application included Lenovo software as they bog the system down.

Other than that very good. Also I used the DPC Latency checking utility which shows sub 1000 scores /very low latencies and that the unit “…should be able to handle real-time streaming of audio and/or video…”

I found that if I disabled the on-board Broadcom gigabit ethernet that the DPC latencies were better. Also disabling the 5300AGN card further reduced latencies into the sub 500 range. At the time the driver version was 13.0.0.107 (9/2009)

]]> By: Nick Kleeman http://blog.laptopmag.com/lenovos-ideapad-y550p-the-most-powerful-core-i7-notebook/comment-page-1#comment-27080 Nick Kleeman Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:29:51 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=22535#comment-27080 I will be getting one of these in the next few days I am ordering it today. I post back with the speaker, and boot up and shut down information. Its $999.99 on newegg with free shipping, no blu-ray but thats ok. I will be getting one of these in the next few days I am ordering it today. I post back with the speaker, and boot up and shut down information. Its $999.99 on newegg with free shipping, no blu-ray but thats ok.

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