Comments on: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Y550P: The Most Powerful Core i7 Notebook?

By: Tondo

Tondo — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:58:11 +0000

I owe one too… It’s good, BUT there are some things, witch I was very displeased with:
1.) A lot of useless software – I spent for an hour with uninstalling it.
2.) Some HW (like some Razer mice) are not very friendly with this PC, esp. with win 7 64.
3.) It uses to be VERY hot, if I play some game for a long time. I owe a desk with three cooling air blowers and laptop is hot on the top near touchpad.
4.) HDD could be faster (let’s say 7200rpm)

The last issue I have to deal with is, that the LCD sometimes, when it should turn off (hybernate mode/sleeping mode/even when laptop is turned off) starts to glow – bright wihite. I’m forced to detach the battery, if I want to turn off. It happend 2 times in three weeks(it’s time I owe it), so I’m forced to return it…

By: nick

nick — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:18:35 +0000

Works great.
Got it for 3d effects, gaming, hacking, etc.,
Yes it mets my standards

A few things you need to get or change out.
1. a cooling mat system, if the laptop cpu get up to 10% and ram 50% you will notice a change in temperature and you’ll fell it thru keyboard
2. 3D glasses, for hdmi or vga output, yea nvidia 3d vision
3. a solid state hard drive, this thing is loud sometimes like if you run a 11gb game like modernware 2.
4.A MIC, They sat the mic beside hard drive and fan,smart design, huh

Overall good buy.
I play my games in 3D.
Got a side job, because of this laptop.(improving security-firewall,av,etc.,)

By: William Kunkel

William Kunkel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:17:22 +0000

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

Nick Kleeman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:29:51 +0000

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.