Any Y50 owners out there that also had a Y510p?

I'm trying to pick between the two. It actually looks like Y50 has some serious disadvantages compared to the older version, and I had questions about some of them.

• Much smaller battery - 4 Cell 54 watt hours vs 6 Cell 72 watt hours. If I resolve all of the driver issues the Y510p will probably come with and get it to use Intel graphics most of the time, would it last much longer under the same usage conditions?
• Does anyone know how the Intel 3160 (Y50) compares to the 7260 (Y510p)?
• Is the keyboard mushier on the Y50 than the Y510p? It seems like they tried to flatten it a bit, sacrificing quality in the process.

 

Make sure that you aren't running SLI graphics otherwise the Y510p's battery life will get pretty poor. SLI is the achilles heel of the Y510p, while it did allow for amazing performance per dollar, the ultrabay card ended up overheating a lot and this caused a lot of visual stutter.

The intel 3610 should be an upgrade due to both being AC and dual band. This being said you can always manually upgrade the wireless in the Y510p, with a modded BIOS.

The true winner? The Y500 :thumbsup: The ivy bridge CPU ran much cooler, it came with a non-proprietary Msata port and the 650M's could be easily overclocked to match the 755M's.

 

Y500 master race checking in.

 

Pffft y400 master race. Same specs as the y500, smaller package.

 

Num pad and 1080p screen say hi. :hi2:

 

Fine, fine: Superior screen + Numpad =< Smaller size.

 

Not much smaller though.

 

Ah 'tis true. You know the main reason why I picked the y400 over the y500, despite its superior screen, is that the lack of a Numpad was more aesthetically pleasing for me. Since I never use a Numpad anyways, it was a no brainer for me. Its smaller size and lesser resolution, which paired better with the 650M, were supporting reasons.

 

I went for the Y510p. Reports of the Y50's abysmal screen are coming in, so I guess I made the right choice.

I'm not too jealous of the Y500's lower power consumption and heat output. I plan on undervolting as much as I can, and I might even underclock

 

Would you be jealous if I told you that the y500 can OC its SLI 650Ms to the performance of SLI 755Ms and still produce less heat?

 

Yeah so big deal, 510 is a bigger number than 500 so we win... *huddles into corner hugging y510p*

 

Lmao bigger numbers ftw!

 

Yeah but my benchmark numbers are bigger. OH WHAT NOW!

8=======D <--- me

8===D <--- you

 

I tried the Y510 out for a day before returning it. Touchpad drove me nuts. Everything else was great though. From what I remember about the display, it had much better colors than the y50, but similar viewing angles. The touchpad on the Y50 is actually quite pleasant for a windows notebook.... IIRC the Y500/Y510 had a Synaptics pad correct? The Y50 uses an Elan pad, but it has the best two finger inertia scroll and three finger swipe of any windows laptop I've ever used, with the possible exception of Razer's offerings. I'm trying to formulate a registry modification that will allow me to set what four finger swipes do.

 

I've never used a touchpad that didn't drive me nuts (yes, that includes the so-called godly Macbook ones). I always use a Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX with my computers.