Is the Y500 a good laptop to buy?

I have been looking for laptops for a while now and came across the Y500 and was wondering if it was a good laptop to purchase. My budget is a little over $900
I would use the laptop for:
-College (papers/internet)
-Gaming (I currently own Battlefield 3 + some other various games and plan to download Steam onto whichever laptop I end up getting)
-Very light travel (I go up to my cabin sometimes)

I would get the 59371972 model, which comes with one GT 750M 2 GB and 1 TB + 16 SSD.

I would also love to hear any feedback from the owners of this laptop and their opinion of the laptop.

Thanks!

 

I do not own that model, but if I could suggest anything it would be that spending an extra $100-200 dollars for the 750M SLI and the 16GB RAM model would make a large difference. If you want a $70 discount or so, call Lenovo and they'll give you some discount. You can probably get it to $1075 or something. The Y500 is about 5.95 pounds and it doesn't feel heavy at all since it is very easy to carry.

I haven't played BF3 on this laptop yet, but I am also a college kid and I haven't been able to test this laptop out at classes (on break) but I know this will be fine.

I play SF3 (Saints Row the Third) on ultra settings and was getting a solid 70+ FPS the entire time. The laptop's cooling system seems to work great as long as you elevate it (which is the same for every laptop).

Blah blah blah, get it, blah.

 

I just ordered the same model, should arrive in the next few weeks. I am going to use it for school and gaming. This laptop looks a little on the heavy side but that is the price for a gaming laptop. I had the same question on here is the people that bought the y500 liked it and they all said they liked it.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ideapad-essential/716896-future-owner-lenovo-ideapad-y500.html

 

It depends on how much you value portability.

The Lenovo Y500 itself weighs about 6 pounds, plus about another 1 pound for the power brick. It's not exactly UNportable, but a 15" 7+ pound carry-weight laptop isn't the laptop to get if you need to move it around and carry it with you every day (e.g. back-and-forth to class). If you need greater portability than that, then you'be better off getting a thin-light non-gaming laptop to take to class, and buy (or build) an inexpensive desktop gaming PC.