Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 Review Discussion

Lenovo recently updated the Y-series notebook lineup, adding the 14-inch Y460 and 15.6-inch Y560 to the mix. These new models offer faster graphics options than their predecessors, with an ATI Radeon 5650 crammed into the Y460 and ATI Radeon 5730 inside the Y560. In this review we take a look at the smaller of the two notebooks—the IdeaPad Y460—to see how well it stacks up against the competition.

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Great review. I do wish it would run cooler while gaming, but considering how well it can game for such a small form factor, trade-offs have to be made.

 

Nice review. This is probably one of the best 14'' gaming laptops available, even rivals the Envy 14 for a cheaper price. Did you guys check the internal temps of the CPU and GPU?

 

It'll be interesting to see how the Envy 14 compares in terms of heat output, but this is still a nice notebook ^_^

 

Yep, I am pleased with Y460. It played Oblivion all day long (8 hours straight, max setting without AA No point in AA for such a small screen.) without melting down, so it passed my test.

I got a dead pixel, but it's on very bottom, so I can shake that off.

 

The Acer 4820TG has the same heat problems, or even bigger ones?


This underlines how awesome designed the 3820TG is.

 

Yup, same hardware configuration options. The only way to improve is either a larger or more efficient heatsink or some other cooling voodoo. The metal chassis wont help though if the internals get hot. All that heat conducting right into your legs and hands.

 

It seems like a nice notebook and all, but whatever happened to choice? Other than Dell is anyone offering anything other than WXGA on a consumer notebook? There's the Z, but not everyone wants to pay $2k.

 

Well the Envy 14 comes with a 1600*900 screen res option I think, but yeah, pretty much the same config. We'll see how HP decides to manage cooling for it. Depending on that, price differences, battery life and all that, we might get some decent 14" competition ^_^

 

On that note I am so tee'd off that no company really offers high quality panel options anymore for any price. You see a few pop up with high color gamut or something, but no IPS notebook options. In the 12" tablet market there are a few, but nothing paired up with standard voltage processors and decent graphics cards.

 

There all in a tizzy over at TPF because supposedly HP's new DreamColor 2 screen being offered in the 8540w and 8740w is a LED IPS LCD. We got a review of either of those coming? I've no idea whether it's true or not and won't believe it 'til I see it, but I went over to HP's site. The 8740w with the WUXGA, which is supposed to be DreamColor 2 screen and it's $3k. A little pricey for me.

It's really the angles that separate the men from the boys. You can have the nicest screen, I'd say the MBP which I saw one of the new ones a few months ago, would be an example, but as soon as you go a little off center, it starts to invert. This from a notebook you're paying $2k to get and it's tough to use a notebook at the optimum angle all the time.

I don't get it why nobody offers better screens. While most people are price conscious, there has to be a big enough niche of artists, engineers, people who just want a decent screen, etc., to make it a going concern, even if it's just for bragging rights and doesn't sell a ton. Maybe there's just something I don't see in my armchair quarterbacking or it's a vast right-wing conspiracy. Chenney, Lewis Libby, Karl Rove, they're all in on it.

It's kind of why I upgraded to the X200. I did want something smaller, but who knows when this opportunity will present itself again.

 

I imagine it is much easier to design cooling when you don't have optical drive. And yeah, reported temps of this machine (and 4/5820TG) are somewhat worrisome.

Yes, it seems like they are busy slashing costs on LCD panels. I can see there aren't much demand for IPS -- after all, there aren't many IPS LCD for desktops neither. But I do wish if more laptops have panels that are more than half-way decent. Currently, only Apple, some Sony and Dell laptops have good displays, which is quite disturbing.

Aside from Envy 14, maybe it is still possible to snatch Sony CW with 1600x900, before it get phased away by vastly inferior E series (worse performance, worse design, worse screen -- are they thinking?).

 

@Kevin O'Brien

What is your take on the new Sony Vaio EA16? It has pretty much the same specs with the Y460 but its more expensive
Is the lenovo y460 still better in terms of build quality?

Can we conclude that the Y460 is one of the most best laptop deals at the moment givent the price/specs ratio?

 

how does the envy14 compare?

 

It scores badly compared to the y460 on 3dmark06. Envy 14 scored 6100 on notebookcheck's review. The y460 scored 7500+ right out of the box. Even the K42JV with 335m scores 7000+.

 

The y460 on sale is a phenomenal deal IMO... It's main competitor's, the 5650TG, Envy 14, Asus K42JV-X1, Asus N82JV can't compete at all bang for the buck, but once it goes off sale and back up to $1000, the 5650TG and Asus start to look a lot sweeter.

 

Has anyone looked into how hot the actual components are getting? If the case if hot then no big deal as long as the components themselves are staying cool while gaming..