LENOVO IdeaPad Y400 Y500 Gaming laptop

By Tablet ultra-extreme grab a lot of eyeballs notebook development towards more vertical application areas, if the super pole is thin and response speed that notebook seems to be the only one way to go, is the game performance, our previous evaluation Lenovo's new generation of small y Y580 Y500's successor, except GT650 alone was expected, but also in the appearance of re-encoding, more emphasis on the sensory stimulus, this blood will be gradually integrated into the Y series products, of course, including this 14-inch Lenovo IdeaPad Y400.

Any generation y, the attention of the 14-inch products is actually slightly higher than the 15.6 inches is about the notebook device itself, weight and size are important reference standard, both in order to balance attention in the configuration also some minor difference, but this time virtually no difference in the hardware Y400 and Y500, Y400 in the top and bottom applied to the imitation carbon fiber texture, to distinguish it from Y500 brushed metal.

In addition, as the small y functional changes, Y400 with LENOVO L11S6R01 Battery also has a plug and pull the extension component, users can purchase a second card SLI, 60% of the maximum enhance gaming performance, of course, this module is not limited to an increase in graphics SSD solid state drive can be replaced, to make up for the Y400 low with version no standard SSD regret, this feature is very tempting for games and DIY players.

Overall appearance, Lenovo Y400 and a few before the biggest change for Y series is probably the color before the iconic orange dotted gone in favor of using some mysterious scarlet decorated with a stronger visual impact, we see Lenovo Y400 addition to black as the base color, in the bottom of the keyboard, and Stern's facial contour line in both sides of this red, gives the first impression is very cool. Imitation carbon fiber material in the top and bottom, whether visual or touch are very similar to carbon fiber, carbon fiber material is very close to woven materials, moist and delicate feeling give people a sense of intimacy is the top cover of the Y400 and strength is very good, and will not be deformed slightly push hard, people feel very safe.

Lenovo Y400 keyboard also break under a lot of effort Needless to say this high-touch keyboard after tuning again to ensure that the excellent percussion feeling low stroke each keycap has a downward curvature of depression more fit fingers, quick feedback, not meat is not anxious, I like the arrow keys, not reduced in size, the game even without an external keyboard, do not feel bad. The first time I saw Y400 indeed gives a fresh feeling, especially when real in his hand, this texture was completely passed out, whether it is material or color, Y400 is one of the most heart on the Y series shall, of course, this is also a direct result of the rise in the overall price. Be summed up in one sentence, then, I believe that the Y400 should be the heart of a process of using all Y series, followed by a detailed description will experience up.

Carbon fiber is a very expensive material cost, not only higher manufacturing process, The U57 with 6cell ASUS U57V Battery and it is because the carbon fiber itself in the intended use of the control, the high cost of carbon fiber itself does not lie in the material, but rather the processing, its biggest difficulty is that such a material of the carbon fibers characteristics more like a braid, want to achieve seamless very difficult, usually to add a few steps to complete the work seamless. Y400 does not really use carbon fiber, but the metal plate in the top and bottom shell attached to the paint layer approximation, this matte-colored paint appears to be very low-key nature, people prolonged use, it will not feel impatient.

The most exciting part of the entire body in addition to the red base of the keyboard, there is separation of C on both sides of the speaker is very eye-catching red omentum with sharp facial features "shape, this speaker JBL-certified indeed played a role in actual use, the sound performance of the Y400 is very good, in particular, is full of high-frequency than before several strong a lot.

Of course, the power button on the Lenovo also took some small mind, the boot button emits a white light, easy to identify the state has become very fashionable. Dual microphone configuration at the top of the screen frame, you can see the edge of the video camera, and a camera, a light work, and the previous several small y no. Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 All status lights are placed in the front left side of the fuselage, including some power indicator, charge indicator, touchpad switch indicator, sensitive switch indicator. Multiple card reader slot built into the right side of the status lights.

Interface, x75 with 6cell ASUS X75V Battery right side of the fuselage with a headphone jack, microphone jack, two USB 2.0 ports (yellow chip expressed support for the shutdown charging function), DVD burner bit (support the UltraBay function) and laptop security keyhole. The right side of the fuselage arrangement, a key recovery button, power connector, VGA port, RJ-45 Ethernet interface, HDMI high definition video output port and a USB 3.0 interface.

Gamers seem increasingly high graphics performance requirements but at the same time as the hair to heat large graphics and a certain degree of influence with notebook portability, taking into account this situation, Lenovo small y (Y400 and Y500) use the the UltraBay function, the function of a very simple idea, that is, has not used the drive as a conversion hub can be replaced according to the actual needs of the other modules, such as the fan, hard drive, weight loss module and the UltraBay extended graphics and so on. Lenovo Y400 to achieve the UltraBay extended functionality and Y500 are exactly the same, the specific method to replace the module steps described here, however, won the module before you remove the battery first, locking in step 2 below the battery thought for a long, dull author here.

IdeaPad Y400 Lenovo currently offers GT 650M graphics card (external module), and the body's built-in graphics cards in SLI mode, the performance of the whole image improved about 1.5 to 1.6 times, yet did not get the the UltraBay graphics, temporarily Unable to get the final data. In addition, you need to pay attention to with extended graphics card, a 170W power adapter also need to provide, the official website of the current price of 1999 yuan. Let's look at the Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 battery The Lenovo Y400 provides a large capacity battery of 72 Wh less play games, four hours of battery life, is a very good score, weight can not be guaranteed Y400 standalone with battery weighs 2.5 kg, this result seems to be missed with thin.

Hardware configuration, get U57 with ASUS U57N Battery in high-equipped version, equipped with a 22 nm process technology Intel Core i7 3630QM quad-core processor, equipped with Intel HM77 chipset 1TB 5400 rpm mechanical hard drive, as well as two 4GB DDR3 1600MHz high-speed memory, graphics cards, the model uses 2GB GDDR5 memory NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M discrete graphics. Intel Core i7 3630QM is a brand new the IVB platform processors, has four cores and Hyper-Threading technology support to 8 threads. The processor is based on 22 nm process technology, codenamed Ivy Bridge, initial clocked at 2.4 GHz, Core frequency to 3.4 GHz, shared L3 cache 6 MB, whole TDP of 45W.

Software CINEBENCH R10 to assess its performance, the software is capable of single-core and multi-core performance processor gives intuitive score, Fengyun Core i7 3630QM processor quickly complete all the test content, final get 5742 points its single-core, multicore get 21,604 points, belonging to the high-end models of mobile processors, with more performance compared to the previous i7-3610QM has a certain upgrade. The configuration of the model, the most worthy of all attention is using the latest Kepler architecture graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, the graphics using 28nm process technology, has 2GB GDRR5 memory capacity, 128-bit memory interface 384 stream processors.

Order to allow a more intuitive understanding of graphics performance, its graphics performance through 3DMark Vantage assess the final GPU portion 34,756 points. The GT 650M mainstream games this choice, although fluent in response to many large-scale 3D games, but there are still some difficulties in order to rush the highest quality. Most unfortunately, this did not get the UltraBay external performance dual graphics card SLI graphics card, and therefore can not show. Overall, the performance of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 in no use UltraBay case, has to meet almost all of the applications, but how should it in the game? Take over the link, we will Y400 for "COD9" and "Crysis 2" two games for testing, and the test of the cooling effect in the game.

Y400 and Y500 and yoga with built-in LENOVO IdeaPad Yoga 11 Battery little difference in terms of hardware, but the body is more narrow, and we must be very concerned about the heat effect, we actually test. Our testing method is still at a room temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, so this books run Furmark 1.92 pager software and AIDA 64 comes with the pager program, allowing GPU and CPU are working in a high load, especially GPU almost running at full speed. View this notebook's internal core temperature, and body surface temperature and after more than an hour, respectively. Through thermal imaging devices, we see that the the Y400 C left side is more concentrated heat, the highest temperature of 48 ℃, this may affect the text input, it is recommended that it is best not to use the built-in keyboard game. About Y400 palm rest temperature control is relatively good, are not high body temperature.

Look at Y400 the bottom of the cooling conditions, the thermal imager display, the main heat are concentrated in the left side of the fuselage at the outlet, the maximum temperature reached 50 ° C. Y400 may be small since it was launched, the largest shift, which also indicates that the transformation of this series, high-cost mainstream products from the flagship full-featured, high-performance games this gradually turned to DIY enthusiasts, while the GT 650M is not a "fever" However, in some channels Lenovo official website you can buy a GT 650M significant independence to form SLI dual card, providing a more open performance boost.

Contrast with it, U57 with ASUS U57D Battery exquisite workmanship is not a small improvement, but not like in the top cover and palm rest Obscure, but the real experience enhancements, such as a keyboard touch screen display look at the price of Y400 and Y500 biggest problem may come from price, release from the official website, the price is higher than the previous generation y higher, we only hope that this is Lenovo released smoke bombs.