Lenovo Y510p Notebook: an overview, specs and owner reviews.

Lenovo has a worthy successor to the previous Y500 lineup, represented by Lenovo Ideapad Y510p, which has acquired quite interesting and worthy multimedia capabilities. The performance of the device is answered by a comparatively powerful quad-core processor of the fourth generation, and together with a good graphics card GT 755M from Nvidia and 8 GB of RAM on board, the gadget will please users with its speed in modern applications and games.

So, the hero of today's review is the Lenovo Y510p laptop. Let's try to disassemble in detail all its advantages and disadvantages, taking into account the opinions of experts and reviews of simple owners of the laptop.

Design

The new model almost does not differ from its predecessor in its appearance, which makes it a hostage of both pluses and minuses of the design of the previous line. The main flaws in the case remained the same: the device bends in places and actively collects fingerprints.

In the rest it is a solid model with the already familiar features from Lenovo: rough panels with clear edges, rounded corners and a combination of high-quality plastic and aluminum. It should be noted that the lid of the Lenovo Y510p is made of metal and decorated with a simple, but quite friendly texture, the main component of which are horizontal bands, so calling a strict model is very difficult. The main shades of the background are a black color with a small inclusion of a red scale in key (according to designers) places.

The bottom of the laptop is equipped with a ventilation grille, which occupies almost the entire bottom. But to cool the system, this is what you need, because a productive notebook such a detail clearly will not be superfluous. There you can find the fixators that hold the battery, and judging by the reviews, there are never any problems with its removal / replacement.

Dimensions Lenovo Ideapad Y510p fully comply with the benchmark of 15.6-inch devices - 387 x 259 x 36 mm. And even the weight, which with such a filling is kept within 2.7 kg, can not be called large or attributed to factors that complicate the transfer or work with a laptop.

Display

Permits in 1920 to 1080 points for the 15.6-inch device is more than enough, and the aspect ratio (16: 9) corresponds to the parameters of FullHD-displays. The screen has an excellent brightness of about 300 cd / m ² and very good contrast indicators.

Owners of the laptop especially speak warmly of the matte surface of the display, where the color rendition is set to a very high level, although not ideal for its segment. Also, you can note excellent viewing angles that do not make you nervous when you reject the display or watch videos with your friends. In general, the screen Lenovo Y510p is able to compete with many similar brands, and the owners of the laptop appreciated the display in their positive reviews.

Sound

The acoustic capabilities of the laptop is supported by Dolby Home Theater v4 technology, and it is helped by two high-quality stereo speakers JBL, which are conveniently located under the keyboard. Thanks to a successful tandem, the soundtrack is fed in a rich, deep and without any distortion.

The volume of the speakers Lenovo Y510p is quite enough for the middle room, which allows you to do without third-party speakers or headphones.

Webcam

The display frame of the laptop is equipped with an ordinary 1.3-megapixel webcam. On both sides of the device there are built-in microphones of bi-directional type with a high-quality noise reduction system.

The camera's capabilities allow us to communicate seamlessly over Skype, videoconference and make small frontal photos for avatars and other things.

Input Devices

The notebook Lenovo Y510p is equipped with an island-type keyboard AccuType, traditional for the series, which occupies the main part of the working area. The buttons are slightly concave, and the bottom is slightly rounded, which is very thoughtful from an ergonomic point of view.

The progress of the keys is carried out without visible effort and with good results, and the overall comfort of working with the keyboard has been repeatedly noted by the owners of Lenovo Y510p, whose reviews were exceptionally positive.

Another clear advantage of the keyboard is the original two-level illumination. At the moment of its activation the keyboard is highlighted in red, which is typical for gaming laptops with the only difference: the WASD buttons are not allocated in any way, so it may seem to gamers to be not quite a convenient addition.

Some assess the unusual backlight as something annoying, while others just love it. But anyway, the backlight can be turned off at any time, so intriguing moments like "like" and "do not like" can not be taken into account.

Touchpad

By its appearance, the manipulator pleases the eye, but what it lacks is sensitivity. Owners repeatedly noted that after touching the touchpad in its lower part responsiveness only works from the second time, and this causes some discomfort, but the alternative in the face of the mouse will surely solve this small problem.

As for support for multi-touch gestures, the Lenovo Y510p is fine: the scaling and rotation is fine, the vertical and horizontal scrolling works like a clock. The only thing that users sometimes complain about in their reviews is the rubberized surface of the manipulator, because of which the fingers sometimes do not move as fast as we would like.

A separate block of physical keys does not have a touchpad, but there is a bright red marker that separates the left button from the right one.

Performance

The laptop runs on a pre-installed 64-bit "Windows" of the eighth version and is equipped with a powerful and productive processor from the Intel Core i7 4700MQ series of the new and proven Haswell generation. Fans can "disperse" the opportunity to increase the initial clock frequency from 2.4 GHz to 3.4 GHz with the help of Turbo Boost. This allows you to quickly solve the tasks or play, especially since with a six-megabyte cache in the third level and the technology of multi-threading Hyper-Threading, the laptop is able to "digest" up to eight data streams. Intel's chip can not be called energy-efficient with a TDP of 47W, but something has to be sacrificed for the benefit of performance for the Lenovo Y510p.

The video card (HD Graphics 4600 from Intel) works in tandem with the processor and slightly exceeds its predecessors from the previous line of 4000 and 4400 models. The only thing that remained the same is the discrete accelerators of the initial and intermediate level.

As an alternative to the integrated graphics chip, the laptop is equipped with a rather powerful system from Nvidia in the face of the GT 755M with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on board. But even if this seems not enough, it is always possible to install a second video card, because the design feature of this provides, but with a single caveat: the second board should also be from "Nvidia".

Nevertheless, even with one video card on board, the device perfectly copes with modern games, giving out 40-60 fps at medium settings.

Autonomous work

The laptop is equipped with a powerful 6-segment lithium-ion battery with an enviable capacity of 5800 mAh (62 Wh). "Lenovo" promises the autonomous operation of the device at medium loads within five hours, but bench checks have shown that for simple surfing the device will last for three hours, and at maximum load the battery sits after a half to maximum of two hours. Therefore, it is better to keep the power supply always at hand.

Summarizing

It's safe to say that this notebook has something to catch on and for what to love. Even despite the decent price Lenovo Ideapad Y510p (its price is about 65 000 rubles.), The device fully justifies the money invested in it.

The main advantages of the laptop - a display with excellent viewing angles and a good margin of brightness and contrast, an enviable performance with the ability to add a second video card, the original lighting and design. Of the minuses, you can only distinguish very little battery life (the powerful stuff is to blame) and the lack of responsiveness of the touchpad in some places. In the rest it's a solid and smart laptop, which will certainly please you with its vast capabilities.