The notebook market is really hot these days and the environment is not much different from last year except Dell is dominating instead of HP in daily working category in notebook market with booth ultrabooks and laptops, we are not talking about gaming notebooks !. These days of Christmas and New Year are great opportunities for people with small budget as the price drops much more than last year. People should pay attention to new laptop from Dell and Acer which are doing really great job especially Dell. Dell is known for its consistent performer notebooks and invention whereas Acer is known for its sleek design, support and notebooks with good battery life but today we are going to review a Lenovo notebook which is the new Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p.
The IdeaPad Y510p has a pretty attractive backlit keyboard which is a perfect match for this notebook. The keyboard has large keys with pretty attractive design and colors scheme as black surface on top and red glowing color around the keys looks really good. The keys do a good job in our test and proved to be efficient, accurate and with backlights as well. The feedback is really good and the pressure points are perfect and they had to be for the notebook of this price level. The touchpad has large surface for multi-gesture operation as well. The touchpad is basically a click pad so you can use its whole surface for clicking. The touchpad performs really well in our normal and multi-gesture test and proved to be a top class touchpad. The surface of the touchpad has a little silver shading, not much which looks good and the surface is really suitable for gliding fingers over it. Overall IdeaPad Y510p has good keyboard and touchpad.
The IdeaPad Y510p has very good speakers, Dolby Home Theater V4 certified sound solution is the perfect a gaming notebook and IdeaPad Y510p has that, The speakers are located above the keyboard which is a good position for the speakers. The speakers produce really rich quality sound which is very good to hear. The base is good and the max volume is also loud. The Lenovo used LBL 2.0 speakers in IdeaPad Y510p to get the best result and it does the trick. Overall IdeaPad Y510p has good speakers.
The IdeaPad Y510p has gaming notebook having a NVidia GT 750M and a Quad Core Intel Core i7 CPU inside and usually, the notebook of this category has higher temperatures than a normal user expects, the IdeaPad Y510p remains cool most of the time during our normal and stress tests and a normal user is not going to experience the warmness because of hours of benchmarks executions. This notebook can be used on the lap during normal and gaming but if you are going to render videos for longer periods of time than it not good to use in on lap. The IdeaPad Y510p has two fans, one for CPU and one for GPU and with both running, you can’t expect it to be fully quiet, the noise is present all the time but it was low and gets high in stress test but it is a decent level and normal user is not going to be distracted by noise during normal or gaming. So overall IdeaPad Y510p remains cool and quiet.
The IdeaPad Y510p is really a considerable notebook with plenty of pros and a major con, the IdeaPad Y510p has latest Intel Core i7 Quad Core 4th Gen. CPU with NVidia GT 750M 2GB GPU and 8GB of RAM and 1080p Display screen. The IdeaPad Y510p has attractive design and solid build quality. The speakers are good enough and the connectivity options are wide. The performance is really great in benchmarks and keyboard and touchpad done a good job in our tests. The battery life of IdeaPad Y510p is short; 173 Minutes which is much lower than expected level of 240 Minutes at least. The IdeaPad Y510p placed at higher level because of its performance and feature but it’s the poor battery life which drops this notebook from considering it for our Editor’s Choice award and we recommend Lenovo to improve that soon.
