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The editors liked
Stylish and premium aluminum design
Good keyboard with little setbacks
Powerful hardware for the money
Despite the heat
The area where palms rest remains cool
Great sound quality
Improved IPS panel over last year's model
Sleek and slimmed-down design
Excellent gaming performance
Good battery life for a gaming notebook
Good gaming performance for the price
Comfortable backlit keyboard
Great battery life for its class
Responsive touch screen
Strong price-to-performance ratio
Attractively thin brushed-aluminum enclosure
Good-quality speakers
One of the most affordable thin and light 15" gaming laptops
The Lenovo Y50 Touch has great style for a gaming laptop
Plus a touchscreen
And it balances performance
Size
And price to the benefit of mainstream gamers
Slim design. Full-HD
Touch-capable display. JBL Sound with integrated subwoofer. Good feature set
With USB
HDMI
And Gigabit Ethernet.
Patterned
Brushed metal lid is a unique and stylish design
Portable chassis design
Excellent performance
Solid battery life
Affordable
Capable GPU
Relatively portable.
The editors didn't like
The IPS panel still leaves a lot to be desired
Impractical cooling system
Inconsistent touchpad performance
No M.2 SATA slot
Display has dull color and limited viewing angles
Shallow keyboard and jumpy touchpad
Mediocre display
Hard drive with solid-state buffer rather than full SSD
Abysmal display with limited viewing angles
Flimsy
Awkwardly located trackpad
Mushy keyboard
Base option 1080p display is mediocre at best
Slow HDD for base models
The display suffers from poor viewing angles and the midlevel graphics card means you can't run newer games at the highest detail settings
Middle-of-the-road battery life. A little large for portability
Temperamental touchscreen and touchpad. Barely three hours of battery life. Some issues with temporary hanging at boot. Lackluster performance considering the price. Heavy at 5.8 pounds
Published: 2014-08-14, Author: Dan , review by: cnet.com
The Lenovo Y50 Touch has great style for a gaming laptop, plus a touchscreen, and it balances performance, size, and price to the benefit of mainstream gamers
The display suffers from poor viewing angles and the midlevel graphics card means you can't run newer games at the highest detail settings
With the Y50 Touch, Lenovo has created a reasonably priced, not-too-big gaming laptop that doesn't look like a throwback. But the most serious PC gamers may want to hold out for a better display and faster GPU....
Good gaming performance for the price, Comfortable backlit keyboard, Great battery life for its class, Responsive touch screen
Mediocre display, Hard drive with solid-state buffer rather than full SSD
The successor to Lenovo's Y510p loses some flexibility with the loss of the Ultrabay, but the doubled battery life and good performance for the price more than compensate. We'd like to see a real SSD, though, and the display suffers from narrow viewing a...
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Published: 2014-07-28, Author: Christopher , review by: wired.com
Patterned, brushed metal lid is a unique and stylish design
Temperamental touchscreen and touchpad. Barely three hours of battery life. Some issues with temporary hanging at boot. Lackluster performance considering the price. Heavy at 5.8 pounds
The Lenovo Y50 is a monster. The discreet graphics, comfortable keyboard and insanely good speakers make it a gamer's dream. Even music and video producers will find it nice. The screen disappoints though and the rat's nest of add-on software make the out...
Published: 2014-07-11, Author: Mark , review by: about.com
Jul 11 2014 - Lenovo's Y50 Touch is a well balanced system that is equally at home when used as a gaming system or as a general purpose performance system. The styling is agressive but not over the top like some gaming laptops on the market. The size and ...
Abstract: Lisa Gade reviews the Lenovo Y50 15.6” slim gaming laptop. This is latest in the 15” Y series line, and the slimmest and lightest to date. It packs a 2.4GHz Intel Core i74700HQ quad core CPU, 8 or 16 gigs of RAM and switchable NVIDIA GTX 860M graphics wit...
Cool and quiet, Discrete Nvidia graphics, Beautiful 4K display
Not enough power for 4K gaming, Mediocre battery life, Expensive
The $2199-plus Lenovo Y50‘s Ultra HD screen is beautiful for watching movies, despite the fact that most of what you'll be viewing will be upscaled from 1080p. It's a beautiful, bright, vibrant display, and it makes Windows look pretty damn good. As a con...
