Lenovo breaks out the big guns with their Ideapad Y700 gaming laptop
Lenovo breaks out the big guns with their Ideapad Y700 gaming laptop
How does a 17.3-inch behemoth with Intel’s latest
Skylake Core i7 processor, Nvidia GTX 960M, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB hard disk
and 128GB SSD drive sound? Game on.
In an event at Mumbai today, Lenovo pulled the sheets of their latest offering to the gaming fraternity and sorority: their Ideapad Y700
gaming laptop. Based on a design and construction that is immediately
evocative of who it is aimed at, this laptop packs a good bit of kit for
seeing you through an intense bout of gaming.
The Y700 has been launched in its largest screen size
variant--an amply expansive 17.3-inch display (although smaller 15.6 and
14.1 inch variants are slated to be available subsequently.) This
screen incorporates an IPS panel making for comfortable viewing angles.
Under the hood is the recently-released Intel Skylake-based 6th-gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, with the graphics managed by a GTX 960M chip with 4GB of DDR5 VRAM.
On the processing and RAM front, the specs certainly are
right up there, although we would have prefered to have the slightly
beefier GTX 970M graphics chip powering the show. Still, with these
components we presume this laptop should be able to manage 1080p levels
of high-quality gaming (note, not ultra-high) with 2015 titles like
Metal Gear V and Batman Arkham Knight putting out about 50-60fps.
Although we’re reserve our final judgement until after the full review.
Assisting the very decent core specs is a 1TB conventional
hard disk drive with the addition of a 128GB SSD drive--a nice touch to
drive down those game load times and overall system response.
As is with every self-respecting gaming laptop, the
Y700--like its predecessors the Y50 and Y70--also features a backlit
keypad, two JBL speakers (with an integrated subwoofer) and 802.11ac
WiFi for a Gigabit-level wireless LAN gaming experience. Also optionally
available is Intel’s RealSense 3D camera that along with onboard
Skylake platform will be able to recognize depth within its field of
vision, gestures and advanced facial recognition.
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