The sides, as we mentioned, are really thin and feature the same matte plastic that can be found in the interior. Why? Scroll to the display section below and you will find out.Ĭheck the current price of Lenovo Y50 (GTX 960M) here: It’s good to see that the company has taken some notes and improved the setbacks of its product, but unfortunately they didn’t take it so far.

Nevertheless, with this year’s updated models, we have IPS panel, better CPU (Intel Core i7-4720HQ) and the highly anticipated GeForce GTX 960M GPU. That’s the main and the foremost reason that most people didn’t buy the Y50.

The only IPS options were the ones with touch-capacitive displays and the 17-inch variants. A lot of people expected quality IPS panel for the price, but Lenovo failed to deliver and instead put a TN panel, which is ridiculous given the price and the class of this gaming machine. For starters, the Y50 is a gorgeous notebook with compact design, despite its powerful internals, but that’s not what makes a gaming laptop good enough for flawless user experience. However, let’s have a few words about the new updated hardware and how it stacks up against last year’s model. How does that turn out? You will find in the detailed review below. We can even say that Acer has launched its new line to tackle the Lenovo Y series gaming laptops. It has been almost a year since the launch of the new Y50 gaming notebook from Lenovo with its new design and now we have the updated model that’s packing the same hardware as the recently reviewed Acer Aspire VN7 Nitro Black Edition (GTX 960M).

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