The Lenovo Y520 isn’t Lenovo’s first attempt at a crack at the laptop gaming market. It has built other gaming laptops before, but few have made such a significant impact on the market. The first line of laptops from Lenovo’s Legion series, this is meant to be a bang for buck laptop. it surely is among the best gaming laptop under 1500 that you can buy today.
Decently priced, it’s not meant to blow you away. Instead, it’s built to do what it is always meant for, deliver amazing gaming performance at a reasonable price. The market is crowded with other heavier spec laptops. However, few have tried to stay under the $1000-dollar price tag.
Specifications which make it a buyer’s choice
Although the
Y520 is a mid-range laptop, it comes with some great hardware. It’s designed with the plastic Kevlar material, and although it’s not meant to pop your eyeballs when you look at it, it provides some decent protection against physical impact.
The laptop has a sleek and tapered finish, and it comes packed with the latest Intel Core i7 processor and the Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti GPU. These deliver excellent performance for gaming action. It’s among the best laptop for money today, and we will take a look why.
Despite being made entirely of plastic, the Y520 feels rigid when you hold it. It has a 15.6-inch 1080p display panel with thick bezels, and the keyboard comes with the stylish red backlit feature. The touchpad is also surrounded by red accents, and the whole laptop weighs 5.6 pounds.
Good Choice of Accessories
What do you need from a good laptop for money? We are sure you would want it to havw as many ports as you need to finish all your tasks – without having to buy in any adaptors. The Y520 does seem to deliver on these counts.
It is decently stocked with ports; 2 USB 2.0 ports, an Ethernet jack, a headphone jack, 2 USB 3.0 ports, a USB Type-C port, an SD card reader and an HDMI output. The CPU is 2.8 GHz when it’s overclocked, and it runs on Windows 10 Home Edition. The RAM is 16 GB, and the Hard Drive is 256 GB4.
Display
The 1080p panel offers good viewing angles. But the downside of the display is that it gives off a dark and dull hue. Thus, you have to crank up the settings to maximum brightness if you want to see the screen clearly.
This is quite reminiscent of how budget gaming laptops cut corners to bring down the price. While focusing on the performance side, they have to make some sacrifices, usually on the display front. The colors are mostly accurate, but sometimes the screen falls to a greenish tinge which might put you off. It is not built for multimedia consumption. The panel isn’t that bright either, coming off at 220 nits.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The keyboard is where the Y520 excels at. You will have an amazing typing experience on this thing. It’s comfortable to type on, and you don’t have to force press on the keys to making it register on the screen. The downside of the keyboard is that it is only backlit in red. Thus you cannot customize and add more colors to make it look better or cater to your taste.
The touchpad, when compared to the keyboard, is kind of awkward. It is an absolute nightmare to use, as it is awkwardly designed and not all your keystrokes on the touchpad will register on the laptop screen.
Audio
The speakers are decently loud enough, and you won’t have a problem listening to the in-play gaming action. But it is highly recommended that you use headphones to have a better audio experience. The laptop comes preloaded with Dolby Audio app, where you can customize various settings such as the sound profiles. Unfortunately, you cannot crank up the volume to make the laptop louder.
Gaming and Graphics
The graphics card which is packed under the hood of the Y520 should not be taken lightly. The VRAM of 4GB offers good frame rates for games that rely on the graphics card heavily.
When compared to other budget laptops with similar price tags, this laptop shines on the frame rate front. It continually offers better frame rates than the likes of Dell’s Inspiron. So, you can enjoy a smooth gaming experience without any lags.
In fact, we tried testing the GTA V on this and got a good frame rate of nearly 38 fps. We didn’t find any noticeable lag too, and we assume you can play most modern games without a hiccup on this one.
Performance
When your laptop comes loaded with the latest of Intel’s Core i7, you know your laptop is bound to be a beast. It’s 256 GB PCI SSD drive will allow you to transfer files at lightning speeds, and with the RAM of 16 GB, you can open 50 tabs on your chrome browser yet your Y520 won’t break a sweat. The benchmarks offer better numbers than other similarly priced laptops.
Battery
The Y520 falters a bit on the battery front. Although a laptop is meant to be portable, you can’t go much further with your Y520. Offering just under 3 and a half hours of juice, you need to stay near a power plug while gaming.
Know the Pros and Cons of Lenovo Y520
Pros
· Sleek and tapered design
· Great Keyboard
· Strong gaming performance
· Stays cool while gaming
· Well priced budget laptop
Cons
· Dull display
· Poor battery life
· Awkward touchpad
Bottom Line:
The Lenovo Y520 is an absolute beast when it comes to performance and an excellent gaming laptop. It’s a well-priced budget laptop that won’t break your bank account. It has some noticeable drawbacks, but nothing too severe to make you stay away from this amazing product.
Have you remembered the old days of the 2-up motorcycle touring? This was the time when the 2-wheel audio system was still the trend wherein hollering, and hand signals were the norm for the intercom. How about with GPS guidance, radar detectors, music or for communications? This was unthinkable before. But then when the 55mph speed limit came, where various creative individuals began introducing the small 23-channel CB radio for their Vetter Windjammers, utilized hand-held microphones and even listened to the tiny integral speaker for some radio tunes. As time passed by, they got even more creative.
They started adapting earbuds for their CB and even worn them within the helmet to improve the audio quality while they were driving at higher speeds, especially under the windiest conditions. But that was the limit of their creativity at that time. Bike-to-bike and intercom communications still used hollering and hand signals. But that was still acceptable to them at that time, as long as their long distance driving was solo, not without a buddy or riding passenger.
The other biker folks possessed more electrical skills, knowledge and the determination. They sometimes rode with passengers in groups; they began developing for methods that integrate small microphones and speakers into the helmets in the same way that Aviator helmets were made. And in the same way that they were integrated into it, the electronics on the helmets were connected with the audio devices using wires. Even though there are helmet headsets available as described like the Aviator headsets do, the way they are connected have gotten more complex, varied and useful. The basic concept of the microphone and speakers have remained unchanged – wherein they are integrated into the helmet and then connected to the audio devices of the bike by wire. This has only changed recently with an introduction of a specific technology.
When Bluetooth® was introduced into the world; people have witnessed the number of companies that have developed wireless headphones that are integrated into motorcycle helmets. Its early attempts were obviously primitive, wherein the systems could only pair up with one device at a time. There wasn’t any intercom feature except the wired connection to the helmet of the passenger. Other systems integrated with the Bluetooth® technology were developed for communication with rider-to-passenger or bike-to-bike connection without any ability in connecting with other devices. But this is assuming that one can even find other devices equipped with Bluetooth® technology. The compatibility of the systems was required, too.
Today, a lot of GPS units and many other mobile technologies are either enabled with Bluetooth®, or it can be done by plugging some “dongle” in the 3.5mm headphone output jack of the device and the headphones themselves can be paired with each other together with other devices at the same time. Unlike with the wired headphones, the repair parts of the Bluetooth® devices are not easy to come by. This means that they are not usually sold separately and the repair services for it are not available all the time. The main convenience of having a Bluetooth® powered technology is that you don’t need to worry about the connection wires or cables swinging around while driving your bike. But when your device suffers electronic failure right on the road, then you will have to accept the situation and wait for someone to repair it for you. The worse that can happen is when the unit runs out of warranty; it is highly likely that you will need to buy a new one.
Reading the specs of the iPad, one needs to ask why it had never been done before. But a closer inspection indicates that iPad needed the prosperity of the Apple iPhone and the Kindle to create market receptivity to it. Multimedia, internet surfing and interacting on the iPad bring a unique experience.
Powered by a 1 GHz Apple A4 SoC which had the ARM Cortex A8 processor inside it and running on the same platform as the iOS4 that would soon run the brand new apple iPhone 4 after it, the iPad was the less powerful laptop. However, it wasn’t designed to replace a laptop. It had been intended to be better than a laptop in the multimedia and internet surfing departments, with half the load of the lightest laptop at 1.5lbs and half as thick.
You could state that a laptop could easily get the job done, together with a cell phone. But Apple took the gamble and gave the world that which was better than typically the most popular smartphone available, the apple iPhone, and gave it the size that made the laptop a big internet and multimedia gadget.
In the words of Apple Boss, Jobs, the Apple iPad is “much better than the usual laptop, much better than the typical smartphone.”
The Apple iPad has a few outstanding features no laptop has. Its 9.7-inch Insolvency practitioner (In-Plane Switching) Brought backlit display just outclasses all laptops. With XGA resolution and 16 million colors, watching a film on it while on the highway doesn’t have competition.
You can view clips or images in any orientation because of its 3-axis accelerometer. You do not even require a keyboard even though this is optional from the proprietary 30-pin docking connectivity. Its capacitive touch screen with multitouch and gesture input capacity is all that’s necessary. If that feature was the important thing that catapulted the apple iPhone to legendary status, wait until you have it on the 
