Should I buy a Lenovo IdeaPad Y560P1 laptop?

Question

laptops

I decided to buy a laptop to replace the main computer. The budget is around 40,000 rubles ... Plus or minus a couple of thousand.
It will be used mainly for work (programming, that is, in addition to ide, a couple of terminals, and a browser with a cloud of tabs, it will rarely be launched, well, sometimes a couple of virtual machines). For this, its capacity is more than enough.
But sometimes I want to play, it happens rarely, but strongly) Therefore, I am looking for productive ones not only in stone and memory, but also in video.

From all that I was browsing, I hooked the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560P1 . I didn’t see anything similar for 35-36k rubles, maybe I was looking badly ... And the iron component and appearance, for all this I even forgave him ctrl and fn, which were unusually set.

I saw only positive reviews and reviews, except for two things:

• 1. Possibility of this happening (bug with intel 6 series chipsets)
• 2. The hinges that hold the monitor screen are below a couple of reviews from Yulmart:
  Alexey 03/21/2011
  As for the hinges, Mikhail is right, the hinges are completely useless. Broke up after 2 months. Took it under warranty, they did everything. But the impression is ruined.
  Mikhail 03/21/2011
  It seems that most of the responses are a joy during the first week after the purchase. Notebook y 560 is really good, only an ambush where no one expects it. These are silumin hinges that hold the monitor screen and usually break within the first 3-6 months. The cost of one loop is from 1000 rubles + installation is about 3000 rubles, well, lost time. You can, of course, under warranty, only there is information that lenovo does not do all mechanical damage under warranty. Anyone who has experienced this please respond.

Questions to the owners of this device or to people who are good at rummaging around all this hardware.
1. Are the problems described above true and if so, how easy is it to solve them?
2. Is it worth taking this laptop (I'm going to take it at the end of April, although it may be earlier) or are there alternatives?
3. Maybe wait for the Y570d (it's still more interesting with the hardware according to the reviews, but I'm afraid that the price in Russia will be broken too high for it)?

Answer 1

Sandy bridge is now the most powerful, so it would be wise to take it, and then change the chip for free, it won’t explode :) Otherwise, you will soon have to change the laptop to a more powerful one.
Of the alternatives, there is a very similar unit from asus: ru.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=Gjsm3Kp4pjz9iJM1
But also on the Sandy bridge event.asus.com/2011/SandyBridge/notice/

Answer 2

I have exactly the same situation. There is ~ 40k and the desire to purchase a sufficiently powerful machine "for games too." That is, so that everything goes on average, but this is not a priority task.
I came to the conclusion that I had to wait. You already know about the marriage of Sandy Bridge. Notebooks with the corrected chipset hit the shelves in the US and Europe just a week ago (and some haven't yet). Therefore, I recommend waiting until mid-April, or better - mid-May. Yes, it’s clear that you can’t keep up with progress, but if you wait, you will either get a morally new laptop or a laptop of the last generation, but at a lower price than now (it is logical that with the release of new models, prices will fall).
We figured out the timing of the purchase, now the model. I visit sites every 3 days:
- www.notebook.ru/
- www.notebookcheck.net/
- www.notebook-center.ru/lenta.html
- www.nbprice.ru/info/list-industry.htm
- www.laptopmag.com/
- laptoping.com/category/laptop-news /
I watch news, reviews ... At the moment, I prefer Lenovo Y570 . But this is only because of the video card (GeForce GT555M). Before that, I was looking at the Asus N53SN , but there is a GeForce GT550M, and I think the price will be about the same.
Haven't looked at AMD laptops. Maybe there is something interesting there.
If there are conjectures-guesses-ideas-questions, then you can rub it with the same "waiters" on the ixbt forum .
By the way, another important question is “Which is better: Core i5 2 cores, but with a high frequency or Core i7 4 cores, but with a low one?”. The answer is ambiguous, by the way.
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In general, I repeat, I recommend waiting for May. It is in May that they promise to deliver the Lenovo Y570. Y560 is not worth taking, it really has a lot of problems.

Answer 3

In this range of alternatives ... to put it mildly, a lot.
Lenovo is cheap laptops, with all the consequences. With such a budget, I would not pay attention to this brand. With less, for example, 12-15 tr. Yes, of course Lenovo.

Answer 4

Asus N53Sv is really very good, I advise you to take a closer look at it (in the corrected version). Asus is distinguished by high-quality products, but for the price (via the link given above) it's just a godsend.

Answer 5

Asus, MSI and Samsung almost never bring us to the service, it is worth taking a closer look at them, and MSI has worthy models in terms of price / quality

Answer 6

Look towards the HP ProBook 4720s recently got one!