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I'm Dan acronym we are here taking a look at the Lenovo IdeaPad y500 now this new version of the Y 500 is for Windows 8 it is also a little bit of a gaming laptop it has in this particular configuration not one but two nvidia geforce 650m graphics cards which means that they could pretty much play any game out there and either the highest resolution this is a 15 inch 1080p screen or the highest detail settings some games both some years you may have to dial either the resolution or the detail settings down you've also got a big 1 terabyte hard drive with that 16 gigs solid-state cache and what i think it's probably one of the coolest things at least the first things you see is this cool backlit keyboard it's sort of black on black but with this really rich red emanating from underneath the keys you know it's different from every other backlit keyboard at least it's a little bit of a maybe a dorm-room chic look but i liked it just because it stands out from everybody else now with all this good stuff going on there's gotta be a downside and that is this is one of the very few windows 8 laptops that we've seen that does not have a touchscreen see nothing's happening here now I see a little bit of a trend here pretty much any laptop that we have reviewed since the Windows 8 came out it has a discrete graphics card does not have a touchscreen now there's no reason why you can't put these two components together but for some reason nobody has yet the first guy to make a really great gaming laptop for Windows 8 that also has a touchscreen I'm gonna be right on board with that not because you need the touchscreen for gaming so much but the rest of the time when you're just in this Windows 8 UI it really pays to have the touchscreen otherwise it's just difficult to navigate especially with a touchpad here that's just got a little bit of a floaty feeling not quite as tight as you'd want it to be one thing I thought was very cool is that second graphics card is in what Lenovo calls an ultra Bay which means you can actually pull it out and replace it with either a second hard drive fan or a optical drive like a DVD Drive or a blu-ray drive they have to buy all these other things separately and they're very proprietary but the fact that you could swap stuff in and out and maybe have an at home version and just pull it out and put the fan in for travel so it'll be lighter and use less power and run cooler I think it's kind of a cool option we used to see it years ago not so much now my final Kota about the y500 is this configuration was originally pitched to me as costing about $1,300 looking at lenovo's website as of today they seem to have a lot of sales going on tied into saint patrick's day even though that already happened i saw a very similar configuration to this for 869 dollars which is pretty amazing that almost makes this a must consider laptop even when you take out the touchscreen if it had a touchscreen be hands down my favorite laptop of 2013 so far as it is it should definitely be in your strong considered category if you're into a mild to moderate to not quite super heavy PC gaming I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo IdeaPad Y 500