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the gaming laptop that finally has just about everything I'm looking for I'm Dan Hackman and this is the Lenovo y50 touch now this is one of the laptops I've probably gotten the most emails and questions from CNET readers about this year everyone who's interested in in thinner more stylish portable gaming laptops has asked me about this at the Y 50 it's the touch so it has a touchscreen there pretty much hits a lot of the things I'm looking for in a gaming laptop that the traditional gaming guys don't always want to give us it's got a fairly sedate design kind of matte black some really cool red accents it's not that thick it's a 15-inch laptop so it's not one of those big back busting 17 inch models reasonably thin reasonably light still kind of a stay at home laptop you're not going to carry around everyday but it's got one of invidious current generation video cards that's the that's the 860 it's not the 870 or 880 it's not the top of the line but it is a modern current day card and that's pretty good it's got a Core i7 processor obviously it's kind of 1080p screen and it's got the other thing pretty much no one else outside of that Razer fortune engine lab top gives you and the high powered gaming laptop and that is a touchscreen that's why it's called the Y 50 touch now you're gonna use touching gaming all the time no probably not but if you want to use this as more than just a dedicated gaming machine you want it to be your everyday at home or at work laptop well then if you're using Windows 8 you're probably gonna want to have touch and that's what you get right here interestingly there is a version of this with an actual 4k resolution screen I don't think that version is available yet we don't have it we just have the 1080p version but the nice thing is you put all these aspects together including the normal excellent Lenovo build quality great keyboard great touchpad decent looking not too reflective screen and again decent touch on the screen Best Buy has an exclusive version of this for about twelve hundred dollars and considering all the different components in it and the design and the fact it's a gaming laptop at the touch screen I think that's frankly a pretty great deal I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo y50 touch