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hey how's it going guys this is Dave - Dee so last year Lenovo had a gaming laptop called the Y 50 very popular laptop because it was respectable for the price but there were two issues one the screen wasn't very good but more importantly the build quality was questionable we had two of them at work both of them developed hinge issues after a couple of months so when the successor came out with the Y 700 I held off on a review I wanted to see if issues would pop up over time but I'm ready now to give you my Y 700 long-term review so aesthetically it looks similar to the older Y 50 it's the same pattern aluminum surface that looks pretty nice but fingerprints still show easily it's pretty easy to upgrade if you remove a bunch of screws on the bottom you get access to the RAM slots and both drives the 2.5 inch SATA drive and the m2 slot it has a good number of ports on the right we have USB 3s HDMI out and Ethernet and on the Left we have the power connection USB 2 SD card audio jack and a system restore button there is no Thunderbolt 3 connection though the build quality is much improved over the y50 after months of regular use the hinge is still working perfectly it's OpenAL with one hand and it's got nice tension I don't love the location of the hinge like you're still torquing it every time you open it but the actual mechanism is much better it's smoother it's easier to open and most importantly it's durable the inside surface is a soft touch finish the keyboard is pretty good the arrow keys are positioned a little close to the adjacent keys but the keystrokes are nice the backlighting is red and even if you don't have it on the sides of the keys are red so if Red's not your favorite color tube head the trackpad is okay it's a pretty standard trackpad for an affordable gaming laptop it has a smooth surface decent tracking but I don't like the buttons they're a little too shallow for me and they need some pretty heavy pressure to click but who cares right you got a gaming mouse the screen is a mixed bag so this one is a 1080p panel it's not super bright and the viewing angles are only okay but the contrast and black levels are X and when I'm playing games that's super important to me unfortunately the screen has poor color accuracy it doesn't affect gaming for me because I don't care Diablo's like the perfect hue of red but I wouldn't want to use it for color accurate video or photo work the other thing I want to mention is that the screen has a matte layer on it it's actually one of very few laptops out there that has a matte finish touchscreen someone discovered that you could take a hairdryer heat up the adhesive and then peel off that layer so I did it on one of the earlier units and the immediate reaction was oh my god this screen is so much nicer the thing is it is a very reflective display so if you plan on using this outdoors or brightly lit environments I recommend leaving it on like this one the speakers are excellent JBL branded if that matters loud clear and well positioned it also has a subwoofer on the bottom so the Y 700 took the crown for the best speakers in my comparison video it's running a skylake i7 with gtx 960m properly cooled quiet on idle and it doesn't get too loud at maximum load the CPU does throttle a bit on benchmarks but i've never noticed an issue for cat applications or games so i think you're probably good in terms of 1080p gaming frame rates it'll easily handle light games so ultra settings will still get you over 60 frames per second moderately demanding games will need reduced graphics settings to maintain 60 frames per second and then very demanding games you can still hit 50 or 60 frames per second but you'll definitely need the lower graphics settings or the screen resolution it's a 60 watt hour battery and battery life is pretty good with screen at max brightness so around 250 nits I was getting three to four hours of regular use and then one and a half hours of gameplay ok the lenovo Y 700 it has a much improved build quality from the previous white 50 the touchscreen display is great for playing games but it lacks the gamut for color accurate work the keyboard is good and has red backlighting trackpad is just okay inside the i7 and the 960m are properly cooled and they can handle most current games reasonably well it has 16 gigs of RAM and one terabyte hard drive and it's fueled by a respectable 60 watt hour battery pricing starts at just over a thousand dollars so I think lenovo did a really good job in this laptop they took the y50 community feedback stuff that was broken and made the Y 700 if you're an avid gamer and you don't need like a super color accurate display this is one of the best available gaming laptops right now at this price point if you do need a super color accurate display this is not the one for you that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it give me some thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice see you guys next time