Mox

Great work svl7. I just got a Y500 GT750 last week and it has the 2.02 bios. Are all the versions of 2.02 the same ? i.e. is the leaked version on the front page, and the (source to the) version in post #503 the same as what I have? Thanks.

I say go for it. I also have a Crucial M4 256 Gb mSata as my main drive (and only drive) and this thing really screams now. You won't regret it. I have two prior Intel SSD's but decided to go with the Crucial because it doesn't compress data on the drive. This means that the storage space is 'real' and won't go down if you store a lot of compressed data.

I got my Y500 last week. I tried to use windows 8, but one of the first dialog boxes that popped up made me drill down a couple levels to do what I needed. That was all it took for me to dislike Win 8. I had also ordered the Crucial 256Gb SSD. So I pulled out the old hard drive to try to save battery power, and installed Win 7 onto the SSD. I like it a lot now and it boots in about 11 seconds. The only issue that I am having is that the trackpad does not seem to recognize gestures. I use a mouse with it most of the time though so it doesn't really bother me all that much. I read there is about 20Gb of bloatware installed on the machine when you get it. That is another reason to install Win 7. I'm glad I did it.