neosoul

Boot time is only 1-2 seconds slower with UEFI off on my Y500. I wouldn't worry about it.

I just followed this guide: Converting Windows BIOS installation to UEFI - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki on how to convert my legacy boot back to UEFI. I was having weird boot hang ups (usually after a cold boot) that would last indefinitely or at least 20 seconds and it was driving me nuts.

Anyways, after booting via UEFI, the hangups are gone. Just a FYI for those facing the same issue. (BTW I have a y510p)

I have an Asus RT-AC66U that I'm trying out. It's pretty good so far. Just giving it a whirl. There's supposed to be some new one, but I haven't tried it. I'm still testing this router out to see if it's a keeper.

I'm getting about 25MB/s sustained with the laptop with the N6250 @ 5ghz AC. I know this router can do more as I've done close to 65MB/s using a Netgear A6200 USB AC adapter from further away. I'm happy with that speed (the 25MB/s on the laptop) - it's much faster than the crap that came with the y510p and on top of that, I have yet to see a wireless drop.

Huge thanks to svl7. The wireless was driving me nuts with this new y510p and the mod is awesome and extremely easy to do! Thanks!!!

I just ran through some BF3 last night and noticed that though the base frame rate seemed higher than previously, I think I am noticing thermal-based throttling as well. This could just be the map I was playing on (I havent gone through all of the maps yet) but I did notice running through the same area would be smooth one time and noticeably more skippy the next time.

Is anyone else experiencing this after the VBIOS mod (I've done it to both cards). I guess I am able to de-tune some of the performance to avoid throttling, but is there a tool you guys recommend? Thanks!

Huge thanks to svl7. The wireless was driving me nuts with this new y510p and the mod is awesome and extremely easy to do! Thanks!!!

Seeing as how you don't get to pick a different OS at purchase and are 'forced' with Windows 8, I'd say give it the good 'ol college try. Seriously though - the core OS is better. The only issue people can pick at is the lack of the start button. But you honestly do not need it. The search is much better (but still is lacking versus Apple's find) so you literally press the Start key on your keyboard and type in what you want.

This is much different from Windows Vista where the core itself was bad (too much indexing, horrible performance etc). Windows 8 is actually better core-wise and the UI isn't that much harder to get used to. It's designed for people to touch-and-go and just have 'relevant' things around you. For pro users there are a ton of short cut keys added and old ones that can be used: Keyboard shortcuts - Microsoft Windows Help

All of this will just get better with Windows 8.1 btw.

Yea, I've been seeing the rumors. But considering how things went down last time they claimed to be selling 750m ultrabays, I wouldn't be overly optimistic. Even if they start releasing 750m and/or 755m ultrabays, I'm pretty sure the 14" models will still get the short end of the stick. To this day, they've never even offered an ultrabay option for the 750m or 755m, and had only a handful of the things for the 650m. Considering it was advertised as being SLI compatible, which it completely is, I think it's worth exploring how to use whatever ultrabay cards are available. This could be a great option in the event that Lenovo just doesn't produce the particular ultrabay version we need, for 14" or 15.6" models. Personally, I find this vexatious fiddling around, trying to find the particular version of the same exact piece of hardware that should be working in all of the Ideapad machines anyway, to be a stupid marketing gimmick by Lenovo well worth ignoring. All they're doing is putting a new spin on the same exact product every time they release a new one. There's really no reason for customers to play this silly supply and demand game they've set up.

I'm on the same boat as you guys! The y510p laptop is absolutely stellar except for the wireless. Curious though - which routers / AP's are you using? I have a Netgear N6250 AC which has been excellent. First router in a while that I didn't even bother trying dd-wrt.

I had to enable legacy boot instead of UEFI to get the y510p to install on my new SSD. I'm using a Samsung PM840 series 256GB SSD. Boot time with Windows 8 is about 7 seconds. I'm not sure if it is going to be much faster with UEFI though - this is my desktop equivalent speed so I'm very happy. BTW - my desktop is a Z77 chipset motherboard with Windows 8 and an SSD. Both systems have hibernate disabled so it is a 'true' boot speed (instead of waking from deep sleep).

I'm fine with disabling v-sync and a bit of screen tearing but I'm glad to know that the older version of the drivers didn't have this issue at all.