mariusart78

Yes that's right, and a notebook cooler will help. However unless your temps are extreme, i'd say 70s, you're gonna be fine. I only use notebook cooler when i game on this laptop, for regular use no.

I use an HP Elitebook older model 8440p and it's amazing how well it holds up. I got it at work used by someone else previously (who managed to make some dents in the metal lid) and i have been using it for a year without any issues whatsoever. I love the keyboard on these things and by the look of the chassis it can take a lot of punishment. I will definitely get an Elitebook for myself when the actual laptop becomes obsolete.

Last movie watched that i recommend is Thor 2, in my opinion much better than the first movie. Also Rush was really nice and The Hobbit 2

Intel 7260AC too. Arrives tomorrow and i can't wait

Intel 525 120gb drive when in use gets to 52 degrees C, however i don't think it's all from the drive. It's sitting in a small enclosure with other parts that generate heat after all. Temperature monitor used is HWmonitor.

Hello all, I have joined after finding the Y500 bios mod thread here, necessary to install a better wireless lan card in my Lenovo. Now i hope that everything will work all right Name is Marius and i am from Romania. Tried to pay subscription fee but for some reason or other i get an error with unsupported currency. Anyway, it's nice to be here and this place is great for my Y500.

Every Y500 has mSATA port that is free in the models that do not feature a 16gb SSD. So you can easily place a SSD drive in that port and leave the 1tb standard drive intact for storage. That is what i have done and now i run a 120gb SSD OS drive and 1tb of storage About 5 seconds boot time windows 8 with legacy boot not uefi, definitely worth the investment as the oem hdd is very slow (5400 rpm).

Hi all,

I have the same problem as NyMartin, i have ordered a 7260ac dual band wlan but i wonder if there are any risks involved in the process of modding the bios. Also i understand that any bios version above 2.0 is not official since it does not appear on the support page for the Y500.