Ahmedsalab

Well I have the lenovo Y500 which is the older version of the lenovo Y510P(which is the larger brother of the Y410p) . It is an average laptop in my opinion.Good hardware and quality.However the most nagging things with this laptop are the WLAN Card and Boot times.Especially my booting time.It is up to 5 minutes and after fresh windows install,the boot timing returns normal but only for a few weeks and then it returns back to its frustrating booting time.Doesn't know if it is a bios version related problem or a HDD or what the heck with it.Also the WLAN card is pretty weak.It drops signal more than lower price laptops with lower specs but I have seen people changing the wireless Lan to overcome this problem.Please note that this is my experience and it may vary from a user to another. However there are some pretty sturdy alternatives to Lenovo y410p or y510p that are in your budget [h=1]ASUS N550JV-DB72T Notebook Intel Core i7 4700HQ (2.40GHz) 8GB Memory 1TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 15.6" Touchscreen Windows 8 64-Bit ~1000$ MSI GE Series GE60 2OE-003US Gaming Notebook Intel Core i7 4700MQ (2.40GHz) 8GB Memory 750GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M 2GB GDDR5 15.6" Windows 8 64-Bit ~1000$ MSI GE Series GE60 Apache Pro-003 Gaming Notebook Intel Core i7 4700HQ (2.40GHz) 8GB Memory 1TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 2GB 15.6" Windows 8.1 64-Bit ~1250$[/h]

I have lenovo Y500 which is the older version of Y510p.Its a pretty good laptop.However the Wlan card as stated isn't good.It catches dust and fingerprints very quickly.Also the MOST FRUSTRATING THING IS BOOT TIMES. I have the non SSD version and it takes forever to boot up to 5 minutes.A fresh install of windows makes it boot better but after few weeks it returns to its frustrating boot time.Don't know if it is the bios considering mine has an old bios (version 1.05) but I am someone who makes sure there is no crapware on his laptop and even my 5 years old Amd Athlon x2 dual core desktop with 4 Gbs of ram boots faster with a western digital blue HD.Don't know Whats wrong but even laptops with lower specs than mine boot faster.Consider this while buying.