deelybop

the unlocking of the HD 4000 and getting WiDi to work on the y500 is a hot topic over in the Lenovo forum. Lenovo has formally admitted that all y500 units with a manuf date prior to 11/28/12 have a touchpad issue " After careful investigation, Lenovo has determined that a portion of Y500 systems with Elantech touchpads manufactured in November prior to 11/28/2012 could exhibit abnormal touchpad response characteristics. This is isolated to the Elantech touchpad assembly on these systems. Y500 systems manufactured after this date should not be affected. Customers who experience these symptoms should contact Lenovo technical support for service to replace the touchpad assembly. This should be done after ruling out other potential causes such as incorrect drivers or conflicts with other attached pointing devices. We are in process of checking / updating service part stock to ensure that repairs would be completed with the latest level parts." I have an Elan touchpad and was thinking of jumping ship with this puppy and going with the y580 instead, but then i ran into a whole thread on the problems with the graphics card while gaming in the current shipments. The y500 has so much potential. WiDi would be great. I don't plan on putting another graphics card in it and was wondering if that would make it possible for me to enable the HD 4000, add WiDi. I just need them to fix the touchpad issue first, but can't do it til after i use it for work purposes after surgery thru mid Feb. i guess by then the touchpad replacement issues will be better and maybe WiDi will be possible.