jly Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Hello Lenovo Community,I just got my Y500 from the recent doorbusters crazy event over at lenovo outlet. I would like your knowledge-riched advices here to configure this Y500 for development purposes. Here are the specs- i7 quad ivy bridge- 8GB- 650M graphics- ok battery lifeI would like to turn this into a dev box replacing my trusty mac book pro 3,1--old with 6gb mem and ssd--that had the nvidia graphics failed. What I would like to have is as described below.- Running mostly OSX, Linux, and Winslowze virtual machinesPrimary wishes:- 16GB or 32GB memory (if possible.). More is better since vm's just slurp memory as humans would at sporting events during Summers. What specific memory should I get?- Enable HD4000 and somehow disable or turn off the 650M from draining battery when not needed. Is this possible and how so?Nice to have wishes:- Hackintosh this Y500 with multiboot of course. Possible? How so?- How to go about cleaning the pre-loaded junks on the Y500 by Lenovo?Appreciate the community for sharing your knowledge. Pointers to blogs, FAQs, and forums so that I can get educated would be great.Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharcyde Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 HD4000 is disabled at a hardware level so GT650m only. Would be interested in the battery drain comparison as I would have thought it would be negligible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalihifi Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Put directly 16gb works fine (do not know if it works 32Gb) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jly Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 It would be hard to compare battery drain if HD4000 is disabled at hw level. Comparison on different laptops is more apple-to-orange comparison than apple to apple. If there is another ideapad model that would be basically identical to the Y500 without the 650m then testing on such a laptop would give good results.As for negligible drain between on-chip vs. PCI card graphics I think they should differ more than just negligible since there would be more power loss with external wiring. But for practical purposes since I would not use the 650m intensively, i.e., playing games, I would think that battery drain between the two would be negligible.I have read a bit since yesterday and it seems to me that I should unlock BIOS so that I can upgrade and experiment with non-white-listed components--a bigger SSD and more memory to start with. Any problems I should be aware of upgrading these items for the Y500? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jly Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 lalihifi, which brand did you use? 2x8GB Corsair? Model? Timing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jly Posted July 9, 2013 Author Share Posted July 9, 2013 According to the Y500 Hardware Maintenance Manual http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_y400y500_hmm_1st_edition_sep_2012_english.pdf8GB Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB or8GB Samsung M471B1G73BH0-CK0 memory modules are blessed by Lenovo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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