- Hey guys, this is Austin.
Recently, we took a look at a $400 gaming laptop,
But this time, we're going to see what happens
When you take it up a notch.
This is the Lenovo Y700.
It's a 14 inch gaming laptop
which, for $750, has a lot going for it.
So the first thing I see is it
actually looks like it has a carbon-fiber finish.
I mean, that is definitely plastic, but
it actually looks pretty nice.
Inside here, we have the power cable, some paperwork,
what I assume is the power adapter
which is, actually pretty big.
Open this guy up and not only do we have the
14 inch display, but we also have
what's actually really well-built,
there's very little keyboard flex.
It's a backlit keyboard,
it's all metal around the palm rest.
This feels like a pretty premium laptop.
For ports, its pretty straightforward.
We have a power adapter, a single USB port,
As well as headphone and microphone.
And on this side, we have two more USB 3,
HDMI and ethernet.
This is definitely a gaming laptop,
But I'm glad that Lenovo went a little more
subtle with the styling.
For the most part, it's just a black laptop with a few red accents.
Sure, maybe like the speakers look
A little bit gamer-y, but for the most part
once you close it up, it's actually a
fairly understated looking laptop.
Compared with the Inspiron 15
that we did a video on a few months ago,
the Lenovo is a lot smaller, which I like.
Especially if you're going to be taking this
to something like school,
its going to be a little bit more portable.
but also, it really does look a lot more understated.
While this is not a bad-looking laptop,
the whole Spider-Man aesthetic
is not going to be for everyone.
One of the big advantages is with the display.
So this guy is rocking a 14 inch, 1080p IPS panel,
which looks a lot better than the TN panel on the Dell.
Now, while this looks good as is,
for right now, you can actually get this exact same
model with a 4K display on Amazon for the same price.
Now sure, it won't be able to game at 4K,
but for normal use, that is going to look
really, really nice at 14 inches.
- [From Laptop] Hey guys, this is Austin.
The Galaxy Note 7 was one of the
hottest phones of last year.
- Terrible puns aside, the speakers are pretty solid here.
So they're actually front-facing
and from the looks of them, they're actually reasonably big.
They don't get super loud, but no complaints.
What is pretty good is the keyboard.
So like I said earlier, it is
going to be backlit which is nice
and the travel is pretty decent.
Lenovo does a good job with keyboards usually.
Now the trackpad isn't quite so amazing.
So, its totally usable, but it doesn't use
the Windows precision drivers, which means that,
its fine but for pretty much anything more
than a quick little bit of use,
you're going to want a mouse.
Inside, this guy is powered by a quad core i7-6700HQ
16 gigabytes of DDR4 memory, as well as
Radeon R7 M375 graphics.
It stacks up pretty well compared to the Dell.
Now while is Skylake processor
compared to Kaby Lake on this guy,
it's going to be an i7 versus an i5,
which I would definitely prefer.
It has twice as much memory.
It also has a 256 gigabyte SSD
on top of a 1 terabyte hard drive.
This guy only has the SSD.
The main thing you're giving up here
is that 1050Ti on the Dell.
Now the Radeon graphics should be
pretty decent here and it is $100 cheaper,
so let's see how it performs.
First up, we have CS:GO.
Now this is by no means a new game,
but it still runs pretty well on the Lenovo.
We're getting somewhere between 60 to 80 frames per second,
and this is with everything cranked up
on high settings at 1080p, as I get shot in the face.
(laughs)
Next, we have Shadow of Mordor.
This is a little bit of a newer game
and importantly, it looks a lot nicer than CS:GO.
Now the issue here is that we do have to
turn settings down just a little bit.
So right now we're running at 900p on Medium and
we're getting anywhere between 30 and 40 frames per second.
It is playable, but it's not the
greatest experience in the world.
I think that's kind of a trend with the Lenovo.
It can definitely handle gaming, no doubt,
but for a lot of newer titles, you are going to have to
turn the settings down to around medium or so.
One game the Y700 can definitely handle is Overwatch.
So again here on 1080p at medium settings,
we're anywhere between 40 to 50 frames per second.
It's a pretty good experience, but
one of the nice things about the Lenovo
is it can handle more than just gaming.
Taking that same gameplay footage that we just recorded
and bring it inside Adobe Premiere, you can see
that this is also not a bad editing PC.
So with stuff like a Core i7 and 16 gigs of RAM,
inside Premiere, that actually runs pretty well.
Now, to be fair, this is only 1080p footage,
but we are playing it at full resolution
and even stuff like scrubbing through
the timeline is nice and smooth.
The Lenovo Y700 definitely isn't
a perfect gaming laptop, but
there's a lot to like here.
The screen is great,
the specs are pretty solid.
The only real issue here is that
the graphics could just be better.
But, for the price, there's not a lot to complain about.
So, as always, I'll have a link
to check this guy out in the description.
I'm curious, would you want to pick up the Y700?
Let me know in the comments below
and I will catch you in the next one.