Lenovo Y50 Touch

Lenovo latest gaming laptop, the Y50 Touch ($ 1,129.91 as tested) playing prowess delivers a slim portable design with the ability to touch. Combine it with solid performance and decent battery life, and you have a system to appeal to novice players to be daunted by the customization options offered by typical gaming boutique manufacturers. While it offers the portability of the Razer Blade (2013), it is a system that has the ability for a reasonable price.

design
Measuring 0.9 by 15.2 by 10.4 inches (HWD) and weighs only 5.3 pounds, the Y50 Touch is too skinny for a 15-inch gaming system. It accomplishes this part of ditching the optical drive to reduce the overall thickness of the chassis. Covered Brushed aluminum lid and underside of the laptop, featuring a unique design of cross-hatch. The black chassis is accented with a smattering of red, highlighting the JBL stereo speakers and integrated subwoofer.

The palm rest features a matte, soft-touch finish, with large clickpad set just below the spacebar. While its clickpad and Windows 8 gesture support is great for web surfing or basic day-to-day activities, click on the right and left corner of the touchpad is not ideal for gaming, so you'll likely You want to take a separate gaming mouse.

The keyboard has the same red-rimmed key and the Crimson backlight so the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p, and feel good, thanks to Lenovo's design Accutype. The key has a scalloped shape and slightly curved keycaps for comfort.

The 15.6-inch LED screen with 1920-by-1080 resolution and sports an anti-glare finish keeps reflections at bay. And, unlike most other gaming laptop, it features 10 finger touch capabilities, giving you all the intuitive motion controls and press the need to fully guests in Windows 8.1. The touch screen is a feature so far kept off most of the gaming laptop, but the trend starts to change, as seen here and in the latest Razer Blade, which also boasts a touch screen.

Vent grilles are located on the underside and back of Y50 Touch, but the laptop remains relatively quiet when running, and also remain cool even cranking by the demands of the game. What you will not find a removable battery by sealing the chassis, Lenovo is able to shave off another part of an inch in total thickness.

Features
For connectivity, you get three USB ports (two red colored USB 3.0 ports and a USB 2.0 port), a full-size HDMI-out port, a Kensington slot, a card reader, and a compact Ethernet port. There are also dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity. A 1TB hard drive offers plenty of storage space for all your games and media, while extra 8GB of flash memory cache boosts performance by providing faster boot times and snappier response than want to see a hard drive alone.

Lenovo throws in some apps and progams, with a 30-day trial of McAfee Internet Security LiveSafe, a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office 365, including AccuWeather, Amazon Kindle Reader, Touch Evernote, cloud storage by hightail (for Lenovo), and Zinio Reader. There is also an eBay shopping links you may want to remove, but the preinstalled software is not particularly noticeable. The system also has a NVIDIA GeForce Experience, which offers management for settings and drivers, including ShadowPlay, for recording and sharing video during gameplay, GameStream, for use on NVIDIA Shield, and battery Boost, which offers the best gameplay and battery life for on-the-go gaming. Covered Lenovo Y50 Touch with one-year warranty.