URGENT laptop help

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peterpants

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looking into getting a new laptop for college, and specifically looking at the Lenovo Y480

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=457&Code=209387U&current-category-id=C7563337D3E07CC4B84607F2E57AE7FD&tab=1#itemDetailsTabsArea

theres the link, the one thing im worried about is in reviews with the slower 5400rpm hard drive they said it bottlenecked the preformance, but this model has a 32gb SSD so i am wondering if this would help this problem or if i would have to replace the 1TB hard drive with a larger SSD

+k for real answers

-k for buy a mac

URGENT because its on sale tonight only...
 
I'd say the ssd is too small.

It should be big enough for your os install and program files ie games, ms office, Photoshop all the stuff you use should be there 32g is not enough. a hard drive slows down after it doesn't have 10% free space left. a percent of it will be taken just for system restore and your os will take a lot of it assuming you will have win 7

that TB drive is slow 5400 rpm is not good. I would try to get a 126 GB ssd as a main drive (anything higher starts to get super expensive) and a faster hdd (7200rpm is okay 10000 is better/best) for all my data
 
10,000 is not reliable imo, stick to 7200 as a backup, its plenty fast enough for just storage if using a 128gb SSD
 
would it be worth buying? considering its on sale id have extra money to put towards buying an SSD to replace the inferior hard drive
 
Yeah the 10,000 have problems sometimes. The 7,200 it quick and reliable,

Definitely get a SSD 126GB ish (gets expensive right after there). Research the one you are getting. 7,200 rpm is good and however much space you think is needed.
 
That laptop you were looking at is SATA I compatible i just did a chat with the lenovo chat dude lol, idk how much they really know he said 3.0GB/s and SATA I , i thought 3.0GB/s was Sata II but whatever, so when your looking for a SSD don't spend more for a SATA III one casue it won't get all the speed on that laptop
 
hdd RPM only will affect load speed of things on that harddrive, it won't throttle performance, and the time will be barely noticeable
 
No, the 32gb SSD is not a boot drive or anything.

Lenovo has RapidShare technology, which is essentially SSD caching.
 
$1200? are you shitting me? you could get a similar windows laptop for half that price... if youre gonna spend $1200 why don't you get something actually worth what you're paying for? I know you don't want a mac so i'm not gonna sit here and tell you to get a 13" MBP, but i know there are a ton of legit windows laptops for like 600-800 bucks that are just as good as this overpriced piece of shit you posted.
 
Ah, my bad. I mean RapidDrive not Rapidshare. I'm pretty sure there's no difference, SSD Caching (Smart Response Technology) is exclusive to Intel, so Lenovo developed their own.
 
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