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Ideapad Y560 with rapid drive vs Y560P

post #1 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:31pm
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All,

It's been awhile since I've been on the forums, but I have a question that maybe you all can help me with.

There is an Ideapad Y560 with rapid drive model# 064658U that has just popped up on the Lenovo site... but the Y560P is supposedly the first laptop to have the sandy bridge processor and rapid drive. So what is the difference between the two?

The salesmen at Lenovo have no idea what I'm talking about or what Sandy Bridge is...... so maybe you guys can shed some light on this. The reason I ask is because the current coupons can be applied to this 064658U model which will then be 100's less than when the Y560p comes out.

Spiike
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post #2 of 6
12/29/10 at 4:38pm
Would you have the link to the Y560 that you are talking about?

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post #3 of 6
12/29/10 at 5:29pm
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shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=536DDAD2272C43B4B4EFE41A7A5D7192

Its the one in the middle (3rd option)
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post #4 of 6
12/29/10 at 5:35pm
Thanks, I just wanted to confirm.

So, yes you were right about the Y560P being a Sandy Bridge machine, the Y560 is not, you can tell right away by the CPU that it carries.

This is the correct naming of the Y560P
"Lenovo Y560P 750G I7-2630QM 15.6 inch LED 6G DDR3 HD6570 DVDRW W7HP Gray RTL"

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post #5 of 6
12/29/10 at 6:44pm
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thanks. Now the question is what makes the y560p better. One of the main selling points is rapid drive that supposedly only the sandy bridge supported and the metal brush case. Otherwise the Led screen is the same, bluray is now standard, and wireless n is standard on the two models. The 6570 gpu is also a rebranded 5730 gpu.
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post #6 of 6
12/29/10 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by Spiike View Post
thanks. Now the question is what makes the y560p better. One of the main selling points is rapid drive that supposedly only the sandy bridge supported and the metal brush case. Otherwise the Led screen is the same, bluray is now standard, and wireless n is standard on the two models.
Standard argument / selling point here ...

"Sandy Bridge should offer better graphics and multimedia performance on the retail laptops that many consumers buy. In some cases, the performance improvement will be incremental--and even imperceptible--for everyday tasks, but there will be clear gains in gaming, transcoding (converting a movie from one format to another, for example)"

So there you have it, if you are the one that runs after new technology - wait, if not

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