Lenovo Y700 Series
Processor: AMD Carrizo FX-8800P, Intel Core i7 6700HQGraphics Adapter: AMD Radeon R9 M385X, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Display: 15.60 inch
Weight: 2.6kg, 2.69kg
Price: 999, 1400 euro
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
Lenovo Y700-15ACZ
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo Y700-15ACZProcessor: AMD Carrizo FX-8800P
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon R9 M385X 2048 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.69kg
Price: 999 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Reviews
Badly designed. Even though it might not be the fault of the processor manufacturer, AMD-based notebooks do not have the best reputation. The reviewed model of the new Lenovo Y700 confirms this statement. The alleged gaming notebook is hardly suitable for gaming, although the performance should be sufficient in theory.
Lenovo Y700-15ISK-80NV0143GE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo Y700-15ISK-80NV0143GEProcessor: Intel Core i7 6700HQ
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4096 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Price: 1400 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebooksbilliger Blog DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/03/2017
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 90% display: 90% mobility: 90%
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Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
AMD Radeon R9 M385X: Fast mid-range graphics card with 14 compute shaders.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M: Upper mid-range graphics card of the GeForce GTX 900M series.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Carrizo:
FX-8800P: Top Carrizo APU of 2015 containing two "Excavator" CPU modules (with 4 integer and 2 FP cores counted as 4 compute cores). Performance can differ greatly depending on the configured TDP (ranging from 12 to 35 Watts).
Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.
6700HQ: Skylake-based quad-core processor for notebooks. Offers an integrated HD Graphics 530 GPU and is manufactured in 14 nm.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
2.69 kg:
79.5%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.