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Lenovo Legion Y540, 15-inch FHD, Intel Core i7-9750H, 16GB/512GB SSD, GeForce RTX2060 $1832.09 Shipped from Amazon

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Seems like a decent price for an RTX2060 laptop.
Short form specs:
i7-9750H RTX2060 16 GB RAM 512 SSD 15.6-inch FHD
The listing is a bit lacking in info, but I'd wager it's a 60Hz panel and 2x8 GB RAM config, simply due to the price for the former and it appears Lenovo don't offer a 1x16 RAM config based on a quick glance at their website.

Similar prices will get you only a 1660Ti from Lenovo's website (again, from a cursory glance).

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  • dingle on 31/05/2020 - 20:13

    Should I get this or wait for the new RTX A15 to go on sale?

    • astevens on 31/05/2020 - 20:20
      +3

      A question I asked myself before pulling the trigger. Knowing my luck, you'll be able to get the rtx A15 for $1500 next week…

      • dingle on 31/05/2020 - 20:21
        +1

        Yep, the month has yet to begin.

        • liamg7 on 31/05/2020 - 21:15
          +3

          Could just be my buyers remorse talking (got one of these bad boys last week from another place), but I get the sense there would already be sales for laptops, considering the eofy timing. Laptops and monitors are in real high demand at the moment and businesses are suffering financially.
          Not saying there won't be better sales, but will likely be limited stock and not as good as other years.
          That being said, there will always be a better deal, if you wait, you'll find something better eventually, if not, this is a sick deal.

          • astevens on 01/06/2020 - 13:52

            @liamg7: I had similar thoughts about things being already on sale. Most places have started their sales so I figured it was a reasonable time to pull the trigger.
            To be honest, I was a bit irritated I missed this G5 during the 20% off sale which would've come out at a similar price, so figured I'd pull the trigger this time.

            • liamg7 on 01/06/2020 - 22:34

              @astevens: That unspecified screen makes me think it's 60hz, if it's a carbon copy, why dya prefer Dell over Lenovo?
              They have pretty much the same brand image and customer service

              Honestly, a little biased against Dell, I bought an Alienware refurb, which was shipped broken, they repaired it 6 times, and forced me to take legal action to get a refund (I'm not kidding, their escalation dept refused to offer anything other than repairs, even mocking my threats and quoting consumer rights).

              • astevens on 02/06/2020 - 11:12

                @liamg7: It would appear that it's almost definitely a 60Hz based on info provided below by douglasac10. The monitor may be a bit better in the Dell?

                I agreed that it's much of a muchness between the Dell and this Lenovo, it's more that I probably would've had it sooner had I pulled the trigger on the Dell earlier. I've seen enough crappy Dells and Lenovos that I think the chances of getting a dud are about equal between the two.

    • [Deactivated] on 01/06/2020 - 22:23

      If this is the 60hz panel I'd wait, if it's the 144hz I'd get this. 60hz with these specs is a waste

  • Rhodekil on 31/05/2020 - 20:23
    -1

    Shame about the 512 :(

    • Void on 01/06/2020 - 08:24
      +5

      Most laptops only ship with 256, this is a victory.

    • Agret on 02/06/2020 - 21:38

      You hoping for a slightly cheaper model with 256gb? If you plan on using it for games i'd recommend sticking with the 512

  • morestuff on 31/05/2020 - 20:31
    +2

    On the Lenovo website it says 2 x 8 GB 2666 Ram, and this version has a 144Hz panel.

    Lenovo's price is $2,249.

    However worth chatting to them - I've had them reduce prices.

    • liamg7 on 31/05/2020 - 21:09

      There is a 60hz variation, got one myself around a week ago at a similar price, would've preferred the higher refresh rate, but can always get an external monitor, and it's a pretty shweet deal for something that's not already on sale. Only other 2060 that currently hits sub $2k is that Dell that only has 8gb, 128gb

      • teereb on 01/06/2020 - 01:24
        +3

        As a comparison I got a metabox for $1670 beginning this year, 16gb 2666 ram, 9750h cpu, 2060 gfx, 120hz screen, 256nvme, with a second nvme slot I put a TB Samsung 970 pro in (and a 3rd as a sata port too) and it weighs under 2kg.

        I know it's not a big brand name, but my previous metabox from about 6 years ago never skipped a beat, and this one is going strong for the last 5 months.

        • liamg7 on 01/06/2020 - 01:57

          I've had a lot of reliability issues in the past, just build quality and failures being awful, especially Alienware. Heard Metabox was a hit and miss like a lot of the other cheaper brands.
          My budget wasn't too high, so was looking mainly at Legion or Omen based on past sales

          It's still $130 difference for the bigger hard drive slightly cheaper monitor, but way more reliable build and customer service, not saying I wouldn't've potentially nabbed the Metabox instead

          • teereb on 01/06/2020 - 21:43

            @liamg7: I was wrong, it came with a half tb nvme :)

        • diaz on 01/06/2020 - 09:16

          Which model of Metabox?

        • esq on 01/06/2020 - 11:42
          +1

          have had 3 Metaboxes over the years, daily use, and the only consistent issue I've noticed as age and heat wear n tear accumulates is the fans start making grinding noises after about 3 years - you can buy a replacement off ebay for around $40-60.

          They run like an absolute dream in the first year or two, the point of difference is probably the IPS quality is quite decent, while the weakpoint is probably the chassis. It's the opposite of rugged, and there've been scorch marks especially near the CPU fan but this is likely due to playing games that run for ages (Stellaris, CIV, CK2, etc) and tax CPU. Note that heat "damage" occurs in most gaming laptops, only one where it hasn't for me was with the THICC af ASUS ROG G572 17in.

          • teereb on 01/06/2020 - 17:18

            @esq: I did video editing and 3D animation for 6 years on my first one, you don't get much harder work for a computer than that. Outside of it's age, it holds its own very well, still runs a dream.

            This one temps don't get about mid 60s for teh 2060, and mid 50s for cpu with hard work, can't complain.

            Sounds like YMMV but still, I'm loving the metabox.

  • Zippy7 on 31/05/2020 - 20:34
    +2

    Surely there will be a rash of EOFY deals coming up…

  • lzwdavid on 31/05/2020 - 20:50
    +1

    This model is 2019 it will be on sales very soon, due to new model 2020 has launched and already on Lenovo website.

  • douglasac10 on 31/05/2020 - 21:27
    +8

    If Amazon put the right MTM number in the description, here is the full specs.

    60Hz panel, incidentally.

  • crob on 31/05/2020 - 22:29

    Does anyone know the color specs for the display?

  • Ryugen on 31/05/2020 - 23:41
    +2

    Really hoping for a sale on the G5 SE from Dell…

  • zztrader on 01/06/2020 - 00:08
    +1

    These last year were much cheaper than the current price. You could nab one of these for 1500-1600 AU.

    Also the Amazon site states the CPU has a 6MB Cache when its 6 core, 12 thread and 12MB Smart Cache.

    Whats up with the world, going bonkers. Imagine buying this last year and selling it this year at a tidy profit, lol

    • frugalbat on 01/06/2020 - 00:26
      +1

      The exchange rate isn't as good as last year I suppose

    • liamg7 on 01/06/2020 - 01:59
      -1

      Unless they don't want to pay full price for a used gaming laptop with no warranty
      What is this, a Macbook?

    • Lukas on 02/06/2020 - 22:33

      It's happens pretty often, when the prices on RAM and GPUs went through the roof 3 or 4 years ago I sold my PC for more than I had paid for all the components. Getting things when our dollar is strong creates those situations too

  • Samuelsfoot on 01/06/2020 - 06:46
    +1

    This model has the 250nits 60hz screen.

    Late last year I skipped on the 2060 model of this with a 250nit screen for the slightly better 300nits screen with a 1660ti.
    The 300nit model covers 72% NTSC and 99% sRGB

    I can't find the specs now but he 250nit model was something near 45% and obviously a bit dimmer

    I'd skip on this with new models coming out soon and the fact that these were cheaper last year

  • Jasongood on 01/06/2020 - 08:58
    +5

    Just sharing my experience, I had the last gen model y530 (i5, 8GB, 256GB SSD, 1060, 300nit 144hz) at about $1250 after CR, thanks to CR promotion at the time with Lenovo at 12%.

    The battery got issues 1 month after warranty expired. Or I having been expecting too much for a battery in a gaming laptop.

    When the warranty was expiring in a month I contacted Lenovo for a quote to extend, as in the Legion app it offered USD pricing instead of AUD. I had been thrown around by their CS and Tech support and at the end the whole mass dragged after the warranty expired and I got a 'sorry'. :(

    • kml22 on 01/06/2020 - 09:48

      A couple of friends and I have similiar issue with Lenovo.
      Some will say they have no experience with their Lenovo, but too many are having issue with their laptop after warranty ran out.

  • aquikdeal on 01/06/2020 - 13:02

    Is there anyway of increasing the warranty on this?

  • [Deactivated] on 01/06/2020 - 13:53
    +1

    Why do laptop manufacturers not partion the ssd into two, or install two ssd one for the os, and one for the storage.

    Meaning 1tb. Atleast you know if one dies you can access the ssd and remove it, rather have it embedded with the os.

    Partitioning 512gig for 256gig on this system for almost $2000 is lil pricey when your the one doing it.

    • Wilburre on 01/06/2020 - 15:02
      +1

      I am running an MSI GE60 2PE apache pro that looks to be on its last legs, I think this will be the year I upgrade. Still it has been serving well for 7 years (purchased between Oct13-Jan14 I can't remember exactly).

      It came with a 128gb ssd and a 1tb hdd, setup of course with os and stock programs on the ssd. Still I had to manually configure windows to relocate all the media folders - photos mainly, to the mechanical drive, which came completely empty, and had to move my steam folder etc to the mechanical drive.

      My previous laptop was an ASUS M60J I bought when I started uni (2010-2013), and of course back then ssd's were extremely uncommon and not a thing in consumer grade devices. It had a 500gb mechanical hdd, and Asus partitioned it into 3 - recovery, c and d, with roughly a 40/60 split of the remaining space between c and d after the recovery partition took its space (less than 10gb).

      In the end I had to adjust the partition size myself manually anyway - they provided too much space for the os disk that wasn't getting used.

      I guess what my longwinded yarn is getting at is this:
      - manufacturers used to partition the storage for you but not anymore it seems
      - devices with multiple storage devices don't get partitioned for you
      - you'll probably want to mess with any factory partitions yourself anyway
      - a recovery partition or quality restore media/factory disk image is all you really need (a disk image on an external device like a usb, with something like norton ghost would be awesome - start it going, come back to a fresh/recovered device with window and all factory drivers etc already installed)

    • Agret on 02/06/2020 - 21:43

      Why do laptop manufacturers not partion the ssd into two, or install two ssd one for the os, and one for the storage.

      Because then you end up with the OS partition filling up and nothing used on the second partition that exists for no reason

      Meaning 1tb. Atleast you know if one dies you can access the ssd and remove it, rather have it embedded with the os.

      Yes if you had 2x 512GB SSD in there and one dies you can access the second one still. Not sure what you mean by embedded with the OS?

      Partitioning 512gig for 256gig on this system for almost $2000 is lil pricey when your the one doing it.

      Why would you partition it into 2x256gb if it's a single drive? If the drive dies you will lose both partition anyway, just get a 2TB HDD and install Veeam agent free to run routine backups. Partitions will not stop you from losing data, I don't ever recall losing data to a partition dropping since Windows 95 compared to the whole drive failing. NTFS is quite resilient.

      My previous laptop was an ASUS M60J I bought when I started uni (2010-2013), and of course back then ssd's were extremely uncommon and not a thing in consumer grade devices. It had a 500gb mechanical hdd, and Asus partitioned it into 3 - recovery, c and d, with roughly a 40/60 split of the remaining space between c and d after the recovery partition took its space (less than 10gb).

      Yeah, very frustrating when they do that. If you are lucky though the partitions are ordered BOOT | TOOLS | OS | DATA | RECOVERY and you can just delete the D (DATA) Partition entirely then extend the OS one to occupy the full space, if you are unlucky the RECOVERY partition is placed between OS and DATA and you need to delete the DATA partition then use a third party tool to move recovery to the end of the drive so you can extend the OS partition to fill the space. Boggles my mind why they ever thought a good idea to create this split.

      • [Deactivated] on 03/06/2020 - 11:20

        There you go, with two ssd you would not need a tool to save the drive riddled in bed with the os.

        Look some people use external drives for backup, but given the sheer size of 512gig, especially 1tb prioritising it for the os only with no partition is unfare, especially when they could have put 2 ssd in one prioritised for the os.

        Whose to say the manufacturer knows what the consumer wants.

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