(You can find that in the higher-end Legion Y720ĭOOM (2016) also hits 60+ FPS when set at ultra-graphics, and it can peak at 100 FPS when set to high.įor Rise of the Tomb Raider (Windows Store), a similar tale is told. There is a USB Type-C for charging and accessories, but it lacks Thunderbolt 3 for video-out and external GPU support. There are three USB Type-A ports, with two being 3.0 and one at 2.0. An excellent selection of portsįor input/output (I/O), Lenovo does a decent job with the Y520. If the Legion Y520 has a weak spot, battery life is it. While hitting seven hours with the Y520 would be great, the technology is just not there yet.ĭo you want a portable laptop that's not too heavy, or do you want to lug around a seven-pound rig? That's a tough choice, but it's also a real one that consumers need to make. Most gaming laptops I have used – except maybe the $2,000 Razer Blade (2017) – tend to eschew all-day battery life. ![]() Weighing in at 5.3 lbs (2.4 kg), the Legion Y520 is on the lighter side for gaming laptops in this range. For gaming, battery life is cut to about 90 minutes. You'll get just over three hours if you use it less conservatively. To be fair, Lenovo states on its site that battery life is rated at just four hours.įor once, there is (mostly) truth in advertising, but four hours is on the high-end if you are using the Y520 for light productivity at 30 percent screen brightness. But the Y520 is powering a quad-core processor and discrete NVIDIA GPU versus a dual-core setup in the Surface, which lacks dedicated graphics. To put that in perspective, Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 uses a 38 Whr cell. ![]() The laptop has a minuscule 45 WHr battery. It's the equivalent of wearing a button-up shirt but leaving it untucked – it's just enough to say, "I'm still cool." Nonetheless, when you open the Legion Y520, you get a bit of excitement with red accents for the keys, logo, trackpad and power button. With a plastic faux-Kevlar lid all in black, the Legion 520 lacks the tacky flair that so dominates the gaming PC world. The Legion Y520 has a very conservative and mature look, with a touch of pizzazz. Maxing the device out with Windows 10 Pro, 2TB HDD, 512GB SSD, 16GB of RAM and a Core i7 brings it to a reasonable $1,619. Realtek 8821AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCIeġ4.96 inches x 10.43 inches x 1.01 inches Two 2W Harman speakers with Dolby Audio Premium The cost savings measures are expected to allow Dell to reduce the costs of its products enough that it can win large bid contracts that it can then turn around and bundle with services such as those provided by the Perot Systems company that it acquired in September.15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit, IPS, Anti-Glare At the same time, Dell will gain the opportunity to attach additional items, including its storage and newly acquired Dell/Perot Systems services, with large PC and server deployments.” In fact, it will leverage its lower costs to provide aggressive hardware pricing to large enterprise customers in order to win in large bid situations. We believe Dell has been laying the groundwork for this move for some time. Technology Business Research analyst John Spooner said, “Despite lackluster business PC and server unit sales numbers in its 3Q09, TBR expects Dell to leverage its recent cost cuts … to fund aggressive PC and server pricing during the expected corporate PC upgrade cycle in 2010. These cost cutting methods are likely to be leveraged next year with very aggressive pricing on enterprise PCs and servers to allow dell to aggressively gain market share according to analysts. Gladden said, “We built more backlog than normal due to late-quarter release, and the order dynamics that we saw during the end of October.”ĭell is still continuing its aggressive cost cutting measures, which so far have included layoffs and plant closures. Revenue from small and mid-size businesses was $3 billion, up 5% from the previous quarter, but down 10% from the same quarter in 2008.ĭell is looking forward to continued growth in Q4 in part thanks to expected consumer upgrades from the launch of Windows 7. Things look better on a per category basis for Dell with its large enterprise revenue growing 4% compared to Q2 to $3.4 billion. ![]() ![]() Last chance to get the Dell XPS 17 laptop while it’s $500 offīest laptop deals: Save on HP, Lenovo, Dell and Appleĭell CFO Brian Gladden said that the quarterly results were “showing some encouraging signs for us, especially in our large enterprise and SMB businesses, where we had sequential growth for the first time in seven quarters.” This Dell 27-inch gaming monitor is discounted from $370 to $150
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