And it’s almost impossible to find if you’re scrolling through results and watching for the “Y700” flag. It’s temporarily on sale for $829, down from $899, which makes it nearly $100 cheaper than the option Best Buy identifies as a Y700.
The top laptop conforms to the specifications listed on Lenovo’s Y700 page. Quick, tell me - if you’re looking for a Y700, which of these two laptops qualifies? The answer is both of them, but only if you literally squint. The system Best Buy prominently refers to as a Y700 uses an A10 with a 1.8GHz base clock.īest Buy offers the same system that the UK branch of Lenovo is selling. The UK version of the AMD Y700 has an FX-8800P at 2.1GHz base clock. But here’s the thing - they aren’t the same PC. According to Lenovo’s UK website, it’s a $972 system after exchange rates are calculated. According to Best Buy, the Y700 - by which I mean the AMD system prominently identified as a “Y700”– is a $918 system. The AMD Lenovo Y700 is a perfect example of this problem. When Best Buy has more than 200 different Lenovo-branded systems on sale, the issue is obvious. It’s impossible to track the deals and sales that companies might be offering at any given moment, or to parse the differences in models offered to specific retailers versus the mainstream versions. That’s a fair question, and it’s the other reason why we vastly prefer to source product pricing from manufacturers. One concern raised by some readers was whether or not we were using appropriate comparison points for our AMD versus Intel hardware. The price point comparisons against Intel are somewhat better on these two systems, but neither shines particularly well against their Intel counterparts, and neither reflects the $130 or so discount that HP and Toshiba are supposedly getting on AMD parts as compared to Intel chips.Īs for price points on the other two systems, let’s examine that in (yet) more detail. Neither system ships with a dual-channel memory configuration as standard, though again, at least HP gives you the option to add a DIMM (the Satellite has just one SO-DIMM slot). Neither is particularly well-built, though the Pavilion seems a bit better in that regard. Two of the four Carrizo systems (the Toshiba E45DW and the HP Pavilion 17z-g100) are between $500 and $600. By not listing their Carrizo offerings, both Toshiba and Lenovo limit the number of customers that might see an AMD system or consider buying one. I’m not saying no one goes to Best Buy when they need a new laptop, but if you want to know something about a manufacturer’s product lines, the first place to look is on the manufacturer’s website. AMD? What AMD? The models off to the right are all Intel, too.
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