Whichever way you go, don't forget to take your laptop out of battery savings mode when you're playing a demanding game:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/ignorantly_selfinduced_tech_issues/post1

that is one of the first things i always alter
along with opening each folder in its own window
and installing a start menu replacer i cant stand the windows 7\xp start menu i always prefer the classic 9x one

That's funny. I didn't like the Windows 7 start menu. It took me a while to get Windows 7 start menu to look like XP. I don't even remember the one from Windows 95. :) LOL (I never had 98).

ive had 95 98 ME 2k xp vista and 7
i prefer the original start menu this one in other words >> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/d/d3/20130113064858!Windows_95_Start_menu.png

the replacer i use is called classic start menu

i dont like the windows 7 style start menu but its better then the windows 8 start screen

Now I remember it. I liked it a lot, but I've gotten used to the Windows 7 start menu. I will never use Windows 8.

For business use there's no need for a discrete card, and if the laptop is otherwise well specced (Windows Pro, full HD display, decent sized HD, ...) then the SRP may be justified. Still, if the selling price is $500 then probably either the laptop isn't selling well or the SRP is inflated.

its most likely an ultrabook though
those tend to hover around 900-1300 mark

and yes i was right it is an ultrabook http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/u-series/u430-touch

quite decent as ultrabooks go especially the hard drive but that video card
still its on sale right now for half the price which explains why its 500

ie use the ecoupon and you save 501 dollars

Yes the thin form-factor certainly increases the price. Also it apparently has a touchscreen, which I presume increases the price too.

and it has a 500 gig hd ssd combo drive which also doesnt come cheap
500 gig in a ultra book is unusual usually these things want to be thin thin thin

for anything other then light gaming this would be a great laptop especially with the discount
but for a gamer this might not be the greatest choice

Lenovo?

The company that was recently revealed to have been doing this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/19/superfish-need-to-know/

TLDR: Lenovo laptops came preinstalled with Superfish which performs a man-in-the-middle attack on every single HTTPS connection you create, faking certificates so it can snoop on the data, insert ads, and make your "secure" traffic clear as air to any hacker listening in.

http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/02/19/c93af0f5-3680-4402-b3f0-3ed2eca042f6/resize/770x578/be814135ff5a54b6e3be97cf71614591/boa-superfish-lenovo.jpg

Yeah, you couldn't pay me to use one of their products.

If you do get the laptop, nuke the data (low level format) and install your own OS & Software.

And quickly published a tool for removing Superfish and said it will never include it again and strive to include less shovelware with its laptops.

Somehow I am willing to believe they were unaware of the security concerns on one of the 3rd party softwares included with their package.

I'll agree with this for the most part. That's what I also did for my ASUS laptop. It has all kinds of pre-installed ASUS crap that I didn't find that useful. It was better to reinstall it with Windows 7 ISO (using the license included with the computer), and then pick and choose utilities you want.

I'd even prefer doing that to most mobile phones. My wife's Samsung phone has all kinds of useless pre-installed Samsung crap on it that I'm thinking of wiping it all out, and installing e.g. Cyanogenmod on it instead.

Same with my Samsung tablet. Still, I mostly just ignore it.

Damage has been done, though.

I have Lenovo laptop I bought around two years ago. This will be the last of Lenovo brand for me.

Next one would be HP.

ASUS is also garbage. I am writing on A46C that has problems in its keypad every six months, so I have to replace it so often. One more broken keypad I'm dumping this one.