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On the BioShock Infinite benchmark, the Y40 scored 38 frames per second on Low at 1080p, below the 53 fps average. The laptop is also equipped with an Intel HD Graphics GPU to handle the light stuff like streaming video. It was more annoying than game-breaking, but there were a few occasions when an enemy got the drop on me due to a slow-moving reticle. You'll be able to play demanding games such as BioShock Infinite and Titanfall - just not at the highest settings.īorderlands 2 ran smoothly on low at 1080p, but it exhibited some lag when I cranked it up to Maximum.

Outfitted with the AMD Radeon R9 M275 GPU with 2GB of VRAM, the Lenovo Y40 offers decent graphics performance for the money. The left side of the notebook has a pair of USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an expandable Gigabit Ethernet slot and a proprietary power port. There's a single USB 2.0 port on the right with a 4-in-1 card reader, a combination headphone/microphone jack, a S/PDIF jack and a secure lock slot. However, I used this system comfortably in my lap for more than 2 hours.Ĭlick to EnlargeFor such a slim gaming laptop, the Y40 has a lot of ports.

The bottom of the notebook hit 99 degrees. The touchpad jumped to 90 degrees, while the space between the G and H keys measured 94 degrees. When I played Half-Life 2 for 15 minutes, the Y40's temperature rose considerably. The space between the G and H keys registered 88 degrees, while the laptop's undercarriage was 87 degrees. That's much lower than our 95-degree comfort threshold. The Y40 is a cool customer, hitting only 81 degrees on the touchpad after I streamed a full-screen Hulu video for 15 minutes. MORE: The Best Gaming Keyboards You Can Buy The touchpad's bottom corners delivered firm feedback and served well as left and right mouse buttons. I effortlessly performed such gestures as pinch-zoom, cycling between apps and two-finger rotate.

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I typed without fear that my palm would accidentally graze the touchpad and launch a Windows 8 function.

The Blade 14 hit 260 nits, while the GS60 Ghost delivered a dazzling 299 nits.Ĭlick to EnlargeI was happy to see that the Y40's 3.5 x 2.4-inch Elan touchpad provided a much better experience than the Y50. The laptop's display measured 200 nits on our light meter, falling short of the 216-nit average. I could see every wispy curl of Jimi's whimsical hairdo, along with the fine curlicues in his silk paisley shirt. What the Y40 lacks in color and viewing angles, it makes up for in detail. However, contrast was lacking in Metro: Last Light, as the Moscow subway system was a muddle of grays and blacks. I particularly enjoyed watching enemies taking continuous damage from the bright-green radioactive goo that I shot at them. Things improved somewhat once I started gaming, as the deep greens, magentas and electric blues practically leapt off the panel as I played Borderlands 2. Viewing angles were monstrously shallow, with colors inverting at viewing angles of more than 45 degrees.

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Andre 3000's skin looked washed out, while Hayley Atwell's red hair looked flat and lifeless.

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The 1080p trailer for JIMI: All Is By My Side, which should have been an explosion of color, was lackluster at best. Those underwhelming results help explain why colors fizzled on the Y40's display. The Blade 14 came the closest to that mark at 1.5, while the GS60 scored 2.9. On the Delta-E color accuracy test, the Y40 scored 8.8, which is far from a perfect 0. The GS60 managed 98 percent, while the Blade 14 hit an impressive 101.5 percent. According to our measurements, the panel is capable of displaying only 58.5 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which is well below the 86.4 percent thin-and-light average. Click to EnlargeSadly for a multimedia and gaming notebook, the Y40's 14-inch, 1920 x 1080-pixel anti-glare screen doesn't deliver the entertainment value I'd expect.

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