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Review on πŸ’» Lenovo Legion Y540 Gaming Laptop: i7-9750H, RTX 2060, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD, 15.6" FHD 144Hz Display by Jason Maciel

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Discontinued Gem - Lenovo Legion Y540 Series

Seller - not sure how they were able to ship this from Delaware to Washington State in under 2 days (and FREE) but a Prime membership really pays off sometimes from from. ! HELLO! The price wasn't the LOWEST but low enough that Prime Shipping got it delivered to me within 2 days for free. It turned out to be even faster and didn't cost me the fast shipping either. The product is a discontinued notebook series, replaced by the Y740 series with an Intel 10750H processor (22% performance increase). I chose this particular model based on the 512GB + HD 1TB, 16GB, RTX 2060 SSD capabilities compared to other Y540 models available. I mainly use this laptop for making music. It replaces the desktop mini PC and the much older Dell Latitude E6450 series laptop. Bottom line, the laptop can easily run all of my music software and associated hardware. I recommend it; You get more for your money. A NOTICE. The laptop comes with Windows 10 Home Edition. I don't remember being able to select Pro or Home when I added the laptop to my cart and checked out; In my haste to purchase this item, I may have overlooked this detail. Anyway, I pulled out my old Win10 Pro DVD and decided to upgrade to the Pro version. for RTX 2060/1660 Ti is not supported on versions before 1803. You'll see a plain Microsoft video adapter in Device Manager unless you go into the BIOS and enable the onboard Intel GPU as an alternate video adapter. Once you update Windows 10 to version 1803 or later (20H2 is currently the last major update), you can install GeForce Experience and the driver installer. I've spent quite a bit of time tracking down this information on the nVidia forums. this explained the problem and its solution.

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