3D became quickly popular in the televisions but this technology is taking its own time in laptops and desktops. This is a bit surprising especially because the functional and tested 3D infrastructure has been around for a long time through Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology. I have seen only a couple of laptops with glasses and 3D hardware. Maybe its because gamers prefer consoles to laptops when it comes to gaming.
Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d that I got in my labs for testing is based on TriDef 3D technology which is the same as that on the Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165 that I tested last year. Both these notebooks offer poolarized glasses instead of battery power active shutter glasses used on Nvidia 3D Vision notebooks and lots of other consumer 3D devices.
The cost of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is $1,399 and it is priced quite reasonably for its components as the ATI Radeon 5730 graphics and Intel Core i7 processor are quite high end. However, there are other products like the non-3D HP Envy 14 which starts at just $999 and a config closer to the Y560d will cost you $1,249. Also, there is Toshiba’s 3D Satellite A665-3DV which costs $1,599 and has similar specs along with Blu-ray drive and Nvidia’s 3D Vision hardware. The latter is much better for gaming.
The main problem on the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is that the TriDef 3D system works well but is not particularly impressive. You have to tilt the screen to an angle for running the apps through the third party app and this kills the performance. In my lab tests, the frames dropped drastically in the 3D mode. The sample games and videos that I tired gave good 3D experience but mostly, I had to close one eye or look away or squint.
Without the 3D feature, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is an excellent high end notebook with nice design. However, if you don’t really need 3D, I would recommend you to take a look at other Lenovo IdeaPad laptops which are less expensive and give good great nice performance too.
Lenovo has always been generous in IdeaPad line’s design and it continues the tradition here too. Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is far from the traditional office-oriented laptops from this manufacturer courtesy of the funky tribal tattoo on the lid. Apart from that, the design is quite similar to other systems like IdeaPad Y460. Both of these have a copper accent strip on the lid’s outer edge and on the inside, there is a mix of matte black buttons and black plastic which is not too glossy.
On the keyboard’s top, there is a row of touch sensitive buttons with backlighitng. A quick launch bar pops up when you slide your finger back and forth on it. There are assignable slots for the different apps. It is really cool but you will need some time to get used to it. Running the finger on the right part can even change the desktop background but I never got hang of it in my lab tests.
Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d that I got in my labs for testing is based on TriDef 3D technology which is the same as that on the Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165 that I tested last year. Both these notebooks offer poolarized glasses instead of battery power active shutter glasses used on Nvidia 3D Vision notebooks and lots of other consumer 3D devices.
The main problem on the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is that the TriDef 3D system works well but is not particularly impressive. You have to tilt the screen to an angle for running the apps through the third party app and this kills the performance. In my lab tests, the frames dropped drastically in the 3D mode. The sample games and videos that I tired gave good 3D experience but mostly, I had to close one eye or look away or squint.
Without the 3D feature, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is an excellent high end notebook with nice design. However, if you don’t really need 3D, I would recommend you to take a look at other Lenovo IdeaPad laptops which are less expensive and give good great nice performance too.
On the keyboard’s top, there is a row of touch sensitive buttons with backlighitng. A quick launch bar pops up when you slide your finger back and forth on it. There are assignable slots for the different apps. It is really cool but you will need some time to get used to it. Running the finger on the right part can even change the desktop background but I never got hang of it in my lab tests.
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