Lenovo Y50-70 Very Slow

[Mr. G]

So my brother owns a Lenovo Y50 laptop. It is about a year and a half old, and is just so slow.

I have the Y40 version, and it works pretty good (other than some issues that I have to work around) but I have tried everything that I am aware to speed his laptop up. The things I have tried are:

Defraging HDD
Closing Programs on Startup
Looking for useless programs to uninstall

And a few others that I can't think of at the moment. Those solutions sometimes work, but shortly come back after 2 days or so. A lot of the time, all he will have open is a tab or two in Google Chrome, Spotify, Visual Studio, and it is using 4GB+ of RAM. And the mouse just freezes all the time. Not to mention his Disk is always at a 100% in Task Manager.

The two methods I will try soon are -

- Cleaning for dust

- Uninstalling / reinstalling Mouse Drivers to fix mouse freezing


One thing that I am finding, is Lenovo is junk. Mine is slowly going bad, his is bad, and a friend owns a Lenovo that is broken. And they're all around 1 year old. So given it's a Lenovo, is there anything else that I should consider doing to speed his laptop?

His specs are:
Windows 10
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710Q CPU @ 2.50Ghz - 2.50Ghz
RAM 8GB
Nvidia Geforce GTX 860M 2GB

[Zoid Bacon]

I know if a few issues that can cause continuous 100% disk usage in Windows 10, though I haven't encountered them on my personal machines. I'm sure other people will weigh in with further suggestions. You can try a few things while monitoring disk use to see if there is a change. Via command prompt, disable "Windows Search" and "Superfetch" services. Another thing I know can work is going into your notification settings and turning off "Show me tips about Windows."

Let us know if any of those services was the culprit. It could be many other things as well. For garden-variety slow operation on an older laptop I sometimes find that a good old fashioned hard drive wipe and clean windows install works wonders. However, in your case I think it's best to track down the root cause of the 100% disk usage first.

[rotNdude]

Without the hard drive specs, I'm guessing it has a 5400RPM drive and that drive is nearly full.

[Mr. G]

Originally posted by GehringGame:

I know if a few issues that can cause continuous 100% disk usage in Windows 10, though I haven't encountered them on my personal machines. I'm sure other people will weigh in with further suggestions. You can try a few things while monitoring disk use to see if there is a change. Via command prompt, disable "Windows Search" and "Superfetch" services. Another thing I know can work is going into your notification settings and turning off "Show me tips about Windows."

Let us know if any of those services was the culprit. It could be many other things as well. For garden-variety slow operation on an older laptop I sometimes find that a good old fashioned hard drive wipe and clean windows install works wonders. However, in your case I think it's best to track down the root cause of the 100% disk usage first.

Alright, will see what I can do. Thanks.

Originally posted by rotNdude:

Without the hard drive specs, I'm guessing it has a 5400RPM drive and that drive is nearly full.

I copied the model off and looked online, it looks like a 5400RPM HDD. What would you suggest?

[Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc]

Originally posted by Captain Price:

Originally posted by rotNdude:

Without the hard drive specs, I'm guessing it has a 5400RPM drive and that drive is nearly full.

I copied the model off and looked online, it looks like a 5400RPM HDD. What would you suggest?

some laptops allow you the ability to replace the hdd. If you can you could replace that hdd with a high performance hdd or even a ssd

[Mr. G]

Originally posted by Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc:

Originally posted by Captain Price:

I copied the model off and looked online, it looks like a 5400RPM HDD. What would you suggest?

some laptops allow you the ability to replace the hdd. If you can you could replace that hdd with a high performance hdd or even a ssd

Yeah my brother is so mad at PCs right now, I know for a fact he won't want to buy a replacement part. Mainly because he is going to be getting a high end Mac (not for gaming). I wasn't sure if there is any common fixes that people are aware of that could perhaps make his computer faster.

[Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc]

Originally posted by Captain Price:

Originally posted by Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc:

some laptops allow you the ability to replace the hdd. If you can you could replace that hdd with a high performance hdd or even a ssd

Yeah my brother is so mad at PCs right now, I know for a fact he won't want to buy a replacement part. Mainly because he is going to be getting a high end Mac (not for gaming). I wasn't sure if there is any common fixes that people are aware of that could perhaps make his computer faster.

i feel bad for your brother and his poor choice of computers gaming or not

[Fluffy]

any company of laptops has bad and good models i have had good lenovos,bad ones same with hp,dell,msi etc. your best to research a model your interested in... the comment is very true about the 5400rpm drive these are slow drives leading to hard drive bog.. hp, dell etc have a habit of putting these drives in for low cost..

its unfortunate you have a 5400rpm drive in a "gaming" kinda laptop

[Mr. G]

My brother is a developer and the Mac he is looking at is a really powerful one (which it honestly looks nice). But I'm a gamer, so I use PC. Lol. He doesn't game a whole lot, that is why getting a PC isn't as important to him as it is to me.

Thanks everyone, sounds like there isn't much to do other than buying a new HDD.

[Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc]

Originally posted by Captain Price:

My brother is a developer and the Mac he is looking at is a really powerful one (which it honestly looks nice). But I'm a gamer, so I use PC. Lol. He doesn't game a whole lot, that is why getting a PC isn't as important to him as it is to me.

Thanks everyone, sounds like there isn't much to do other than buying a new HDD.

you can easily find a high end pc laptop that is much better and much cheaper than any mac (macs rarely ever have dedicated graphics and normally use ultra low power cpus)

[Mr. G]

Originally posted by Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc:

Originally posted by Captain Price:

My brother is a developer and the Mac he is looking at is a really powerful one (which it honestly looks nice). But I'm a gamer, so I use PC. Lol. He doesn't game a whole lot, that is why getting a PC isn't as important to him as it is to me.

Thanks everyone, sounds like there isn't much to do other than buying a new HDD.

you can easily find a high end pc laptop that is much better and much cheaper than any mac (macs rarely ever have dedicated graphics and normally use ultra low power cpus)

It's best I do not tell my brother about this. He is the kind of person 'I am right you're wrong' but he is right a lot of the time. When people say getting a Mac is bad, he gets all annoyed, lol. But the Mac will cost around $3,000. It has a AMD Radeon R9 285X - CPU @ 4.00Ghz (forget the model of the CPU) and 16GB of RAM.

[Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc]

Originally posted by Captain Price:

Originally posted by Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc:

you can easily find a high end pc laptop that is much better and much cheaper than any mac (macs rarely ever have dedicated graphics and normally use ultra low power cpus)

It's best I do not tell my brother about this. He is the kind of person 'I am right you're wrong' but he is right a lot of the time. When people say getting a Mac is bad, he gets all annoyed, lol. But the Mac will cost around $3,000. It has a AMD Radeon R9 285X - CPU @ 4.00Ghz (forget the model of the CPU) and 16GB of RAM.

that isn't a laptop then and also why develop on a mac when windows is more widely used in businesses and if it's a game most gamers have windows (and if a powerful computer is needed for the game he's making most makes use igpus and as i said before ultra low power cpus)

[Zenudias]

I myself have a Y50-70, although mine is equipped with an i7-4720hq,GTX 960m 4gb and a 4k monitor running Windows 10 as well. Honestly it is a fantastic machine for the price, and quite reliable.I have experienced the 100% HDD usage problem, but it is easily fixed by disabling the Windows check disk operation. As for being very slow, there could be many reasons as to why it's like that.

As you mentioned your brother is a developer. Although the laptop has decent specs, it doesn't have the horsepower to complete cpu-intensive tasks very quickly, since it has a CPU from 2 generations ago. Also, the 8gb of RAM may cause bottlenecking issues.

[Alexalmighty502 Sup Acc]

Originally posted by Tomato Haus:

As you mentioned your brother is a developer. Although the laptop has decent specs, it doesn't have the horsepower to complete cpu-intensive tasks very quickly, since it has a CPU from 2 generations ago. Also, the 8gb of RAM may cause bottlenecking issues.

4XXX cpus are still very strong it's just that they matched a 960m with a 4k monitor :l

[_I_]

the 980m is capable of displaying 4k images, but for games it will be 1-2 fps at that res

lower it to 720p or 1080p and you will have a much better fps in games

[Bad 💀 Motha]

All laptops are slow pieces of junk when they have a HDD in them as far as what the OS is running off of. Install an SSD.

Nothing wrong with Lenovo; like any laptop, it can last if u take care of it. Toss it around like a toy and it won't last long.

First thing u do when you buy any laptop, wipe everything clean and clean install the OS and latest official drivers.