The Lenovo Ideapad Y700 is aimed at light gamers.
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Hands-on: Lenovo’s Ideapad Y700 handles games just fine — but sits out VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Not everybody is going to need a screaming desktop computer with high-end 3D graphics to play virtual reality games in the next few months. For a lot of people, a middle-of-the-road machine will be more like it.

That’s why I took a look at the Lenovo Ideapad Y700 running 64-bit Windows 10. It’s one of those game machines for the rest of us who want to play something on the road without bringing along hardware that makes the Transportation Safety Administration alarm bells go off.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.