Why doesn't the Lenovo Y500 have NVIDIA Optimus Technology?

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I am wondering what is the reason that the Ideapad Y500 doesn't have Optimus technology enabled? Is it more expensive for Lenovo? Do they have to pay a special fee to NVIDIA For enabling it or do they just not have Optimus by choice?

This is the laptop I'm referring to btw

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=457&Code=59371969&AID=10383968&PID=1225267&SID=smdW5rEdEeKftsKe19bShw0_ydXX3_0.M_0_0&CJURL=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.lenovo.com%2FSEUILibrary%2Fcontroller%2Fe%2Fweb%2FLenovoPortal%2Fen_US%2Fcatalog.workflow%3Aitem.detail%3FGroupID%3D457%26Code%3D59371969&PUBNAME=Slickdeals+LLC&NID=CJ
 
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It is more expensive, because it requires additional hardware and drivers. What you gain is very little power saving on a laptop that is advertised for gaming / entertainment and not running on battery very long anyway. Taking out half of the 12GB ram will probably save more power then Optimus can do.
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Hello,

I've done my fair share of researching and I am limited to a $600 budget matched with another $300-ish by my parents. I choose the Lenovo for the backlit keyboard. I will not be gaming that much on it and I appreciate the quality build (and the Matte displays) that Lenovo is using in their laptops (they used to be Glossy). I am not considering any other laptops although I do appreciate your advice and I know you had my best interests at heart.

I was just curious to why the Y500 doesn't have Optimus (I am not buying the laptop until August so If the Y580 gets upgraded hardware I will just go with it since it has Optimus)
 
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It is more expensive, because it requires additional hardware and drivers. What you gain is very little power saving on a laptop that is advertised for gaming / entertainment and not running on battery very long anyway. Taking out half of the 12GB ram will probably save more power then Optimus can do.
 
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