Lenovo Y500

Lenovo Y500 is very good laptop for installing gentoo: Here is a guide how to make gentoo up and running on it Also I think most of staff here applies for Lenovo Y510 as well.
 * It has powerful CPU for fast compilations
 * SSD to make all portage operations very quick. (Could be upgraded with larger size models)
 * All hardware I used in it is supported very well.
 * CDROM could be easily replaced with extra SDD/HDD/VideoCard if needed

Some Y500 specific workarounds
These are workarounds to setup hardware which does not work well out of the box

Touchpad
If the touchpad is too slow/fast, change the speed parameters.