LENOVO IdeaPad Y530 Review: The media laptop

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop is a multimedia notebook with an extensive variety of multimedia characteristics.  This laptop is aimed at hostel students and can replace the home theatre systems at homes. Priced conveniently, this laptop is making its way into the market as an entertainment device. The IdeaPad Y530 is being loved by teenagers and students at large.

Build and Design

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop has a black surface, which has hatch-crossed etch for design and strong gripping. On moving into the inside of the notebook, the black surface turns into the glossy smooth one that frames the screen. Build quality is outstanding in the company of an extremely sturdy casing.

Display

The WXGA panel on The Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop ranks common with vivacious colors, consistently bright lit backlighting, and first-class quality contrast. Perpendicular screening angles were archetypal with a tapered spot where colors are accurate before distorting, as you move the screen backwards and onwards. Horizontal viewing angles were to some extent superior, though as an alternative of disfiguring, the display just faded away and only the reflection of you from the “frameless” screen is visible. The extra glossy screen has always been a matter of complaint from LENOVO.

Keyboard and touchpad

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop keyboard is planned a great deal similar to the manner of the ThinkPad series, with hardly any change. The arrangement is further like a user-end notebook, with a solitary line up of function buttons, instead of the two. The keyboard was relaxing to type on with ideal key dimension and spacing. Every key has a slender sharp clicking thud with spongy response when pushed. The finger responsive media bar situated on top of the keyboard provides rapid admission to media.

The synaptic touchpad of Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 is incredibly large, much superior to those set up on the ThinkPad series; and at ease to use. Response and receptivity was fine, precisely trails your finger motion with modest weight on the plane. The semi-gloss touchpad plane was trouble-free to budge your fingers from corner to corner, at the same time still offering a little quantity of grip.

Performance and Benchmarks

The performance of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop with a Core2Duo P7350 processor and NVIDIA 9300M graphics card was somewhat beneath what a multimedia oriented laptop is supposed to offer. For daily use or high definition film, the Y530 performed fairly well. For the regular consumer, it presents approximately the same speed as a Gateway for web surfing, typing documents, movies, and quick startups and shutdowns. Gaming is some place where the Y530 falls last in the contest, outfitted with merely a 9300M graphics card.

Battery Life

With the following settings:

• Screen brightness at the level of 60%
• Wireless made active
• Vista power profile set to Balanced mode

The Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Performance media Laptop kept operating for 3 hours and 22 minutes. For undeterred utilization in the classroom captivating notes, the notebook is fine, but it may be slamming the same off during travelling.

Specifications of Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

Processor: Intel Core2Duo processor P7350 (2GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit)

Memory: 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 x 1GB, supports up to 4GB)

Display: 15.4″ WXGA

Hard drive: 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

Battery: 6-cell 5200mAh 57Wh battery

Weight: 6.65 lb. including battery

Dimensions: 14.2″ x 10.3″ x 1.2″-1.4″ (360mm x262mm x 29-36mm)

Pros: Fast processor, comfortable keyboard, sturdy design

Cons: Extra glossy screen, large weight

MSRP: $ 999 (base price)