Lenovo G530 15.4-Inch Laptop (Black Matte)

by Lenovo

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 14.1 x 1.5 inches ; 8.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 9 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0032ALW5M
• Item model number: 4151-A2U
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,895 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2010

Product Description

From the makers of the award-winning ThinkPad notebook, the Lenovo G530 notebook is a stylish widescreen notebook combining excellent features at a great price. The full-featured, widescreen Lenovo G530 notebook provides not only the functionality to run a small business but also the features to enjoy computing at home. The new Lenovo G530 notebook comes with a 15.4" widescreen.It’s powered by an Intel T4400 Dual Core Processor with plenty of memory and storage to handle all your everyday computing needs. Complete Connectivity: Download and save photos, music and other media with the 4-in-1 media card reader. The Lenovo G530 notebook offers four side accessible, high-speed USB 2.0 ports as well as VGA, RJ11 and RJ45 connections. These provide broad compatibility with many consumer devices such as digital cameras, digital camcorders, USB storage devices, game controllers, MP3 players and more. The new Lenovo G530 notebook offers a standard ExpressCard/54 slot to support the latest high performance, high bandwidth peripherals like a mobile broadband card. Preloaded Software Tools: The Lenovo G530 is loaded with a comprehensive suite of preloaded software to help you maximize your productivity, including: • ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery 4.21, • Product Recovery, • ThinkVantage Access Connections 5.02, • Presentation Director, • Adobe Acrobat Reader, • Sun JRE, • Roxio Creator Small Business Edition (Record Now & DLA), • Intervideo WinDVD; Legendary Keyboard: The same engineers that brought you the legendary keyboard design on ThinkPad notebooks now give you great tactile feel with intelligent layout and performance on other Lenovo notebooks. Thoughtfully designed, the keyboard has specialized keys and buttons for easy access to the Presentation Director application and LenovoCareSM tools, as well as multimedia controls for stop, play, forward, rewind and pause.

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic computer and great value., February 15, 2010

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S. J. Northrip "SamN" (Bedford TX) - See all my reviews
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We have noted various other computers while both shopping and helping solve our family's various computer issues, so I knew about what I wanted when it came time to replace our 10 year old IBM T23 Think Pad. Price was also a factor in our selection and frankly I simply wanted a Lenovo having had a long and very good experience with my T23. Lenovo is continuing the tougness of the past generation of IBM laptops.

The Lenovo G530 is really a fantastic laptop. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the $1200 laptops have, but it is extremely quick in doing everything I need when I go online. There is tons of storage space with a 165 gig Hard Drive, plus tons of memory-- and I am even starting to like Windows 7. I may eventually go back to Linux Ubuntu distro which is my OS of choice.

The Lenovao G530 has a very bright wide screen moniter. All functions are responding well. Lenovo has continued the IBM PC and Laptop appearance, and I chuckle at the black matte finish and think: "something only a mother could love." Don't worry about appearances, they still have the toughness that I enjoyed for years with my T23. Imagine going from 30 gig hard drive up to 165 gigs, and the same relative improvements on the processor speeds and memory capacity. This unit literally flies from on web page to another. The visual properties of the 15.4 inch monitor as well as the more than adequate sound card give good performance for enjoying videos as well as extended listening to your favorite audios through Windows Media which is included in the Windows 7 Premium OS.
I plug in my Koss PortaPro Headphones and hear every detail of the music. The sound card gives crisp digital audio performance that you will really enjoy. I'm not an audiophile but enjoy listening to a lot of good music and I appreciate the sound that I get with the Lenovo G530

We are very satisfied with this purchase which arrived from Amazon in just two days. We used the $40 Amazon Vista rebate so the entire purchase was $400.00 which is a very good value for a laptop with the large screen and obvious quality and speed. A tip that works for me, instead of paying extra to buy Windows Office, we installed Open Office which works great for me both on Windows 7 and our Linux OS which I have on our Dell Desktop PC.

I recommend this computer and feel you'll get many performance features that you get on computers that cost much more. I have owned Gateway, Dell, HP and IBM and much prefer the current Lenovo G530 to all of them. Our Dell Desktops are recent purchases. The G530 has quickly taken over as my favorite. Great Value, Very Fast, and Built Tough.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars solid construction, great performance, April 29, 2010

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Patricia G. Johnson "pj" (Western NC) - See all my reviews
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Love this computer... its having Windows 7 doesn't hurt either. It's fast, and feels good & solid (not like some of the cheaper models that almost feel like toys that'll break at the drop of a hat). We have another laptop we recently purchased at a local store - this other one, besides feeling 'cheaper' has a dvd/cd tray that doesn't have the button to open the drive. This Lenovo has that simple feature I never appreciated before.
It runs nice & cool (amazingly cool, actually), great picture quality (gotta catch the recent NCIS episodes!) and the keyboard feels good to use.
The black matte finish keeps it looking nice (without fingerprints, etc) too.
Probably my only very minor complaint is that the place to plug-in the earphones (and microphone/alt audio-in) are at the very front which makes them inaccessible when I use my laptop cradle (which sets the laptop at an angle, resting against something on that bottom/front).
Oh, and I absolutely love the feature that allows me to physically turn off the wireless card!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars somewhat impressed, April 15, 2010

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Tyler Forge "realist" (Sunnydale, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lenovo G530 15.4-Inch Laptop (Black Matte) (Personal Computers)

This system is much easier to deal with than I had anticipated. I bought is based on screen size, price, and knowing that lenovo used to make IBM's laptops. Figured I'd buy it and then cope with all the new system joy.

Well, it did NOT come loaded up with crapware. I'm a real fan of that! I had planned on spending an hour or two removing unwanted bloat, but didn't need to. It works just fine for what I bought it for - running some light weight stuff like word processing, spreadsheets, finance and a tiny bit of web surfing. At the price of this thing, I can afford to keep it dedicated to those business type tasks while I use my other machines for gaming, heavy web surfing, etc.

All in all, I'm very impressed with this, my first Lenovo. I'm fairly certain I'll go to them for my next machine as well.