Customer Reviews

Lenovo IdeaPad Y530-7343UW 15.4-Inch WiMax Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium)

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First off this laptop is beautiful, It's solidly built, the HDD cover on the bottom was a little shaky, It didn't look like it's fixed properly so I tried removing it and placing it back and it was fine.

The WiMax works but I can't really use it since I don't have it around where I live yet, boot speed is fairly good, it has a software called lenovo onekey recovery that enables you to create a recovery CD (four 4.7 GB dvd's), after creating an image of the whole system it starts burning the recovery CD's, it's always good to have those just in case, and because I'm planning on replacing the Hard Drive, I would have settled for 250 or even 160 Gb of hard drive space for the same price if it had a 7200 rpm speed instead of the 5400, it really makes a huge difference, it also has an external key right above the power button which can be used to repair/recover windows.

The speakers are great,in fact they are the best thing about this laptop, you can really feel the subwoofer when listening to music, it kind of eliminates the need for external speakers (works great for me), plus it has an orange colored volume control key on the right side which is easy to access.

the screen looks good with bright cool colors and a clearly visible border, I don't know why lenovo described it as bordrless, camera is 1.3 MP with good images and video for the resolution.

keyboard has a good feel to it, you really have to press a little harder than usual to get anything typed, some people like that.

The battery lasted for 3+ hours in the balanced power setting, it has two charge level indicators one is under the screen and the other is at the back.

It also has 3 usb ports, a fire wire and HDMI ports, a memory card reader, an infared port, an expansion slot, an ethernet and modem inputs which are all located at the sides of the body, because of the way it's designed, there are no ports at the back.

I took out one star from the rating because of the 5400 rpm hard drive and the lack of a built in bluetooth.

Overall very happy with it.

It is a quite good laptop for it's price. The only things that are not so good in it is the Intel Graphics Media Acelerator 4500 on-board video card and the fact that it comes with Windows Vista.

Even with a very good processor and 4GB RAM you won't be able to play the most recent games because of the video card. It does work well on the games that are a little older (I don't know... maybe anything until 2007 or 2008 if you put the details level on "medium" or "low"). It works perfectly for movies.

The computer doesn't get slow with the Windows Vista because of the 4GB RAM, but I still hate that system.

It has a good hard drive and I have no complains at all about Lenovo or anything else.

I'm very happy with this laptop.

Ordered a Y550 with Win7 from Lenovo as it had good reviews, it was shipped with Vista; I returned it for re-imaging and they sent my system to someone else and sent me nothing. Now, two months later I still have nothing and all Lenovo customer service can say is "we'll call you back this week" - but they NEVER do! I'll never order anything from Lenovo again, what a total joke. With customer service like this, I know PT Barnum is alive and well... sucker!

So here I am on Amazon looking for another laptop and reading reviews to find out who really has customer service... I think I'll order my next system from Amazon, hopefully I can avoid problems like this in the future