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| | Features | VeriFace 3.0 - Your face is your password.OneKey Rescue System 6.06-in-1 card reader(SD/SD pro/MS/MS pro/MMC/xD)4 stereo speakers + 1 sub-woofer with Dolby Home TheatreTMHDMI Port is included
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| | Description | Lenovo 59-018790 IdeaPad (Black) | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 10.3 inches | | Product Width: | 14.2 inches | | Product Height: | 1.1 inches | | Product Weight: | 6.4 pounds | | Package Length: | 17.7 inches | | Package Width: | 12.9 inches | | Package Height: | 5.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 11.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Very good entertainment notebook for the price May 14, 2009
By Jason P. Gold
This is my second Lenovo notebook. The first one was a ThinkPad R61 which I liked very much. It got stolen out of the back of my car. So, liking the Lenovo product, I bought a new one. The product I am reviewing is similar to the "item being reviewed," the main differences being that I have a 2.0G processor where this one has a 2.13G processor.
Build Quality:
Lenovo is the company which manufactured IBM's laptop computers. IBM's laptops were designed for business users. They were tough enough to be dragged around everywhere. It continues to make laptop computers which are more road friendly than the competition, even in this unit which is "home user" oriented. On most of the competition's laptop computers for school and home use, you can twist the lid/screen and there is a good deal of flex. Not so here. This means the screen is less likely to get damaged or cracked. The rest of the case similarly has little flex which means it is well built. While the keyboard is not up to the quality of the ThinkPad line, it is still very good and does not have much flex or bend when you type on it. It is a bit heavy weighing in at over 6 lbs, but it is worth it to me when I consider that it is less likely to break.
XP Drivers available on-line:
The Y530 comes with Vista Home Premium. Mine has the 64 bit o/s. I hate Vista. It is bloated, slow, overly intrusive, the Start Menu was modified poorly from XP, it is cumbersome to find any administrative tools and it does not work with many pieces of business software. When Microsoft updates their operating systems, it seems that only their software works on the newer o/s. WordPerfect X3 (the better word processor!), Paperport 11.0, older versions of WordPerfect and Legal Solutions Plus and many older game programs simply won't work properly, even when you tell the system to run the program in XP mode. This, I suspect, is the reason about 75% of the business computers still run XP.
Vista Ultimate and Business come with downgrade rights to XP. Here, no such rights exist; HOWEVER, Lenovo provides drivers and software on line so you can load XP!!! (XP is faster than Vista and runs everything I need!) I will be downgrading.
Performance:
I get the following benchmarks with Vista:
Performance Test 6.1: 525.7
PC Wizard (not valid because of 64 bit o/s) = 2047
3DMark 01 = 5193
3DMark 03 = 2269
3DMark 05 = 1199
3DMark 06 = 905
SuperPI calculation of PI to 1M places takes 29.25 seconds.
PLEASE REMEMBER, MINE HAS THE SLOWER PROCESSOR SO THIS SHOULD BE ABOUT 5 - 10% FASTER!
In short, this machine is not as fast as my 2 year old XP based desktop which has a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo with 2G of memory, an ATI All In Wonder X800XL video card on a Gigabyte 965G-DS3 motherboard running XP. This box is not up to speed for modern gamers. It has good speed as a home entertainment and business/school oriented system. An O/S downgrade to XP would no doubt give you an extra 10% or so of speed.
Appearance and Functionality:
Lenovo still goes with the industrial black look. The outside is plain dull black which is textured so as to make it easier to grip. None of the high gloss colored plastic stuff that is on so many HPs and Dells and Sony Vaios.
Inside, you get a piano black high gloss plastic surrounding the 15.4" screen. The hinge is in the back of the machine, and rather than clamp the screen on the top of the box, the lid is bent and wraps around the computer/keyboard/electronics bottom section. The keyboard is surrounded by a single piece of brushed metal with a black touch sensitive multimedia controls above the keyboard and an orange volume control on the right side of the touch controls.
The box contains five speakers, including an alleged subwoofer which fires downward under the computer. I would look at the Toshibas with the HK speaker systems for a better audio performance.
It comes with a multi-card reader slot, dual layer dvd/CD writer, HDMI output, VGA output, 3 USB ports, modem, ethernet port, built in WIFI, Dolby Digital sound system, microphone and 1.3 megapixel camera in the lid. It includes Veriface software which allows the computer to enter your log-on password using just your image. The Veriface software is very sensitive, and works only from the right distance and at the same angle. It does not seem to be available on XP.
Cons:
Unlike HP, the keyboard has no angle to it, so you are typing on a slightly uncomfortable surface if you have it on a desk or table. There are four small rubber pieces which protect the screen when the lid is closed. Two are right under your wrists and my writs rub against them unless I wear a long sleve shirt. It comes with Vista and a trial version of Norton Anti-virus, which I find ineffective and annoying.
The high gloss screen is a little too high gloss and too reflective under certain circumstances.
Conclusion:
Based on the price to performance ratio, excelent build quality and availability of XP drivers on line, I would not hesitate to purchase this unit again.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Great laptop...not perfect but great:) May 22, 2009
By oasisman
"oasisman"
Pros:
1)value for money in the price range below 800$
2)if you like glossy screens...well this one is very nice. And yes, it's very reflective but it doesnt cause any problems even with some strong spotlights in the background. I was a little afraid that it would reflect everything and disturb actual scrren images but everyhings good.
3)4 speakers really do their job...much better than standard 2 speaker buzzzz:)
4)all the ports are located on the sides (better availability then at the back)
5)design (presonally i dont care about that in a computer but you might:)
6)external battery life indicator (nice!)
Cons:
1)Vista (but i am too lazy to undergrade)
2)screen protection rubbers are under your wrists while you type (not painful, just annoying)
3)touchpad buttons could be a little more sensitive (somtimes you need a double double-click for some things to work..or is it just Vista?:)
4)loads of unnecessary programs from lenovo, norton ect.
Overall i recommend this laptop for home and not hardcore(quite big and heavy) mobile use.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Very satisfactory computer for entertainment purposes Sep 17, 2009
By Hirudinea
I bought this computer primarily for entertainment purposes and it's handled everything I've thrown at it. I splurged for the nvidia dedicated graphics card which means I can play games like Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and The Witcher on full res with no lag (even with environmental details like rain). Besides gaming, streaming Netflix and Hulu is a breeze and the screen is an excellent size for watching movies. As far as speakers go, the Dolby surround (which really works) plus the subwoofer is worth the extra weight, they sound better than many external speakers, and can get pretty loud if that's what you're into.
I thought that I wouldn't like the reflective screen but it really hasn't been a problem, the colors still come through bright and crisp.
For everyday use (work/school) this computer is a bit heavy to lug it around all day (but it's doable). I am using it for some basic bioinformatics (sequence alignment, etc) for which it is perfectly adequate.
What else? The 4GB ram means that the computer is fantastically fast, but as the other reviews have mentioned, Vista is a pain and eats up a full 2GB, you'll want to downgrade to XP(or upgrade when windows 7 comes out). If you decide to splurge for the Nvidia card like I did you should check for driver updates, mine were not up to date and it makes a difference performance-wise. The computer also came with "free trial" software including unregistered versions of Microsoft Office, so I had to spend a good 2 hours cleaning up my hard drive.
All in all, once I got the computer set up it has been smooth sailing with very few issues, none of which are related to the hardware itself.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Not happy with lenovo May 02, 2010
By Stephen Witte
We bought the Lenovo IdeaPad y530 1 year and 1 week ago from Fry's electronics for $599. The road for the past year has been quite rough culminating with an unbootable computer with consistent blue screen of death every time it was powered up. This occurred 6 days after expiration of the 1 year warranty. From the beginning, the computer had glitches that resulted in crashes and re-boots, hangs, etc. My wife and I share this computer and one day she told me that the day we get rid of it, she is looking forward to going at it with a baseball bat.
I've used several computers over the years including an HP Pavilion, a Dell Dimension, a Compaq, and now this one. This is the first computer that really forced me to test how well our backup habits are working. We used to use Norton Ghost for the Dell and Pavilion and that went very smooth. The IdeaPad came with Vista 64 bit, and by the way, had 300 Gbyte Hard drive and 4 GBytes of RAM, and a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. Excellent stats for a machine that was $599 at the time. The new Vista required us to choose a different backup program, and we went with PC Pro because it had good reviews. While this PC Pro backup utility did get our files backed up, it did nothing to help us when the operating system became totally corrupted on the machine. Hence the computer is now in a repair shop (first time for me that I couldn't fix one of our computers myself.) Also, the keyboard developed a loose key.
Anyway, our goal now is to get this machine working to the point where both our email and basic word processing needs can be met, and than get another computer and relegate this computer to being an Ubuntu Linux box when we have the $ to pay for a really good laptop, such as a Sony or other high end computer. We won't attempt to go cheap on this again.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
worst investment Jan 03, 2011
By Ahmad Chishty
Do not buy Lenovo's Ideapad series,
I own an Ideapad y530 that I bought in 2008 and it is a major disappointment.
Although all the hardware is still intact, the screen no longer stands on its own,
the hinges are broken and many Lenovo customers have had the same complaint.
Their design is terrible and the hinges cost $25 and up. Repair and diagnostics after warranty period costs $80 or more.
If you want your money's worth,
invest into HP, ASUS or DELL.
Steer clear of Lenovo ALWAYS!!!
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