Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 tested in every way imaginable

Lenovo's 15.4-inch IdeaPad Y530 has been around the block a time or two, but if you've been putting off a buy as you wait for someone to test this puppy out good-fashion, your day has arrived. The benchmarking fiends over at HotHardware have abused (in a good way, of course) the Y530 in pretty much every way possible, even straining the Core 2 Duo CPU and the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M to see how they fared in gaming scenarios. Critics were particularly wowed by the display's crispness and overall stability of the machine -- not once during the gauntlet of tests did this bugger crash or weep under pressure. Of course, serious gamers should probably look elsewhere, but those scouting a do-it-all laptop at a sub-$1,000 price point should definitely dive into the read link below.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:22AM]

firsssssssssssssssssst!!

[nightsd01 Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:26AM]

But will it blend?

[vision33r Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:35AM]

Lenovo makes the most reliable laptops in the world. Not even Apple could top them in reliability.

[Oli D Posted Jan 31st 2009 4:32AM]

apple make reliable laptops?

[badasscat Posted Jan 31st 2009 1:58PM]

Tell that to my SL500, which has been in the shop twice since I purchased it just a few months ago and will be back again soon by the sound of it (apparently failing hard drive).

I am not the only one - Lenovo's quality control is crap. It's not only SL series owners, either - Lenovo has been messing around with the suppliers of various components on all of its machines, including the T and X series. Lots of people have been sending their new T's and X ThinkPads back for keyboard replacements, because two of the three current keyboard suppliers make crap keyboards like you might find on any laptop, and the keyboard is one thing people buy ThinkPads for.

Lenovo is no better than any other laptop manufacturer. They inherited a good thing from IBM in the ThinkPad and are in the process of screwing it up. Their own IdeaPads are no different than any other cheap consumer laptop from HP or Dell or anyone else.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2009 1:13AM]

Doesn't the article support the exact opposite of your claim about the new Thinkpads, Jeff?

[jonschu Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:41AM]

Too bad it's ugly as fuck! Orange, brown and blue screens of death never look good together.

[cesium Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:46AM]

Orange was the color of the simulated screen image fucktard

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 2:50AM]

so how do you define what is not ugly??? please kindly show us your pictures, cheers~~~

[Mick Posted Jan 31st 2009 3:16AM]

good thing only mactards care more about looks then functionality and reliability. and i do think this laptop looks nice

[jonschu Posted Jan 31st 2009 1:15PM]

here is what is sexy

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/vaio-p-now-with-more-windows-7/

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2009 8:51AM]

It looks just like MacBook?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 4:22AM]

Why are they testing these things now? They've been out for ages and are due for a refresh in about two months at the next trade show where it's rumored new ones will be unveiled. Too little too late for me.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 4:42AM]

thanks for sharing the video, nice~

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 4:47AM]

dont mention gene !

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 6:33AM]

I knew it, Lenovo is always a consistent top achiever, no wonder it has been ranked on the top of the reliability list for 3 consecutive years. I'd pick a Lenovo over the POS Dell and HP or Acer anytime.

[insky Posted Jan 31st 2009 7:02AM]

Hey thanks for the link! According to the site I won a free laptop!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 8:31AM]

I bought a ThinkPad R-40 in 2002 and it still runs (I did have the hard drive replaced once under warranty---I bought an extended warranty and it was replaced 5 years after I bought it.) I am using an S-10 now, and it already has taken a beating being carried around and it runs great. Both are XP machines. My friends with Dells and Toshibas have busted hinges and plasticky keyboards. Neither is a gamers machine, no has good speakers, but, both do everything else well.

[YoYoYo Posted Jan 31st 2009 9:16AM]

Be nice if this was more in the middle ground. The business series Lenovos with the Nvidia Quadro chipsets are a little odd, but functional as gaming laptops. I'd rather go with those, for the OS-agnostic fingerprint-driven full disk encryption, than this. Sucks that they didn't give the option in the Y530 though, as the components they didn't leave out really would be a much better fit.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2009 9:25AM]

They didn't test how well it will cut cake!

[Inzain Posted Jan 31st 2009 9:55AM]

Did it pass the crap and pee test?

[imm19 Posted Feb 1st 2009 12:54AM]

I bought Y430 six months ago and I'm very disappointed. Build quality is very good but Lenovo ReadyComm 4.0 is simply horrible, very unstable. This lapy is not suitable for VOIP with its build in microphones - too much noise because they are build in in the base not in the bezel.