Lenovo - IdeaPad U530 Touch Ultrabook 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - 8GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Silver/Black

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Product Feature

• Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit , 4th Gen Intel CoreTM i7-4500U processor: Features a 3MB L3 cache and 1.8GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 3.0GHz.
• 8GB DDR3L memory, 500GB hard drive (5400 rpm), Optical Drive Not included
• 15.6" LED-backlit high-definition 10-point multitouch display With 1920 x 1080 resolution: Intel® Wireless Display Wirelessly transmits streamed or downloaded movies, TV shows, music, photos and more from your laptop, network or the Internet to your TV (NETGEAR Push2TV adapter required, not included).
• Dragon Assistant voice recognition software Allows you to create content, browse the Web and control specific features, simply by speaking.
• Built-in webcam, 2-in-1 media reader,Built-in high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0 interface,

Lenovo - IdeaPad U530 Touch Ultrabook 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - 8GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Silver/Black Review

I've only had this a couple weeks. That said, I'm very pleased with it. I've moved from a 17-inch to this 15-inch. The 17-inch is supposed to be a "desktop replacement" that stays pretty much in one place, but I used it on my lap a lot. Naturally, this is a LOT lighter and more comfortable. Font and web-pages seem small, but that is probably because of the browser, web designers, and my eyesight, not the computer. So I just enlarge the pages often.

The biggest plus for me may be the fact that it stays cool. My old laptop got burning hot on the left side. It doesn't say so here, but I seem to remember learning that this is a combination solid state drive and the usual disk hard drive. That would explain this. I think. Also, it supposedly uses the solid state to boot up and close down more quickly.

There is a backlit keyboard option when you want it.

Being fif-cough-cough years old, I was surprised to like Windows 8. I'm usually the 'what-have-they-done-now' type. I find the windows or tiles on the home page attractive (now), customizable, and I'll get used to where things are sooner or later. You can always go to the button/tile for the old-fashioned style desktop whenever you like, but that seems clunky to me now. If you watch the explanatory videos and Youtube videos as well a few times, you get the hang of the Windows 8 basics. It is still important to me to access the file search option, control panel, etc. that are still on the desktop.

Since I plan to use Microsoft Office 365 for Word, Excel, photos, etc., I didn't worry about the hard drive size too much. I did want good memory for running applications, and this seems more than adequate for me. In fact, less would have been probably been fine. In the near future, however, the extra memory will probably be a good thing as technologies progress.

It offers a touch screen, but I prefer to use the touchpad most of the time. I want to keep the screen as clean as I can, and the touchpad works well. In fact, sometimes it is too sensitive, and takes me where I don't want to go. I found this to be true with my earlier laptops as well. Also, if you rest your left hand to the left of the touchpad, it seems to affect the touchpad/laptop as well. So sometimes I have to lift my left hand when navigating. This was also true of other laptops. No big deal.

The keys seem shallow, which I quite like. They seem easier to push or something. I also like that it has a number pad.

I've enjoyed watching TV through my computer. As with many computers, you can watch it on its screen or connect to a TV to watch it on the big screen. I think the cable you need is called an HDMI cable, available at Target or wherever. This has great resolution. I've been watching my favorite TV shows on the computer for a long time now. So I get only the most basic cable TV. I may cut that as well, since my local news station is available online as well.

It does not include a DVD player (optical drive), which is apparently common more often now. All of the ones I looked at were like this. It's a bit of a bummer, but I got a separate DVD player that will plug in when I need to install something from a CD instead of the web or when I want to watch a movie on DVD. I'm sure having it separate relieves some of the weight for your usual daily usage.

In Windows 8, they've tried to integrate a lot of things to make computing more seamless or something. For example, they combine your Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media into one place if you allow them. It also combines their address books. I haven't gotten used to this yet, still go to my Facebook page separately, for example, but on this "People" application, you can update from there instead, as well as read other's posts. There are other things that are integrated, but I haven't got to them yet. I'm usually more concerned about privacy, but this time, I'm trying to go whole hog and let x communicate with y to see how convenient it is. I don't keep that much confidential data on my laptop. We'll see how that goes. You can always opt not to.

I use Google Chrome as a browser most often, but some things work better with Internet Explorer. So I use that as needed. If I used IE exclusively, it would probably provide an even more integrated experience, but I like my Chrome.

On a separate topic, I saw a presentation on what cloud computing is recently, and it convinced me to go with Office 365. That wasn't the aim of the workshop. I just loved the idea of the cloud, although you may want hard copies on a flash drive of things as a backup to the cloud. The company could go out of business, etc. 365 will store documents on the cloud so that I can reach them from any computer anywhere. It won't need hard drive space. Word, and the rest, will not have as many options for editing, which I'll miss. But it does offer these more important perks. I will love being able to call up photos from my in-law's computer to download photos of their grandson. You have to renew a subscription yearly, however, rather than buying Office to own.

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