Lenovo Legion Y530 [Y530-15ICH 81LB000YRU]

Gaming laptop with the appearance of a businessman

Recently, laptop manufacturers have begun to abandon the overly colorful and aggressive design of gaming models and began to draw ideas from premium business models. Lenovo Legion Y530 is another confirmation of this. And, damn stylish confirmation.

Future Star of Design Awards

This is a laptop with thin bezels, clean lines, unusual symmetry (look at the hinge that holds the screen), soft, unobtrusive backlighting of the keyboard, and a strict plain lid that is covered with a pattern that resembles either wood fiber or a fingerprint. To be honest, we'd be surprised if this model doesn't win a couple of awards for best design.

15" IPS display

The screen on the Legion Y530 is not bad for a gaming laptop in this price range: a 15-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, a high refresh rate of 144Hz, and decent, if not perfect, colour reproduction. The display lacks a little brightness, but thanks to the anti-glare coating, it is convenient to use it outdoors or on a trip.

He can handle any game

The Lenovo Legion Y530 is powered by an eighth-generation six-core Core i7 chip operating at frequencies from 2.2 to 4.1 GHz, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 video accelerator with 6 GB of video memory. Complementing the picture are 16 GB of RAM running at 2666 MHz, and a disk array of HDD and SSD with a total volume of 1256 GB. Without any reservations, this is a laptop with very serious characteristics, which can handle work of any complexity and any modern games.

Keyboard as a reason to be proud

According to Lenovo, the Legion keyboard is something to be proud of. The keys here are large, soft and quiet — and it is very comfortable to play and work on them. The increase in the size of the keys affected the location of the arrows and the number block. At first, it is unusual to use them, but after half an hour you completely forget about this feature.

Up to 5 hours on a single battery charge

The laptop shows good numbers in terms of battery life, but there are not enough stars from the sky. The maximum operating time of the laptop was 5 hours. This is at minimum brightness, power saving mode and sparing use, like simply reading text on a web page. In the case of demanding games like The Witcher 3 on Ultra settings, the Legion Y530 lasted about 80 minutes. From this we conclude that it is quite possible to count on him on a trip, but it’s better to sit down to play closer to the outlet. Although for performant gaming laptops this is never news.