As you know, choosing a laptop suitable for gaming is never easy: there are all the numbers, but often the most powerful of these computers cost thousands of euros, while the less expensive ones offer performance not suited to the purpose we have chosen. Lenovo Legion Y530 is proposed as a good compromise between price and performance and offers interesting features such as a screen with a refresh rate of 144Hz . So are you ready to find out how we found ourselves with this product?

Packaging

The Lenovo Legion Y530 is contained inside a beautiful box with very generous dimensions , which allows you to contain the computer in an adequately safe way, thus protecting it from any damage due to accidental bumps. Inside we obviously find the laptop, enclosed in a polystyrene book case and, in a compartment located in the lower part of the box, the power supply and its extension are inserted.

Design

Lenovo Legion Y530 offers us a very simple, but at the same time fascinating design. At first glance it may seem like a classic office computer, but the large LEGION lettering on the left side of the screen cover suggests a whole other use. This laptop offers us a considerable number of useful inputs both for everyday life and for long gaming sessionsin the company of the most varied accessories; on the back there are in fact a USB Type-C port, a Mini DisplayPort 1.4, a USB 3.1 Type-A port, an HDMI 2.0, an Ethernet RJ-45 and the input for the power supply. On the right side we also find one, while on the left there are the 3.5mm audio jack and an additional USB 3.1 Type-A port. Lenovo Legion Y530 is also quite light, in fact it weighs a total of 2.3 kg ; in short, not really a featherweight, but it is not even a heavyweight.

Specifications

• Processor: Intel Core i7-8750H
• Processor speed:  2.20 GHz
• Number of processors: 6
• RAM size:  16GB
• Type:  DDR4 SDRAM
• Hard-Disk Size:  1000 GB
• SSD:  256 GB
• Video Card: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
• Wireless connectivity:  802.11 a / b / g / n / ac
• Operating system:  Windows 10

Performance

Lenovo Legion Y530 certainly proves to be an excellent product both for everyday use and for long gaming sessions, allowing the player to try the latest titles on the market without compromising too much with the graphics quality. Testing it with titles such as Rise of Tomb Raider, Rainbow Six: Siege and The Witcher 3 with details set to High , the result is really satisfying, with stable FPS around 40 FPS (going down a little to compromises you can easily get to 60-80 FPS). The Full HD IPS screen with 144Hz refresh rate is a real godsendand, even if it would have given its best with a 120 FPS configuration, it proves decisive in all those games where a few milliseconds represent the boundary between life and death.

The autonomy of this laptop in normal situations, such as web browsing or the use of programs not very expensive in terms of performance, reaches three hours and a bat, but if we want to play without connecting the laptop to the power supply, its autonomy it goes down a lot, barely reaching just over an hour game . Despite its power and its electrical consumption, the Lenovo Legion Y530 turns out to be well ventilated and rather quiet , always leaving the body at an acceptable temperature.

Price

The version we tested of Lenovo Legion Y530 is available for 1249.00 euros on Amazon, but a cheaper version is available starting at 899 euros. We are faced with a product with excellent features without an exaggerated price, which can easily be used for video games or to present your project in the workplace.