Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in price in United States starts from $1,567.00. This 8th gen Intel Core i7 powered by Notebook laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in United States due to its 45 Wh battery with very decent battery life and 8 GB DDR4-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of $1,567.00
Design and Built quality
This Lenovo laptop is well built with premium quality Aluminium finish. From top view, the laptop is 323.4 mm of width and 226 mm height and total thickness of 16.4 mm. being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 1.59 kg
Display
Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in has a very nice and compact 14 inch display which makes it perfect for everyday business professional who are always on the run. Having a 14 inch Full HD display with 1920 x 1080 pixels is good for portability and affordability, but for the most part if you want to get the best out of this, you will have to use an external display.
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Performance
Processor :
With the powerful 1.8GHz 8th gen Intel Core i7 i7-8550U processor, this Lenovo laptop is a power house for all the applications or games that are available in United States. Using Lenovo utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 4GHz.
Having 4 cores with 8MB cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
8 GB memory is fairly enough for day to day activities. and for most of the apps. this should be more than enough to get done your business work. DDR4-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR3 or other RAM types. 2400 MHz is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This Lenovo laptop has 1x SO-DIMM RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to 16 GB.
Graphics :
This laptop comes with a dedicated 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics chip with extreme cooling system. You can use this laptop for Gaming and All the Graphics oriented work just like on desktop PC.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 512 GB SSD. This is also compatible with M.2 PCI Express storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth version 4.1 connectivity. with WIFI 5 (802.11ac) You would get around 3.5Gbps but now that understand that there are laptops with WIFI 6 which can transfer Data more than 10Gbps. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 2 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This Lenovo laptop doesn't have any USB Type-C ports which can be adeal breaker for some people who are looking for that extra power. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It has an HDMI port for video output so you can easily connect your monitor or a projector. Laptop is charged using port.
Camera :
Built-in camera in this laptop is a HD with image resolution. Which would be decent enough for your video calls.
Battery :
45 Wh is not a big battery capacity so you will not be able to use the laptop more than 2 or 3 hours on battery power. Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in has a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery which weights around . Battery is charged with 65 W power adepter using port. It takes around to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in in United States is $1,567.00 from Best Buy, Phoenix, AZ , which is $24.00 (2%) less than the highest price listed here for Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in, price from Walmart, Bentonville which is at ($1,591.00) .. You can find Lenovo IdeaPad 530S i7 14in for the above stated price range in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Austin, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Washington, Washington, Boston, Nashville, Detroit, Las Vegas, Kansas City in United States
