Pros: i7, hybrid ssd/spinning disk, 16GB of ram is lightning fast. Very smooth running Windows 8- especially after installing service packs, etc. I do a lot of virtualization with VMWare and Open Box- terrific for these purposes. Screen resolution is superb. Nice looking machine on my desk.

Cons: Keyboard is somewhat like a Mac but not as good. Overall the machine doesn't feel as solid as my Ideapad y530 or any older Lenovo products which still had the IBM engineering influence. I had been a Thinkpad snob for many years- but any trace of the old goodness is gone.

Overall Review: This thing feels a bit delicate and I think the user would be advised to be careful not to drop it or bump it. For what I paid I am very happy so far.

Pros: Love my Y530. Everything works except I haven't figured out how to get the HDMI out port to function with projector. Overall a great laptop, very fast, nice screen, good wireless range, very happy. On the complaints about vista, I agree for the version installed, however, updating the large service packs as of about 9/2009 seems to have solved most bugs. Earlier I had to use the one-touch restore because Vista completely died and wouldn't boot... pretty nice feature even though people complain it takes up a chunk of the drive for the restore partition. The incremental backup software that comes on that same partition is very nice. Using it with a 1TB USB drive to backup a restore point for the entire drive with OS & Data - exact total backup with incrementals. Very nice. Also I need to ghost the restore partition and layout in case the entire drive craps out- not just Vista.

Cons: Best sound I've ever had from a laptop but still the subwoofer is weak and it is'nt going to beat plugging in to amplified speakers. Other people have complained about the rubber tabs over your wrists - they could have put those in the cover instead of the part you touch. Slicing them off with a razor blade solves the problem. I detest touchpads and this on is no exception but being portable you can't always use a mouse anyway... would personally rather have the old thinkpad mini-joystick in the keyboard between the g and h keys but most people don't like those i guess. Also I sacked windows media player and would like better driver support for the multi-media hot keys and reassigning them to work with K-Lite Media Player Classic instead of WMP. It's not the lightest laptop but my eyesight isn't good enough for a netbook so I'm very happy.

Overall Review: Vista updated runs well. Using VMWare I'm running Centos5 and feels like it is native on the hardware. Price was cheaper on this when I bought it in July. I kept checking back here in case I might grab another one for my wife but now they raised price a bit.