My new W530

[Tim-ANC]

End of year 20% off sale at lenovo.com. Arrived yesterday:

Intel Core i7-3820QM Processor (8M Cache, up to 3.70 GHz)
Windows 8 Pro 64
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit AntiGlare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready
NVIDIA Quadro K1000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 Memory
16 GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (4 DIMM)
UltraNav with Fingerprint Reader
180GB Solid State Drive, SATA3
DVD Recordable 8x Max, Dual Layer, Ultrabay Enhanced w/ SW Royalty for Windows 8
9 Cell Li-Ion TWL 70++
Bluetooth 4.0 with Antenna
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN
Mobile Broadband upgradable
1 Year Depot/Express Warranty

The keyboard is not as bad as I suspected. It'll grow on me. Haven't put it through its paces yet. Have Office 10 to load. First time with Win 8 and as with all new windows, I think its goofy. Good thing I remember all the old keyboard commands like Alt-F4 and Alt-tab. Getting Skype started is annoying. Demands that I link to my outlook.com account. Will have to find a way around that.

[Tim-ANC]

For Skype need to download the desktop version then you can use your Skype login. The one win8 pushes is the tablet version.

Why is Lenovo's software so intrusive? I want windows to control my network devices and bluetooth. Always seems to be a conflict with Lenovo's control and I never remember how to disable them.

[oeuvre]

Did you buy the RAM and SSD from Lenovo?

I ordered a similar system, FHD W530 and I bought 32GB RAM and a 128GB M4 SSD on Newegg and Amazon and saved *hundreds* of dollars.

[systemBuilder]

Is the sale still on? Do you have a link? Frankly, I find it extremely difficult to navigate the sales on the Thinkpad website. I can find only 12% discounts on W-series thinkpads.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/cont ... OH1nG_Adqw

[Tim-ANC]

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/cont ... OICu3d8qik

No looks like the sale is down to 12%. I had a different coupon code: BIGSAVINGS. Not sure if it still works.

[oeuvre]

Yeah I went for the BIGSAVINGS too in mid-December.

[Tim-ANC]

Yeah I went for the BIGSAVINGS too in mid-December.

How do you like it. I'm not very comfortable with win8 and seems to be a lot of bloatware. Got 52GB on the drive and I can only account for 30 of hit. Think I'll try a clean install if I can figure how to do with out having disks.