The G570 weighs 2.6-kg with a six-cell battery and comes with a one year warranty. The laptop features a full keyboard with a separate number pad. I might be nit-picking here, but the screen did seem to wobble a bit.
While the chassis felt solid, the hinges on which the screen rested seemed rather flimsy. The touchpad is located below the keyboard and is positioned towards the left end. A dark bezel borders the 15.6-inch LED backlit screen and the palm rest has a black metallic finish. The back lid has a shiny dark appearance, and has the Lenovo logo displayed on its top left portion. The Lenovo G570 looks good and its black colouring gives the laptop a very 'professional' aura.
The speakers are located at the front base of the laptop's chassis. The power button is located at the top right of the keyboard, alongside the one key recovery button. For general purposes, the subtly-granulated touchpad's response was excellent.
The chiclet keys curve at the bottom and are well spaced. The keyboard has a chiclet style configuration - one that proves to be comfortable for typing. There's a 2.0-megapixel (MP) webcam placed at the top of the laptop's screen bezel. Otherwise, the screen is good for both reading text and viewing images/videos. The viewing angles though do get poor, especially when looking at the screen from the extreme angles (left, right, top, bottom) - the colour shifts and there is a certain darkish hue to all the images/videos.
The Lenovo G570 provides a bright 15.6-inch glossy screen that supports a screen resolution of 1366x768 pixels.
The laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Basic, so you will be missing out on features such as Aero theme and Windows Media Center. There is also a handy switch for enabling/disabling wireless network connectivity. The Lenovo G570 doesn't have Gigabit Ethernet - it only has the 100Mbit Wired Ethernet.
The Lenovo Essential G570 also has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 wireless connectivity. The laptop has four USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet port, VGA port, HDMI, headphone and mic ports, and a memory card reader. It features a Intel second generation 2.10 Ghz Intel Core i3-2310M (Sandy Bridge) processor, 3GB DDR3 RAM, on-board Intel HD3000 graphics and a 640GB hard drive. The Lenovo Essential G570 comes with an expected configuration for its asking price.
Having said that, you should be able to extract around 4 plus hours out of the laptop's battery for doing lighter every-day work such as browsing the web and listening to music. The laptop's six-cell battery lasted for 1 hour 30 minutes through one of our battery tests, at high performance mode. Moreover, the laptop was barely audible during operation, which is good. However, you do notice that the lower left centre part of the laptop heats up slightly.
Throughout our testing, the Lenovo G570 did a good job of keeping itself cool. It is apt for personal entertainment. The sound output from the audio system is clear and loud enough for a small room. Watching 720p and 1080p videos on the display is comfortable. For instance when running Far Cry 2, the laptop recorded an average FPS of 14.27 when run in DX10 mode at 1024x768, 2xAA and minimum effects.
As such gaming is not what you are looking for when opting to buy this laptop. The G570 features a graphics core integrated into the Intel SandyBridge processor. The Lenovo Essential G570 recorded a PC Mark Vantage score of 5824. During synthetic testing, the laptop's hard disk recorded an average read speed of 66.9 MB/s.
The WorldBench score reflects what the laptop can do - manage your day to day multitasking needs of surfing the Web, watching movies, and working on productivity tools. The Lenovo G570 managed a score of 88 on the WorldBench 6 test, a score which is good for a mainstream budget laptop.
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