Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 Review and Price

 Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 Price Rs.38000
 The speakers are placed along the same horizontal as the touch sensitive buttons, with one speaker extension at each of the right and left ends. Get Flipkart Discount Coupon for cheap Price.The thermal management allows you to set the fan speed to the following modes: standard, super silent, efficient thermal dissipation and dedusting. To the top right corner of the keyboard, you will find a number of touch sensitive buttons, such as those for muting/unmuting the sound, decreasing/increasing the volume, the 'one key theatre' button for selecting scene mode and the thermal management button. Just above the keyboard to the left is the power button, along with the one key recovery button.

 The overall touchpad response was good. The Chiclet keys are curved at the bottom and well spaced, and allow for any annoying dirt particles to be easily cleaned off. The keyboard features Chiclet style keys, which basically make your keyboard have a less cluttered feel as well as making typing all the more comfortable. There's a 2.0-megapixel (MP) webcam placed on the IdeaPad Z570's screen bezel.

 This screen is good for viewing text and videos. The 15.6 inch glossy screen supports a maximum screen resolution of 1366x768 pixels. The Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 has a bright screen and provides decent viewing angles. The IdeaPad Z570's has a 15.6-inch LED backlit widescreen display and weighs 2.58-kg with a six-cell battery. The laptop features a full keyboard and a separate number pad.

  The laptop has a good build quality, with the metallic finish on the back lid and palm-rest serving as just the icing on this very enticing cake.
 
  The laptop's six-cell battery lasted for just 1 hour 38 minutes through our battery tests, at high Moreover, the laptop was very quiet during operation. However, you do notice that the lower centre part of the laptop slightly heats up. Throughout our testing, the IdeaPad Z570 did a good job of keeping itself cool.

 Given these scores as well as at the laptop’s native resolution, playing games at low settings would make for a comparatively smoother sailing for casual gamers. For Metro 2033, played at 1366 x 768, DirectX 11, Very High Quality, AAA, AF 4X, and all settings maxed, registered a measly 6.0 fps. FarCry 2, played at 1366x768, DirectX 10 mode, AA 8x, and 'Ultra High' settings, registered a 17.53 fps -- barely playable. But then again, this is a rather small inconvenience, as this laptop was not intended for gamers as such.

 And for those of you looking to play the more graphically demanding games, this is not the machine for you. On this laptop, games would be ideally run at lower settings given that GT 520M is an entry level graphics card. The laptop also did a good job of playing high-definition HD 1080p videos. The audio system for this laptop does provide a loud sound output, which is good enough for a medium sized room. It had a PC Mark Vantage score of 5306, which is understandable given the laptops configuration.

 During synthetic testing, the laptop recorded an average read speed of 70.7 MB/s. The score shows that this laptop is able to cope well with daily activities and it won’t have trouble coping with processor and memory intensive tasks either.  It had a score of 97 on the WorldBench 6 test, and this is good given that the laptop comes with a Core i3 processor and GT520M graphics card.

Lenovo Essential G570 Review and Price

 Lenovo Essential G570 Price in India Rs. 33000

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.

Lenovo Elite ThinkPad W700ds 17.0 Review

The Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds isn’t a replacement or a refresh of the original, but rather, an optional upgrade to the same basic platform that makes good on Lenovo’s long-rumored promise to launch a notebook with dual displays.

With a sliding 10.6 inch display that pops out from the space behind the original Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds's 17 inch panel, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds still doesn’t have the screen real estate of two full-size desktop displays. But it also gives the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds platform yet another leg up on its rivals, and, especially, another enticement for graphics pros on the go.

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds Specifications:

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme Q9300 (2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 12 MB L2 cache)
* Memory: 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM
* Screen: 17” 1920x1200 WUXGA TFT LCD and 10.6” 1280x760 TFT LCD
* Storage: 259 GB HDD (7200 RPM) x 2, RAID 0 configuration
* Optical Drive: DVD recordable
* Wireless: Intel Wi-Fi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n), Bluetooth 2.0
* Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M with 1 GB
* Battery: 9-cell lithium-ion (84 Wh)
* Dimensions: 16.1” x 12.3” x 2.1”
* Weight: 10 lbs, 15 oz (with battery
* Price As Tested: $5,309.00
* Starting Price: $3,663.00

Secondary Display is The one feature that distinguishes the W700ds from the original W700 is its secondary screen. A second 10.6 inch, 1280x768 display is mounted in portrait orientation into a recess behind the primary panel, and can be popped out as desired to further expand the W700ds’s desktop area. As we noted in our first look at the W700ds, the screen can also be tilted forward about 30 degrees if desired, providing a more ideal viewing angle for the second display.

The bigger differences between the two displays, in fact, have to do with color reproduction, brightness, and clarity. The second display lacks the more highly reflective coating of its high-end companion, and with 280 NIT brightness (versus 400 on the primary display) and a narrower reproducible gamut, colors definitely don’t pop as much.


Pros:

* Desktop-like performance in a notebook – now with two screens!
* Build quality still as good as always
* Very good primary display with built-in color calibrator
* Keyboard is as good as the one on my desk

Cons:

* Built-in calibrator doesn’t support second display
* Small onboard digitizer features a terrible pen
* Multimedia performance doesn’t quite cut it
* Performance upgrades will elevate the price significantly