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Lenovo G570 M51BHUK review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £350
inc VAT

You’ll get a decent amount of use from this general-purpose laptop

Lenovo’s G570 range of laptops spans a variety of specifications. We’ve also reviewed the Core i5-based G570 M51BPUK. The entire range shares the same well-built chassis that has a dark brushed-metal wrist rest on the inside and a metallic brown-black lid. The combination looks particularly stylish. The broad wrist rest helps produce a comfortable typing experience.

Lenovo G570 M51BHUK

The keyboard has widely spaced and separated keys, but unlike the flat keys we see on many modern laptops, these are curved and have slight indentations towards the centre. This makes it particularly easy to type quickly and accurately. A numeric keypad with skinny keys sits at the right of the laptop, which means that the touchpad (positioned underneath the space bar) is slightly offset from the centre of the wrist rest.

Fortunately, there’s still plenty of room to rest your hands and we didn’t find ourselves catching the pad by accident as we typed. The touchpad itself is rather small, but we had no trouble moving our mouse pointer accurately.

Lenovo G570 M51BHUK

The laptop’s 15.6in 1,366×768 display is excellent. It’s glossy, so it might be too reflective in certain lighting conditions, but there’s plenty of room in which to work and if you need more room you can output video to larger and higher resolution displays with its VGA and HDMI ports. The screen has bright and attractive colours. There’s a slightly yellow emphasis, but this isn’t enough to greatly affect pale tones.

Lenovo G570 M51BHUK

The laptop’s integrated speakers are – as you’d expect – tinny at high frequencies, muddy in the mid-range and lack bass or separation, but they’re okay for system sounds, spoken content and the odd shot of YouTube watching.

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Basic Specifications

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ProcessorIntel Core i3-2350M
Processor clock speed2.3GHz
Memory4.00GB
Memory slots2
Memory slots free1
Maximum memory16GB
Size34x376x346mm
Weight2.4kg
SoundIntel HD Audio
Pointing devicetouchpad

Display

Viewable size15.6 in
Native resolution1,366×768
Graphics ProcessorIntel HD Graphics 3000
Graphics/video portsHDMI, VGA
Graphics Memory384MB

Storage

Total storage capacity500GB
Optical drive typeDVD+/-RW +/-DL

Ports and Expansion

USB ports4
Bluetoothyes
Wired network ports1x 10/100
Wireless networking support802.11n
PC Card slotsnone
Supported memory cardsSDXC, MMC, Memory Stick Pro
Other ports1x 3.5mm headphone output, 1x 3.5mm mic input

Miscellaneous

Carrying caseNo
Operating systemWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Operating system restore optionrestore partition
Software includednone
Optional extrasnone

Buying Information

Warrantyone-year RTB
Price£350
Detailswww.lenovo.co.uk
Supplierhttp://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk

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