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    Lenovo G570 Review: A Low-Cost Champion Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Amber Riippa, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. Amber Riippa

    Amber Riippa NotebookReview.com Contributor

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    Part of the Lenovo G-Series line, the Lenovo G570 is a budget-priced 15.6-inch notebook made for consumer general use. Check out our full review to see how this notebook has improved from the last generation and if it can land a spot in your household.



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    Amber Riippa, Jul 18, 2011
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  2. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Thanks for the review. I think as a budget, general use notebook it might be worthwhile. Just one question, does the bottom access panel provide access to the HDD as well?
     
    talin, Jul 27, 2011
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    Jan_Andersen Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here is my little user review if any are interested:

    I have an Acer 5940G i7-720QM notebook baught last year for 777 Euro - by then - less than 12 months ago - rated as one of the fastest notebooks. Just baught this Lenovo G570 i5-2410M at 450 GBP / 500 EUR.

    The G570 is a little faster than the i7-720QM, runs more cool, a little slimmer, better battry life, a bit less noise from fan, according to Windows rating, faster access time for HDD. Design and build is conservative, solid, and clean. The HD 3000 graphics card is on par with mid-range dedicated graphics cards. Many i5 are for some reason sold with a dedicated graphics card, for example the Geforce G310, which is actually slower than the internal HD 3000 graphics card, the Radeon HD 6370M is only 2% faster than the HD3000, which is on par - so plain silly to chose a model with a dedicated graphics card ( unless you are a hard core gamer ) with higher power consumption, more noise, more heat, and which very well may send your notebook to the trash can cause of melt down of the graphics card.

    Buttom line is - this is a low budget notebook, but with top specs ( I actualy prefer the G570 over the 5940G ). Unless you put high requirement on the graphics card for hard core gaming - this is more than sufficient for any user, even user like me for data chrunshing.

    Added - Antivirus:
    Like the Acer 5940G, the first thing I did, was to uninstall the preinstalled Mcafee Antivirus and Firewall, activated the Windows Firewall and made sure Windows Defender was active. Who will know how to protect Windows best ?

    Uninstalling McAfee, the system leaves McAfee Security Scan Plus, which is a tiny scanner scanning the main files in the system now and then - takes about 20 secs.

    After about a year with this setup on the 5940G, I havnt had any problems. Antivirus programs are in my opinion a pain in the ** , the latest McFee antivirus slows the machine down significantly. If I want to visit unsecure web sites - I boot a Windows XP virtual machine using VMWARE.

    Hope this is usefull.
     
    Jan_Andersen, Jul 29, 2011
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