Lenovo G570 4334DDU 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)

Got the Lenovo mostly because it was time to change laptops. Lenovo has some interesting software like the energy management that always keep the battery below 50% making the life of the cells go the extra mile and last longer, after all , what kills the battery sooner (Like the HP batteries that last like 8 months before they die completely) is having them charged at 100% with continous charge.

When I purchase the laptop I was hoping against all hope that it would run Diablo 3. When I asked around when the Beta came out nearly everyone said "Meh, it is an integrated graphic card, you won't be able to run it" or the "Maybe in the lowest spec you might run it with unplayable FPS" I took the risk anyhow and bought the game and I just turn off the shadows in game and everything else I left it in HIGH resolution and it runs smooth, just a milisecond hickup from time to time when the game gets too crowded of finds.

So yeah, the laptop, for thye price and what it offers, it way too good to be true!

Cons: Keyboard kinda cramped. Super small shift key is annoying. The computer shows smudges very easily. Screen sucks not made for watching blue ray. Only one stick of ram it should have two really.

Pros: Super fast i5 sandy bridge processor. Price is very low for the hardware you are getting. Even thought it is plastic it is very well built and doesn't feel cheap. Stays cool... I even overclocked it :3... BUT I AM A RISK TAKER YOU MAY NOT WANT TO DO THAT! :)

I put a 2gig stick I had laying around in it to bump it up to 6gigs of ram. Swapped out the slow HHD and put in a SSD I had laying around. Boot time is under 7 seconds now. If you add more ram and put in a SSD this is a super fast laptop. It beats my MacBook Pro (With HHD) in boot time and compile/run time for programs I have written in c++ and java. (Both with up to date Eclipse IDE). I am really happy with it.. Also no problems with throwing linux on it (Dual booting with Ubuntu and BackTrack).

If you are going to buy this for just watching movies, writing papers, surfing the webbernets and sending emails it is fine out of the box. If you are going to use it as your main computer I suggest you get another ram stick (They are really cheap)and if you have another 80-100$ buy an SSD instillation is super easy even for newbies.

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I replaced a 5-year old Toshiba running Vista with the Lenovo. I chose Lenovo primarily because of the ratings on Amazon and Consumer Reports. It was an easy set up and the Lenovo is very fast. The reason I gave it 4-stars instead of 5, is because the keyboard includes a number key pad to the right and it makes the keyboard rather compact and difficult to find the delete/page up/page down keys, without looking at the keyboard. If you do a lot of number entries, it would be handy to have the separate number pad. I have only had the laptop for a month, so cannot rate it on reliability at this time.

Update 7/10/2012: The Lenovo continues to run well, no issues with performance. I changed the rating to 3-stars. After using the keyboard more I have found I keep hitting the arrow up key when trying to hit the right shift key, so the cursor moves up. I really don't need the number pad, so if I had it to do again, I would not choose this model.

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The laptop performed great, then by month 7, the screw on the left corner beneath the left hinge and fan fell out at some point, and the left hinge is binding, and opens up the laptop and now is off centered. Lenovo support advised sending in the laptop and for me (even though its under warranty) to pay for shipping and repairs for a total of $247! Will not get another Lenovo due to this poor design flaw.

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