I recently asked this question to a friend of mine when he started complaining that his laptop started to overheat and shut down. I remember how we bought it together, it was a year and a half ago. And when my friend started talking about his problems, I immediately realized that I would have to take it apart and clean it from all the rubbish that he had sucked in over the past year and a half)))
Disappointing symptoms...
Patient represented by a Lenovo laptop%20Y570%0A" rel="noopener nofollow">Lenovo Y570, according to the owner, suffered from overheating at the slightest load and subsequent reboot. Well, all the symptoms of a "dust-clogged radiator" are evident. To confirm this hypothesis, I tried to perform several tests of the CPU and GPU. But as soon as I had to run the RealTemp program, designed to monitor the CPU temperature, the fan immediately began to howl, and after 5 seconds it appeared " blue screen":-DMdaaaaa ... Everything is much sadder than I thought. The loaded BIOS informed me about the CPU overheating, after which it completely refused to load Windows, referring to high temperature CPU. After a few minutes of inactivity, Windows booted successfully, but attempting to measure the temperature again with RealTemp led to the same result as the first time. After thinking about this whole situation and not coming to any optimal solution, I decided to improvise. Remembering my desktop thermometer with an external temperature sensor, which stood on computer desk, it was decided to measure the temperature of the "exhaust".
The laptop has one radiator, in which I fixed the thermal sensor:
After starting the laptop, I tried not to run any programs in order to avoid overheating, as a result of which I was able to measure the temperature:
Almost 63 degrees! No wonder the laptop behaved this way. The CPU temperature most likely reached over 100 degrees, resulting in the overheat protection. Without further tormenting the poor fellow, I proceeded to the autopsy)))
Opening
Turning the laptop "belly" to the top, I found an impressive removable panel and a small hole for airflow to the fan:
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In the hope that nothing else would have to be unscrewed, I unscrewed the bolts and removed the cover:
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"It seems that all the screws have access ...", I thought. But it was not there! Taking a closer look, I found several screws securing the heatsink under the plastic case, to which access was impossible:
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As they say, there was no sadness ... Well, you have to completely remove the back cover. To begin with, it was necessary to remove all removable internal elements, including HDD and battery. The HDD is attached to the case with a bracket screwed on the sides hard drive:
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Removal DVD-ROM drive done with a paper clip. First you need to unscrew the drive mounting screw, and then insert a paper clip into a small hole and pull it towards you:
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After removing the drive, several mounting screws were found:
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Having unscrewed all the available fastening screws, I once again tried to remove back corps. But it didn’t work out for me, not surprising, since several more racks for screws were clearly visible in the area of \u200b\u200bthe keyboard and the panel adjacent to it. Armed with a utility knife, I carefully pry the keyboard panel from the side of the screen, and then carefully yank it out. It’s not worth putting a lot of effort here, since you can tear out the cable when removing it, or even worse!
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One of the screws was hidden under a Lenovo branded sticker:
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But even after I unscrewed it, the ill-fated panel did not give in to me. Having come to the conclusion that Bottom part still non-removable, I decided to remove all the plastic panels around the keyboard unit. Before removing all panels, it was necessary to disconnect all available cables from the board:
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And here is another screw:
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Removing the rest was not difficult, it was enough to pry off the panel and bend the clips. After the last element of the "plating" was removed, the board appeared in all its glory:
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By disconnecting the cable of the USB 3.0 controller, the laptop display, as well as the connector from the speakers, it was possible to free the board from the plastic cap:
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The board's cooling system consisted of a standard radiator and a set of heat pipes. Unfortunately, the fan, as well as the radiator itself, were small, although heat pipes were much larger in diameter than on the laptop I reviewed earlier.
After removing the fan and heatsink with heat pipes, I proceeded to replace the thermal interface:
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Testing
Now when you start the laptop, the fan is almost inaudible. After making sure that the system is completely stable, I installed the necessary software for testing and measuring the temperature. To begin with, the CPU was tested using the LinX and RealTepm programs:
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The maximum core temperature stopped at 78 degrees after 10 minutes of testing, with stable performance (Gflops). The exhaust temperature at the same time was 43 degrees:
The GPU was tested using the well-known online shooter Battlefield 3. After a 35 minute battle with "Medium" graphics settings, the maximum temperature was 77 degrees:
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Not bad results! The laptop has a second wind, in the truest sense of the word. Reduced noise and temperature, and most importantly returned stable work all systems. This concludes my misadventures with the preparation of the Lenovo Y570 laptop, I hope the information will be useful to someone.
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Notebook Pros:
Good build quality, good heat dissipation (in case of thermal paste replacement), slot for ssd, good power supply, easy to maintain.
The power is at a decent level - GTA4 plays without lags at medium settings, sometimes it lags at maximum settings, work tasks are also going with a bang.
The kit comes with office start, which is enough for household tasks for the eyes.
Laptop cons:
the screen matrix is not a fountain, Replacing the thermal paste is still a hemorrhoid with an almost complete analysis of the laptop, and without a replacement it starts to warm up after a year, poor service (they don’t say the terms of the repair in advance, they are unable to order the missing component), the lack of a disk with Windows, only through the partition recovery.
Notebook comment:
A year later, it began to warm up, more and more, as a result, ignoring overheating, the fan began to strum - then I wandered around service centers, they did not undertake to replace the fan anywhere, or at least clearly indicate the terms - everywhere the standard answer is, bring it, leave there are no such fans, we'll see. This categorically did not suit me (then the laptop was under warranty). This continued until the end of the warranty, after which - armed with a video from YouTube about disassembly at 2 o'clock, we changed the thermal paste ourselves, since then the laptop is cold as a snow queen. The fan continued to strum during rare inclusions, official services they were still dumb (not one even called back), they didn’t answer me in the official Lenovo group either, I ordered it from the Chinese. Upon arrival, another bug turned out - the holes for the fan screws are so frail (thin radiator plate) - that they simply could not stand a dozen unscrewings - there was almost no thread left and there was nowhere to twist, I had to corny glue the fan on hot glue. Everything was perfect again.
In the third year, the screw began to blunt a lot, I decided to change it and put a bigger ssd to the heap - then the cant with the recovery partition got out, even saving it on a dvd-rw disc, I could not reinstall Windows due to "the disk is incorrectly marked", although in general it there was a new one without markup - apparently 1.5 TB instead of 750 GB somehow did not fit onekey lenovo to the restorer. The sticker has faded but there was a photo with the serial taken when buying. I took a disk from msdn and installed it by serial number, at the same time I installed the system purely on ssd - the rapid drive is still not quite right. All the drivers were downloaded from the site, although to put it mildly, I was a little surprised by the approach (the names of the downloaded files are ciphers, the drivers are unpacked to C: \ Drive and there you can already understand what's what, already during the installation process you understand what exactly you are putting) - considering their number is more than a dozen Lenovo could have come up with a packet bag.
Since then, I've been happy again, I think it should be enough for a couple of years
In the Lenovo blog on Habré, we pay the most attention to the ThinkPad series, which is quite logical - judging by the reviews, most of you like these models, created for work and creativity, strong and strict in appearance. But today we have a review of the IdeaPad Y570 model, a bright representative of Lenovo's "custom" series of laptops, which is very different from the business models inherited from IBM. It is difficult to ignore such a laptop: at a cost of 30 thousand rubles, it provides you with one of the most powerful video cards, modern processor Intel Core, as well as an incredibly fast disk system. A hybrid of a capacious hard drive and fast SSD it was in the "five hundred and seventieth" that it became standard: most laptop modifications are equipped with it. In this review, I will talk about the benefits of loading in 15 seconds, what changes have taken place in the new Y-series model, and why you should choose this particular model as your home entertainment center.
Appearance
Talking about the design of the IdeaPad Y570 should start with the fact that this model has become much less glossy. I know that this criterion is very important for many users. The updated laptop gaming series has a glossy display and a frame around it. Everything else does not shine and does not collect fingerprints. Moreover, the keyboard panel is completely made of metal, which adds strength to the design of the laptop.
The display lid is covered with a “dotted” texture, on which light scratches are invisible.
The branded orange edging has remained in place, but the keyboard panel, previously completely glossy, now looks completely different.
The keyboard and touchpad have also changed. Appeared digital block keys, though tightly "lapped" to the main keyboard, the touchpad has increased in size. It is very pleasant to work with him, although some training is required, especially for spaced apart long distance mouse buttons apart. When typing, the touchpad is temporarily disabled to avoid accidental clicks. But from touch panel allowing you to quickly launch desired application, they decided to abandon the new modification.
The laptop is equipped with a universal set of connectors. There are 4 USB ports, two on each side, and two of them support high-speed USB standard 3.0, one more is combined with the eSata port. To connect an external display, you can use the D-Sub analog interface or digital HDMI. Finally, there are separate headphone and microphone jacks, an Ethernet port, and an SDHC card reader.
It is impossible not to mention the powerful audio system, developed jointly with JBL. It provides a very powerful sound for a laptop, and performs well in cases where there is no way to connect to a device. external speakers.
Performance
Y-series laptops are also attractive in that their modifications usually differ only in the processor model, hard drive capacity and the number of installed brackets. random access memory. The video card in all versions is the same, in this case - a powerful GeForce GT 555M accelerator with a gigabyte of its own memory. This allows you to purchase a cheaper model, for example, with Core processor i3, but in terms of graphics, you get an equally powerful machine.
Game lovers will also like the display resolution: 1366x768 pixels. For some, this resolution on a 15-inch matrix will seem too small, but in 3D applications it allows you to achieve greater performance compared to, for example, FullHD displays. I tested a version of the laptop with an Intel Core i5-2410M (2.3 GHz) processor, with a price tag of about 35,000 rubles. It is noteworthy that a model with a 4-core Intel Core i7 and an otherwise identical configuration costs only 3,000 rubles more.
The GeekBench test results were higher than the ThinkPad X220 with a more powerful Intel Core i5-2520M processor. This happened due to more fast memory running in this notebook in dual-channel mode (2x2 GB).
The laptop is equipped with switchable graphics, thanks to which it provides both high performance and decent time. battery life. A special lever on the front edge is provided for switching: this is perhaps the most convenient solution, since you do not need to go into the video settings to determine the optimal operating mode. In the already old 3DMark test, when working with integrated Intel graphics, this is the result:
When switching to an NVIDIA graphics card, we get a twofold increase:
Under continuous load temperature in FurMark test GPU rises no higher than 85-87 degrees. The fan in the company with a fairly massive heatsink copes well with this load, but it makes quite noticeable noise. By the way, Lenovo's proprietary software for this laptop has special utility to control the cooling system, which allows you to set a "quiet" mode of operation, or vice versa - forcibly turn on the cooler at maximum speed. The latter is presented as a tool for cleaning dust, which in general may not be superfluous.
Hybrid disk system
But this feature of the IdeaPad Y570 is practically not covered in independent tests, but in vain. Trying to find a reasonable balance between performance and price, Lenovo engineers decided to use two drives in this laptop at once: a 32 GB SSD installed in the mSata slot and a large and rather slow 750 GB hard drive with a rotation speed of 5400 rpm. In the system, they are combined into one section: this technology is called RapidDrive, and in Windows it is controlled by a special driver.
The result of this approach is visible the first time you turn on the laptop: the system boots in 10-15 seconds, and the laptop wakes up from sleep mode instantly. Programs also launch quickly, just like with a regular SSD drive. In the HDTune test, the initial area of the logical partition achieves an average linear data read speed of about 140 megabytes per second.
IdeaPad Y570 owners have a lot of questions about clean reinstalling windows using RapidDrive. The support site has a special instruction for such cases. In short, you need to install the system on an SSD, and then install the RapidDrive driver. The “large” hard drive should not be marked up: the program will automatically create a virtual partition with a total volume of about 730 “honest” gigabytes.
Offline work
The laptop is equipped with a 6 cell battery early models The Y-series provided at most a couple of hours of battery life. With the advent of hybrid graphics, everything has changed, and in the standard video playback test, I got quite impressive 4 hours 28 minutes offline work. Although the size and weight of the model make the Y570 more of a home device, if necessary, it can be used away from the outlet for quite a long time. During the test, the screen brightness was set to 70% of the maximum, the WiFi module was turned on, the sound was output to the headphones, and the Intel graphics were used.
Summary
The main distinguishing features of the Y570, I would call a hybrid system RapidDrive and a powerful graphics card. It is these two features that make the laptop very pleasant to work with: you simply enjoy the instant response of programs and the ability of the model to effectively cope with any task, up to games and video encoding. A universal set of connectors allows you to turn your laptop into a home entertainment center: you can connect and big TV, and fast external drive, although he himself is equipped with an impressive data storage of three-quarters of a terabyte. And all this - at a cost of 40,000 rubles for the most powerful configuration and from 30 - for the basic one, which is not so much inferior in performance. When buying a laptop, I recommend choosing a model with a hybrid SSD + HDD system. With a small difference in cost, it provides a real performance boost in everyday tasks.
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2 years ago 0
1.SSD 32 - really turns on and wakes up very quickly, almost Apple) 2. Keyboard - very comfortable, again in the spirit of apple. 3. The top processor, as well as the rest of the hardware, gives excellent performance in such operations as HD video editing and music mixing. 4. The body materials are well chosen - nothing gets dirty, and if it gets dirty, it is easy to clean. 5. Nice design. 6. In a sparing mode of operation (Internet, office), it heats up weakly. It makes no sense to paint more, everyone will find their pluses.
2 years ago 0
Design Speed
2 years ago 0
Beech is very fast, really. SSD here does its job, responsive systems at their best. The beech is beautiful, qualitatively assembled. Under the heaviest loads, I didn’t get warmer than 87 degrees, when surfing the internet it’s quiet and cold. Great sound from built-in speakers. Pretty decent autonomy for such iron - about 5 hours with small loads such as climbing on an Internet. Very good at toys.
2 years ago 0
Superb sound quality workmanship and design comfortable keyboard best value for money good performance, also in games
2 years ago 0
Powerful video card (nvidia 555m gddr5, truncated truth, but still :)) . Very comfortable keyboard, reliable (I spilled tea on the keyboard, the laptop did not even pass out). Built-in JBL audio system (In my opinion, you can’t imagine better for a laptop).
2 years ago 0
Build quality 2 pcs USB 3.0 ESATA 2 places for hard drives (I think I can change 32SSD for something more worthwhile in the future) despite the power of the laptop, the battery lasts for 3-4 hours, the keyboard is comfortable (someone wrote, asked - backlight no) yes software capability manually switch the cooler operating modes And in general - THE BEAST MACHINE!!!
2 years ago 0
A beautiful, smart, comfortable keyboard, the presence of touch multimedia buttons, you can adjust the speed of the cooler, the sound of the speakers is chic (for a laptop), if you do not play, it almost does not heat up, while it works quietly.
2 years ago 0
I took the option on Core i5 with 4Gb RAM, 750gb HDD without an SSD drive. I bought 8 gb of RAM, bought a 120 gig SSD, put paragon migrate to ssd and transferred the system. As a result, I got a Core i5, 8Gb RAM SSD 120 Gb + 750HDD, and an Nvidea 555 video card with 1gb.
2 years ago 0
Matrix from Samsung. -Large hatch on the bottom - access to all equipment. -Comfortable touchpad -Great sound from JBL speakers -Excellent cooling system -Does not heat up under the palms -4USB ports -levers for video and radio models on the front end -convenient touch buttons under the screen -opportunity manual control cooling with one button under the screen
2 years ago 0
1. Reasonable price! gave only 22,528 rubles. 2. Powerful video card GeForce GT 555 with DDR 5 and 1 Gb on board. 3. USB ports located at a normal distance from each other, you can plug in a 3G modem and it will not block the adjacent port (which can not be said about most other laptops) 4. The presence of two USB 3.0 ports 5. The presence of bluetooth 6. The ability to control the fan speed and copper cooling 7 The sound is just great for a laptop (acoustics from JBL is worth it) 8. Nice case design. 9. 2 microphones (stereo) for best quality audio transmission 10. Availability of eSATA
2 years ago 0
I could write a glossy screen here, but have not yet encountered this problem. a simple increase in brightness was enough.
Vertical viewing angles, as already mentioned, are really lame, but after a couple of days it is already invisible, but in general the screen is very good.
2 years ago 0
Incomprehensible work of disks, namely, in the disk management section, one disk is not initialized. The system recognizes a 32 GB ssd drive and the usual 750 GB vice versa. According to the assurance of the service and the lenovo service, the reason is in a special driver, which, as it were, does the merging of both disks for the system. In general, it is necessary to understand if anyone is interested.
2 years ago 0
I must say right away that although there are quite a few shortcomings, they are small, and did not particularly affect my choice.
Although beech belongs to Lenova's top line, some components are frankly cheap. First of all the screen (LG). Small viewing angles, low resolution. He would have a high-quality matrix 1600 * 900 - he would have been almost perfect laptop. There was also castrated wifi (72mb / s maximum) - this is generally out of the way ...
The webcam is terrible, at the level of Chinese handicrafts for 300r, it doesn’t even smell of any declared 2 mp. In general, to hell with it, but in this beech there is a program for authorization by the face of the face, and in normal room lighting, authorization by the face does not work due to the poor quality of the webcam. The keyboard is generally cool, but the block of arrows still could at least
2 years ago 0
I don't even know what to write...
Rather, a wish - more battery life
2 years ago 0
It heats up quite strongly in the left area of \u200b\u200bthe case when I launch demanding applications and games (but it never turns off), so it's tolerable. Small viewing angle at the matrix.
2 years ago 0
Very bad vertical viewing angles, but you can live.
Nothing else seen!
2 years ago 0
Gloss around the screen, viewing angles are small, gamma is indeed shifted to blue, although this is not particularly annoying, if only when working with photography.
2 years ago 0
bad plastic, flimsy fastening of the matrix hinges, namely, in many laptops they put a metal spacer on which the matrix is held, they immediately took it and attached it to the bottom, as a result of which the plastic breaks .. after which either go for repairs or change the bottom ....
2 years ago 0
Curve system Rapiddrive
-Heavy
-You can not set the touchpad settings so that when an external mouse is connected, it will automatically be deactivated. Each time the handles need Fn + F6.
- not the most convenient location of USB ports
2 years ago 0
perhaps a large power supply (but this is already nit-picking)
Lenovo is respected primarily for the ThinkPad series laptops, which are rightfully considered classics of the corporate genre and almost the standard of reliability and ergonomics. However, this is not the merit of Chinese developers, since the mentioned series was developed in the USA by IBM. As for the line of IdeaPad, focused on end users, it is less known and popular, at least in our country.
In our opinion, Lenovo's range of consumer laptops is not well developed: on the one hand, some models are too similar in terms of technical specifications or design, and on the other hand, some market segments are not covered. For example, Lenovo has only one model with a 17.3" screen - a laptop entry level G770, which cannot fully meet the needs of both home and office users. Lenovo has no gaming series at all, and the direction of "advanced" entertainment laptops is represented by only one Y line, which includes only two models - with screens of 14 and 15.6".
In our review, we will focus on the older model of the Lenovo consumer series, which belongs to the aforementioned Y line. premium.
Specifications
There is nothing surprising in the fact that the Lenovo IdeaPad Y570 laptop is built on Intel platform Huron River and is equipped with a variety of processors - from an inexpensive Core i3 (as in our test configuration) to a 4-core Core i7. However, the central node of the device, which determined all the main features of the design and functionality, is a discrete graphics card GeForce GT 555M.
By the way, this video card exists in at least three different versions, differing both in graphics chips and memory configuration. The version that is installed in the Lenovo model is an overclocked version of the well-known GeForce GT 540M video card (the GPU frequency is increased to 750 MHz, that is, by 12%). More efficient GDDR5 video memory is used, but with a lower clock speed and on the same 128-bit bus as the GeForce GT 540M video card. Thus, it does not reach the level of gaming mobile graphics cards, but its gaming performance level will be higher than that of the graphics cards of the vast majority of mid-range laptops.
Graphics on the IdeaPad Y570 are switchable. branded software technology Nvidia Optimus has a small switch on the front that allows you to choose between integrated or discrete graphics priority mode. In the second case, a white LED lights up, which is quite convenient for visual control.
Lenovo engineers paid enough attention to the issue of adequate cooling. The laptop is equipped with a massive cooling system with a copper heatsink. Separate heat pipes are connected to the processor and video card, with a plastic frame inner space divided into several independent zones. A large cover, occupying 3/4 of the bottom, provides access, among other things, to the fan, which can be easily removed by unscrewing a few screws, which is convenient for cleaning and lubricating it. Moreover, the cooling system has convenient software control using a touch button. There are four fan modes to choose from - Normal, Quiet, Intensive and Purifying (pulse to blow dust), each of which is differently indicated by the backlight (intensity + flashing). No one has yet come up with a more convenient and practical way to control cooling.
Lenovo Y series laptops are equipped only with inexpensive LCD matrices with a resolution of 1366 × 768. We do not know anything about the appearance of modifications with a 3D screen on sale. A little more attention is paid to the issue of built-in sound - for example, the speakers are equipped with the JBL logo, but there are only two of them, and there is no subwoofer.
The laptop case has a bay for one standard 2.5" hard drive and one solid-state drive in the mSATA form factor. Lenovo releases configurations with a pre-installed 32 GB SSD, which is used for caching system files. In theory, you can also put a larger capacity SSD there.
The set of interfaces on the Y570 laptop is typical for its price class. There are two USB 3.0 ports, one regular USB port 2.0 and one eSATA/USB 2.0 port. There are two outputs to an external monitor/TV, both are standard - HDMI and VGA (RGB). Configurations with a built-in TV tuner are available, but they are quite rare. There is a multi-format card reader, a webcam with a resolution of 2 megapixels (not in all configurations), a microphone array - as it should be for a good model for home use. The location of the ports is convenient: almost all of them are placed on the left side, with the exception of the card reader (front) and both USB 3.0 ports (right).
The battery capacity has been increased by almost 30% compared to the base level. Thanks to this, the laptop "gluttonous" the video card can work without recharging for an acceptable time.
Overall, in terms of design Lenovo model Y570 performed at a good level. All the moments that the owner of a laptop with a high-performance video card may encounter (cooling, cleaning, increased power consumption) are taken into account, SSD support is provided, and the possibility of self-access to all important components is provided. True, the case turned out to be quite bulky, overall, with excess thickness and weight by today's standards, but this, in general, is inevitable in laptops of this class.
Design
For some reason, Lenovo designers decided to unify the appearance of the two consumer series, and IdeaPad laptop The Y570 looks very similar to the IdeaPad Z570, but has a wider and thicker body and a different design of additional buttons. So, the interior of the device is a large smooth aluminum panel of gray-violet color, framed by a glossy plastic insert. The chiclet keyboard with black keys sits in a shallow recess and features a matte stencil to match the color of the surrounding aluminum. Above the keyboard are rectangular JBL speaker grilles and a row of illuminated buttons, touch and mechanical. The wide touchpad with a small dot pattern is framed by shiny milling and is equipped with a flat matte button.
The design of the lid is more interesting than that of the Z570 model: black plastic with imitation of transverse polishing is equipped with a shiny dotted geometric pattern, original, but, as it seems to us, not very in harmony with the interior. For some reason, the inside of the lid is made of glossy plastic, and quite thin and uneven. Of course, this is a matter of taste, but the purple metal seemed boring and not very attractive to us, and the manufacturer did not provide another color option. (By the way, the Z-series models have recently changed their color scheme towards brownish-gray. Perhaps the same fate will befall the Y-series models.)
Alas, the laptop case does not have a rigid frame and is flexible and unstable when deformed. When twisting and slightly squeezing, the plastic crunches, panels, including metal ones, bend, the lid bends easily, although it does not press through to the matrix. The lid hinge is fragile, has a backlash, the hinges are made using thin plastic. And in general, the laptop case does not make the most pleasant impression, it seems cheap, fragile and short-lived, although in reality this may not be the case.
Screen
Our copy of the Lenovo laptop was equipped with an LCD matrix manufactured by LG. The usual unremarkable budget matrix, with low contrast, narrow color gamut, small viewing angles. True, the image is not very cold - on the contrary, the white color is even warmer than necessary (5900 K). The gamma is heavily distorted in the direction of overestimating dark shades and increasing contrast in bright colors, which, in theory, is optimal for 3D games. A slight graininess is noticeable, colors are slightly distorted, especially red (it seems orange-brick).
With the Movie button, the screen can be switched to special treatment, which increases brightness and contrast. This is done programmatically, due to gamma correction, which is not very effective, but still slightly improves the visual impression of watching movies.
Sound
Quite modest grilles hide good speakers with a relatively powerful, rich sound. Of course, the level of the highest quality built-in audio systems is out of the question - there are laptops with more powerful sound, however, the difference compared to the typical speakers of entry-level devices is well felt.
True, we could not find any tuning panels other than the standard Realtek panel, but the laptop sounds convincing enough without that, with a good frequency spectrum, noticeable bass and an overall pleasant, balanced tone.
Keyboard, display, touchpad
The Lenovo laptop is equipped with a keyboard design typical for this manufacturer - concave keys on a flat stencil substrate. Yes, the design of the keyboard is excellent, the substrate does not get dirty and does not flex when typing, the keys almost do not hang out, they have an optimal shape for centering fingers. However, I did not really like the hard, tight mechanism with an increased stroke (more than 2.5 mm), it requires some getting used to. The layout is almost standard, but there are some features that not everyone will like: for example, very short Enter and right Shift, the keys of the digital field reduced in width, inscribed in the common “cursors” field, the remote Pause / Break key.
The display and buttons of the laptop are implemented in a peculiar way - more convenient than beautiful (although for a home device, the latter aspect usually does not come last). Top right row touch buttons has the appearance of concave holes with uneven illumination, rather sloppy and too small. Three keys are responsible for volume control, another turns on the Movie mode and one controls the cooling.
On the left, there is a power button with a glowing dot pattern, a OneKey Recovery button (system Reserve copy) and three "invisible" indicators (keyboard and hard drive). Four more indicators, this time dotted rather than iconic, are located on the front edge under the touchpad - power, battery, Wi-Fi and touchpad (off). The LEDs and their symbols are clearly visible when the lid is closed.
The touchpad has a decent size (99×50 mm), is placed shallowly, but almost does not get under the palm when typing, since the laptop has a large area under the wrists. The finger on the touchpad glides easily, the dotted corrugation does not interfere, the cursor is responsive and fast. The Synaptics controller works quite clearly and confidently; however, I did not like the support for two- and three-finger movements. The mouse buttons work with a loud click, they are quite tight, and therefore uncomfortable. In general, the comfort of the touchpad is below average.
Performance
Since the Lenovo laptop is built on a standard hardware platform, we don’t see much point in considering its overall performance. We will be interested in its discrete graphics card, and more specifically, its advantage over a typical mid-range laptop graphics card, the GeForce GT 540M. We've recently added a couple of more advanced gaming applications to our list of 3D benchmarks that we can add a little to the big picture.
As a reference, we will take a recently tested Acer laptop Aspire 5755G with GeForce GT 540M.
So, according to the results of all tests without exception, the IdeaPad Y570 model thanks to GeForce graphics card The GT 555M secured a 20-30% advantage depending on the application. The highest payout is recorded in the most demanding game on our list, Crysis 2 - 38%. True, our FPS is not playable, although we chose a sparing quality level (High). With the games of the previous generation, the Lenovo laptop copes more or less successfully.
The Windows 7 test traditionally gave a low rating, firstly, to the capabilities of a discrete graphics card in 2D / video, and secondly, to the performance of a hard drive. He had no issues with the processor, memory and 3D, our configuration seemed relatively balanced to him.
Battery life
The Lenovo laptop uses switchable graphics, and we tested battery life in Power saving GPU(selected by hardware switch). Thanks to the use of a normal-capacity battery, absolute battery life is quite good - from 5 hours when using Wi-Fi to 7 hours when reading PDF (MobileMark 2007 Reader test).
The average power consumption in the MobileMark 2007 Productivity test was 11.3 W, which is a very good result for a laptop with discrete graphics, albeit switchable.
Noise and heat
Due to the ability to select the fan mode, the user will not encounter either a strong heating of the case under heavy load, or increased noise during quiet operation. With the intensive mode turned on, the noise level is naturally above average, but the processor and graphics chip do not overheat (up to 70 ° when using the stress test from AIDA64 and the Unigine Heaven graphics test). The temperature of the panels under the wrists does not exceed 31°, in the interior the heating of the upper part of the center of the keyboard (up to 40°) is noticeable, since the video card components are located in that area. At the bottom, the temperature is low, 30-35°, only in a small area near the radiator an increase to 40° was noted, which is insignificant.
Conclusion
Lenovo IdeaPad Y570 model should be called budget option premium home entertainment laptop. And the thing is that in order to achieve an excellent combination of price / performance in games, developers have sacrificed many components that are present in expensive models, and above all, a high-quality screen. However, unlike, for example, Acer, which practices the same approach, Lenovo takes reliability and durability seriously. In particular, the Y570 model has enough effective system cooling, with program management and simple self-service. And this, you see, is important.
Advantages:
good price/performance ratio, especially in 3D games;
good (in its class) built-in sound;
good cooling system with simple controls;
normal set of ports;
sufficient battery life.
Flaws:
massive and heavy, but not too strong case;
original design, only one color option;
inexpensive screen of mediocre quality;
not the best ergonomics.
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