Lenovo G770 17.3 inch Laptop - Black (Intel Core i5 2430M 2.4GHz, RAM 8GB, HDD 750GB, AMD 6650 2GB, DVDRW, WLAN, Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit)
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Affordable product, high-price performance. These laptops are an affordable way to tackle your everyday computer tasks. They have all the essentials, whether you're trying to do homework, complete the family budget, surf the Web, send email or just play a little. But we throw in a few extra touches to make them more than simply "functional". The latest Intel processors, high-capacity storage, plenty of memory and Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0 for Windows® 7, with RapidBoot technology, make them fast and efficient; cool design features, brilliant HD widescreens and powerful,... 36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
A QUALITY LAPTOP, By
William Morgan "Willie" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lenovo G770 17.3 inch Laptop - Black (Intel Core i5 2430M 2.4GHz, RAM 8GB, HDD 750GB, AMD 6650 2GB, DVDRW, WLAN, Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit) (Personal Computers)
The Lenovo G770 is sold in various configurations with prices to suit, anything between £470 and £750. Mine was surprisingly well configlred with a 2.4GHz I5 processor, 8GB memory and a 750GB hard drive. At the price of £598 that I paid at Amazon it was a bargain. I chose to be able to burn double-layer DVDs rather than be able to view blue-ray disks - you really do have only the one choice. Within a week a similarly specified G770 was being offered on Amazon (as well as at most other suppliers) at £740. This laptop has a solid and quality feel to it. Both performance and graphic display performance as well as display appearance are good. For a 17.4" display laptop it's not overly weighty. Battery life is reasonable for a 17-incher, 5 hours browsing and word-processing but only 3.5 hours when doing processor-intensive video recoding. This laptop can be setup to "step-down" processor speed and graphics when running on battery, or can be set to run flat out all the time (with a resulting fall in battery life). The G770 comes with a very effective boot-time optimiser which ensures that the laptop is ready and raring to go only 40 seconds from startup. Both keyboard and finger-pad are among the best I've ever tried. It's a quality laptop with a fast processor and very good display. The case remains cool at all times, but the fan outlet on the left-hand side blows very hot air when the laptop is working hard. The G770 has no supplied software disk, which I admit did concern me, but it has a one-click "auto-repair" feature. What they've done is partition 30GB of the hard disk to hold a spare copy of the operating system and drivers - but this means the avaiable hard disk is less than the 750GB quoted. They've put a small recessed button on the laptop next to the power switch which automatically re-installs the supplied software from that partition. I'm always worried that a hard drive fails and becomes unusable (it's happened to me twice), so I always make a backup (using Paragon) of the whole hard disk, then when I've installed all my application software I make another backup.A couple of niggles. The documentation that comes with the G770 is poor - almost non-existant. I tried Lenovo's website in vain, but quite accidentally I found a PDF manual hidden on the hard-drive which was adequate but nothing to shout about. The other niggle was finding a laptop case that you could get the G770 into. I visited PC World and out of all the 17-inch laptop bags there only one would accomodate the G770. It's fortunate that I didn't try to buy a laptop bag on-line - chances are my laptop wouldn't fit inside had I done so. One other thing that might concern some people is the high cost of a spare battery should you need one. Perhaps in time the the third-party battery suppliers will offer a less expensive spare.
But I'm very pleased with my Lenovo G770. I spent some time looking at the "price/performance" of most laptop offerings, and I'm satisfied that I made the best choice.
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A second review after a month's use, By
Music addict (Kent) - See all my reviews
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It actually looks quite good, with a dark brushed metallic surround, although greasy fingers do leave their mark. The keyboard has a nice solid feel and also has numeric keys on the right unlike some laptops and full-size arrow keys unlike some other keyboards. The machine feels solid but not too heavy. The screen is reflective but fine for me. The screen does not though have a very wide angle of view for acceptable viewing of video or photos, but as long as you are fairly straight-on it shows a good picture. Sound is loud enough although obviously small speakers mean poor quality, but I imagine no worse than other laptops.Convincing arguments for buying this laptop from a company I was not familiar with, were for me the 8Gb RAM and a 2Gb graphics card (a comment was added to my review by another contributor that there is no dedicated graphics card and that it only has integrated graphics - however a later comment-writer confirmed that the graphics card is dedicated and quite powerful at that, that graphics card - AMD 6650 2Gb -is termed a "fast middle class graphics card" on the internet). A reviewer of an earlier model of this commented on the games ability Lenovo G770 17.3 inch Notebook (Intel Core i5 2410M 2.3GHz, RAM 8GB, HDD 750GB, DVDRW, WLAN, Webcam, Windows 7 Home premium) - Black As long as this machine remains reliable I will be very happy with my choice. It is very gently whirring as I type this, but is a lot quieter than other machines I have used. Its base is still cool although it's been on my lap for close on an hour now.
I subtracted a star initially because of problems I encountered on first use, leading me to delete the antivirus and use the "one key rescue" (which works!). There have been no such problems since and I see other reviewers have not experienced any, so am inclined to take the blame myself, but will still deny the fifth star since I do find the touchpad and buttons excessively sensitive at times, but have not come across any other problems.
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A Good Desktop Replacement, By
JMC - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lenovo G770 17.3 inch Laptop - Black (Intel Core i5 2430M 2.4GHz, RAM 8GB, HDD 750GB, AMD 6650 2GB, DVDRW, WLAN, Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit) (Personal Computers)
I have had this machine now for over two months and generally found it to be excellent. I use it as desktop replacement.Plus points:
+ it worked straight out of the box with no set up difficulties;
+ screen glare, indoors, is much less than I expected and picture quality is excellent;
+ 8GB RAM and 750MB hard disk 17" screen is more than adequate and gives good performance and is good value;
+ 1 USB3 port
+ dual graphics and smart power management for extending battery life when you use it mainly on mains
Worth noting:
o the face recognition works well but only in very good light
o the machine boots from cold in about 40-50 secs.
o the bundled software (like most of the competition) includes a usable version of MS Office - Excel and Word
o the casing is fine if like me you don't intend to use it as a genuinely mobile device, but it gives me the
impression it wont take kindly to physical abuse
Minus points:
- it rebooted twice without warning in the first couple of weeks but not since
- the built in camera is disappointingly only adequate at best
- no external esata connectivity or card reader
- Windows 7 home premium doesn't have inbuilt support for backup over network (you need professional)
- The boot optimiser is a pain and I have disabled it
- MACAFEE is preinstalled but you only get one shot at the reduced subscription offer (which is before you get time to see if it suits your needs)
I am very pleased so far with the laptop, it has met all my needs.
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