Lenovo Ideapad V470 Laptop Review – Performance – Graphics – Life Battery

Lenovo Ideapad V470 Laptop Review – Performance – Graphics – Life Battery

Lenovo Ideapad V470 Laptop Review. Lenovo Ideapad V470 comes with a modern design. Parts coated with aluminum lid brush, and the upper edge wrapped with a thin strip of silver plastic. Right at the bottom left corner there is a silver strip lenovo logo. Sections are also coated with aluminum deck the same with the lid and give the impression of a solid.

For the category of 14-inch notebooks, Lenovo Ideapad V470 include having a sleeker size with a size of 13.4 x 9.2 x 1.2 inches, weighs 4.6 pounds while almost the same as the average of similar notebooks.
Temperature / heat levels Lenovo IdeaPad V470
When tested with the upstream play video in full screen for 15 minutes, laptop lenovo ideapad V470 remain cold. Hottest point is at the bottom center with temperatures reaching 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooler touchpad and keyboard, touchpad only reached a temperature 84 degrees while the keyboard is 82 degrees. Temperature on a laptop Lenovo IdeaPad V470 is still comfortable to say, because it is still below 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

Keyboard and Touchpad Lenovo IdeaPad V470
The keyboard of the Lenovo has been known as a remarkable keyboard. So is the IdeaPad V470, comes with a slightly concave keys, responsive and provide excellent feedback, good spacing between the keys also help to reduce errors in typing.
When tested with the application of Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor, typing tester from laptopmag managed an average of 73 words per minute with no errors, this is more than five words per minute than usual when using a desktop keyboard type
The touchpad measures 3.25 x 1.6 inches provided Lenovo Ideapad V470 smooth and responsive to the navigation. Unfortunately multitouch features on this laptop is limited. The touchpad is also not support the pinch to zoom, a feature that is common on most similar notebooks. Instead, to increase little by little the user must press twice, and pressing with three fingers to zoom in directly.
Display and Audio Lenovo IdeaPad V470
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 comes with a glossy 14-inch screen with a maximum resolution of 1366 x 768, the screen is able to provide sharp colors, and color-bright warrants, but does not give good results when viewed from an angle. When watching movie trailers 13 Assasins, the color black appears there is a stain, but when watching an episode of Family Guy, image quality improved significantly.
Speakers on a laptop Lenovo V470 idepad able to deliver a loud and free distorsy. To track a little bass as the song Them Crooked Vultures by Reptiles, voices sounded clean. But for songs that have a high bass such as “A milli”, the voice sounded boring.
Ports and Webcam Lenovo IdeaPad V470
Lenovo Ideapad V470 laptops equipped has a port like in general similar laptop, on the right side there are two USB 2.0 ports, microphone and headphone jack, and DVD drives. On the left are two USB 2.0 ports, port combo USB / eSATA, VGA and HDMI ports, ethernet jack, lock and electrical ports. 5 in 1 card reader on the front lip of the laptop. Unfortunately this laptop does not provide USB 3.0 ports that can perform high-speed data transfer.
2 megapixel webcam available on the Lenovo IdeaPad V470 is able to provide a clear picture, but the picture will dim in areas that are not so bright. Examiners from laptopmag nor heard any sound when playing the original recordings or while using skype. The use can use Cyberlink YouCam software that provides features such as video surveillance and mirror mode.
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 Performance
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 has been powered by 2.1 GHz processor cores and 4GB RAM 2310M i3. Compared to other woods with similar laptop, this laptop may not provide more performance, but this is more than enough to handle the daily work. When tested with PCMark Vantage, scores of IdeaPad V470 is 4960 , the score was 600 points lower than the average similar laptop (light and thin) who scored 5596, as a comparison of the HP Pavilion dm4t (5124), Samsung SF310 (5446) that are powered by 2.67-GHz Intel Core i5-480m CPU and 4GB RAM, Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s even higher with a score of 6290, powered by the 2.3-GHz Core i5-2410M and 4GB of RAM,
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 using the HDD of 500 GB, 5,400 rpm, this laptop takes 1 minute 9 seconds to boot Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit), was 4 seconds slower than the average similar laptop. When tested the speed of data transfer by duplicating the multimedia data at 4.97 GB, IdeaPad V470 takes 3 minutes 39 seconds, with a speed of 23.2 MBps, this is also below the average of similar laptop that only takes under 16 seconds.
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 Graphics Performance
IdeaPad V470 using a graphics card that has integrated with Intel HD 300 GPU, the test results with 3DMark06 application by laptopmag team, this laptop got a score of 3944, the score is below the average of similar laptop (4006), but this is better than the HP Pavilion dm4t which only scored 3466. But Toshiba Stellite E305 which also uses the same graphics card gets a higher score is the score of 4563.
Battery life Lenovo IdeaPad V470
In terms of battery life, lenovo ideapad V470 could not last long. When tested with Internet surfing via wifi, six-cell battery on this laptop only lasted 4 hours 56 minutes. Durability is below the average of similar laptop is capable of up to 5 hours 16 minutes. As SAtellit Toshiba E305 is capable of the same 6 hours, the ThinkPad Edge 6 hours 41 minutes, and the HP Pavilion dmt4 which could be much longer with a 7 hour time 2 minutes.
Choice of specifications and prices lenovo IdeaPad V470
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 is available in several specifications and prices vary.
Price $ 599 with an Intel Core i3, 4G ram and 500 GB HDD (as reviewed above)
Price $ 749 with i5 2.3 GHz processor cores and has been equipped with a discrete graphics card Nvidia GeForce 520M GT with 1 GB of memory
Price with prosesr i7 quad core 2 Ghz, 6 GB ram and HDD 750, but without the Nvidia graphics card $ 899
Software and Warranty Lenovo IdeaPad V470
Lenovo IdeaPad V470 is equipped with a number of useful software, such as for the YouCam webcam, Security suite, BioExcess, OneKey Rescue System, Energy Management, and CyberLink Power2Go
For warranty service Lenovo provides customers 24 / 7 which includes the repair and labor in one year for a product defect or damage to the public.
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