Lenovo G510 Review

The Lenovo G510 Notebooks are a powerful yet affordable product range of laptops with top-grade essentials and great processing power. They are very versatile as their features makes them suitable for a number of different purposes. Hence, they are suitable for gaming, graphics, watching videos or for regular everyday use.

In order to guarantee a fast booting time, the Essential Lenovo G510 models have a combination of hard disk and flash modules, so it essentially has a hybrid memory. Typically, you have a choice between a hard drive and the aforementioned hybrid solution. The flash memory takes care of all frequently-used data with the resultant effect that it speeds up the booting process and thus, the notebook boots up faster from a state of hibernation.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR LENOVO G510

• Manufacturer Code – G510-00005
• Brand – Lenovo
• Processor – Intel Core i7
• Processor Number – 4700MQ
• Processor Cores – Quad core 4 Processors
• Clock Speed – 2400 MHz
• Processor Brand – Intel
• Series – Core i7
• RAM – 8 GB
• Memory – SO-DIMM DDR3-1600
• Storage – 1 TB
• Hard drive – HDD
• HDD Speed – 5400 rpm
• Storage Cache SSD – 8GB
• Diagonal screen size – 15.6 inches
• Resolution – 1366 x 768 pixels
• Graphics cards – AMD Radeon HD 8750M
• Video Memory – 2048 MB

FEATURES

The Lenovo G510 laptop gives you crystal clear images, brilliant 3D sound and an impressive home entertainment experience. This laptop features a 15.6 inch display with LED lights and stereo speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio technology. Furthermore, this Lenovo laptop has a touchpad that is optimized for Windows 8 and a keyboard with ergonomic design.

The Lenovo IdeaPad G510 is a powerful laptop with a fast boot-up time. It comes with an Intel Core i7 processor as well as an 8GB random access memory (RAM). The computer memory type commonly used in this laptop is the DDR3 SDRAM.

Additionally, the Lenovo IdeaPad G510 is equipped with an AMD Radeon HD graphics card, which make it suitable for avid video game lovers. Besides the Cache SSD, which incidentally is not accessible for use, this notebook equally has a very large hard drive space of up to 1TB for storing all your data files.

The Lenovo G510 is equipped with an ergonomically-designed AccuType keyboard which makes it possible for one to type on this laptop for several hours without getting cramps in your fingers. Besides, with the AccuType keyboard, typing is much more comfortable experience and the risk of typing errors is reduced.

This laptop has a DVD player and burner optical drives (DVD RW drives) as well as a built-in 720 pixel HD webcam. The battery life is quite good as its Lithium-ion battery lasts up to five hours.  A key feature of this notebook is the Lenovo Energy Management technology which basically gives the battery a longer service life and utilizes advanced energy-saving technology to make the battery last much longer by as much as 5 hours.

Speaking in terms of connectivity and data transfer, the Lenovo G510 notebook has 2 USB 3.0 ports for quick data transfer between devices. It also features 1 other USB 2.0 port. The built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies available in this product package make internet connectivity very easy. It also comes equipped with an HDMI port as well as a Video graphics Adapter (VGA) port.

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PROS

• Good application performance
• Low heating
• Ergonomic keyboard
• Good battery life of up to 5 hours
• Hybrid memory option
• Large Hard disk size of 1 TB

CONS

• relatively weak resolution display
• no full HD resolution
• no full SSD Drive

FINAL VERDICT

The Lenovo G510 is a reasonably-priced multimedia notebook which offers the latest Intel Core i7 and a mid-range AMD Radeon HD graphics card which makes it possible to have a good gaming experience. It also sports a nice solid case and a good numeric keyboard with solid multimedia features.

Less convincing is the screen display of this notebook but it gets full marks for its versatility.