Lenovo Y70 Touch

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Design

There are not too many differences in design between Lenovo Y70 Touch and “brother” Lenovo Y50. Still the metal shell is gray, 2 cross sections slightly sticking out of the slot heatsink combination inspired by the car exhaust pipe to create a strong and bunkers strokes required in a dedicated laptop gamer. Along with the black color scheme of red in the details such as keyboards, speakers, especially the remarkable thinness only 2.59 cm (much thinner than other gaming laptops), Y70 Touch exudes harmony , beautiful, true qualities of a high-end laptop.

However, the length, width and weight of greater than Y50 Y70 Touch. Specifically, weigh 3.4 kg Y70 Touch excluding charges, to 1 kg heavier than Y50.

With the weight and size so large, completely Lenovo Y70 Touch is not a laptop for travel convenience. Plus the top and bottom crust machine is quite slippery, you’ll have to be very careful and “cherish” this machine. Besides, part of the cabinet is also very easy to pick up fingerprints and traces of sweat. Therefore, Lenovo Y50 easy to become “trash bin” if you do not take the time to clean the machines regularly. Y70 Touch Screen size 15.6 inches 17.3 inches compared to the above Y50.

The number of connector Y70 Y50 Touch is similar, the left side is still the position of the two USB 3.0 ports (red is the color scheme, not blue like other laptops in order to match the style red full body black), HDMI, LAN port and charging jack square head (Lenovo’s new charging port).

The right side respectively outputs high quality audio SPDIF jack mic / headphones, SD card reader, a USB 2.0 port and protected padlock holes.

Edge after denying any connection port, while the front edge is skewed to the left side where the LEDs arranged status message as the source machine, battery, touchpad, hard disk.

To ensure thinness, Y50 and Y70 Touch both are not integrated built-in DVD optical drive that uses a removable DVD drive connected to the computer attached via USB.

Screen

Y70 Touch screen size 17.3 inch, Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and reached 166 ppi pixel density. But this is not a high pixel density compared to smartphones and tablets, but with up to 17.3-inch large screen, you will not use at distances as close as your phone or tablet. Therefore, the image on the Y70 Touch is sharp and has a high degree of detail, especially with web browsing, word processing, playing games or watching movies.

Color and perspective of Y70 Touch also has improved markedly compared with the Y50. If on the Lenovo Y50, color and low-quality perspective, does not match the powerful hardware configuration that it owns the Y70 Touch on this quite the opposite. The color of Y70 Touch honest and fresh. Viewing angles are very good even in hard angle as viewed from the bottom up or look cross from the top down turn. Screen brightness is also quite high, good enough for the machine can be used outdoors or places with strong light shining directly on the screen.

When measured by Y70 Touch screen software and specialized equipment, the results obtained are consistent with the perceived with the naked eye. Y70 Touch has a high maximum brightness, the basic color precision and bias shown less than real. In addition, other important elements of the screen are good, such as color temperature balancing, deep blacks, contrast quite.

Touch capabilities

The reason that Lenovo laptop Y70 Touch is known for its display of 17.3 inches is equipped with the latest multi-touch support 10 simultaneous touch points.

Sound

Similarly Y50, Y70 Touch is also equipped with JBL speakers with 2 satellite speakers in two corners arranged immediately below the screen with a subwoofer located on the bottom. The volume of speakers is not too big, but it is possible to fill a space as the living room or bedroom with an area from 15 to 20 square meters.

Y70 Touch also allows tweak the audio settings as you wish through Dolby Digital Plus software is already installed.

Along with that, Lenovo Y70 Touch also provides OneKey Theater software to bring audio-visual experience optimized. With 4 options Normal (Normal), Movie (Movie), Picture (Photo) and Music (Music), OneKey Theater application will automatically adjust the color temperature on the screen and the band’s sound speaker system . Movie and Music option on OneKey will use the audio settings of the corresponding options on the Dolby Digital Plus application.

Keyboard and touchpad

The keyboard on the Touch Y70 remained faithful to the style typical of Lenovo AccuType with the keys with wide gap, the lower edge of each key are rounded below to create a better feeling with the fingers. Besides, due to the large size should Y70 Touch also includes the numeric keypad to enter data NumPad better. The keys have been integrated wide area red backlighting looks pretty “cool” medium dominated comfortable use in low light conditions, both adorned looks “pit” of the laptops this game, especially when you are playing games in the dark.

The arrow keys are also large size as most of the other keys. But relatively short journey to feeling keys were not for gamers. The keyboard has a few quick call feature quite handy in Windows 8.1 as: Fn + F9 to access the Windows settings, the Fn + F10 to search, Fn + F11 to open the application is running.

Part palm rest with ample space, large touchpad area modern style buttons. Material where palm rest seems to be made of plastic with soft black coating for comfortable places fingertips. The touchpad is fairly large size, high sensitivity support multi-point operation more convenient for Windows 8.1 as swipe from right to bar to open the Charm Bar, swipe from left to right to switch back and forth between the nearest application, scroll with two fingers, slide 3 or 4 fingers to perform the Back or Forward, press two fingers to open the right, …

Software and Features

In addition to pre-installed Windows 8.1 with the availability of Windows software, Y70 Touch also comes with a number of separate applications of Lenovo utilities. First to mention Lenovo Settings. These are applications that interface quite similar to the Quick Setting (Optional fast) on Android devices. It can display the battery level of the system, adjust screen brightness faster, volume, quick turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, switch the machine into Airplane mode, toggle Webcam, Microphone, Touchpad, table lamps key … In addition, Lenovo Y70 Touch Settings helps turn into a mobile WiFi stations via WiFi hotspot feature. It comes with a number of other custom images, sound, system settings …

Lenovo Motion Control allows webcam users as device identification of hand gestures to flip pages, rewind all while listening to music or a simple gesture of the film.

Webcam technology is also integrated VeriFace Pro allows users to log in through facial recognition.

OneKey Recovery System application that allows you to back up your hard drive in case of a problem with a small button next to the mute button on the machine.

The software allows quick ShareIt receive and send files between Y70 Touch with another smartphone or computer via WiFi Direct. Besides, ShareIt also allows smartphone users to control remote Y70 Touch.

Performance

As a dedicated laptop for gamers, not surprisingly, Lenovo Y70 Touch easily “fight” the heaviest possible the current games with high graphics settings strength thanks to quad-core processors from Intel Core i7-4710HQ 2.5 GHz (6M Cache, up 3.5 Turbo Boost can GHz), 16 GB RAM, and especially graphics cards GeForce GTX 860M with 4GB of graphics memory.

Specifically, in the Middle Earth game Shadow of Mordor at Full HD resolution, setting High level graphics, the frame is achieved with Y70 Touch ranged from 33 to 45 FPS. The game runs smooth, stable, detailed images, crisp, beautiful.

Although equipped with hybrid HDD speed 5400 rev / min with 8GB 1TB SSD as cache, but the speed of data access Lenovo Y70 Touch is not much superior to the machines using HDD usually, common, normal. Specifically, the measured pace through the program evaluates Crystal Disk Mark hard drive Lenovo Y70 Touch 3.0.3 reached its highest level is 109.9 MB / s in read speed and 107.9 MB / s in write speed.

In fact, the hybrid hard drive required operating time long enough to analyze and contain data being accessed regularly to share SSD memory. Since then, new access speeds improve.

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Temperature

Use common design with Y50, so heat dissipation equivalent of Y70 Touch also his brother. The bottom slot machines radiator and rear edge suction effect from the outside cool air to cool the system. Then, hot air will escape under the slot radiators are arranged near the screen hinge. This is where the cable connects to the monitor should be able in the long term durability of the region would be affected.

Due to the size and thin metal shell Touch Y70 warming up rapidly during use. Just playing games or watching movies is about 30 minutes neighborhood WSAD keys warming seen. Meanwhile, the palm rest areas, the touchpad is completely cool. Perhaps, the region is warming faster processor where CPU and GPU graphics card should rapidly rising temperatures when using heavy tasks.

Lenovo also arranged a feature in the Settings application called Fan Lenovo dust removal helps blowing dust in the entire machine out by the cooling fan operating at full capacity to help open the machine, stable operation and better heat dissipation.

Battery

To test the battery life of Y70 Touch, we set the treadmill at the Balanced power mode in Windows 8.1, screen brightness at about 70%, volume 70%, off a wireless connection, desk lights and keys for continuous play a Full HD movie. Time recorded since the battery is full 100% to 10% when the battery alarm is 2 hours 54 minutes.

In addition, the conditions of normal use, the machine still Balanced power mode in Windows 8.1, the screen brightness is about 60%, volume 50%, keyboard lights at the highest level, with about browsing with Chrome 20 tab. In it, apart from the mere image tab and writing also has one tab at Zing MP3 player, 1 tab clips on Youtube watching for about 30 minutes. Lenovo Y70 Touch withstand over nearly 2 hours, 10% longer battery alarm.

In addition, Lenovo also equipped Y70 Touch Lenovo Energy Manager software to manage battery, allowing you to view the current status of the battery in good condition or not, see what software is consuming the most energy, prompt charging schedule. There are also two notable features is the Express Charging Mode and Conservation. In particular, Conservation Mode will lock the battery fully charged and allows only 55-60% level to avoid battery bottle, while Express Charging will help to fully charge the battery faster than normal when only takes about 2 hours is that you can charge from 0% to 100%.

Practical experience shows that, when the fast charge mode, the machine takes 1 hour and 40 minutes to charge from 5% to 100% battery battery.