Lenovo G460 Review April 8, 2010
Lenovo G460 uses black cover which using imprinting providing better protection, also let surface more resistant. Lenovo G460 comes with a 14-inch 16:9 LED backlit LCD display, maximum support 1366 × 768 resolution.
The largest opening and closing angle is 130 degree. The left buttom has boot button, one-click restore button and power mode button. The right buttom of Lenovo G460 has quiet,flat, rose tone and adjust quick buttons and indicators.
Lenovo G460‘s operating area is the high-touch keyboard. It is not difficult to find that Lenovo G460 boot button and restore button from circular to rectangular, that is more in line with notebook style.
Lenovo G460 keyboard has Lenovo patented high-touch technology. We observe that keyboard input speed is quickly also comfortable, you will not tire even for a long entry.
Lenovo G460 touchpad is surrounded by a circle of metal.Our fingers and touchpad have a comfortable sense in contacting, while sensitive position also improved our operational, right can achieve the mouse wheel functions.
Lenovo G460 left and right buttons is not alone but with the touchpad as a whole. Such a new design you really take some time to adapt. In addition, the touchpad below the state still retains a row of indicators.
In addition, the left palm rest on the Lenovo G460 we can see the special features and useful introduction, the right palm rest is a new platform logo.
The innovation of mold and appearance let us insight into the different Lenovo G460. The left side of Lenovo G460 is safe keyhole,vents, RJ-45 Ethernet interface, VGA video output interface, USB2.0 Interface, e-SATA interface (compatible with USB2.0), Express Card slot and HDMI high-definition video output interface.
Compared with the predecessor G450 left side, G460 HDMI interface design will be closer to the operator’s position, also change one of the USB2.0 interface to the e-SATA interfaces which transfer rate is faster. Lenovo G460 fuselage right side is a set of audio output and input interfaces, DVD burner, USB2.0 interface and power connector.
Lenovo G460 sets HDMI interface closer to operator position
Lenovo G460 wireless network card switch on the left, and multi-card reader slot design is more-right that convenient for people use.
We measured Lenovo G460 weight. Lenovo G460 weights 2.22kg with battery, weights 2.55kg with battery and power adapter. The most thick of Lenovo G460 is 35.36mm.
As for Lenovo G460 used the new platform design, there are some difference compard with Lenovo G450. Lenovo G460 puts memory at the buttom of heat pipe, hard disk in the corner, while hard disk is in the lower left corner of hard disk. Actually, the overall temperture control performance is excellent.
Heat pipe located in the following OS are two memory slots, Lenovo G460 is only installed a Samsung 2GB DDRIII-1066 memory, also has to bring players like the DIY future upgrade needs. For now, 2G memory is completely meet our daily needs.
Of course, the platform upgrade, Lenovo G460 hard drive upgrade from the original 5400RPM to 7200RPM that is very useful, in the reading speed relative improved 25-30% relative, can bring us faster speed. In the lower left corner of the hard disk is that the wireless network card, wireless network card in the left side is reserved for a Mini PCI-E slot, this slot will allow us to add a similar template like 3G wireless hardware.
Through EVEREST software we can see Lenovo G460 uses the latest Intel Core i5 430M processors and HM55 chipset motherboard, load the NVIDIA GeForce G 310M discrete graphics, standard with 2GB DDRIII-1066 memory, WD 320GB 5400RPM SATA-II hard drive, DVD burner and the Broadcom 802.11n wireless card. Benefit of the new platform architecture that data from the three-chip (processor + Northbridge + Southbridge) to the two-chip (processor + PCH) of the transmission, thereby greatly reducing our running programs and waiting time.
Cinebench test just using the CPU through a high-precision 3D scene rendering images. Finally this processor is the single, dual-core test scores are 2719 and 5793 sub-divided. Core i5 mainly located in the high-end notebook market.
Hard drive test analysis, the data show by HD Tune, this is 320GB 5400RPM SATA-II drives, the average read speed of 68.0MB / s, the average read speed of 5400RPM hard drive in a very good operator , and continuous data transfer rate performance of the view is also very stable.
PCMark Vantage is a professional software, the final total score is 4819 points. Lenovo G460 notebook in its class with good overall performance expression.
NVIDIA GeForce G 310M is an entry-level notebook graphics card we very very familiar with.GPU-Z information shows this card is based on 40nm technology, memory interface is 64bit, memory capacity of 512MB, memory type is DDR3. And support for DirectX 10.1, PureVideo HD, PhysX, CUDA, OpenCL, HybridPower, PCI-E 2.0, PowerMizer 8.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, HDCP technologies.
In the 3DMark Vantage test, Lenovo G460 at 1024 × 768 resolution Entry mode, the final test score of 5807 points, while GPU the score of 5596 points. This result is consistent with its entry-level position.3D performance also appears to be general, in the low quality, the basic ability to run some of the current mainstream 3D games.
In “Street Fighter 4″ default quality, Lenovo G460 got the final score rank “C”, average frame rate is 42.99FPS. Although such results do not meet professional players (frames per second, not less than 60FPS) needs, but for occasional users who play games have been pretty good. Under the low quality or can give us good entertainment experience.
We are in the “Street Fighter 4″ default quality, open a 2X antialiasing ability to run the game. Lenovo G460 at this time the final score ranking “E”, average frame rate is 26.52FPS. The screen is already in the slow state, the game can not be normal trial. So in the end also shows that this entry-level card which can only run at low current part of the low quality 3D games.
Lenovo G460 is equipped with a 11.1V 4100mAh 6-cell lithium ion battery capacity of 48Wh. In the Windows 7
operating system, we adjust the power management mode for the “energy saving mode” and use the BatteryMark to
Life Test mode to test the endurance capacity, the ultimate test of endurance by 3 hours 57 minutes. Nearly 4 hours of flying time for a laptop with discrete graphics is still very small, basic meet our half-day out of office and conduct business meeting needs. Lenovo G460 in battery life has a very significant upgrade, which also benefited from the technical strength of the new platform.
Summary:
This notebook is not only the classic heritage of the Lenovo G Series advantages of stability and durability, also let me know the rich scientific and technological fashion sense of Lenovo G460. Lenovo G460 is a very worthy of recommendation laptop.
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can g460 video card can be upgrade? also the processor? john cris(Quote) (Reply)
john cris, maybe you have to ask Lenovo for further info. lang(Quote) (Reply)
I have recently purchased this one.One important thing is missing in this Review is that this Laptop do come with a SIM CARD Reader for Mobile Broadband Access.This in located inside the Battery unit.
One thing I found that it heats too much compared with other laptops when used above 30C Shahnawaz(Quote) (Reply)
Thank you for your comment. and it is very great for you to read our review so carefully.
And there are quite a lot Lenovo laptop users said that it heated too much compared with other laptops. lang(Quote) (Reply)
hii i too bought it..
awesome.. saif bajji(Quote) (Reply)
i Love this laptop…i just buy it on april 2010. but one thing that make me dislike..it touchpad.. Syahran.S(Quote) (Reply)
can any one tell me.how does the sim card reader in a g460 works and what kind of sim card will it support.plz, reply soon dharma(Quote) (Reply)
dude i bought bought this in june …. and i would like to orrect something ….. the laptop has 4 gb ram nt 2 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, by the way u r doing a good job …….keep it up sid(Quote) (Reply)
hello, sid, the RAM can be upgrade from 2GB to 4GB, and the laptop I got is just a sample laptop which might be different from the laptop on the market. lang(Quote) (Reply)
I have purchased one too this june. I have it core I3 and it has a 2gb ram and it does heat up fast can I do anything about this? Also, can any tell me how to use the built-in sim card slot? I do not place my laptop over anything that is soft to prevent it from covering the louvers located at the left side of the laptop to prevent it from overheating, read that from the manual. Kenn(Quote) (Reply)
There are two things that you look for when you buy a product. The product and the after purchase support. And unfortunately, I am highly disappointed with both after purchasing Lenovo ideapad G460 (2.4 GHz/i5 processor/4GB RAM). It has been approximately 15 days since I received this computer and here are some of my experiences with Lenovo and this product.
Delivery: Lenovo website says that the product is shipped within 10 days of order receipt. I order the computer on 9th June online and they gave me the shipping date of 24th. However, around 24th the shipping date changed automatically to 29th. When I called Lenovo about the issue, they clearly indicated that they are not legally bound to ship the product on the specified date. Since I had to leave for a business trip, I asked Lenovo to hold the delivery till I come back which they failed to do even after assuring me that they would. They eventually gave me a $40 discount which paid for the gas I burned to drive back home again and receive the computer.
Performance: Ok, so I agree it has a high end i5 processor but within 15 days of using this computer, the computer crashed twice with BSOD and froze atlease 10 times and once in middle of a business presentation.
Quality: I plugged in headphones in headphone jack and when I pulled it out, the green plastic thing came out with the jack.
Speakers: I can barely hear the audio unless its middle of the night and there is no background noise.
Veriface Login: So it does sounds cool when your computer recognizes your face and without even typing a password, it logs you in. However, there has not been a single case when I didn’t have to hold the computer in my hands and walk towards or away from light for it to recognize the face. It does not even give you an option to cancel the Veriface login and type the password. You are out of luck if you are outside at evening or later and trying to log into your computer. It irritated me the most when I tried to log into the computer to look for a saved address while I was travelling. I could not log in atall that evening.
Battery Life: It says it is an energy star rated but don’t expect its batteries to run more then 2-2.5 hrs.
Customer Service: When I called customer support, the representative said “Sir, I am looking at my computer’s headphone jack and I don’t think it would break unless I pull it out”. She wasn’t even willing to consider the possibility that they might have sent me a defective unit. And when I asked her if I could return the unit, she told me straightforward that now that I have broken it, I can’t get my money back. On top of that if I want it fixed, I’ll have to pay for the repairs as well as the shipping charges…
Now there are a few good things about this computer as well but definitely not even worth half its price. My 2003 dell with a broken hinge and dead battery works better then this. So my advise… “DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT buy this computer unless you are comfortable flushing $800 down the drain. Himanshu K(Quote) (Reply)
They have $250 off of G460 with 4gb ram, i5-2.4 Ghz and 500 gb hard disk. Thats very good configuration at $650 !!! ….DO you guys think it would be worth it for such a good configuration? Deepak(Quote) (Reply)
yeah..it is a no bad laptop… lang(Quote) (Reply)
Deepak,
No matter how much discount they are giving, they are still selling a piece of s**t. i5 with 2.4 Ghz and 4 GB ram won’t do any good when your computer would hang every now and then.
This one is a bad bad computer. Himanshu K(Quote) (Reply)
Himanshu,
Thanks for the heads up. My last resort is Thinkpad then. Deepak(Quote) (Reply)
In one day of use I found the following with this laptop.
1) Crappy touch pad: I donno how lenovo can put in crappy hardware. The touch pad is a big pain in the A**. When you want to click you need to do it hard. It cannot select. This touch pad is rough with dots that when we use touch pad for long time it feels ur fingers are getting rough. Integrated right and left buttons..oh man what a pain they are..Unless Lenovo replaces its touch pad please dont buy it!!!!.
From my last 4 laptops I hv not used any external mouse. But this S**T mandates u to use a mouse. Which i hate to use with a laptop.
2) Crappy cam. The problem Himanshu was telling is right. That is because Lenevo wanted to make money by putting in 0.3 MP webcam and it is so bad that even in bright light the video or pictures from this cam looks sick. If you are a person who does videochat or takes pictures then please dont buy this laptop. The cam is crappy due to one unforgiving reason.”THIS IS A VALUE LINE LAPTOP”. How much more will it cost for Lenovo to put in 1.3 MP cam????
Battery life is 2 – 2.5 hrs under medium load(Tht too screen brightness turned down to 50%) with i3 processor.
I will suggest Toshiba. Dont buy this crappy laptop!! SampleMen(Quote) (Reply)
So sad,
I already bought one with i3, 2.27Ghz, 2Gb ram and 500Gb HDD in the price of $585.00 last Saturday. I can’t search for the review blog because i need one laptop so urgent for my work.I am comparing with Toshiba L510 and Acer don’t remember the exect model.
Like Himanshu said its hang a lot during one week usage. And i am suspect about Battery life.I think 2 hrs is maximum.Veriface login is useless and make more complexity for you to log in.I intend to remove that soon. Mouse pad L&R click is sometime take time to push again and again. SuperFO(Quote) (Reply)
Touchpad is so bad that made me return within 24 hours at 15 % restock charges.
Funny thing is Lenovo knows there is a issue and acknowledges it but refuse to doi anything.
I will never buy Lenova again ! RkM(Quote) (Reply)
Hi,
I am planning to buy one with following configuration.
Lenovo G460 – 06774DU, Intel® Core™ i3-350M Processor (2.26GHz), 14.0 ” WXGA LED, 4GB RAM, 500GB, DVD Recordable (Dual Layer), Intel HD Graphics, 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, Webcam, VeriFace™ face-recognition software, OneKey™ Rescue System, Windows 7 Home Premium, 6 Cell Battery
for 550$ Please advice if this is good price on it and if the laptop is worth buying.
any suggestions will be highly appretiated. My basic use is to run programs and do multimedia work.
Thanks Thinking………………..(Quote) (Reply)
i want to charge laptop battery without on the laptop, but i don’t know whether it is already fully charge or not? who can tell me? amy(Quote) (Reply)
I purchased the Lenovo G460 with the i5 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM, 500GB 7200RPM HDD (an upgrade option on their website), Standard Intel HD graphics and Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit edition in August when Lenovo had a one day sale on their website for $499 on this model. To date I have not had any issues with the laptop itself. My use is daily usually between four and ten hours a day continuous, so it gets a good daily workout. I don’t know why people complain about the veriface feature…it’s rather simple, if you don’t like it…don’t use it. It takes all of four minutes to uninstall that software via add-remove software in Windows and your problem is solved. You can still set boot and log in passwords if you are paranoid about people seeing your porn…er…files. The touch pad is different than most people are used to and might take some getting used to for some, I have yet to experience an issue with it to date. The laptop does get warm when the ambient room temp is above 80F (26C), however it still does not get anywhere near as hot as the previous Lenovo laptop which was the U330. that particular model burned up five times under warranty, the temps that I see on this system, even when running under a load with high room temps are half of what the previous laptop would run at. You will notice heat up top mostly due to the positioning of the RAM in this model. All RAM heats up under load, especially the more you have.
So here is the skinny of it;
Pros: Fairly thin and lightweight, good business, internet, streaming video/movie and basic gaming performance. Vivid display that is not as reflective as you might think when in a bright environment (provided you get the anti-reflective screen…they did offer two choices when I ordered mine). Good battery life, I get just over 6 hours of use out of it with bluetooth and wifi turned off. With Wifi enabled and browsing the web, I manage 5:25 hours of use. HDMI & VGA out ports on the side make hooking it up to anything new or old a breeze. Windows 7 plays nice with both old and new software so you don’t have to worry about that ancient version of Office not working. I despise touch pads, however this touch pad is a vast improvement over previous generations of touch pads. While I still use a wireless USB mouse, I find that I am using the touch pad more than the mouse with this laptop.
Cons: Serious lack of USB ports. Seriously, in this age of USB everything, having only TWO ports is unacceptable. Sure you can buy a port replicator, but the point of a laptop is to be free of clunky extras such as that. Be careful of the screen itself, even the lightest touch against the screen will cause distortion, something I haven’t seen in almost a decade, so guard your screen well from pointy fingers and co-workers with pens who like to point things out. Heat, yes it gets warm, but if you just use common sense like not using it on your bed or blocking the vents, then it’s a non issue. If you are that concerned with heat, but a laptop cooler.
Bottom line: Good performance, especially for the price. Stable operation, multitasks well and worth the investment for a mid range laptop. Mike R.(Quote) (Reply)
Just took delivery of the unit, looks nice, hope I didn’t make a mistake about chhosing this model. Out of the box, everything looks like the product’s well made, I will try it out tomorrow at the office to check battery life and possible cooling issues.
Keeping my fingers crossed. Vmax(Quote) (Reply)
Hi ..guys..I have purchased this G460 Lenovo laptop on 3-oct-2010. The fisrt time when I opened the package and switched ON the sysytem was Ok but the next time i switched ON this system I heard abnormal ALARM sound from the system.I thought it may be the reason of battery low but after realised that this is some problem from the hardware or software…really i am worried about this problem..I just return the system to my salesman and he is telling he has to check with Lenovo…Please help me if anybody knows about this issue… Hakkim(Quote) (Reply)
Hakkim，
It is possible that the connection of the memory module is not good, try to replug and reconnect it. lang(Quote) (Reply)
Kenn,
Man!
Don’t ever try that sim card slot under the Battery. I’d tried once and my sim card go through directly. I had to remove keyboard for got back my sim card.. SuperFO(Quote) (Reply)
@Kenn
i showed similar symptoms of ignoring my instinct n not inserting the sim card there
…n it was only a day old
had to shell out 10 bucks more to get the damn ting out cuz i dint wanna open it myself incase i damaged something inside. Dre(Quote) (Reply)
hi :
I just ordered Lenovo G460 – 06774DU, Intel® Core™ i3-350M Processor (2.26GHz), 14.0 ” WXGA LED, 4GB RAM, 500GB, DVD Recordable (Dual Layer), Intel HD Graphics, 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, Webcam, VeriFace™ face-recognition software, OneKey™ Rescue System, Windows 7 Home Premium, 6 Cell Battery..
Can anyone tell that this has HDMI interface ? SSS(Quote) (Reply)
I have bought
Lenovo G460 06777TU Intel Core i3-370M 2.40 GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB, 14-in WXGA
In( 2.40GHz 1066MHz 3MB ) / Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 / 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz / 14.0″ HD LED Glare 1366×768 / 500GB 5400 / DVD Recordable (Dual Layer) / Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR …..
Does this laptop supports HDMI option ?? Mayi(Quote) (Reply)
Mayi,
it supports. lang(Quote) (Reply)
how about the Lenovo G460 P6000 1.86 ghz version? does it have anybad reviews? Doobie(Quote) (Reply)
i hv some problem in speakers. d sound comes very low. wat can i do? sandy(Quote) (Reply)
Hi Mayi,
How is your laptop, Any feedback? Chandra(Quote) (Reply)
Hello Everybody,
I am Planning to buy this laptop..Mayi It seems you got an exact configuration..Howzz it all working for you.. I have been using Dell Vostro since 3 yrs without any problem and I am really skeptical about lenovo..Can anybody tell me is it good to go for this one..Coz I would love to go for Dell but I am not getting any good deal in that right now..How about lenovo…
Lenovo G460 – 06777TU, Intel® Core™ i3-370M Processor (2.40GHz), 14.0 ” WXGA LED, 4GB RAM, 500GB, DVD Recordable (Dual Layer), Intel HD Graphics, 802.11 b/g/N, Bluetooth, Webcam, VeriFace™ face-recognition software, OneKey™ Rescue System, Windows 7 Home Premium, 6 Cell Battery, 1yr Warranty – Black Vineet Shah(Quote) (Reply)
Would not recommend purchase. I got a G460 i5 with 4GB ram, 500 GB HDD, Win 7.
Pros: Superfast. Web browsing is a pleasure. I will never go back to a 32 bit OS.
Cons:
Trackpad is a f*%&ing disaster. Totally useless. Randomly decides is doesn’t want to recognize your finger and clicking the integrated left or right buttons requires a herculean effort. You will need an external mouse for this laptop.
wireless modem is billed as Intel B/G/N but does not support 5Ghz wireless N standard. Misleading.
The laptop frequently locks up on wakeup from hibernation, requiring a hard reboot that looses all work. Happens 2-3 times a month. Unacceptable.
Overall, would recommend looking elsewhere if considering the G460. I have a Thinkpad X301 that I use at work which I love. This led me to lenovo in the first place, but there is a chasm of quality that could have been closed but for a bit more QA in the lab at Lenovo. Jerry(Quote) (Reply)
I’m planning to buy
Lenovo G460 Laptop – 06779UU – Black (with 0.3MP Camera) for $499
i have been on the look out to buy for a long time. My 2 musts are Intel Core i3 and 14″ screen size,
can anyone pleeeeeeease suggest me any other better brand laptops for this price???? I read reviews abt G460 and there are many cons about heating etc
thanks a lot
Patti patti(Quote) (Reply)
Can anyone please suggest me that why my laptop lenovo G460 get hot within an hour…please help me to know about that.. Chiten Lama(Quote) (Reply)