Lenovo Y70 Touch Gaming Notebook Review

Name: Lenovo Y70 Touch Gaming Notebook Review
Brand: Lenovo

by Joshua Gulick — Friday, December 19, 2014, 12:55 PM EDT

Many computer makers are reluctant to provide battery life estimates for high-end mobile devices these days. Obviously, battery life is user-dependent, so setting expectations is a risk some companies decline to take. Lenovo is willing to give its customers some battery life guidance though. It says the Y70 can last up to five hours on its built-in battery with certain workloads.

We put the Lenovo Y70 through the Battery Eater Pro test, which simulates heavy use. We didn’t expect it to last anywhere near five hours, but I hoped for two hours of intense usage, and the Y70 nearly came through. It delivered 108 minutes (one hour, 48 minutes), which is longer than any of the other tested gaming laptops has been able to hang in there. That’s good news for the Y70.

Keep in mind, this is somewhat of a worst-case-scenario type test, that puts a heavy load on the GPU, GPU, memory and disk in a system. With more real-world workloads, like browsing the web or working in office-type applications, the Y70 will last much longer than the 108 minutes referenced above. For a machine as powerful as the Y70, battery life is quite good.

Tags: Nvidia, Intel, Lenovo, Notebook, GeForce, Gaming, laptop, review, Y70, touchscreen

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.