Comments on: Lenovo Ideapad Z580 — A Keyboard And Trackpad Away From Greatness

By: Muhammed Chavoos

Muhammed Chavoos — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:58:00 +0000

Good review – Agree about the slight problem with finding keys on the right side of the keyboard but I’ve had it for a week now and I’ve grown into it. Definately don’t agree however with the trackpad – All those who are having problems, download the drivers from synaptics and customize your sensitivities and learn how to use the gestures. I cannot stress the importance of this – it really makes your life so so much easier I actually even prefer it to my normal mouse. It’s not an “intelligent trackpad” for nothing – I don’t even use the trackpad’s buttons any longer. The 1 finger/2 finger taps for right and left click work flawlessly with the synaptics downloadable drivers. Just update and learn :) You won’t regret it

By: Murray Snudge

Murray Snudge — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:18:00 +0000

I also have the previous model Z570 and the trackpad is a pleasure to use but my new Z580 has already developed a fault with the right click. I will never buy another laptop without separate trackpad buttons and regret buying this one.

By: Ian Gourlay

Ian Gourlay — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:35:00 +0000

Agree 100% re the keyboard layout, but I’d have been more forthright about it! Ergonomics seem to have been left outside the design parameters considered here. Cursor keys need a stick-on button to let my fingers easily find them. I found a button that’s just low enough not to touch the screen when closed.
The trackpad is far too sensitive, and the lack of tactile-identifiable buttons is just stupid. Following a thoroughly stupid fashion trend, as far as I can tell. Otherwise also agree on the machine’s capability.
Never would have bought this if it’d been possible to hands-on buy it from an actual shop rather than Amazon, won’t ever repeat this dumbass error.
Nice review.

By: GizmoFinder

GizmoFinder — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:05:00 +0000

I have an IdeaPad Z480. My thoughts on the laptop are these.

Connectivity is bad. My signal is always half of what it is on my other laptops which are an HP and a MPB. I’m only a room away from the wireless router.

The trackpad is too sensitive. On occasion while typing the cursor will jump b/c the palm/thumbs will hover too close.

The trackpad feels cheap. Press down on the pad and you can feel it go down flimsily. Guide your fingers along the edge of the trackpad while it’s pushed down and it feels like you could almost cut yourself on it. Crumbs could fall through the sides of the trackpad when it’s pressed in.

I had some issues doing a Windows update on my machine. Not sure why. It was so frustrating b/c the configuration of the updates would always fail. And this was on a clean system. Kept restoring to factory settings and was puzzled. Finally got it to work when I installed all the updates in small batches of 2 or 3. Don’t know if this was something to do with Lenovo or Microsoft, but I don’t think this had anything to do with Microsoft b/c probably countless of computers do updates everyday.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:27:00 +0000

In reply to Nikolay Dimitrov. I've not noticed any heat issues. Are you sure it's the HDD?

By: Nikolay Dimitrov

Nikolay Dimitrov — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:59:00 +0000

Hey..could you confirm an issue I have with this laptop? My harddrive is hot…is yours? I understand why it is (no vent for the hdd) but maybe my one is faulty and if others arent having these problems then maybe I can get it fixed/replaced