Open up the G570 and the interior is unimpressive but attractive. There's a shiny black bezel around the screen and the palm rest is made of brushed black aluminum. There are two buttons located above the keyboard: a power button, which features an LED-lit dotted power symbol, and a OneKey Recovery button. Hitting the latter will take you to Lenovo's OneKey Recovery screen, which will walk you through backing up your machine and creating recovery discs.

The G570 has a full-sized keyboard with discrete, island-style keys that have slightly rounded bottoms. The keys are a bit smaller than average, but this is one of the more comfortable island-style keyboards I've had the pleasure of using. Lenovo also includes a number pad, which is a nice addition on a 15-inch notebook and doesn't make the keyboard feel too cramped.

Below the keyboard is a medium-sized touchpad indented into the brushed aluminum wristpad. The touchpad has a silver border and a subtle texture of raised dots. It supports multi-touch gestures such as pinch to zoom and two-finger scrolling, and gives excellent feedback. Below the touchpad are two discrete mouse buttons, which are big and easy to press.

The G570 sports a 15.6-inch glossy LCD screen. The LED-backlit display makes good on its promise to reduce glare, but off-axis viewing is less-than-ideal. Viewing the screen from above and below is fine, but viewing it from just a foot to either side drastically diminishes picture quality. The screen is a little too bright, and so colors look a little washed out and blacks look a little gray.

Lenovo has included some handy software, as well. Aside from the OneKey Recovery suite, there's also DirectShare, which lets you sync files with another laptop using the built-in Bluetooth. You can also protect your laptop using VeriFace facial recognition (through the built-in webcam).