2013年2月23日星期六

DELL Inspiron 14R 5421 coming

The beginning of the year tend to lean manufacturers, but some manufacturers to be the old product model for small changes and upgrades. It is worthwhile for the consumer to be concerned, Inspiron 14R, Dell classic models recently were some new upgraded shape not only more beautiful, and the configuration changes have been made, the official online city 4999 yuan, interested friends can focus the next following this model Inspiron 14R (5421) evaluation.
In fact, from the the 14R front line 2011 Edition, shedding metal textured 14R Turbo in the middle of last year, the the color covers version of the 14R to a recently released the latest metal shell slim version 14R from each generation changes also can feel the rhythm of the Inspiron line with the trend of the times is becoming more and more closely. At present, after the release of the latest 14R, Dell has been successful Intel's third generation of low voltage processing used in mainstream entertainment notebook, thin and light, portable, personalized new products is a further demonstration.
Dell Inspiron 14R model with 40Wh DELL XCMRD Battery has been in use named, you can also see the recognition of the manufacturers and users of this product line is still very high. Editing side, there are some friends with 14R, very simple, they buy psychological "cheap" - stylish, big brands and cost-effective.
Personally feel these strengths, especially in the latest version of the Inspiron 14R, the new 14R uses a full metal surfaces child, blue, pink, red, gray four brushed metal appearance optionally, relative to the previous generation in terms of product imitation brushed, upgrade thinner appearance, but also due to the characteristics of the metal lines, shiny texture has changed dramatically.
With a relatively large change in the performance of the new version of 14R configuration, using Intel's third-generation Smart Core Duo low voltage processor, lower power consumption is only 17W, graphics can also upgrade to Kepler the 28nm GeForce GT640M LE (2GB memory). It should be said that Dell move to break the conventions of the traditional notebook with conventional voltage processor, an ultra the pole the low-power processor with mainstream alone significantly combination, performance increased dramatically, and we got this machine standard 65Wh capacity battery, pre-installed Win8 system, to better ensure the battery life and user experience, the official website of the special price is only 4999 yuan.


ASUS E46C with 4cell ASUS E46CA Battery model has been in use named, you can also see the recognition of the manufacturers and users of this product line is still very high. Editing side, there are some friends with 14R, very simple, they buy psychological "cheap" - stylish, big brands and cost-effective.

Personally feel these strengths, especially in the latest version of the Inspiron 14R, the new 14R uses a full metal surfaces child, blue, pink, red, gray four brushed metal appearance optionally, relative to the previous generation in terms of product imitation brushed, upgrade thinner appearance, but also due to the characteristics of the metal lines, shiny texture has changed dramatically.

The above listed characteristics of the new version of the 14R Here we look from the housing specific difference between the two. Upgrade the metal top cover, remove the sense of a lot of plastic, original holding in your hands fleshy feeling, become more smooth the cool. Metal cover not only better gloss and scratch resistant, dirt, compared to the plastic cover of the past a lot of good. The above listed characteristics of the new version of the 14R Here we look from the housing specific difference between the two. Upgrade the metal top cover, remove the sense of a lot of plastic, original holding in your hands fleshy feeling, become more smooth the cool. Metal cover not only better gloss and scratch resistant, dirt, compared to the plastic cover of the past a lot of good.
The new version of the 14R with 65wh DELL MR90Y Battery thickness of 25.61mm ~ 25.37mm, 20% thinner than the original size, which is the cause of a flat shape design, narrow optical drive, as well as low-power platform. The slimmer shape is more comfortable in his hand. The new Dell 14R C surface, still full brushed metal, the abolition of the upper right corner of the three shortcuts. In addition, Figure left of the red machine is the new version of the 14R, it battery compartment on the place in the middle of the shaft (uplift columnar), this design helps to save space inside the fuselage. The overall feeling of the keyboard surface is more open, and very comfortable to use.
In addition, the metal shaft from the shaft of the new 14R into a composite plastic, To Teng local battery, moved to the ends of the fuselage. From the graph, you can see the screen hinge was canceled in favor of the pad, even more neat. Earlier we looked at the new 14R enhance appearance actually become slim fuselage interface to do a re-design, as shown below.


The beginning of the year tend to lean manufacturers, but some manufacturers to be the old product model for small changes and upgrades. It is worthwhile for the consumer to be concerned, Inspiron 14R, Dell classic models recently were some new upgraded shape not only more beautiful, and the configuration changes have been made, the official online city 4999 yuan, interested friends can focus the next following this model Inspiron 14R (5421) evaluation.

In fact, from the the ASUS E46CB with ASUS E46CB Battery front line 2011 Edition, shedding metal textured 14R Turbo in the middle of last year, the the color covers version of the 14R to a recently released the latest metal shell slim version 14R from each generation changes also can feel the rhythm of the Inspiron line with the trend of the times is becoming more and more closely. At present, after the release of the latest 14R, Dell has been successful Intel's third generation of low voltage processing used in mainstream entertainment notebook, thin and light, portable, personalized new products is a further demonstration.

Interfaces, the brand new 14R streamlined interface, removed on the left VGA port, and Norway over RJ4 Ethernet port, and USB in order to maintain the appearance of consensus and did not use the blue paint, but this is really USB3 .0. The general interface is good enough, though a small VGA, but this is the future trend, after all, more than 3000 yuan TV has HDMI a. The new Dell 14R with a more flat design, with a slim optical drive, the right to retain only a USB 2.0 (support the shutdown charge), from a practical point of view, the right USB2.0 for connecting low-speed devices such as keyboard, mouse, just right.
System status lights, or remain in the front-end, which can effectively avoid the night affect the line of sight, the machine turned over, following the speaker's position or not, the new 14R change with metal mesh, the streamlined design of some place. The battery into long strips and stuffed into the ASUS E46C Battery capacity of the battery becomes bigger shaft position from the battery up to 40wh 4cell . An increase of 35 percent more than the original. Life has also been strengthened. The machine has been fully upgraded Windows8 operating system, but the products and did not join the touch function.

Comprehensive upgrade in the configuration on the new version of the Dell Inspiron 14R, the third generation of Intel Intelligent Core i5 3317U processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT640M LE of the latest 28nm Kepler architecture alone significantly, the overall configuration of a balanced, do not lose with the price of super The pole the present. Speaking in front of the Dell 14R uses a low-voltage processors, many users may be concerned about whether its performance will be affected, actually editing feel absolutely no need to worry, because now the mainstream ultra-pole of this widely used i5 3317U this processor, 1.7GHz base frequency, maximum Turbo 2.6GHz, 22nm process, the TDP only half of the traditional standard voltage processor (17W), the experience of the practical application of the difference is not large (theoretical results CINEBENCH R10 is approximately 16% of the gap).
CINEBENCH R10 CPU test section, we use precision by rendering a 3D scene screen test processor, multi-threaded processing processing capacity. From the test results from the point of view of the above, this is indeed a very powerful performance dual nuclear power plant thread processor, multithreaded score 9039 can cope with the large amount of data throughput, such as some NLE software. In addition, it mononuclear scores reached 4530 and 4cell ASUS E46CM Battery, for frequency-sensitive software, in terms of operating efficiency will be improved significantly. (The processor of the conventional voltage i5 3210M multithreaded score is 10839)

2013年2月6日星期三

SONY VAIO T14 and T15 Touch coming


Windows 8 officially released in March more than Objectively speaking, Microsoft's latest system and did not give us much surprise, the expected performance and did not meet the expectations of the vast majority of users. But as a new generation of PC main system, no matter what its fate will be how to develop for laptops will bring a series of significant impact.

The most significant change is the laptop / ultra-extreme form of products, almost all of the launch Win 8 notebook manufacturers are not designed to promote the use of its own Windows 8 Road, separate, flip, slider ... ASUS is no exception, rich notebook product line, Windows 8 series S7 flagship Full HD the Corning glass screen, touch 10, 180-degree flip, ultra-thin shape, whether from the configuration or design, are development is moving in the direction of the latest, most powerful derivative. Although the S7 the price above the mainstream top, but the significance of this flagship product is nowhere near that simple popularity. After this, ASUS 'mainstream series also ushered in the new Windows 8 upgrade, such as today, this ASUS X402C with 6cell ASUS X402C Battery.

Support for touch is a well known function of Windows 8 for PC products, although Microsoft is not possible to force all Win 8 devices are to be used to the touch screen, but for the traditional notebook, do not touch the Windows 8 total seems a bit weird. The ASUS X402 touchpad was born the same exterior design features, this has a traditional notebook styling Win 8 how to locate? For the intended users of the early adopters of Windows 8 bring? The answers to these questions let us explore below.

Came to us YORK evaluation of this notebook models X402C, the configured i5-3317u low voltage processor, 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M graphics card and 500GB mechanical hard. Of course, for this notebook, the most important characteristic is equipped with a 14 inch capacitive screen supporting 10-point touch, which is the biggest difference with the previous generation models X402.

About the shape of the notebook, contact PACKARD BELL EasyNote LV11 users will not be unfamiliar, first time bring us YORK has listed last year X402 comprehensive evaluation (the PACKARD BELL EasyNote LV11 thin and light with a combination of the performance the fashion this comprehensive evaluation ). It is worth noting that The new LV11 with 9cell PACKARD BELL EasyNote LV11 Battery upgrade the touch screen, and its B-side design small changes, narrower border also change the position of the camera, a higher degree of integration. These changes are no doubt in order to provide a more comfortable touch experience.

ASUS X402C C touchpad surface continues consistently minimalist style, outside in addition to the keyboard, trackpad, power button, there are some noteworthy details, such as Dolby certification logo text above the keyboard, and the right side of the palm rest dimensional LOGO These elements are dotted this notebook even more unique. Of course, the thin and light ASUS X402 keyboard design is still very thin, slightly shorter key way, the key force feedback is not sufficient, prolonged use would be more difficult.


CineBench is a Cinema 4D effects engine developed for the film and television industry, you can test the CPU and graphics performance. Major consideration its CPU processing part of routine testing. The test is divided into two: The first test simply use the CPU rendering a high-precision 3D scene screen only run in a single-processor, single thread, if the system has more than one processor core or support multithreading, the first to use only one thread, the second run all the processor cores and threads.

GeForce GT 645M, GeForce GT 640M the simple upgrade version, both specifications is exactly the same, the former only to enhance the core frequency from 625MHz to 710MHz only. Core basic definitely still 28nm GK107, 384 stream processors, GT 645M, though only slightly enhance the the point frequency but known more than 25% higher than the GT 640M performance test to verify.



Interfaces, touch ASUS X402 with 6cell ASUS X402CA Battery and its predecessor is not much difference, still equipped with two USB2.0 and USB 3.0 interface, an HDMI video output interface, a power connector, an external expansion interface and a 2in1 card reader also designed a a 9mm slim CD-ROM. notebook D surface design there are some functional or so there was a sound with the built-in Dolby sound can bring more superior audio-visual experience. Meanwhile, the bottom of the fuselage set multiple cooling holes for a thin and light notebook, adequate cooling is also an integral part of critical design.

Also worth mentioning is that the bottom of the fuselage in addition to the parameter table, a Windows 8 laser stickers that pure descent Genuine Win 8. Configuration, this ASUS X402 010 slim with a new generation of low-power Intel Core I5 ​​3317U processor, equipped with HM77 chipset, 4GB DDR3-1600 memory, 500G hard drive 5400 rpm. The graphics, the machine uses the Intel Core HD 4000 graphics card +1 G memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M graphics card, fully meet the user's day-to-day application requirements from the hardware point of view.

Objective test, I used 6cell FUJITSU Lifebook LH522 Battery CPU-Z and GPU-Z, CineBench the 11.5,3 DMark11 and PCMark 7 software testing of hardware performance, configuration changes (from 2GB DDR3 1333 memory upgrade to 4GB DDR3-1600 ), we obtained results are very much the same with the previous evaluation.

The 3Dmark 06 achievement test scores of the default resolution is 9976, and the 1366 × 768 resolution score of 12060, compared to the a GT640M results of approximately 23% increase. Basically in line with official propaganda that. Also in 3Dmark Vantage test based on DX10, GPU score on GT645M GT640M more than about 150 points in DX10 on the difference between the two is not that great.

The than SONY VAIO T14 with SONY VGP-BPS33 Battery appearance of workmanship UI47 a slight increase, although there are less than in the fuselage details, but the overall evaluation or high. Especially adequate interface, strong performance, and prices have a strong advantage. But on the other hand, it is the heat, life is still to be improved. ASUS consistent style are high-performance hardware + combination of low price, look more attractive, but for users who purchase over most of this, perhaps the experience will be more important to some good detail.

2013年2月5日星期二

ASUS X502C X502CA Series coming


ASUS X502C set aside in order to allow the user aspects upgrade a 2.5-inch drive bays, as well as provide better cooling capacity, thereby sacrificing the slim, this pursuit of perfection always beneath. To begin next hands dismantle the widget, first take a look at first before making meticulous disassemble battery, remove the battery is also disassemble the primary task.

Scored before the entire board, we need to uninstall the components on the motherboard, such as memory, the cable, card reader module, wireless network module, and so on. Asus the X502C body internal fixed or relatively complex, first remove the battery and hard drive, and then take away the widget, the last to win the motherboard.

The disassemble ASUS X502C with a larger capacity battery, we can see from the dismantled battery on the battery capacity of 53Wh ASUS X502CA Battery In our previous endurance test, the aircraft reached a score of 7 hours. In addition, we also found that some of the details of the aircraft inside, such as the machine interface is not mSATA SSD Solid State Drive but MINI PCI-E, the volume is very small, only a wireless card so big.

NVIDIA GT630M is a new generation of NVIDIA GT600M Series graphics card to locate the end user product, it did not adopt the the NVIDIA new generation Kepler architecture, but follows the previous generation GT500M series Fermi architecture, to score 3Dmark VANTAGE GPU items 17930 results quite remarkable ultra-pole of this card game performance in the most mainstream 14-inch single, can deal with this level of 3D game "Call of Duty" 1366 × 768 resolution.


DELL Vostro 5460 with built-in DELL Vostro 5460 Battery configuration Intel third generation Core the i5-3317UM processor in a 22nm 3D transistor technology is the backbone of a new generation of ultra-extreme processors from CINEBENCH R10 test results, i5-3317UM the single-threaded score of 4651, The multithreading score 9393, this kind of success in the mainstream in the mid to upper levels of ultra-extreme.


We saw earlier that ASUS X502C with the SSD popular products in the ultra-extreme, MINI PCI-E interface and has a smaller volume may be the hard disk in the future trend. Look here, the Wireless LAN module is still with separate and the antenna integration era should be far away.

ASUS X502C commercial ultra-pole of this with the ultra-extreme rare VGA interface, which is in addition to the hard drive, battery Another factor affecting the whole thickness of the design. After all, is the flagship business characteristics, and therefore equipped with a VGA interface with commonly used business people must, of course, the X502C screen and ASUS X502C Battery is not too thin.

In our previous review, Asus X502CA, total with 6GB memory capacity, but I found in disassemble memory is only 2GB, then there 4G memory go? Is actually the X502C a memory slot, while another 4GB of memory were integrated into the motherboard on top.

Taking into account that usually need to extend the life of the notebook would power management settings for power saving mode, so before testing is also true setting, while prohibiting the notebook to reduce the brightness automatically after a certain period of time, turn off the screen backlight is prohibited, prohibit automatic sleep. At the same time, we let the WiFi maintained in the open state, to simulate the user's actual use state.

ASUS X502C has a variety of configurations, including independence was remarkable version with non-exclusive version, of course, because of cost considerations, the basic independence was remarkable version with the non-exclusive version of the shape, internal structure will be the same (also the same motherboard), different then is whether the discrete graphics chip. The X502C have significant independence version, the machine is equipped with dual cooling fans, rather than alone significantly version also has a dual-fan.

X502C dual cooling fan design, heat theoretically non-exclusive remarkable version will be better, the battery life will be better, of course, this is not absolute, and we did not get the version of the product alone significantly, yet unclear alone significant version of the battery capacity is greater.

Next time let us enjoy them together under LifeBook SH782 body hardware and a 6cell FUJITSU LifeBook SH782 Battery, a higher degree of integration of the motherboard module. When we remove this board, the result is the same as we expected the same the whole motherboard module is medium in size, compact structure between chips, or solid material.

Overall, this integrated motherboard has good material to work, this should be regarded as Asus strengths. As previously imagined onboard 4GB of memory on the motherboard, although the possibility of limiting the user to upgrade their own, but reserve a memory upgrade slot is also pretty good. Disassemble the end, we found that the internal structure of the design engineer in the aircraft up and down a lot of effort, each not see the bay as well as roll cages are designed very meticulous, keyboard is a one-time fit can not be removed. From the inside, we can see many soft PCB, there are some details worthy of recognition, how out of place with the cushion.


Adjust the power supply to the power-saving mode after a period of testing, Asus the LifeBook A512 with 6cell FUJITSU LifeBook A512 Battery eventually get the test scores of 7 hours and 15 minutes, this life has been very good results in respect of the current notebook. Of course, the practical applications will theory test there are some differences, the testing time to reach more than seven hours, suitable for use in low-intensity use of mobile office.