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.