Dell Inspiron 13r Notebook Review
Dell Insprion series has been its product line synonymous with fashion
, the precise product positioning and highly distinctive designs do to let Insprion series has been the concern of many users. With the popularity of a large number of Intel's new notebook platform, Dell is also about to launch in April the new Inspiron notebook, including the 13.3-inch Inspiron 13R, 14-inch Inspiron 14R and 15.6-inch Inspiron 15R. Specific models with Intel processors, N3010, N4010, N5010 and AMD processor M5010 series.
This update Insprion series continue to be targeted at the mainstream full-featured notebook market, 20-35 year-olds as the target customers to meet in addition to business computing, the vast majority of individuals outside the professional graphics and top game application. The new Inspiron line of industrial design language called "drift" (Drift ID) of the Dell official information design inspiration from nature and bionics, breaking the screen and body behave neat.
IT168 Testing Center this week received a 13-inch N3010, N4010 compared with last week evaluation, this product in addition to body size and weight decreased in appearance and N4010 almost consistent, while configuration has improved, Core i3 330M processor and HD 5470 graphics card combination of 3D games and applications can guarantee the user to run some of the load is low.
The N3010's body size is 333 233 28-32.5mm, stand-alone weight of 1.984kg, travel weight of 2.414kg, regardless of body size or weight before Insprion series does not have much difference.
Advantages: stylish, the hardware configuration of a balanced, high screen brightness, excellent temperature control
Disadvantages: users can not replace the hard drive
Core i3 330M processor and HD 5470 graphics card of the match
Inspiron N3010 uses the latest 32nm new cool Core platform, the processor is Intel Core i3 330M processor, the processor uses the latest 32nm process technology, clocked at 2.13GHz, is 3MB L3 cache, the processor for dual core and support HT Technology, with dual-core processing four threads, the thermal design power TDP 35W.
Chipset, the Inspiron N3010 HM57. HM57 is also a single-chip architecture, the memory control unit (IMC) is integrated in the processor, also commonly known as the Northbridge chip MCH (Memory Controller Hub), only a platform control unit PCH (Platform Controller Hub) single-chip burden of the past PCI Express controller with the functionality provided by the commonly known as the South Bridge chip ICH (Input / Output controller hub), compared with two-chip architecture, single-chip power consumption and heat more advantage, whether it is to help notebook computer Good heat dissipation or improve endurance capacity, is a good premise. At the same time less of a chip, manufacturers can motherboard design more compact, notebook thin, lightweight help. HM57 chipset can support up to six SATA 3Gbps ports (including eSATA), eight PCI-E 2.0 x1 interface, 14 USB 2.0 ports, the the Hanksville GbE MAC Gigabit Ethernet controller, the Matrix Storage Matrix Storage Technology, High Definition Audio High Definition Audio, Management, Engine Ignition, the Firmware technology, and so on.
Inspiron N3010 uses the ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics card as the graphics processing unit. AMD's latest release of DX11 graphics card, the HD 5400 series locate the lowest in the series is divided into three different positioning of the product, which ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 in which the positioning highest, regardless of this product location or Specifications are similar to the previous low-end "king" ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570, the difference is that this card uses the latest 40nm process, has 292 million transistors, and support the latest DX11, OpenGL 3.2 memory with upgrade to GDDR5/DDR3, with 80 stream processors, core frequency of 750MHz, supports up to 1GB of memory, the texture / raster units to 8/16, while the TDP has increased in the match GDDR5 memory, 15W.
Inspiron N3010 storage systems, we have received the standard 2GB DDR3 memory, the memory uses a Hynix HMT125S6BFR8C-H9 2GB DDR3 1333MHz memory, the memory capacity is sufficient for general business users running 32bit operating system users cope with the vast majority of mainstream applications, and run some large-scale commercial software applications, and 64bit system users, you can choose when placing an order 4GB of memory as standard.
We received this prototype uses ST9320423AS 2.5-inch hard drive, this hard drive capacity of 320GB, speed 7200 RPM hard drive supports SATA-II interface, can be effective with a PCH, to achieve faster 3.0Gbps transfer rate.
Network communication capabilities, the Inspiron N3010 uses a wired network card Atheros AR8152 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller and DW1501 Wireless,-N-the WLAN Half-Mini Card wireless network adapter with. DW1501 the Wireless-N the WLAN Half-Mini Card wireless card can support 802.11 b / g / n communication protocol, the Atheros AR8152 wired network card only supports 10/100M network connection.
Interface and expansion of capacity, this Inspiron N3010 notebook has two USB 2.0 ports, 1 HDMI, 1 eSATA/USB2.0 mix, a D-SUB interface, an RJ-45 and a set of audio Mike combinations of interfaces also built an SD / MMC / MS card reader, to meet the need for the vast majority of users use every day.
System evaluation and performance of the whole test
We have adopted a series of tests the software to determine the actual performance of this Inspiron N3010, in the test, we installed the English version of Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Version 6.1.7600 version of the operating system to be tested. Test content including the SYSmark2007 Preview, Mobilemark2007, PCMark Vantange variety of test software.
Windows Experience Index score of performance testing through the Windows built-in computer performance evaluation system for notebook computers. The evaluation software through the performance of the five components of the processor, memory, graphics, game performance, the primary hard to give the corresponding score can help ordinary users to quickly determine the system's balance and the basic performance of each subsystem.
Assessment from the system point of view, this Inspiron N3010's overall final score of 5.1 in the various sub-items, the graphics capabilities of desktop graphics capabilities have become the bottleneck of the whole system, but even if the bottleneck of the system, but 5.31 points score will still be able to ensure that users of this product calmly open the the AERO other desktop effects. The game graphics part of the score of 6.3 points to prove support the HD 5470 graphics card can be completed part of the mainstream 3D games run.
In other sub-processor, memory and hard drive part score of 6.0 points, 5.5 points and 5.9 points. Integrated system assessment score, although the desktop graphics processing power part of the score is the lowest score in the entire system, but its performance does not affect the user to open the desktop effects, the graphics performance of this product or to meet most of the user's application demand, while the processor, memory and hard part of the performance are sufficient to meet the mainstream applications.
From the final score, thanks to the large-capacity memory, high speed hard drives and high-frequency processors, the final score of this product is maintained at a high level, the score reached a score of 128 points . From a sub-tests, the Inspiron N3010 four sub-tests results are more than 110 points, including image creation and 3D modeling results are more than 130 points, while the image creation part of the test score is a whopping 154 points, so the The test results show that during the application of such procedures, the user can get a pretty good performance, the test results also show that the Inspiron N3010 hardware configuration used in the face of mainstream business applications demand enough The purchase of this product, users can rest assured that running mainstream business applications. We believe that this achievement gap is sufficient to prove that the Core i3 processor dual-core threading capabilities for performance improvements
From the classification test scores, Memories (Memory), TV and Movie (video) and Gaming (games) three sub-test scores ran out of the results of more than 3000 points, while in most of the mainstream entertainment models, which three score more than 2000 points up and down, so the results also show that the application of this product's hardware configuration, so that in these tests represent
DELL Inspiron 13R(N3010) battery better performance than mainstream models. Look at the explanation of these three sub-tests from the the Futuremark official White Paper, the main reason for such results trend is due to these three items in the test have certain requirements on the performance of processor performance, graphics capabilities, while the Taking into account this product Core i3 processor with higher performance, higher-performance discrete graphics sake, there does this kind of test scores from one side of the strong hardware configuration of this product do embody.
From the Music (music), Communication (communication) and Productivity (productivity) and a few in the test too much reliance on the disk, and processor performance sub-test scores, this product is equipped with 320GB hard drive has a relatively good disk performance with 32nm process Core i3 processor. Its combination of performance to meet most of the day-to-day office and home entertainment applications without any problem.
PCMark Vantage test achievements, Core Duo processor i3 + HD 5470 discrete graphics Inspiron N3010 even in relatively strong demand for graphics processing power Memories (memories), TV and Movie (video) and Gaming (games) three sub- also have good performance on these three sub-items important to test users often run in the home entertainment image browsing, video encoding, decoding, and game, and processor performance graphics processing unit performance due to this product relatively high, so the relatively good performance in these three strong demand for GPU performance test subkey, Inspiron N3010 strong overall performance in several other aspects of the test well, so buy this product to the users can be assured of its application in all aspects of home entertainment.
System test graphics performance to a higher screen brightness performance
In the graphical part of the test, we used Futuremark's latest test software 3DMark Vantage, which is the industry's first dedicated Microsoft DX10 API interface, Windows Vista operating system to create a comprehensive benchmarking tool can give full play to the multiple graphics the advantages of multi-core processors in the current and future period of time to meet the testing requirements of PC gaming performance. 3DMark Vantage provides two graphical test project to build a new, two processor test project, the six characteristics of test items, and the introduction of the parameters of the four different levels of default (Preset), can more accurately reflect the level of system performance. In the test, we will adjust the resolution of the system for the same 1024 768, Entry mode provided with the test software to test.
HD 5470 graphics card in this session reflect its high performance composite score of 6235 points and 6248 points GPU
DELL Inspiron 14R battery test results indicate that this product can meet part of the mainstream gaming applications, while at the same time Core i3 330M processor than high-performance once again apparent, the 6198 points in test scores to meet the needs of the part of the game on the processor performance. But this performance is still HD 5470 graphics card performance plus sign, but it is still only meet the lower demand for 3D applications and 3D games and applications that require graphics processing high performance, this graphics card to cope with them or feel very hard.
Used TOPCON's BM-7 spectral color Inspiron N3010's screen test in the test, we chose the screen brightness, contrast and color saturation test. The brightness test, we let the display full-screen white screen, the center of the screen test, the contrast test also uses the same test method. Measurement of color saturation, we allow the monitor to display the red (R), green (G), blue (B), and then test the center of the screen color values. R, G, B three points around the triangle in the CIE color space is that the monitor can display the color area, the ratio of the RGB color range defined by the area of this region and NTSC 1953 area is the color saturation. defined by the sRGB standard color range of approximately 71% NTSC, this is also normal CRT monitors can achieve the standard.
Battery life, the actual power consumption and heat tests
In the test, we closed the screen saver, hibernation, and set the battery and the system are the highest performance mode, in the testing session in the office environment, this battery provides 173 minutes of battery life, DVD playback test part of the final score of 145 minutes , taking into account this product uses high frequency processor, discrete graphics power consumption of large test frequent hard disk read and write operations can be said that such a result for a high configuration for mainstream entertainment notebook enough so that we are satisfied that, taking into account in the case of high load test, I believe that with effective power management can further extend the life time. If the user life time higher requirements, but also by optional high-capacity battery to extend the battery life.
Actual power consumption of the test
We also tested the actual power consumption of this product, we have tested the power consumption of this product in the three states. Intelligent Digital Multimeter UNI-T UT71E were measured as test equipment, connect the power but not turned on (non-charging state), the boot is completed, no action within five minutes, but do not sleep (non-charging state) and the boot is completed, processor at full load, disk maximum throughput of work (non-charging state), the power situation.
In these three conditions, the Inspiron N3010's power consumption as compared to the 0.4W, 16.2W and 42.3W, some of the test data on the market using a similarly configured notebook product, the power consumption in standby mode in a level, while running under high load power indicators will have to slightly lower than similar products. The test data show that this product, users can enjoy a lower power consumption, but also laid a good foundation to extend the life time.
Heat test
Links in this test, we use a FLUKE Ti25 thermal imaging equipment to test this product, heat a test measuring the temperature of the notebook C surface, the bottom and vents. In tests, we use the EVEREST software, select the System Stability Test, check all items, 15 minutes after the test, we measure the indoor temperature, so that readers have an intuitive understanding of the test data.
The location of the vents, the measurement of the maximum temperature is 43.7 degrees Celsius. Temperature test results, this notebook will feel the heat control and excellent contact with the surface C, the use of long high-intensity warm, such as text, graphics processing business users often need to carry out this temperature control of the product to make them feel comfortable in use, but for those who like to put the notebook on his lap, as long as it is not long high work load, the user can still get a good comfort level during use.
IT168 Testing Center view - a relatively good performance of the small size of the new Core Duo notebook
As a uses the latest Core i3 processor notebook, this
DELL Inspiron 13R battery by virtue of the 32nm dual four thread i3 330M processor, the HD 5470 discrete graphics, high-capacity high-speed hard drives and high-speed memory to provide users with excellent overall performance for the crowd of users of this product, we believe that the most appropriate daily low-load home entertainment applications-based, moderate-intensity-based office applications.
If you are a daily application of 3D gaming, HD video playback, the day-to-day office applications-based users, the product design, power consumption, heat, battery life, then there is always a demand, then we believe that this Inspiron N3010 is for you. If you feel that this performance is not enough to meet your needs, you can wait for carrying the Core i5 processors, high-performance discrete graphics products.
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