Toshiba's 25th Anniversary: i5 Core L600 Laptop Reviews
Release in the swarm new Core Duo processor notebook vendors base
, Toshiba is the first time introduced the first tier, but the first batch of its new Core Duo processor is still using the old molds, but these old molds have been campaign for Toshiba in the marketplace for some time, for buyers is somewhat "fatigued", the update Toshiba mold became the largest in the coming months the action, not to mention the 25th anniversary of the birth of this year or notebook, As the inventor of the notebook computer, in the past had the appearance, performance and configuration of Toshiba bring us a lot of surprises bound to make changes in product appearance.
With the E205's market, Toshiba laptop officially taking the pace of replacement, the introduction of the new E series, Toshiba in turn upgrade the purpose of targeting the low end of its positioning in the L500 series, officially launched in April Satellite L600 series. Although they are still positioned in the low-end user base, but the L500 L600 series compared to a lot of changes, but also further enhance the overall image of this series as well as details of the design, make this range of products more fit the user's habits, but also better able to fashion the image to attract the attention of consumers.
Release in L600, we IT168 Testing Center also chose the release of a Core i5 processor Toshiba Satellite L600-05S for evaluation, hope that this review can reveal this to you all aspects of Toshiba's latest products. Toshiba L600-05S L600 series is the top of its products, Toshiba chose this product as the main colors silver and black, which was named the Mercury Silver Toshiba color bias in the overall tone of some black, but does not make it product to look very low-key, but in the low-key in revealing a stylish atmosphere.
L600-05S uses a popular class piano effect to deal with the body surface, 14-inch size gives this product 342x234x36mm body size and weight of 2.146kg of stand-alone, so size and weight specifications on the market today very mainstream 14-inch notebook.
Advantages: stylish, well balanced hardware configuration, providing mainstream interfaces, the more excellent office and home entertainment, outstanding screen brightness
Disadvantages: fever control in general
Stylish body with excellent scalability combined with low-key
L600-05S class piano effect after treatment with similar products on the surface, like fingerprints and other stains are difficult to avoid contamination, but the application of this process so that products A-side with a very eye-catching visual effects, paint effects on the surface of the piano against the background, lines scattered pattern of this product increased a little aura.
This is Toshiba named "Roman lines" because the shape and design elements of the Roman numeral "II" is similar to its name, with mirror-like piano effect brings the feeling of making the whole product will not appear too calm temperament, and the side corner of the smooth handling make this product even more because they can not all black color and appears dull.
Keyboard users are more familiar with the region is the style, is still the usual product of Toshiba "wide touch Korea off the keyboard," the main keyboard keys are standard size with a design, but has a larger gap between the buttons, key-way medium , has a relatively good use of touch. And just below the keyboard space bar is a special control touchpad on / off function of the shortcut keys, users can quickly via the button on / off touch pad function, such a design for those who often need to enter text and other applications users is helpful.
L600-05S body with an integrated touchpad design, frosted matte surface effect processing, and light from the side of the palm rest panel seems to have a very strong contrast. At the same time with the touchpad surface is also supported by the same body surface pattern, the overall feeling stronger.
L600-05S is a very mainstream user interface configuration, we can turn the fuselage on the left to find RJ45, HDMI, eSATA/USB2.0 mix, independent USB2.0, a set of audio input and output interfaces. Left position in front of the fuselage, we can find L600-05S's card reader slot. In the right side, the design of the DVD burner position, so the interface is relatively small, we can see a sequence independent USB2.0, 1 D-SUB analog video output and a power connector. Configuration from the interface point of view, L600-05S interface have sufficient to meet most of the family, business users in their daily work, use the interface number, type of demand.
L600-05S provides the user with good expansion capabilities, the user can see the two in the bottom of the fuselage removable baffle, baffle removed after the user can hard drive, memory and wireless card to expand, upgrade. L600-05S has two memory slots, as the products are used 2GB of memory standard, so the user to upgrade memory is basically no need to consider the question, just according to their needs to purchase a memory upgrade.
Core i5 hardware configuration analysis combined with HD 5145
L600-05S uses the Intel Core i5 430M processor, this processor uses the latest 32nm process, clocked at 2.26GHz, Core frequency technology through the growth can be achieved after the 2.53GHz, while the frequency value with the current mainstream mobile deal device in the T9400 and the P8700 quite. Core i5 430M three-level cache is 3MB, dual-core processor supporting HT Technology and, four threads with dual-core processing power, thermal design power TDP 35W.
Chipsets, HM55 to replace the PM55 as the new Core Duo processor intimate partners, and PM55, like, HM55 chipset is codenamed Ibex Peak-M, with the previous mobile chipsets based on desktop chipsets, PM55 chipset is from H55 chipset on the desktop. And PM55 only support i5, i7, the new chipset is Intel HM55 in line with the built-in graphics processing units and introduction of new processors, the processor can provide comprehensive support. HM55 also used a single-chip architecture, the memory control unit (IMC) has been integrated in the processor, so it does not commonly known as the Northbridge MCH (Memory Controller Hub), only one platform control unit PCH (Platform Controller Hub) the burden of the past, single-chip commonly known as the PCI Express controller and Southbridge chips ICH (Input / Output controller hub) provides functionality, compared with two-chip architecture, single-chip power consumption and heat has become more an advantage, both to help the laptop more good heat dissipation or improve endurance capacity, is a good premise. While less of a chip, motherboard makers can design more compact, while the thin and light notebook, lightweight help. HM55 chipset can support up to six SATA 3Gbps ports (including eSATA), eight PCI-E 2.0 x1 port, 14 USB 2.0 ports, Hanksville GbE MAC Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Matrix Storage Matrix Storage Technology, High Definition Audio High Definition Audio, Management Engine Ignition Firmware technologies.
In graphics cards, ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 5145 became this L600-05S's independence was part of, from the number point of view, this card should belong to the latest HD 5000 series support DX11, but AMD's HD 5000 release which did not list this product, and we use the software test results show this card is just change the name of the HD 4570, both the M92 core, 80 stream processors or 64Bit memory bandwidth with the HD 4570 is exactly the same, the difference The HD 5145 is a slight increase in core frequency, 720MHz core frequency is higher than the HD 4570's 680MHz, of course, you can also see it as a HD 4570 "vest" version.
Now just change the name, so we can be as this HD 5145 HD 4570, as a derivative version of the core based on 55nm RV710 product, HD 4570/HD5145 built-in 242 million transistors and 80 stream processors, 8 texture units, 4 raster units, supported 12x CFAA antialiasing does not support CrossFireX. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 can be used with 64-bit GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory, support for DX10.1 and OpenGL 2.0, integrated UVD2 hardware decoding engine that supports PowerPlay, PowerXpress, Swithable Graphics and a series of energy-saving technology, TDP at 13W or so.
In storage systems, L600-05S comes standard with 2GB DDR3 memory, the memory using a Samsung Original Samsung M471B5673EH1-CF8 DDR3 1066MHz memory for 32bit operating system users, such as memory capacity sufficient to meet the vast majority of mainstream applications, and running some large 3D games, because L538 provides users with an additional memory slot, so even run 64bit system, users only need to buy 2GB memory upgrade.
Hard drive in we received L600-05S is equipped with a capacity of 320GB Hitachi Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 hard drive, this 320GB hard drive has a capacity of 5400 high-speed, but also supports SATAII interface, with the PCH can reach 3.0Gb / s of transmission speed.
In the network communications capability, Atheros AR8152 + Realtek RTL8191SE mix to provide users with a good solution, 802.11n wireless LAN communication protocol support, speed can reach 150Mbps, while the wired network card supports 10/100M connections.
In the interface area, L600-05S is to provide users with a mainstream 2X USB2.0, 1X eSATA/USB2.0, 1X HDMI, 1X D-SUB, 1X RJ45, 1 set of audio input and output interface and a card reader configuration, sufficient to meet the everyday needs of most users.
Desktop graphics system evaluation is weak strong gaming performance
We use a series of test software to determine this L600-05S's actual performance in the tests, we installed the English version of Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Version6.1.7600 version of the operating system to be tested. Test content will include the Windows System Assessment, SYSmark2007 Preview, Mobilemark2007, PCMark Vantange other variety of test software.
Windows Experience Index score is the Windows built-in computer performance evaluation system for notebook computers performance testing. Evaluation software on the processor, memory, graphics, game performance, the main hard drive performance of the five components are given the appropriate score to help ordinary users to quickly determine the balance of the system and the basic performance of each subsystem.
In other children, we have received is equipped with 2GB of memory test prototype, so its assessment results have been 5.5 points, while the processor's assessment results fully reflect the Core i5 dual core 4 thread, high-capacity three cache advantage, assessment results reached 6.4 points. Due in part to SATA-II hard drive interface 3.0Gbps transfer rate, 320GB of capacity and 5400 RPM, got a score of 5.8, of course, if you have requirements for disk performance, consider replacing the hard drive into volume more 7200 to further enhance the performance disk-related.
Assessment scores to analyze the integrated system, although some of the desktop graphics score is low, but its application to users, and other Windows AERO desktop effects and will not cause any effect, so that the configuration shown by the performance or to meet the needs of most users If conditions permit, the replacement of higher-speed hard disk to enhance performance is a good choice.
Perfect balance of performance overall performance should mainstream
Performance testing in the whole section, we mainly use the SYSmark2007 Preview and PCMark Vantange, SiSoftware Sandra Professional v2009 software test, BAPCo SYSmark2007 Preview include E-Learning, Office Productivity, Video Creation, 3D Modeling of four modules, Internet users were simulated learning , office applications, image creation, 3D modeling, each module represents a typical business user applications. Combination of these four points to work out a system evaluation score. This is a very close to the practical application of the user test software, test systems for stability, compatibility requirements very well, given the results are very valuable.
Final score from the point of view, this product of the four sub-tests results and the final score remained at a relatively high level, sub-tests from the point of view, the four sub-item, L600-05S image creation, 3D modeling performance to be slightly higher than the office applications and the Internet in learning achievement. 120 points or more from the sub-scores and total score of 141 points of view, such a test result indicates that the user application during these four programs, you can get very good performance, and such test results also showed that L600- 05S is the hardware configuration used in home entertainment products in line with its positioning, but also can be good in office applications to meet business user needs.
PCMark Vantage is Futuremark released a new generation of PCMark benchmarking software to measure all types of PC's overall performance. Compared to the previous version of PCMark06, PCMark Vantage with the overall structure of the more obvious changes from the previous several subsystems according to PC gradually divided into sub-items according to use, closer to the user's actual use, but also more focused on the user's reference value larger. It canceled the original processor and graphics sub-items, retained the overall
TOSHIBA Portege 3500 battery score and HDD (hard disk) two children, while increasing the Memories (memories), TV and Movie (video), Gaming (games), Music (Music ), Communication (communication) and Productivity (productivity) of several new projects. More suitable for measuring PC performance for home entertainment.
PCMark Vantage's 5149 points from the overall test scores of view, this L600-05S configuration of Core i5 processors, high-performance graphics card is relatively high test scores to obtain the key, for the average user, the higher the score on behalf of use it for home entertainment applications even better performance when there is no doubt, more than 5000 points while the test results also show that the L600-05S configuration and performance in such applications meet the vast majority of home entertainment daily use needs.
Look at test scores from the classification, Memories (memories), TV and Movie (video) and Gaming (games), the three children ran out of the test results are more than 3200 points score, and in most mainstream entertainment machine, which scores more than three points down in 2500, this result also shows that L600-05S of the hardware configuration so that in this test represents a number of applications have better performance than mainstream models. This white paper from Futuremark official explanation of the three sub-tests of view, the trend of such results occur mainly due to three items in the test of processor performance, graphics capabilities and other related properties such as have certain requirements, and Taking into account L600-05S is equipped with a high performance Core i5 processors, high-performance graphics card's sake, there is indeed such a test result from one side of this product will do reflect a strong hardware configuration.
From the Music (music), Communication (communication) and Productivity (productivity), and several in the test too much reliance on disk, processor performance of the child test scores of view, L600-05S is equipped with 320GB of hard disk has a relatively good disk performance, with the 32nm process Core i5 processor. Its performance to meet the most comprehensive daily office and home entertainment applications is no problem.
Let's take a look Memories (memories), this sub-major in two areas to examine Memories hardware performance tests, the first part of a major study Memories processor, memory and hard disk performance, while the second part of the study focused on the Memories is the processor and graphics performance, we tested on the current experience, the vast majority of notebook computers in this part of the score are relatively low, but this L600-05S from the performance point of view, Core i5 mobile processor and HD 5145's performance to L600-05S in this session ran out of 3200 points or more results.
In the next TV and Movie (video) test items, the software aspects were investigated by two processors, graphics cards and processors, graphics cards, hard disk performance, and in this session, the trend remains up and score on a part of the same trend, and higher scores indicate more than 3700 points Core i5 processor and HD 5145 mobile graphics performance to meet the most representative aspects of the operation. And so the test results tell us that in order to high-definition video playback, transcoding, encoding and decoding applications based home entertainment applications, the processor performance is critical, and the user experience if you want a good application, you must select a performance processors with a strong product, and Core i5 processor with real results proved it has the strength.
In Gaming (games) this sub-item, the study focused on the software is still processor performance, followed by the hard disk performance, but graphics performance is the third largest proportion of study. Test results from the comparison we see that is still a powerful processor performance to reflect the results, and because graphics performance on the final test scores have a greater impact, so the L600-05S has been in this part of the good results in 3900 points, It is also very consistent with its home entertainment product positioning.
From the Music (music) for more study of this aspect of processor performance-based test scores shown by the trend, Core i5 processors with a more powerful performance has been more than 5500 points score can be described as deserved. Communication (communication) links to the main study object is still the main processor, while the proportion of the hard drive is relatively large, so we see this product in this part of the score is relatively high, fully meet the needs of mainstream applications . Productivity (productivity) is still mainly on aspects of processor performance, as well as a large proportion used to examine the graphics performance and hard disk performance, but in this session examine the performance of the operation is basically a text editor, e-mail application, so their only to represent the more commonly used in the home office to the performance, and not representative of this product
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