subject: Business Custom Models - Lenovo Thinkpad L430 Notebook Review [print this page] Well known after Lenovo the successful acquisition ThinkPad brand, its products, some changes and improvements. Edge Series in the meantime, while the the previously ubiquitous SL series gradually fade out of our sight, replaced by its successor L series. The first time, due to the high price so that consumers of the L series and not willing to foot the bill, perhaps after a trace of change, L-Series price is much lower.
L series on the market positioning of view can be said is the E-series and T-series and product, much similar to the T Series appearance with the hardware configuration, the price is similar to the E-series. This product actually cater to a certain extent, part of the users' needs, and today we got the ThinkPad L series new L430.
Lenovo ThinkPad L430 business of the design is very similar to the T-series, but up to less than the high-end of the T-series level in the use of materials and workmanship. The aircraft the body are made of black plastic material, the roof is also true does not use a metal material, did not reach the high-end standard of workmanship, but fortunately the use of materials of the machine is quite full.
The business of the simple view, resembles a high-end T-series appearance and hardware configuration, while the price in the end of the mainstream, which gives the first impression is good. This notebook is what deserves recognition where it is? You to resolve the details of the appearance of this notebook as well as endurance and cooling capacity, the evaluation received the L430 still using the previous generation SNB platform, while the graphics card has been upgraded to the NVS 5400M professional graphics cards. ideapad ideapad y460 battery
Lenovo ThinkPad L430 14-inch screen, but a slightly larger volume than the standard 14-inch model of the aircraft fuselage, this is due to the wide screen frame of the machine. In the pursuit of narrow frame and thin times, a retro thick border products shows its own characteristics, although the border but no sense of violation and thick.
It should be recognized is the the L430 screen surface after grinding treatment, the advantages of this matte screen for a business this is particularly important, good anti-reflective capacity to guarantee better working comfort and efficiency. L430 workmanship not so high-end, but the screen hinge design but not sloppy, the machine is equipped with a standard ThinkPad Features metal hinge shaft, the screen opening and closing angle of 180 , sturdy and durable.
And then look down, Lenovo ThinkPad L430 entire surface of the design of the keyboard the TP style is, as always, but the keyboard is not the traditional button design, but last year began to reform the island replaced. Whole workmanship modest fine, but the others have had, are equipped with the function keys, Little Red Riding Hood, fingerprint recognition.
The details of the portion of the keyboard surface, L430 uses the same T430 touchpad design, addition to work a little rough, feel and comfort are equipped with high-end quality. Keyboard, the machine is not equipped with a backlight function, while the top row of keys heightening ladder design, night blindness when easily resolved key area.
Overall, the Lenovo ThinkPad L430 body material is quite sufficient quantities, the screen hinge, durable metal hinge, the step partition the design of the keyboard area and island-style design, feel, as always.
Lenovo ThinkPad L430 keyboard surface in addition to the key outside other devices such as sound, the sound of the aircraft was designed in the front of the fuselage, it can be said that in the bottom of the fuselage, the conduction of sound to the user through the chamfer. The sound outside is covered with a layer of mesh strips, in addition to moving outside decorative ventilation performance.
Interface, Lenovo ThinkPad L430 is not sloppy, almost completely engraved design of the T-series. In the right side of the fuselage, we can see people familiar with the the yellow USB interface, the interface supports power off function, further ahead is the CD-ROM drive, audio interface and a multi-card reader, in simple terms the right side of the fuselage interface configuration is quite simple.
Simple compared to the right side of the fuselage, the left side of the fuselage of the aircraft is necessary to enrich many. On this side, we can see the VGA output interface, MiniDP interface, a USB3.0 and two USB2.0 ExpressCard slot. Three USB ports side by side, the more the number, but still can not avoid crowding phenomenon.
L430 with the same T-series has two heat vent, to some extent, to avoid a vent is clogged and cause cooling problems. One of two outlet design in the left side of the fuselage, and another in the rear fuselage, traditional metal hinge shaft design, the aircraft bottom of the screen that the rear fuselage set aside a lot of space here designed power interface and network interface cards.
In addition, L430 is also equipped with a the ThinkPad dedicated Docking slot, it is designed in the standard position. Can be seen, the Lenovo ThinkPad L430 product design orientation is biased in favor of the high-end business, belong to the mainstream business model in the mid-whole. lenovo thinkpad sl410 battery
Here we actually test the Lenovo ThinkPad L430 heat. The test method is still at a room temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, so this notebook running Furmark 1.92 the pagers software and AIDA64 comes pager program, allowing GPU and CPU are working in a high load, especially the GPU almost running at full speed. View this notebook's internal core temperature, and body surface temperature and after more than an hour, respectively.
Surface temperature, temperature detection equipment to detect the cooling performance of the notebook. In order to facilitate the observation of the whole temperature distribution, we get the temperature distribution through the instrument detection, record and mark the various parts of the temperature, illustrated as follows:
Temperature maps from the above point of view, the vast majority of the heat of the aircraft are stacked heat vent position in the left area of the keyboard and the bottom of the screen, while other parts of the heat is not too high, in the long-term practical experience in the palm prop up the temperature was a very comfortable. Lenovo ThinkPad L430 cooling performance is good, the user is able to operate a computer in the comfort temperature. thinkpad t400 battery
The test battery life, we choose to test software PowerMark, and PCMark, 3DMark, also developed by FutureMark company launched. It will continuously loop to run a set of test scripts, including four common applications: Internet browsing, word processing, video playback, 3D games, as close as possible to the actual use of the vast majority of users.
Graphics final test results in the automatic switching and power-saving mode for 5 hours and 50 minutes, can be seen, the Lenovo ThinkPad L430 has good endurance. Nearly 6 hours of battery life is undoubtedly the best choice for business users, it is undeniable that this L430 endurance is really good.
Summary
The shape of the T-series design and hardware configuration with the selling price of the entry-positioning of the E series, Lenovo ThinkPad L430 is a business of this. Or to a certain extent, L430 has its unique cost-effective, and recommended for the average user or a business notebook.
Of course, L series more for enterprise-level users, the actual purchase price may be even lower. But even so, we can not deny the excellent overall quality and performance of this product, although not as high-end T-series work, but its thick, durable stability was quite suitable for business users.
