subject: Dell Inspiron 14r Turbo Vs Lenovo Y480n [print this page] Not long ago, a friend to buy all-around game this single did not know Dell inspiron 14R Turbo and Lenovo Y480N how to choose. Both products are the preferred products of the two big brands. In a similar configuration and similar circumstances, the details of different key factors of how choices.
First Round: cellular versus urban streamer
The appearance of our first impression of a product, if the shape of the lack of beauty, I am afraid we will not worry about the configuration. The shape of these two notebooks reach tens of thousands of dollars of high-end notebook is so fine, but being in the side of the notebook can be considered more superior.
Dell inspiron 14R Turbo roof is the usual anodized aluminum, the metal surface process similar to a honeycomb texture and matte paint, so it seems there is no strong metallic luster, but it seems restrained and calm, strong and durable, not easy to leave fingerprint; Lenovo Y480N continuation of the Y series of abstract lines and style, dark brown matte finish on the roof of the metal material, printed on the substrate piercing slash and dot decoration, still depicts the scene of the city skyscrapers. compared to pure metal wire drawing roof look more lively and dynamic.
Between the roof design with beauty, as the turnip cabbage all have love, how to choose to see Tell me what you love. But to say personality or Dell inspiron 14R Turbo even better, this is the Dell notebooks have always been "shedding" selling point, the user can according to their own preferences to replace the other color top cover.
Rolled over, you can see the back of two notebook design, only used for user to disassemble to replace the hard drive memory and other hardware, the two books back positions are very few screws. Hard position above the baffle removal is very convenient.
This is performance, certainly can not do super pole this is so slim and charming, and doing so is too thin, heat becomes a big problem. Both weight about 2.3kg, not very light, portable reward acceptable.
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Second round: total defeat of 1366x768
Both are 14.0 inches of LED-backlit screen, are the 16:9 screen ratio. In terms of screen resolution, Dell inspiron 14R Turbo's performance is even more eye-catching, 1600x900's resolution, though not full HD, but compared to Y480 of 1366x768 or win a chip.
With the recent awareness of the retina screen (Retina), plus some time ago, Apple macbook pro 15 Retina. The birth, has been fiercely stimulate user demand for high-resolution screen. The crystal-clear resolution can lead to better visual enjoyment, in particular, is particularly evident in the feeling of watching the picture. Therefore, we are more respected high resolution screen, and respected so similar to the IPS wide viewing angle, wide color gamut screen.
Lenovo the Y480N regain the iconic orange waist, and maintain a sinking shaft style of the series has been. People think the new Dell inspiron 14R Turbo gave up their products has always been the characteristics of the shaft "screen" Wyatt drift into a more concise sinking shaft.
In order to enhance heat dissipation, both the C surface of the metal material, the difference lies in the 14R using the same with the top cover, matte anodized aluminum honeycomb shape, and Y480N is suffused with purple metal wire drawing process.
Round 3: a sense of control were evenly divided
The keyboard of the most respected among the many notebook Thinkpad's keyboard, with good touch, comfortable key way back to power, there are spill-resistant ability features loved by black fans. Since Lenovo took over the Thinkpad, we have a lot of Lenovo's consumer entertainment notebook also gradually see the Thinkpad keyboard figure, for example, the concave curvature of the keycap design appear in the top of the many located in the audio and video entertainment products.
On the one hand, this is absorbed in learning, but they're also in constant self-renewal. Y480N and T430 keyboard is almost exactly the same, but changed to chocolate was a lot of user dissatisfaction. Can not say that the Y480N learn how much of the essence, at least compared with the chocolate keyboard feel more superior, Scrub Caps with the curvature of the surface can bring a good sense of fit under the eaves of the keycap also have an arc, The keycap touch area than Dell inspiron 14R Turbo is bigger.
Touchpad Dell inspiron 14R Turbo is a plastic material split button, feel very comfortable. Lenovo Y480N to give up the traditional design, and replaced with glass fiber material integrated button, the benefits are beautiful and simple appearance, but also dust and water resistant. However, one type of key misuse probability than the conventional keypad.
There is no shortcut, you may not have much impact on the performance experience, but in the course will bring the user a very intimate feeling. From a vendor point of view, outside of the design of a keyboard shortcut keys to make the production cost increase, but if not, the shortcut keys, can not help but feel some simple.
Dell inspiron 14R Turbo Lenovo Y480 compared can be said to have equal shares, with three multimedia keys: Windows key, the audio settings button, self-defined shortcuts, the details seem very intimate. The Y480N then selected the video key, volume keys, a key addition, there is a button to save the system.
However, with the competition of the products, especially audio and video entertainment products competitive, manufacturers are more and more emphasis on the sound effects of their products. Most notebook brands have their own Queen sound source vendors. Lenovo Y480N equipped with JBL speakers, Dell inspiron 14R Skullcandy audio system from the United States, both putting sound quality touches almost the same.
Interface design is difficult to decide who will win the fourth round:
Entertainment models are basically USB + VGA + HDMI, the main competition is the number of USB ports as well as features, both of which are 14-inch notebook equipped with a rare 4xUSB interface products, to say the difference between Dell inspiron 14R Turbo 4 USB3.0, one also supports the charge off. Lenovo Y480N is 2xUSB2.0 +2 xUSB3.0, and another has an interface to support the E-SATA.
In addition, system operation indicator, both the golf is also quite Madden, Dell inspiron 14R left in the left forefront of the four LED indicator above the touchpad, a touch pad switch indicator. Lenovo Y480N sucked all five lights on the cutting edge.
Fifth Round: life heat
Both notebooks are performance-based products, so life is not their main selling point, but sometimes particular, we hope that they will bring long life of some of the time when (for example, take a look at the long train video to pass the time). As a laptop moving distance of the largest energy source, the battery life will be reflected.
Battery specifications and endurance
Product model Battery specifications life time (in minutes)
Lenovo the Y480N using a 62Wh 5 699 milliamperes lithium-ion battery, Dell inspiron 14R Turbo is a 48Wh 4400 mAh battery is selected. Light load MobileMark 2007 test, and their life long gap of 105 minutes, this difference mainly to the As for the battery capacity gap.
Used early Y Series generation, I have a reputation for "oven" of Y450 memory is still very deep. Now see the configuration more Y480N can not help but not much confidence on the heat. Have a good impression before cooling on Dell, because Dell laptop emphasis on business type products, so many products on the thermal design is relatively better. Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 battery
However, after the test, the Lenovo Situation of the Y480N the heat really surprising, very good to do in the finger the WASD region often hold down the heat, wrist rest position was only compared to the indoor temperature has increased 2 C. Its heat is mainly concentrated in the center area of this region up to 45 C, which means that its internal heat is very large, because for local enhanced heat when in use, the general feeling is not hot to not dared to touch.
Dell inspiron 14R Turbo cooling performance touches slightly less than Y480N, wrist, and care of the temperature reached 34 C, the heat of the middle part of the same accumulation of about 45 C. However, its disadvantage is that fingers often put the the WASD region temperature reached 40 C.
That is both heat The main difference is whether the common user area, local, thermally enhanced, then we disassemble Y480N when this position is a fan up hair and a very large copper heat, which is the The main reason can control the heat. This is perhaps never experienced before the Dell the complaints similar Y450/Y470 so, and there is no specially modified.
Sixth round: the same price GT650M
NVIDIA listed on the official 600M Series of graphics parameters which GT650M GT600M in positioning using 28nm made Kepler framework, the core frequency of 850MHz, with 384 CUDA-enabled, high-end positioning in the 600M series graphics cards. While the GT640M GT650M lowering frequency version, the same number of CUDA cores, the decline in its core frequency is 625MHz.
Lenovo Y series have been widely known to the users, mainly because this series graphics cards bring users more often with the price of experience. Lenovo's official slogan has been "tough small Y" to do this, it is bound to come up with some real skills in order to be worthy of this name. So we see the one with 2GB GDDR5 memory the GT650M The Y480N.
Dell inspiron 14R Turbo contained GT640M GT650M on the number of stream processing core, but is limited by the core frequency and DDR3 memory, so 3D performance or Y480N strong.
3DMark is the industry's most professional 3D performance test software, in order to obtain the results confirm each other, so we will use 3Dmark06/Vantage/11 three kinds were tested based on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 environment software. Testing methods resolution unified 1366x768, several tests whichever is the highest value.
From the test results the Y480N 14R Turbo gap in our expected, the gap between the three test environment were 28.9%, 24.5%, 29.4%, Show ran points, then this gap is not small, However, running to points is only a reference, we also need to look at the performance of the actual effect of the game.
Actual test of the game
Significance on the game frame rate (FPS)
The number of frames is transmitted in seconds the amount of pictures can also be understood as the graphics processor per second to refresh a few times. When the object is removed, the optic nerve on the impression of an object does not disappear immediately, and continue about 1/24 seconds, the human eye of this nature is called "the eye's persistence of vision". Theory means that, regardless of your game frame rate how high, 60 or 120, and finally we are only able to distinguish between the 24 or so only. But if the actual game screen 24, the visual experience and will not be smooth.
The frames of the game is to reflect the standard of the game is running smoothly, most cases can be so classified, a slide level: 20; 2, playability is very low: the number of frames 20-30; 3, you can accept: frames 30-50; run smoothly: the number of frames 50-60; perfect run: number of frames is greater than or equal to 60. 60 significance means that the number of frames is greater than under normal circumstances is not, then you can increase the game quality to get a better visual effect.
3D API: DX9.0c test game: Street Fighter 4
CAPCOM is responsible for the development of fighting game "Street Fighter (Street Fighter 4) using the latest 3D graphics technology, a more beautiful way to reproduce the original unique 2D drawing style. The game can be described as the DX9.0C the pinnacle of graphics cards DX9 performance is very suitable to measure.
Current DX9 games are rarely able to add to the game of the obstacles, this Street Fighter is still open all the special effects, including anti-aliasing and other properties, higher performance of the full number of frames.
3D APIs: DX10 test the game: Resident Evil 5
"Resident Evil" series is a very popular shooting game, in the lighting effects in DX10 games representative.
Once the game on many notebook will produce a small "pressure", but in this test, the two notebook can easily control.
3D API: DX11 test the game: Lost Planet 2
DirectX 11 is a substantially enhanced version of the DirectX 10. Outstanding performance in DX9, DX10 notebook, not too often before in DX11. The Y480N reached the average number of frames and 14R Turbo 38.2FPS and 29.5FPS to 30 visual effects on the smooth.
Seventh Round: The performance of the whole touch
Intel Core i7-3610QM with the Intel Core i7-3612QM is currently on the market the most common top with i7 processor, we have done a lot to run sub-test on these two processors, the performance of the two was less than 10%. Both processors are Ivy bridge architecture, with 6MB of L3 cache, the difference is the frequency and power consumption.
The CineBench very convincing set of test systems, the latest R10 version of the, CINEBENCH R10 supports Windows XP and Vista X86/X64 systems, as well as PowerPC and Intel-based Mac platform, and supports up to 16 processor cores!
Because the intel processor is sensitive to frequency, so the number of cores, the final score of the three cache similar to the two processor also has about 10% of the gap.
Machine performance test:
PCMark Vantage can measure all types of PC's overall performance. From multimedia home entertainment system to the notebook, from professional workstations to high-end gaming platform, whether it is in the hands of the professionals, or belonging to the ordinary user, can be a thorough understanding of PCMark Vantage, which maximize performance. The test can be divided into the following three parts:
A processor test: Based on data encryption, decryption, compression, decompression, image processing, audio and video transcoding, text editing, web page rendering, mail functionality, the processor artificial intelligence game test, contact creation and search.
2, graphical test: based on high-definition video playback, graphics card graphics, game tests.
Hard test: using the Windows Defender, Alan Wake game, image import, Windows Vista starts, video editing, Media Center, Windows Media Player, search and classification, as well as the start of the following procedures: Office Word 2007, Adobe Photoshop CS2 , Internet Explorer, Outlook 2007.
PCMark 7 as a well-known hardware testing tools to quickly and the performance of the whole conduct a comprehensive test and the old version of the software, PCMark 7 is also a test suite of integrated performance analysis for the latest PC systems. PCMark 7 contains seven different testing session a total of 25 independent workloads, covering storage, computing, image and video processing, all aspects of daily web browsing, games and other PC applications. This is a test Dell inspiron 14R finally moved back to one council, I guess the main reason is PCmark7 heavier reliance on the memory than processor, 8G memory 14R in order to win a little.
SYSMark2007 Preview hardware performance evaluation tool consists of four groups of test scenarios: E-learning (electronic learning), Office Productivity (office productivity) Video Creation (image creation), and 3D Modeling (3D modeling).
Final Round: price, service, and summary
Dell inspiron 14R Turbo VS Lenovo Y480N-ISE
Product Type Dell inspiron 14R Turbo Lenovo Y480N-ISE
Processor, the Intel Core i7-3612QM the Intel Core i7-3610QM
Frequency 2.1GHz/3.1GHz 2.3GHz/3.3GHz
Power consumption 35W 45W
Cache 6MB L3
Chipset Intel HM77 Intel HM76
Graphics the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Both notebook official price is 6999 yuan, shipped in the basic price of 6400 yuan or so, in fact, is not much difference between the two prices. If you read the configuration is still hesitant, we might as well come back to talk about the brand and the aftermarket of the most recognized by consumers.
Dell and Lenovo have a complete network service system, have the engineer the next day door service, but their fees are not the same. If the product is bad for consultation on its official website, then there will be someone with customer contact, both for the overall service is good.
Association of county-level maintenance is something that many
The value of the brand is to buy brand satisfaction and good service. Both in the domestic roots in many years, Dell's sales channels as a foreign brand is somewhat more fragile, in some deep level the market is difficult to find. Lenovo service points compared to Dell's extended range much wider, and even can be found in the 4,5-level cities and counties. This is the flagship network-Dell direct sales force than short board.
Evaluation room summary:
A lot of friends will say, I do not need a gaming notebook, gaming notebook is far better than the desktop readily. Indeed, the performance of the notebook, the size and desktop not a small gap. Game notebook existence and selling on this market is very large groups, many people may be at home is not enough space, or environmental constraints had to use a notebook to replace the desktop. This is why the versatile noteb
