subject: The Comparative Evaluation Of Two I3 Toshiba Notebook [print this page] January 8, 2010 Intel released the occasion of New Year is also a whole new generation of Core i series processors, of course, followed by a number of products is a comprehensive upgrade. The new i7 processor is still high-end users, so that laptop has a breakthrough performance leap; relatively i3, i5 processors for the mass, especially in terms of price with the i3 processor notebook is more close to the people. PConline evaluation of this room we received two breath Toshiba notebook i3, respectively: Toshiba Satellite L537, Toshiba Satellite M511. Both notebooks use the same Intel Core i3-330M processor, with different graphics card, following on the adoption of the comparative evaluation of the two i3 so that we can be more in-depth understanding of the new Core i3 processor performance.
Price, the Toshiba compared with these two i3 the same product before the price is more reasonable by the product graph we can see very intuitive, both i3 Toshiba laptop is not much change in appearance, the Satellite series still continues abrasive design. Therefore, the focus of this evaluation is that of Intel's new Core i3 processor performance analysis and detailed testing, some do not do too many repeat appearance.
First, the two Toshiba notebook configuration information and life i3
First, we simply learn to under Intel's new Core family of processors i, i3, i5, i7 series dual-core processors, with quad-core i7 until the 45nm production process compared to once again be raised to 32nm, also based on the Nehalem architecture, all has three caching system, Turbo Boost technology, integrated memory controller technology. The new Core i family are classified as: Extreme levels of Core i7 quad-core and dual-core processor, the end of the i5 series processors, as well as in the entry price of i3 series processors.
From the current model for mobile processors, i7/i5/i3 meaning are different, they all have two and four versions of the processor core, the core number is no longer a key measure of the processor. Classification is mainly based on the decision whether to support its Turbo Boost Technology and Hyper-Threading technology, such as the mobile version of Core i7 for four or eight threads, support Turbo acceleration; i5 to four threads, and also supports Turbo acceleration; i3 four threads, but do not support Turbo acceleration.
To introduce the following Toshiba Both i3 the basic configuration, the processor is not to say, are using Core i3-330M processor, clocked at 2.13GHz, and equipped with the new Intel HM55 chipset, performance is very good. L537 using ATi Mobility Radeon HD5145 graphics card graphics card, memory 512MB; machine comes standard with 2GB DDR3 memory, 320GB hard drive, is the current mainstream configurations.
M511 using the new nVidia Geforce G310M graphics card, 512MB memory. Machine comes standard with 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB SATA hard drive, the configuration slightly higher than the L537, of course, this is also a factor where high prices.
For battery life, I asked a lot of school friends, most of them do not have much demand for laptop battery life, because they are more of a "home in the bedroom"; However, I ask my colleagues to travel around, they For laptop battery life is very demanding, and this is because the mobile office is not convenient charging at any time's sake. Both the Toshiba notebook located in the home user, and the whole movement is weak, so it will not break in life aspects. Both i3 The design uses the same battery, 10.8V 40Wh lithium battery designed, tested two notebook battery life time of 2 hours and 40 minutes, or very satisfied with this performance.
Second, the Toshiba L537 and M511 Performance Comparison Test
Brief description of the test platform: Install Windows 7 Ultimate32 operating system, install the necessary chipset drivers, video drivers, sound card drivers and network card drivers, etc.; close ORC, close the screen saver, turn off hibernation, shut down the system and other automatic update settings Update; set the desktop background solid color, select and set the highest performance mode of the battery; set the system maximum performance mode; the C drive defragmentation, etc.
PCMark Vantage is Futuremark benchmark release of a new generation of software, and more perfect for multi-core processors optimized, and is designed for Windows vista 32/64-bit and WIN7 system build. PCMark Vantage is the daily application of the collection, which includes a lot of multitasking and multimedia video and audio test test, although the multi-core and can not play all the performance, but optimization of support is also in place.
M511 entry-level graphics card with a GeForce 310M, the GeForce 210M graphics card can be seen as an upgrade, for the mainstream market, 16 stream processors, floating point performance 73GFlops, Shader unit frequency of 1500MHz, 64-bit memory interface , the maximum capacity of 512MB. After scoring 4100 points 3DMark tests, in general, but in testing high-definition video of CPU utilization rate of 6% -10%, and single game at 20 frames or more, this performance was so satisfied with recreational users.
Through 3DMark performance comparison table, we can see that L537 of the ATi 5145 graphics card slightly stronger in the ATi 4570, but compared to the high-end graphics card GT240M gap is still very evident; M511's G310M graphics card is clearly weaker than several other, but the relative ATi 4570 smaller gap against the user's daily entertainment is not a problem.
Third, the appearance of Toshiba L537 and M511 Introduction
The i3 Toshiba launched two products, not very different in appearance, using the same mold, but differ in the details of the design; This is the Toshiba L series and M series, most similar in appearance once. In contrast, L series of relatively large changes, remember the L332's silver frosted matte finish looks? Now L-Series has been fully upgraded to the same membrane with the M Series Lan Indian appearance, the palm rest and keyboard keys can also use this technology. The current low-end entry-level products, such a large area and printed using the membrane Lan rare; such a treatment benefit is the product more resistant, anti-planning, but also easier to stick stained fingerprints and dust.
The above two images, respectively, and for the Toshiba Satellite L537 Toshiba Satellite M511 open map, a distance L series and M series, they are almost exactly the same, but M-series to highlight the high-end, adding a layer of metal edging design; of course, this metal edge is not just to improve grades, he can effectively increase solid body, the bumper has a similar function, the collision force in the notebook case, to some extent protect the body from injury die; In addition, the metal edge products has been at the opening and closing hinge, opening and closing the machine can effectively enhance the life of commercial products such as ThinkPad, will use this TOSHIBA Satellite Pro L100-176 battery design. This is the M-series and L series of the largest in terms of quality difference.
Toshiba M-series and L series, have used non-hyun color crystal gilt border design, 14-inch 16:9 ratio LED backlit LCD screen with a resolution of 1366 768, more standard mass resolution display is full, delicate in its class, is the upper level.
Although the two products is basically the same dimensions, but the weight, the difference is quite large, L537 weight control 2.29KG, this is the 14-inch standard weight, the weight of the M511 reach 2.57KG, has reached 15 inch normal weight of the product.
Fourth, the Toshiba L537 and M511 compared Interface Design
Toshiba L537 and M511 interface, there are subtle differences in layout. L537 security keyhole, and RJ45 Ethernet interface, was designed in the left side of the fuselage, although there is a left E-SATA interface, but it does not compensate for the shortcomings left no USB port, because E-SATA and USB not common, but now external storage devices (such as mobile hard disk), the interface is still widely used USB2.0 or IEEE1394. Therefore, this layout is not very reasonable. In contrast, M-series in the left side of the interface design even better number.
Both products in the right side of the interface difference is that the distribution of 2 USB interface, M-series due to the RJ45 interface design in the right side of the fuselage, so the two USB ports up and down layout, U disk from the current design, as well as external wireless The size of the mouse's USB interface point of view, although the layout of this space-saving, but there are still non-existent suspect, because the user is difficult to simultaneously use two USB ports; L series also exists such a problem, although side by side design, but two interfaces of the spacing is too small, there can not be used the same embarrassment. We see that the Toshiba Satellite Pro L40 battery right has a sealing of the RJ11 interface, this interface has been eliminated to the USB interface can actually make way, but this change will involve the redesign of the internal board, in order to save costs, manufacturers will normally be design compromise.
Body front-end interface design, L series retains the wheel volume control button Toshiba, and M series, the addition of a wireless Wi-Fi wireless switch.
Fifth, Toshiba L537 and M511 Operating Experience Comparison
Toshiba's Satellite M500 series and L series, in order to obtain a comfortable typing experience different from the past, using the upgrade improved keyboard, so that the fingertips touch the area increased. In addition, Toshiba M Series, has also joined the ECO energy-saving mode buttons, ECO Green user touch shortcut keys, you can activate the energy management program, such as turn off lights, lower the screen brightness, power to stop the port, in order to reduce power consumption the function. In addition, Toshiba inside the machine, and integrated TOSHIBA eco Utility software settings accordingly, but also see the power statistics, easy to implement energy management. In addition, Toshiba M-Series, also with three-dimensional hard disk protection technology, by the acceleration sensor 360 auto-sensing machinery vibration, drop collision when the machine can rapidly remove the head, to ensure data security.
Toshiba L series and M series keyboard layout is basically the same, but the shortcut keys design, L Series with the cost of physical buttons, M series uses a more tidy appearance of the LED-backlit touch-design, two identical function, touch control TOSHIBA TECRA 9000 battery design in a clean notebook, the more convenient. In addition, Toshiba L series is not designed fingerprint reader.
Summary
The evaluation of the two new Toshiba notebook i3, although the machine did not bring in appearance and a visual experience; but we still see through the performance test, with a new processor to Toshiba overall performance of the i3 improved a lot, even beyond the once high-end P-series processor. The price terms, i3 processor is more for the mass, Toshiba laptops in the price of these two the same in most of the users within the budget.
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