14 inch long fashion Samsung standby light X420 evaluation

14 inch long fashion Samsung standby light X420 evaluation.

Notebook computers are quickly into the light of age, more and more products available based on CULV platform, giving consumers more choice. Today, we are profiling the leading role of fashion--Samsung x series is Samsung X420, the overall performance of the machine and how the design and detail work well? Please pay attention to the following evaluation of the article.

14-inch Samsung X420 as a notebook, CULV-based platform, its slim form factor makes at first looks like, out of the General notebook loaded image on the Visual sense. Focus on thin and light notebook computer users except for the machine the appearance of thin and degree requirements, more concerned with overall performance and battery life capacity is able to meet their daily needs.

Slim overall look of fashion design

Samsung X420 designs revealed a simple beauty, although their entire bodies with classic black, but details of decoration is very well highlighted the fashion side. The machine uses a 14-inch, 16:9 LED LCD, resolution of 1366x768, built there is a 300,000 pixel webcam above the screen, user-friendly daily Internet use.

Shell is the normal paint process, mosaic in the Centre-the "Samsung" logo metal, highlighting the simplicity of design, screen border is different from that in the case of the matte black plastic, area surrounding the keyboard and palmrest is also used as material and screen border, feel more comfortable as a whole.

The weight, by our actual measurements, the total weight of the machine equipped with the 6-cell lithium-ion battery for 1.753kg, matching mini power adapter travel weight to 2.036kg, compared with the regular 14 inch notebook, underscored the good portability. In terms of thickness, we use calipers measure body 24.91 mm thickness, with the official value of a small deviation is given.

Details and interface design

Keyboard part, Samsung X420 uses the most popular chocolate keyboard, key moderate range, key distance is also more reasonable overall percussion feel soft, but it's still good, while the keyboard is also used a black tint, maintain unity on the whole color scheme. Keyboard area borders with metal banded design, makes the overall look much richer sense of fashion. Power switch above the keyboard area to the right, concave molding press feel great every time, while embedded with a blue light, user-friendly used in darker environments.

Touch pad, Samsung X420 is a very popular one design, metal material around key dash also adds to the sense of fashion, on the touch panel do not have too many embellishments, similarly to minimalist design highlights the whole stable, generous. Below the touch pad is designed with status led, followed by: caps lock, hard to read, the wireless network status, charge light and power on the system status led, edit view, design led, when users use the touchpad is blocked some lights, some inconveniences.

Interface, on the left side of the fuselage design: external power supply, RJ-45 cable interface, VGA interface, HDMI interface, as well as the audio input and output interfaces. And the right side of the fuselage arranged the security lock hole, three-in-one card reader and 3 USB 2 interface (SD/SDHC/MMC). Heat sink design outlet is on the left side of the fuselage, to avoid affecting the user's right hand operation, three USB interfaces at the same time we see the right side of the fuselage on the spacing of the design is reasonable, three USB port design on the fuselage side users will not be much impact on daily use.

General configuration and performance

Samsung X420 is equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor, at 1.3GHz, 800MHz front side bus, carrying the Intel GS45+ICH9MS chipset, 3GB DDR3 1066 memory, 320GB Hitachi hard drive and integrated Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card, and comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit version of the operating system.

SAMSUNG battery and thermal testing

Samsung X420 as CULV products natural on the power to significantly lower than conventional laptops, we first of all use EVEREST to see under low load, the machine's internal core temperature and high load running Cinebench to reach and then to view the internal core temperature while using infrared temperature gun on the surface of the keyboard area and test surface temperature at the bottom of the fuselage. cheap samsung laptop battery.

Battery life, Samsung X420 is equipped with a super large capacity of around 11.1V,66Wh,5900 mAh 6-cell lithium-ion battery, we use BatteryMark to test its life. First of all we will be Windows Vista power management system adjusted to power-saving mode, turn on the wireless network, and screen brightness to around 40%. Eventually we get test results for 6 hours and 13 minutes, although the Crown's 9-hour gap, but the good life we are satisfied, but can also meet the needs of users out of use for a long time.

Review summary:

Samsung X420 as a super thin and light notebook PCs based on CULV platform, its overall performance can meet user demand for daily use, strong life at the same time to ensure a good user of mobile, on the detail work is fine, and metallic borders and around key metal and fashion sense has been added to the design as a whole, overall design highlights the steady fashion.