Monday, August 24, 2009

Killer Toshiba G501

As the most high-end series of Toshiba laptops, SATELLITE M70 SERIES Battery is naturally attracted so many people's eye.
Toshiba Qosmio G50 (G501) design a very personalized, oversized fuselage with the design patterns on shark appears arrogant, and the machine changed the material used is aluminum-magnesium alloy, the machine when placed there as a parking an aircraft carrier. Machine with the most hot-blooded red and black mix is entirely a fighting stance. 18.4-inch widescreen and standard resolutions up to 1920 × 1080, is what we often say the standard 1080p resolution HDTV like to see a friend to see this ratio should be able to heart laughed. Of course, as the price of the machine is 4.9kg weight.
While the Toshiba laptop has been such a configuration is all-powerful, but Toshiba Satellite l20 Series Battery is still the audio-visual notebook, 18.4TFT LCD wide-screen, standard resolution of 1920 × 1080 resolution, so that we can enjoy the best high-definition movies, do on the living room for a show of video and audio player, it is very appropriate.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Mocha charm Toshiba M901

Toshiba Portege recently launched a new series of the most popular machine of the M901 is its aesthetic appearance, and mocha brown yarn pattern Mu desire it very touching, and dual-core and single configuration significantly the performance of the performance is very good .
Satellite 6000 Series Battery using three-dimensional painting techniques, the unique three-dimensional patterns of wear-resistant, non-slip and put an end to the fingerprint impression, with a Mocha colored, it reflects the noble and elegant design. Toshiba Portege M901 using 13.3 inches of LED-backlit display, a resolution of 1280 × 800, the screen frame is also equipped with a camera, to support the face recognition function. Machine weighs only about 2.1kg, the series highlights the characteristics of light entertainment.
Performance, the Toshiba Portege M901 with Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor, Intel PM45 chipset, 2G DDR2 memory standard, 320GB SATA hard drive and double-layer recordable DVD drive, SATELLITE A100 SERIES Battery is used to support the largest expansion of memory 1G The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card, in the audio-visual and image processing aspects of the performance of a comprehensive and at the same time with a hard drive protection, overall performance is very comprehensive.
When the majority of notebooks in the form remains in the baking process, the Toshiba once again with the appearance of a unique interpretation of fashion and aesthetic integration of science and technology, this Toshiba Portege M901 working fine the whole, mainstream configuration to meet various needs of users in this price, though not as Dell and Acer to highlight cost-effective, but serious homogenization of the market, for those seeking stylish personalized users can do a unique aesthetic and performance notebook sound is the most important.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

13.3 inches of new aircraft alone significantly evaluation Toshiba Portege M901

Toshiba notebook computers will line divided into four series, respectively, from the main cost-effective, stylish thin and light, high-end professional audio and multimedia to meet the four different aspects of consumer demand, with 13 inches notebooks gradually mainstream thin and light as the main fashion Toshiba Portege Series series upgrade again, as before Portege M800 Series by the body size, has been used integrated graphics, but this year a new series of Toshiba Portege M900 series M800 series of upgrades to improve after the introduction of a new significant models of independence, an independent video card upgrade, the Toshiba Portege M901 with an effort to make the portable performance of the unity, let us take the following to learn more about the new Toshiba Portege M901.
First, the appearance of Toshiba M901 Review
Launched in 2009 as 13 inches of new products, SATELLITE M30 SERIES Battery can be seen as a series of upgraded models. And the difference is that before the M800, Toshiba M901 change in appearance of the material before piano lacquer in favor of a stronger sense of plastic mesh material, the official described as three-dimensional painting techniques, and materials before piano lacquer compared bring the advantage of wear-resistant, anti-skid properties to prevent fingerprint impressions, the actual use of touch in general feel, a sense of strong plastic.
Open the screen cap, M901 Yue-ran the eyes of the operating platform. From the overall look of the M901 platform and the fuselage before the appearance of the M800 series with the same materials, the only part of the operation with the A side material used as a plastic mesh material, hand A touch of the screen there is a clear subsidence in a sense, but the screen does not appear the water ripple, indicating that A surface with good space between the screen buffer of the external pressure on the A side.
Toshiba Satellite 6000 Series Battery continue to use the dive shaft design, the largest open-screen 130 °, down the shaft design allows the screen frame hidden under the rear fuselage, the user will not see the screen too, in order to obtain better vision operation.
As a standard 13.3-inch Toshiba M901 notebook models of the aspect ratio is fixed, because it is unique because of its significant control over the thickness of the more general, the current notebooks are thin and light toward the direction of development, Toshiba's M901 fuselage 31.8mm-38.2mm difficult or very satisfied with the thickness of the. Toshiba M901 travel weight: 2.7175Kg machine weight: 2.2355Kg
Toshiba M901 now look at the weight of the contrast from the above chart we can clearly see that the weight of Toshiba M901 in the current market in a 13 inches model where, in addition to its own integrated graphics for the Toshiba M803, other models models alone are significant. Although little difference between the weight, but as Toshiba's new M901 on the decline in weight is quite obvious.
Second, Toshiba M901 interface layout
The layout of the interface, the Toshiba M901 design quite satisfactory, it is regrettable that before the abolition of the very convenient to adjust the volume knob. The left side of the fuselage VGA interface, a USB2.0 interface, a complex E-SATA interface, HDMI interface and Express Card socket, this should be pointed out that the M901 compound E-SATA interface and HDMI interface is too close to the appearance of the interface who have some similar, so the user will have a process in the use of the wrong plug interface misoperation. The right side of the fuselage is burning double-sided drive, USB port, RJ45 Ethernet line interface, in addition, pa3356u-1bas battery in front of the fuselage to retain the multi-card reader, wireless LAN hardware switch, the majority of machine design before the M series continues the fine tradition.
In addition, the front fuselage Toshiba M901 also mention the savings of the multi-card reader, wireless LAN hardware switch, voice control elimination of some inconvenience, but for the user's day-to-day use or for the very humane.
Toshiba M901 sleep charging feature is available in the shutdown or dormant state of USB devices such as mobile phones or portable digital music players such as charge. This innovative feature will be added to the ever-changing modern life convenient, anytime, anywhere easy for your digital equipment charge.
Third, Toshiba M901 operating experience
Toshiba M901 feature set is also Shortcuts refreshing simplicity, only the top of the keyboard designed a row of touch buttons, which are a power switch, ECHO Power Plan, the media center, play / pause, rewind, fast forward, mute, and volume by by key.
Toshiba M901 to learn about the operation of hand. SATELLITE M70 SERIES Battery have been adjusted from the keyboard using the currently popular chocolate keyboard design, is also a key bit of non-standard notebook keyboard, the most in the right side of the keyboard with the arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn keys, but in the main control area and the general keyboard exactly the same. Touch at the keyboard, the Toshiba M901 keyboard a whole, and to place a long time, when typing in the fast would produce a certain noise. Keycap width trapezoidal unique touch button down Laguna design, the distance between the double bond wider, larger fingertip touch point.
Toshiba M901 touchpad mouse with the only difference is that before the increase in switch touchpad, touchpad another part of the formation of a unified control platform for the visual effects, the same is a striped appearance, but the stripes in the color difference between a certain . In addition, the touch on the touchpad of Toshiba M901 touch panels for the matte surface material, comfort control, and operation of the platform at the same time as a result of over-mixing, in operation there will be a regular phenomenon sector. The left and right mouse button overall.
Fourth, heat and configuration of the Toshiba M901
Toshiba M901 as a single 13 inches significant cooling is particularly important models, Toshiba PA3285U-1BRS Battery can control the heat. 28 degrees Celsius in air-conditioned office environment stand at room temperature for half an hour after the temperature, maximum temperature 36 degrees Celsius, it is estimated that hard drive, chip and other sources of heat are in this region. The left side of the higher temperature, especially near the main cooling modules, as well as delivery of regional air temperature above the temperature in the staff, I feel warm. Now when the summer, if the user takes a long time to enjoy 3D games, then large-scale, or to buy a base to prevent the body heat of fever.
Toshiba M901 from the bottom of the fuselage can be seen that the distribution of a very large heat into the air, forming a big ring layout, the final heat of the heat from the left side of the fuselage from the tuyere. Fuselage at the bottom of the material used is still high-strength engineering plastics, rather than magnesium alloy material, to some extent will affect the cooling effect.
In noise control, comparison of the Toshiba M901 to do well, even in high-definition player, the fan noise is not very obvious in a quiet environment suitable for use. In addition, the time to read DVD discs have a larger beginning of vibration, but the attribution of calm after a few seconds, the fuselage is not very clear vibration, noise smaller.
Toshiba PA3331U-1BRS Battery allocation uses the core Penryn Core 2 T6500 processor frequency to 2.10GHz, the processor with the current market price of the models are about 5,000. Single 2GB memory, a slot to remain empty for the user continue to escalate, despite the 2GB of memory on the current application of the notebook to be adequate, but single-channel memory to some extent will affect the memory performance of the complete play.
Toshiba M901 graphics cards using ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570, game in 3D and even in high-definition players have a strong guarantee. Capacity in the configuration is equipped with Toshiba from 5400 to 250GB SATA interface 2.5-inch drive is also fully shows the position of audio-visual entertainment and comprehensive audio-visual design of the family.
V. Toshiba M901 audio-visual and gaming experience
Audio connection, continue to use the Harman / kardon stereo speakers set up right and left sides in the top of the screen, forming the most direct sound field of the best; actual trial found that Toshiba's M901 pretty good sound effects, audio effects to make video games and the process of gives a good immersive experience.
In high-definition playback tests, we selected the high-definition H.264 format film "The Fast and the Furious" and "Transformers 2." Open the video decompression hardware when CPU occupancy rate is maintained at around 5-9 per cent, smooth screen, AMD Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics card, which is based on its performance is superior to the mainstream of today's significant in terms of low-end alone, At first we are still amazed at the performance of the Geforce G105M, at this time there have been mountain mountain high, and competition always brought us better products.
Test items in the game, we select the current more popular "Street Fighter 4" for testing, to pass the test can see that we have the resolution set to 1280 × 800, all the cards to open all the special effects in the case of the average number of frames in the game about 32, "Street Fighter 4" is a need for games to reach a stable 60 frames of the game, in the tests we can see that the HD4570 high-definition and can not be reached under the requirements of 60, if the user must also play can only choose to sacrifice quality and reduce the cost of resolution.
World of Warcraft is currently the mainstream ultra-large-scale 3D online games, a lot of Warcraft players to buy notebooks in time for the consultation said that I would buy Toshiba PA3383U-1BRS Battery can run World of Warcraft, Toshiba M901 used while positioning HD4570 significant entry alone, But running such a network is absolutely no problem with the game through game screenshots can be seen in a resolution of 1280 × 800, medium effects, the relatively open game scenes, the frame remained at about 58, in the more complicated game interface frames to keep the game in 43, if the maximum effects of all options, as well as the shadow of mirror-effects, then it is quite open card.
Sixth, performance evaluation, Toshiba M901
Brief description of the test platform: Install the English version of Windows Vista Ultimate operating system, install the necessary chipset drivers, graphics drivers, sound card drivers and network card drivers, etc.; the closure of Vista Sidebar, the closure of ORC, screensavers closed, the closure of hibernation, shut down the system Update and other Automatic Updates settings; desktop background as a solid color, select and set the highest performance model of batteries; highest performance mode of the system; for C, such as Disk Defragmenter disk.
Hot from the current processor to the sub-notebook computers, mainly for low-end processor T4000 Pentium dual-core series, in the high-end P7000 and P8000 for the series, for high-end T9000 series, the new pa3107u-1bas battery processor to deal with the mainstream of the current mid-range level Although the T6500 does not support Intel Virtualization technology, do not belong to the scope of Centrino 2 processors, but good value for money and popularity for a wide variety of notebook or make a "core" dirty.
Through CPU-Z Show, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor for the Penryn core, 45nm process, 2.1GHz of frequency, 2MB secondary cache and 800MHz front side bus, the maximum support of SSE4.1 instruction set, power consumption is 35W, TDP and the FSB to be behind the P series processor, the main applications for the mainstream, such as the Internet, office or home audio and video entertainment.
At present, all of the HD 4000 series graphics cards are the core 55nm process, support for DX10.1 and OpenGL 2.0, integrated hardware decoding engine UVD2 and integrated 7.1-channel HDMI modules, DisplayPort output support, support for PowerPlay, PowerXpress, Swithable Graphics series energy-saving technologies, but the most low-end Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series Avivo HD technology, the lack of DVD Upscaling and dynamic contrast ratio.
Performance in the test machine, Vista Experience Index Score can be said to be the most intuitive, and 5.0 from the low memory components, 2G memory effect of short boards, and other items were also above the level of 5, especially the graphics card game score of 5.3 performed well, the scores of 5.0 in total support of the Toshiba M901 to Vista very smoothly opens all kinds of effects, including glass Aero 3D desktop effects and special effects, although short-board 2GB memory effect appears relatively low scores, but the overall system is running very smooth, pa3285u-1brs battery is no slack and stop the.
Card test: In the NVIDIA officially launched GeForce 100M after the latest mobile GPU series, ATI has also released Radeon HD 4000 series of mobile GPU. AMD launched the Radeon HD 4000 Series Mobility Radeon HD 4800/4600/4500/4300, including several series, include low-end high school as the entry-level ATI graphics cards, 3Dmark06 test results from the point of view, a good performance, 1024 × 768 in resolution 4429 of the total balance of performance, such as World of Warcraft game for easy operation.
Toshiba M901 uses HD4570 graphics card with a 55nm process, the number of 242 million transistors, compared to the number of HD 3470 to 181 million transistors, so the new core area of graphics has improved. Another significant improvement is the number of Shaders, the new HD4570 Shaders reached number 80 (V4.1), while the HD 3470 is only 40, graphics core frequency, the Sony NW-18H used the HD4570 frequency of 680MHz and use of DDR3 memory, a capacity of 512MB, through 3Dmark 06 test results can look at the performance of the graphics, the game is to test the previous chapter also illustrates this point, to cope with the current mainstream of the network and can be stand-alone game.
I believe that the performance of Toshiba SatelliteM901 very interested, especially the true performance of HD4570. First of all, the test machine, T6400 processor + Centrino 2 platform and the latest single is a balanced combination significantly the whole performance, especially in the PCMark05 test, all test results are very powerful, especially the graphics part of a breakthrough 6K mark . However, in Vista experience index, and the graphics are the mark of more than five minutes, Aero brilliant special effects, such as the smooth running, with Centrino 2's high-performance advantages, Toshiba SatelliteM901 system running Vista is very smooth, responsive system.
In MobileMark2007 test, the Toshiba M901 screen brightness is about 80%, pa3331u-1brs battery can stand about 3 hours about 13 inches as a significant model of independence, the performance can be. In the PCMark test, Penryn core T6500 processor has shown good strength; memory achievement is also more prominent, but still have a lot of room; graphics quite good achievements, the balance to a certain extent, between the various sub-system performance, making the machine more powerful performance of high performance hard drives are good.
7, Toshiba M901 Evaluation Summary:
Toshiba M901 is a standard neutral model of audio-visual entertainment, at first glance, M901 Toshiba does not seem to have too many bright spots, but in practice such as the use of audio-visual touch controls make the user feel a nuanced humanity care. In addition to independent ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570-based graphics performance hit, but also allow users to be able to "use, the use of the good." The only thing I ever felt uncomfortable in the body is the weight of the Toshiba M901 as well as the thickness of a little lack of respect , in the overall effectiveness of some poor.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

16-inch Toshiba Satellite L582 notebook

     Advantages: the use of ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics card, double DVD burner drive, the price cheap, the overall performance of the average
     Disadvantages: slightly larger than the heat
     With the hardware level, a growing number of users to choose a notebook computer as their office, the main entertainment, but the traditional compared with 14,15-inch screen 22,24 inch popular liquid crystal display, the display area significantly reduced so that the user in audio and video playback, gaming and other entertainment in a bad mood, they often feel greatly. Some notebook manufacturers to see the needs of users, the introduction of a number of large-size LCD screen to configure the notebook computer products, but the prices of these products are generally high, directly hindered it from becoming a user desktop replacement process.
     As New Toshiba one of 09 summer, Satellite L582 16-inch screen, Pentium dual-core T4200 processor, 2GB memory, 250GB hard drive, and ATI HD4570 graphics card configuration appear in public before, but the most attractive is that users the prices of products. Low prices in order to attract the attention of users, the Toshiba Satellite L582 The hardware configuration is sufficient to cope with the vast majority of the mainstream of the current application.
     Satellite L582 popular uses titanium silver tan color scheme and membrane transfer technology, SATELLITE 6000 SERIES Battery allows the entire product with a more stylish gas. As a result of the LED backlit screen, so the thickness of this product is very well controlled. However, subject to the 16-inch screen size, the Satellite L582 The fuselage size and weight can be described as a "super" of.
     The official Toshiba notebook nominal size of the fuselage for the 383 × 259 × 35.5-39.2mm, our actual test data for the 377 × 252 × 34-37mm. Body weight for the official nominal 2.7Kg, we have the actual test data for 2.84 and 3.382Kg, such as volume and weight of this decision is a genuine desktop replacement, but by virtue of their relative merit of the hardware configuration example, Toshiba pa3356u-1bas battery should be able to serve as the perfect alternative to the desktop role.
A surface of the Satellite L582 membrane transfer technology used with the paint effects, TOSHIBA LOGO huge silver color metal used with the Titan A silver surface to form a very sharp contrast with the surface so that the stripe pattern A face does not appear because it is too large and inflexible. Satellite L582 whole Department of the corner after slick handling, does not work because the price was low and had shrunk.
     B surface and A surface using the same color scheme, on both sides of the border around the screen a little narrow, and the next frame will be a number of relatively wide, to support the priorities identified face camera is designed to screen in the middle is the border.
     Satellite L582 C-face using a silver-white color of the main colors, at the same time, there is also the face twill pattern with the A face echo, black and silver keyboard掌托white, border colors in sharp contrast.
     The top of the keyboard is the power switch Satellite L582 player and multimedia shortcut keys, the user can use these shortcut keys to cope with random audio and video software, video player, and two relatively large area of the speaker to be arranged respectively in the two shortcut keys side of the fuselage near the edge of the place.
     As the body has enough size, the Satellite L582 in the use of a standard notebook keyboard design, but also additional digital keyboard, you can work for the user to increase the convenience and entertainment.
     Satellite L582 surface of the touch pad is also used Prodenia design, with the overall style of it is unified, integrated touch pad design, support for multi-point touch, with an area of relatively large, very easy to use.
     And keyboard design, the Satellite L582 as to provide sufficient body size, so this product of the interface is not so cramped layout, for example, the right side of the fuselage between the two USB interfaces have a certain distance to ensure that the user can use two large USB device.
     The left side of the fuselage, Satellite L582 provides a D-SUB output, an RJ-45, 1 months HDMI, 1 months eSATA / USB interface and a set of composite audio input and output interfaces. The right side in the fuselage, double DVD recordable drive next to the two USB interfaces and Power Interface. quickly adjust the volume and the design of multi-card reader was the front left side of the fuselage in the location of the use of user-friendly.
     And the majority of notebook products, the Satellite L582 The back of the fuselage is also provided for the user to upgrade memory and hard drive may be, through the dismantling map we can see that the center line at the bottom of the left side of the fuselage is the core of this product regional components, processors, motherboard chipsets and graphics cards are located in the independence of the region, and the location of the memory slots at the bottom of the product across the center line, the hard disk was placed in the middle of the right side of the region.
pa3384u-1brs battery provides two memory slots available to users, this product in accordance with a standard 2GB of memory to balance capacity, users simply have to buy a 2GB memory alone can achieve the purpose of performance, rather than as only one of those memory slot products, the need to give up original memory to be upgraded.
     In performance, this product with the frequency for the 2.0GHz Pentium Dual-Core T4200 processor, 2GB DDRII Memory, Intel GM45 chipset, 250GB hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics card, DVD burner drive double to 10 / 100Mbps Ethernet card and Realtek 802.11g wireless card, so that the configuration to meet most of the mainstream of the current application.
     L582 using Intel Pentium dual-core T4200 processor, this processor using the latest 45nm process technology, Penryn core architecture, frequency 2.0GHz, the secondary cache to 1MB. Group in the chip, L582 uses the Intel GM45 + ICH9M with.
     Graphics processing system is the use of ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 graphics card with SEC3041 Samsung 16-inch large-size LCD screen, the screen resolution of 1366x768 pixels. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card is based on the derivative version of 55nm RV710 core, built 242 million transistors, 80 stream processors, 8 texture units, 4 units of grating to support anti-aliasing 12x CFAA does not support CrossFireX. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 works with 64-bit GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory, support for DX10.1 and OpenGL 2.0, integrated hardware decoding engine UVD2 in support of PowerPlay, PowerXpress, Swithable Graphics series of energy-saving technology, TDP in the 13W or so.
     Storage systems, SATELLITE L20 SERIES Battery comes standard with a single 2GB DDR2 800 memory, for the vast majority of users, such as the amount of memory sufficient to run Windows Vista with the most commonly used software to meet most of the mainstream at the same time the application is more than 3D games. But for some gamers, this memory capacity to run large-scale 3D game or a bit less time, so L582 also provides an additional expansion slot, users can expand the memory capacity to improve system performance.
     While the hard disk is equipped with a 250GB Toshiba MK2555GSX hard drive, in addition to mass storage has a capacity of 250GB, the piece of spin at 5400 rpm hard drive also supports SATA-II interface, ICH9M can be achieved with a faster transfer rate of 3.0Gbps.
     Network communication capabilities, due to price reasons, L582 only been in use for Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11b / g wireless card and Realtek RTL8102/8103 10/100M network card with the way some of the wireless network card can only support 802.11b / g protocol, the maximum speed can reach 54Mbps.
     In the interface and the expansion of capacity, L582 laptop has a USB2.0 interface 2, a D-SUB, 1 months eSATA/USB2.0, 1 months HDMI interface, an RJ-45 and 1 audio, microphone interface, In addition, a built-in 4-in-1 card reader, the vast majority of users to meet the needs of day-to-day use.