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.
