2013 Spring Notebook Shopping Guide

Nowadays, the speed of the replacement of notebook computers has risen sharply, we can see many kinds of products in the market, each product has its own characteristics. For buyers, buy any product will be compared before, if you are a more familiar with the digital products of friends, then for the product performance, will be more than others have more to understand, in the choice of buying time will naturally be more relaxed, but if you are novice? Don't be afraid, After careful reading of the 2013 Spring Buying Guide, specially written by industry professionals, you may be helpful. The guide describes some high-end, mid-range, cost-effective, affordable equipment, including some with touch screen products, of course, there are game pc, in short, in a variety of categories. I believe that after reading this guide, you will definitely choose your favorite baby. Below, let's take a look at the specific content of the article together.

Touch Device article

　　Convertible type

As the name implies, a convertible refers to a laptop computer that can be rotated or taken off with its design, making its entire fuselage or its screen a single tablet mode, which we call "convertible." "At first we found the Asus Taichi and MSI Slidebook S20, but later found that this is not what we want, after our various investigation and analysis, finally selected 2 of the recommended convertible laptop, at least at present, the two is definitely the best choice."

1. Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA 13

The YOGA 13 is the first convertible laptop to run the WINDOWS8 operating system. is also one of the best products. However, Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA 13 is not perfect, 5.5 hours of battery life makes it at this point in the end of other opponents, but its excellent fashion design and comfortable keyboard experience has been recognized and loved, and thus obtained their own market. When you convert it, you can take its screen and turn the keyboard part back to the screen to make it a tablet (tablet mode). Alternatively, you can turn the keyboard part into a cradle, parallel to the desktop, and make the entire body V-shaped (upright mode). Alternatively, users can put yoga 13 in a-shaped branch on the desktop for viewing video or reading.

Anyway, Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA 13 is one of the most memorable and outstanding convertible laptops we have seen so far. Only hope that Lenovo Company will be able to design the second generation of products more perfect, repair the shortcomings of its battery, if it can be equipped with a 1080p resolution of the screen that is better.

Benefits: Unique fashion Design and comfortable keyboard experience make this WINDOWS8 convertible laptop an unforgettable classic device.

Specification configuration: Intel Dual core Core i7-3537u processor and intel® HD4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 2GHz, with 4GB to 8GB memory space, 128GB-256GB internal storage space, with a resolution of 1,600 X 900 13.3-inch IPS touchscreen.

Price: Lenovo official website from the price of 999 dollars (about 6159 yuan)

2. Dell XPS 12

Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA 13 is a device that is more flexible in design, and Dell XPS 12 is one of the most comprehensive of the devices we have tested. When you don't want to use it as a touch notebook, you just flip its screen to the back and merge the screen part with the keyboard part, and the XPS 12 instantly becomes a 12-inch tablet. In use, we find that the device is a little bulky, but it doesn't matter when it's turned into a tablet. Even if you never use it in tablet mode, Dell XPS 12 is still a great 1,920, with its comfortable backlit keypad, a touchscreen with an X 1,080 resolution and extremely strong performance that makes it worth it.

Advantage: Even if you don't use the device often in tablet mode, XPS12 is still a great super-pole. Its comfortable keyboard, clear display effect and elegant design, really become a bright spot.

Specification configuration: Intel Dual core Core I7-3537U processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 2GHz, with 4GB to 8GB memory space, 128GB-256GB internal storage space, with a resolution of 1,920 X 1,080 12.5-inch touchscreen.

Price: 1200 USD (approximately RMB 7398) from Dell's official website.

　　High-end notebooks

Perhaps the safest way for PC makers is to make touch notebooks. They may not be sure whether the type of consumer preference is a slide-down design, a hybrid design or a convertible design, but creating a touch-screen notebook preinstalled into the WINDOWS8 operating system looks like a simple decision. Acer S7, Toshiba Satellite p945t and Sony Vaio T13, for example, are all touch-screen notebooks running the WINDOWS8 operating system, basically upgrading their older versions and adding touch controls, but we have not chosen to highlight them. In addition, we gave up the recommended Acer Aspire S7, a device released last June, because of its short battery life problems being questioned by the public.

1. Asus Zenbook PRIME ux31a TOUCH

Asus Zenbook PRIME ux31a is already powerful when the ultra-polar is not yet equipped with a touchscreen. The next one is the Samsung Series 9. It features an IPS screen with a resolution of 1,920 X 1,080 and an extremely avant-garde design that impresses. Today, ASUS has updated its trackpad to make it more perfect and reliable. The only thing that is regrettable is that its battery life has always been mediocre, which is a problem for most devices

Advantage: A close to the perfect ultra-polar, compared with the same specifications of the product, the price is cheaper.

Specification configuration: Intel Dual core Core i7-3517u processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 1.9GHz, with 4GB memory space, 128GB or 256GB of internal storage space, with a resolution of 1,920 X 1,080 13.3-inch touchscreen.

Price: Starting at $1099 (about 6775 RMB)

2. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 CARBON TOUCH

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch is another hyper-polar book that has been upgraded to add touch controls. The same case as before, the original X1 carbon has attracted me deeply. This 14-inch device is very thin and can be called a slim version of the former. The keyboard design of the new X1 carbon is different from before and has been redesigned to make it more portable. Our focus is on the 14-inch display with a resolution of 1,600 x 900, which allows the user to have a wider viewing angle.

Advantage: A popular business touch super-book.

Specification configuration: Intel Dual core I7-3667U processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 2GHz, with 4GB to 8GB memory space, 128GB internal storage, with a resolution of 1,600 X 900 14-inch touchscreen.

Price: Lenovo official website from the price of 1319 dollars (about 8131 yuan)

3. HP Spectre XT TOUCHSMART

Hewlett-Packard may have its own unique insight into the manufacture of laptops, but so far they have not released any ultra-high-definition hyper-book. In addition to the most outstanding product should be envy Spectre, the machine uses a resolution of 1,600 x 900 display. At present, the company is developing a better Spectre XT TouchSmart, which will be equipped with a 15-inch 1080p IPs touch screen. As we expected, its screen design is very fashionable, and effectively avoids the previous color alignment problems. In addition, the machine is made of all-metal material, almost similar to the previous Spectre series, and still equipped with a comfortable and beautiful keyboard. The only flaw is the battery life.

Advantage: HP's first 1080p super-book, priced at $1200 (about 7398 yuan). In addition to the disadvantages of battery life, it can almost satisfy any of your desires.

Specification configuration: Intel Dual core Core i7-3517u processor and Intel HD Graphics 4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 1.9GHz, with 4GB to 8GB memory space, 128GB to 256GB SSD hard drives or 500GB internal storage plus an optional 32GB SSD drive with a 15.6-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080.

Price: 1200 USD (approximately RMB 7398) from HP official website

4. Samsung Ativ Book 7 (formerly Series 7 Ultra)

Samsung electronic This name, I believe you are very familiar with. Its release of the Samsung SERIES9 super-Ben had aroused a positive response. Today, Samsung is busy trying to expand its lineup. ATIV Book 7 is the first product to be added to the Series7 family. The product is extremely demanding in terms of performance, most portable devices are equipped with the Intel integrated HD4000 picture processor, and the SERIES7 series is equipped with an AMD Radeon HD 8570M discrete graphics card with 1GB memory. With a 13.3-inch 1080p display, the user immediately has a high-quality device that is great whether you use it to watch movies or play games or run other tasks. But this product left us with 2 questions: What's the battery life? What would it be like without 8GB memory support?

Advantages: Samsung's new ultra-polar is not only in the design of the outstanding, its graphics card is a powerful type to meet the current needs of the major games.

Specification: Dual core I5-3337U processor with 1.8GHz frequency and AMD Radeon HD 8570M Graphics (1GB) image processor, with 4GB memory space, 128GB internal storage space, with a resolution of 1,920 X 1,080 13.3-inch display.

Price: Best Buy $1000 (about 6165 RMB)

5. Toshiba Kirabook

Having been fed up with the reputation of a cheap laptop, Toshiba finally decided to speak for itself and change his impressions in everyone's eyes. Recently, Toshiba has released a high-end device named Kirabook, which features a 13-inch ultra-high-definition pixelpure touchscreen, with a resolution of up to 2560 x 1440 and pixel density up to 221PPi. And the device has been carefully designed by Toshiba, regardless of form, material or keyboard. The device is priced at $1600 (about 9864 yuan), and for this price, Toshiba's head gives a strong reason: "The Toshiba technical support team will ensure that 24 hours for users to solve any technical problems, and each user's phone will be answered within 45 seconds." Users will also receive a 2-year standard warranty and Norton Antivirus access, plus a full set of Adobe Photoshop Elements (Adobe is the new image editing, photo retouching, and web graphics solution after Photoshop) Software and premiere elements video clip software. ”

Advantage: Currently the only one, with such Ultra HD resolution of the Windows System Ultra-high.

Configuration: Dual core core I7-3537U CPU processor and intel® HD4000 image processor with a maximum frequency of 2GHz, with 8GB memory space and 256GB internal storage, with a resolution of 2,560 X 1,440 13.3-inch Ultra HD pixelpure touch screen.

Price: Starting at $1600 (about RMB 9864), it will be available on May 12, 2013.

　　Mid-range Products

If you spend 1200 dollars (about 7398 yuan) to buy a touch-screen super-book, it is difficult for you, do not hesitate, please join the ranks of the mid-range products. According to the current market situation, 2013 can be said to be the mid-touch notebook of the year, its price range hovering at 600 U.S. dollars (about 3699 yuan)-700 U.S. dollars (about 4315 yuan) between. Of course, not all products are ultra-polar, but it can be guaranteed that all products are said to be small and lightweight.

1. HP Pavilion TOUCHSMART 15Z

HP is not a company that sells low-priced WINDOWS8 equipment, but they do produce this level of product---HP Pavilion TOUCHSMART 15Z. The machine uses AMD devices to reduce the overall price. From the point of view of battery life, AMD chips often do not match Intel processors, but AMD standalone graphics have a much stronger improvement than Intel HD4000 chips.

Advantage: HP Pavilion TOUCHSMART 15Z is the cheapest in the same level touchscreen notebook.

Spec configuration: Four-core AMD a8-4555m APU (accelerator processor) and Amdradeon HD 7600G image processor with 6GB-8GB memory space and up to 1TB internal storage or up to 256GB SSD SSD with a resolution of 1,366 X 768 15.6-inch display.

Price: 650 USD (approximately RMB 4007) from HP official website

2. Asus Vivobook S400

In the middle-end notebook market, there must be ASUS company figure. When Asus released Vivobook notebooks, people were attracted by the price of about $600 (about 3699 yuan), and probably no one would have imagined that ASUS products would be so cheap. But it did happen, and it was right in front of us. The final price of $650 (about RMB 4007) will allow you to get a touch-based ultra-high-end product from ASUS. The machine features a 14-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,366 x 768, a 500GB HDD plus 24GB SSD, plus an optional core i3, i5 and i7 processor. If users want to choose a smaller product, Asus is also selling a 11.6-inch Vivobook S200, which is powered by a core i3 processor, but this is not one of our main push products.

Advantage: Technically, this device is not called a super-pole, if you can accept the fact, Asus Vivobook S400 is indeed a choice. It is also worth noting that Asus Vivobook S400 can actually offer many of the same experiences as high-end machines.

Spec configuration: Up to 1.9GHz with Intel Dual core Core i7-3517u processor and Intel HD 4000 image processor, with 2GB-4GB memory space up to 500GB internal storage plus 24GB SSD SSD with a resolution of 1 , 366 x 768 of the 14-inch display.

Price: Amazon sells for $659 (about 4062 RMB)

3. Lenovo IdeaPad U310 TOUCH

Remember last summer, we had a review of IdeaPad U310, and we did not include it in the "Favorite Products" category. This low-priced mid-range product is slightly bulky compared to other flagship models, and its battery life is not the best. However, when the machine has been carefully crafted, it has a comfortable keyboard and high-quality touch panel, the use of relatively reliable. So we decided to recommend this U310 touch to everyone. If users need more powerful devices, Lenovo also provides users with 14-inch Z400 and 15-inch Z500, all equipped with discrete graphics cards, up to 8GB of memory and 1TB of internal storage space.

Advantage: Lenovo IdeaPad U310 Touch is a very well-worth to buy products, high cost performance.

Configuration: Up to 2GHz dual core I7-3537U processor and Intel HD 4000 image processor, with 4GB memory space, up to 500GB internal storage plus 24GB SSD SSD, with a resolution of 1,366 X 768 13.3-inch display.

Price: Lenovo official website from the price of 655 dollars (about 4038 yuan)

Low-end devices

ASUS Vivobook X202E-DH31T

For this device, no one can guarantee the high-end of its performance, because it is not a high-end products, and its low price is precisely proof of this. The truth is, as long as you don't take ASUS Vivobook X202E-DH31T performance with a $700 (about 4315 yuan) of equipment, this running WINDOWS8 operating system touch notebook should be your best choice.

Advantage: At such a low price, it is impossible to buy any other product of the same grade.

Specification: Dual Core Intel Core i3-3217u processor with 1.8GHz clock and Intel HD 4000 picture processor, with 4GB memory space and 500GB of internal storage space, a 11.6-inch display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768.