Lenovo Z400 Touch Evaluation

Recent news shows that because of Microsoft's efforts to promote the Windows 8 system, the future of the new notebook products will be equipped with touch screen to bring a better sense of use. And for PC manufacturers, the original old model update configuration and then back to the market, is undoubtedly a time-saving method, which Lenovo IdeaPad Z400touch is such a product. It features a Windows 8 system that upgrades the screen to a touch screen that supports 10-point operations, and has a major performance and a massive 1TB hard drive. In addition, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch is still targeted at the low-end market products, the price of 599 U.S. dollars (about 3715 yuan) onwards. Of course, Low-cost laptops in the use of often need some compromise, then Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch is not the best choice? Let's take a look at the content.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch main configuration information:

· Intel Core i5-3230m processor with 2.6 GHz, 6GB RAM, integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics, built-in 1TB 5400 SATA Hard Drive

· 14-inch 10-point touch screen with 1366*768 pixel resolution

· Built-in 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi network card, Bluetooth 4.0

· Built-in HDMI, two USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and VGA interface, built-in DVD-burning optical drive and SD card reader

· Fuselage size 345*243*25 mm, weighing 2.3 kg

Shape design: The whole golden mean without the bright body is thicker

As a 14-inch notebook, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch is not a lightweight product, its fuselage size is 345*243*25 millimeter, weighs 2.3 kilograms, appears some bulky. Compared with other products with 14-inch touch screens, such as 2 kg hp Envy TouchSmart, 1.8 kg asus Vivobook S400ca, and 1.6 kg Toshiba Satellite u845t-s4165, Lenovo IdeaPad The touch is obviously a bit heavier. Of course, the price of a thin product is 130 to 200 dollars (about 806 to 1240 Yuan), and most of them do not have a built-in optical drive.

The overall shape design of Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch

At the same time, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch the shape of the design looks also relatively ordinary, not particularly beautiful. The laptop uses ABS engineering plastic, dark chocolate top and bottom, and a silver wrist; the normal brown keyboard and single power button look inconspicuous even though the keyboard does not use the square design of the rules. Although the top cover has a matte texture, it is still relatively easy to contaminate fingerprints and grease, requiring frequent cleaning and keeping clean.

Screen Effects: Screen display effect general touch operation Smooth

In our test, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch of the 14-inch 1366 *768 resolution screen effect is quite flat. When we enter the Windows 8 desktop, the default sunflower wallpaper appears the white status, until we will be adjusted to the screen about 30 degrees to improve, it can be seen that the visual angle is not ideal. In addition, when we play a 1080P resolution "Avengers Alliance" trailer, found that the United States captain Clothing blue, red, and black Widow hair color performance is not angry, the color effect is very dull.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch Screen display effect

If the Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch screen is kept within 45 degrees, the color effect is improved and a better visual angle can be obtained. However, due to the relatively low screen resolution, it is not able to obtain exquisite detail performance, such as in the apparent skin pores of the characters, let us have the impulse to replace the higher resolution display. In the brightness test, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch of the average brightness of 151 lux, this score is lower than the average 204 lux standard, in the comparison model is medium, lower than Toshiba Satellite U845T (174 lux), higher than Asus Vivobook S400CA (123 lux) and other models.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch screen brightness test scores

In the touch of the screen performance, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch has a good performance, the overall feel smooth and smoothly, you can in each program for smooth sliding switch, as well as multi-touch amplification and reduction operations. In addition, with 10-point touch enabled, you can also use 10 fingers to paint in a Windows Paint program.

Audio effect: Speaker design at the bottom of the main body effect

In terms of sound, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch the bottom of the fuselage is loud enough for the sound to fill the living room. When we tested with a bass music file, we found that the sound of drums and guitars was very clear, but with a slightly resounding effect, it seemed that the sound came from afar. Enabling Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 touch the built-in Dolby Home Theater v4 software, the sound becomes warmer but slightly distorted. In addition, with the speaker design at the bottom, if you put the notebook on the lap, the sound will become dull.

Keyboard and Touch Board design: Keyboard feel general Touch Board area is small

On the keyboard, Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch is less used than we expected. Compared to Yoga 11 and IdeaPad Y500 have excellent tactile feedback and solid input feelings of the Accutype keyboard, Z400 keyboard is obviously not flat, the bottom key in the input will have some sinking feeling. In addition, including the right SHIFT key and the BACKSPACE key area are smaller, some difficult to start. Even with these drawbacks, we still get a good score of 86 words per minute when we're typing with the test software, but the error rate is five times times higher than usual. On the bright side, the keyboard has a backlight function that can be turned on or off by the fn+ space key. However, backlight brightness is not adjustable, but we found that in most environments, are very bright.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch Keyboard Design

In our tests, the touch panel of 91*60 millimeters was not as good as we had expected. For example, when moving on the desktop, click on the icon, sometimes the adhesion situation, the pointer will suddenly stop, forcing us to repeat the operation again and again occasionally in the double-click Operation experienced some pointer slip out of the situation. In Windows 8 systems, gesture manipulation becomes very important, and in this connection IdeaPad Z400 Touch Touchpad experience is good, including a variety of sliding operations. However, because the touchpad area is small, it is easier to accidentally start the "charms" sidebar menu, you need to do as far as possible in the middle of the slide from right to left. While attracting support allows three to four fingers to flick open the Synaptics Touchpad configuration software, but we are always unable to do this properly.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch Panel design

In addition, Lenovo also equipped the machine with another gesture-handling program called Lenovo Smart Touchpad 2.0, which enables us to enable three or four finger gestures to "freeze" the contents of the screen, thus entering the translucent gray locking interface, and displaying the date time and the drip painted screen, The same operation can be returned to the original interface again. It's not a very practical feature, so it's easier to use Windows + L to lock the computer.