Toshiba 15 inch L50 Entertainment This evaluation

Toshiba is one of the established manufacturers of Japanese laptops, and since its first notebook computer T1100 has been released for nearly 30 years, many of the classic products have left a deep impression on people. This year, a Toshiba launched by the home of the satellite l50-a has become the market users focus on products.

Satellite series is Toshiba positioning in the mainstream and home entertainment product line, and the L series is a series of bright color in recent years, the series has a colorful shell and more fashionable appearance design, pay attention to product in the visual performance, more popular with young users, is also one of Toshiba's best-selling series.

Recently we have also received this Toshiba Satellite L50-A evaluation prototype, the designation suffix is l50-at03w. From the configuration, Toshiba Satellite L50-a has the standard pressure Ivy Bridge architecture processor, and equipped with the powerful NVIDIA Geforce gt740m independent graphics card, the machine configuration is more attractive, and from the design point of view, this notebook computer positioning is higher, With beautiful design and excellent machine workmanship. At present, this product has not yet entered the market sales, the following we will be together with you first to understand it.

Configuration table

White Design Atmosphere Elegant

Toshiba Satellite L50-a is a 15.6-inch design of the mainstream entertainment, from the appearance of the white design throughout, and in the product's a and palm support area of the film in the surface of the printing technology, so that the overall shape of the atmosphere there is no lack of level of feeling, hand-touch experience is relatively smooth. A-side of the Toshiba English logo in the product open use can be displayed in the outside, so that the brand more prominent.

Toshiba Satellite L50-a Machine size is not small, although compared to the previous thickness of the product has been significantly reduced, but because it is 15 inch mold, so its measurements still reached the level of 378x244x26.4mm, the fuselage is the thinnest place for 24.5mm, the weight of the machine has reached 2.3kg. Such a size and weight for a home is said to be considered as a decent.

The rotary shaft part Toshiba Satellite L50-A uses the common sinking type hinge, the opening angle is about 135 degrees.

Because it is a built-in optical drive model, Toshiba Satellite L50-a on both sides of the interface layout is still relatively close. The left side is equipped with power connector, cable interface, a USB2.0 interface and a DVD burning optical drive. On the right is the standard Kensington laptop lock slot, thermal outlet, VGA output, HDMI output, two USB3.0 interface (one of the front-designed support shutdown charging), microphone port and headphone port.

The Toshiba Satellite L50-a has a working status indicator on the right side of the fuselage, and a multi-card reader is provided just below the LED, facilitating the exchange of data using memory cards.

The more unreasonable point to mention here is that the Toshiba Satellite L50-a will dissipate heat out of the air outlet design on the right side of the fuselage, although in a relatively close position, but in the case of high load of the heat emitted will give right-handed users of the mouse to bring some discomfort.

In addition to providing a Memory upgrade window, the Toshiba Satellite L50-a's entire back is integrated, the battery also uses a non-removable built-in design, I believe this is to reduce the thickness of the compromise made. The same design style as in the past, Toshiba Satellite L50-a The bottom of the product is also marked with a variety of relevant information, but also more intimate paste to remind users of the bottom will be hot, avoid prolonged contact and scald tips.

Excellent experience with a small keyboard operation

Toshiba Satellite L50-a equipped with a screen is a 15.6-inch, 1366x768 resolution of the LED mirror large screen, the actual display effect of the screen is quite good, the restore performance of the color is better, but the resolution is low, and the visual angle is more common. In addition, because to be consistent with the machine, Toshiba Satellite L50-a's screen is surrounded by a white border, in use may distract the user's attention.

Opening the Toshiba Satellite L50-a, we can see that it is equipped with a 101-key chocolate keyboard with a numeric keypad, square's key cap design and moderate spacing allow the input experience to be guaranteed. And in the CAPS LOCK, NUM lock and other keys also set the light, a glance can see if it is open, to avoid the occurrence of input errors. However, in the key settings, the computer's individual keys and common notebook computer has a certain difference, the use of a certain time to adapt.

The addition of the keypad area has brought a better usability to this notebook, especially when dealing with financial calculations, entering passwords and so on, the existence of the keypad can bring great convenience to use. In addition, there are more options for gamers to set up shortcut keys.

Because the right side incorporates the keypad area, the touchpad settings of the Toshiba Satellite L50-a are not in the center of the fuselage, but in the left-hand position. Because of the ample space, the area of the trackpad is also relatively large. It incorporates the right and left key design to support gesture manipulation. More commendable is that the machine also hides a touch pad switch, as long as double-click on the upper left corner to make a power-on/off trackpad operation, when not required to use the trackpad can be easily set up through here, and when the lights are turned off also prompted.

DTS Sound + Bridge high-quality speakers

As a home entertainment book, Toshiba Satellite L50-a not only has a beautiful big screen, but also has a targeted design in terms of sound. The software supports DTS sound conditioning, while the hardware is equipped with the Onkyo high-quality loudspeakers that are commonly used on Toshiba laptops for better sound performance.

The actual use of Toshiba Satellite L50-a process, the author used it to watch a film, played some of the tests used in the repertoire, the total experience, Toshiba Satellite L50-a Sound in the city's laptops are sold in the upper and middle level, Sound volume and sound clarity are quite good.

Split Screen Helper

Toshiba Satellite L50-a has a variety of Toshiba unique software tuning functions. One of the more noteworthy is the split-screen assistant. Through this function, we can divide the screen into up to 9 display areas, each area of the work independently, do not interfere with each other, can be a good job to improve office efficiency.

Eco Utility Program

In addition, Toshiba Satellite L50-a has always been equipped with the eco-use program on Toshiba computer, it can monitor the consumption of electricity, more reasonable distribution of electricity, effectively prolong the battery life and time.

The main machine configuration

As an entertainment laptop for locating home users, Toshiba Satellite L50-a's hardware configuration is also more mainstream. Our evaluation of this l50-at03w is equipped with the Ivy Bridge architecture of the Intel Core i5 3320M processor, equipped with 4GB DDR3 1600 memory, display aspects in addition to the processor built-in Intel HD Graphics 4000, It also features an Nvidia Geforce gt740m discrete graphics card with 2GB of video memory, and a 750GB high-capacity hard disk for storage.

From the processor, the Core i5 3320M processor uses 22 nm process, TDP design 35W, the default frequency of 2.6GHz, through the core frequency up to 3.3GHz, in addition to it also has a 3MB level three cache, performance is more reliable. The Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card, which is integrated within the processor, has good hardware transcoding capabilities, and the game performance is sufficient to meet the needs of some 3D games.

In terms of display, the NVIDIA Geforce gt740m discrete graphics card belongs to Nvidia's mid-to-high-end products on the Kepler architecture and, compared to the previous Nvidia Geforce gt640m, it has been significantly improved on a moderate frequency and has improved performance, shrinking with Nvidia Geforce gt650m the Gap. With the addition of such a video card, Toshiba Satellite L50-a can open its arms to some of the major big games.

Machine Performance Test

In order to consider the actual performance of this notebook, we also have a series of performance tests for Toshiba Satellite L50-a.

Let's start by looking at the experience Index of the Windows 8 operating system to understand the actual performance of this notebook. In Windows 8, the Toshiba Satellite L50-a processor is divided into 7.1, the others are lower than this level, the machine is the bottleneck of the graphics options, the score is only 4.8, this is the Intel HD Graphics 4000 as a graphics card scores, In addition to the memory score of 5.9, if the memory can be upgraded to dual channel, then the above two sections of the score should also be a significant increase. Hard drive because it is a traditional mechanical hard disk, so scored only 5.9 points, if the speed of the requirements of friends can consider upgrading solid-state drives.

Next we use the authoritative test software cinebench R10 to test the performance of the whole machine. CINEBENCH R10 is an industry-convincing test system that tests the performance of a computer's processor and graphics through its high-precision 3D scene and special effects software engine, and can test single-core single-threaded performance and multi-core or multi-threaded scoring based on processor core differences. In addition, you can test the OpenGL performance of the video card.

In the final test results of the Cinebench R10, the Toshiba Satellite L50-a single processor is divided into 4752, multi-processor reached 11188, performance compared to force.

Next we use Futuremark to launch the professional-grade system test software PCMark 7. The PCMark 7 is a benchmark software released by Futuremark in 2011 and contains 25 separate work items covering the daily applications of storage, computing, image and video processing, web browsing, gaming, and specifically optimized for solid state drives, more in line with current trends.

Toshiba Satellite L50-a in the PCMark 7 test score reached 3346, performance is excellent, if the replacement of solid-state drive believe there will be better results.

In the display section of the test we chose the Futuremark new evaluation software 3DMark. As a newly released product, the 3DMark is named to return to its roots, removing the suffix completely. In the test session, the 3DMark is also divided into multiple scene modes, rather than in the form of letters named in the past. Three scenarios include "Fire Strike", "Cloud Gate", and "Ice Storm", respectively, corresponding to different levels of hardware devices. Each scene runs down to get a separate score (Fire strike has two), the scores of different scenes can not be directly compared.

For mainstream laptops such as Toshiba Satellite L50-a, testing through the "Cloud Gate" scenario is more appropriate. Thanks to the addition of the NVIDIA Geforce gt740m discrete graphics card, Toshiba Satellite L50-a finally scored 5437 in the "Cloud Gate" scenario, giving it a very good performance.

Through Hdtune software testing, we can see Toshiba Satellite L50-a built-in HDD for the HGST brand, the former Hitachi, model hts541075a9e680, its capacity reached 750GB, the speed of 5400, and with 8MB cache. With Hdtune, the test scores of this hard drive are also excellent, with an access time of 19.3 milliseconds, an average transfer rate of 66.4mb/seconds, and a maximum transfer rate of 92.7mb/seconds.

Actual game Experience

Next we also have some classic game test program to understand the actual performance of Toshiba Satellite L50-a in the game.

First came the Capcom, the latest "biochemistry Crisis 6", a new multi-platform game, compared to the previous generation, it uses the Mt Framework 2.0 upgrade engine, the need for hardware configuration further improved. Toshiba Satellite L50-a in the "Biochemistry Crisis 6" final rating of B, the total score of 3038, the default settings can have a more fluid experience.

"Lost Planet 2" using Capcom Company original engine MT framework of the latest version of ver.2.0 for development, the game world performance will be more meticulous and beautiful. Rather than just the evolution on the screen, this will add a lot of new elements to the previous player's requirements, new scenes, new characters, new weapons, and so on, and the role moves more colorful than before. In this game test, Toshiba Satellite L50-a is a good quality, the final rating of C-class, the number of frames reached 27.6fps, the actual performance is better.

Endurance and Cooling performance

Toshiba Satellite L50-a uses a built-in 4-cell lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 43Wh, which is at the same level as the mainstream and is more consistent with its home-based positioning.

In the test we will Toshiba Satellite L50-a adjusted to balance mode, screen brightness 50%, in this state for common web browsing, film and television play, etc., after 20 minutes of use, the total power dropped to 88%, showing the remaining time of 2 hours 17 minutes, and continue in this state for 1 hours 46 minutes after the battery began to alarm, the total use time of more than 2 hours, performance, if the office use time will be extended.

During the use of the process, Toshiba Satellite L50-a in the daily work of the cooling is not obvious, and in the run of large-scale game testing will feel the heat sink began to significantly heat.

Summary: Excellent quality price is high

Through the use of this Toshiba Satellite L50-a, we also have a certain understanding of it. The design of the product is extremely beautiful, the white shell with 26.4mm thickness so that it is designed to call the previous home is more fashionable, for a full built-in notebook such thickness is absolutely satisfactory. From a configuration perspective, the Intel Core I series processor and the mainstream NVIDIA graphics card organically combine, but also fully meet the needs of people's daily use. Although there are some small flaws in the design (right side of the radiator), but there are also small keyboards, touchpad switches such a place to show humanity.

On the whole, it would be appropriate to use it as a home entertainment model that is not as demanding as a mobile device. However, it is understood that Toshiba Satellite L50-a media prices for 8299 yuan, which is relatively slightly more expensive for ordinary household users, interested friends may wish to pay more attention to the product in the recent market price changes, waiting for the move.