Lei Snake Blade The most lightweight game of this evaluation

What direction should PC gaming devices evolve? Notebook, tablet, or hybrid design? Should we stick to the tradition or to the conceptual development? Although the use of Windows 8 products to represent the personal computer in a variety of strange directions, but apparently does not include gaming class laptops, Dell's Alienware Alien series is the best example.

In addition to aliens, recent High-profile game notebooks and the Blade series from Lei snakes. The latest model Blade 14, compared to the previous Blade pro seems to be a setback: there is no touch screen and clickpad-screen, and not like the edge of the game tablet as Avantgarde. It is a notebook computer, especially in the slim fashion design and powerful graphics performance, in the 14-inch model is still very rare. The machine delivers the fourth generation Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia GEFORCEGTX 765M graphics card for a price of USD 1799 (about 11030 RMB). So, is it the best solution for a portable gaming experience? Let's take a look at the detailed evaluation experience.

Snake Blade 14 main parameter information:

Screen: 14-inch 1600*900 resolution screen

Processors and graphics cards: Four core processors of Intel Core™ I7-4702HQ at 2.2 GHz, Intel HD Graphics 4600+nvidia GeForce GTX 765M (2GB standalone video memory)

Memory and hard drive: 8GB memory, 128GB or 256GB solid State Drive

Operating system: Windows 8

Wireless network: 802.11b/g/n wireless network, Bluetooth 4.0

Interface: three USB ports, HDMI, headset/microphone

Camera: Front 1.3 million pixel

Fuselage size and Weight: 345.4*236.2*16 mm, weighing 1.9 kg

Price: from USD 1799 (RMB 11030)

Appearance design and details

Lei Snake has spent a lot of time in product design in recent years, including the clickpad of the Blade 14 and the professional game tablet and other products, are quite innovative. The Thunder Snake Blade 14, then returned to the most traditional notebook design, but has a slim fuselage, in high configuration of stand-alone video card portable notebook computer is very rare. The fuselage still uses the black aluminum chassis, the top cover part is three head snake logo, exudes "evil" the green backlight. Open the notebook, you can see the keyboard on both sides of the design of a pair of speakers, the keyboard also has green backlight. The bottom of the keyboard is a very ample area of the touchpad, and it does not match the slender and narrow of the left and right buttons.

Lei Snake Blade 14 overall fuselage design

Fuselage dimensions, 345.4*236.2*16 mm, weighing 1.9 kg, is currently the world's most frivolous gaming notebook computer. By contrast, the Dell Alienware m14x has a size of 258.36* 337* 37.8 mm, weighing 2.92 kg, and is nearly twice as thick as the 14 of Lei Snake Blade.

Lei Snake Blade 14 keyboard and Touch Board design

On the keyboard, the large black, flat-button spacing provides an elastic feel and a sexy green backlight that looks very eye-catching in a dark environment. We also have an input speed test for this keyboard, which enables us to enter 62 letters per minute, above the average of 55 words. At the same time, the random Synapse 2.0 software can be programmed for each key, but also has the ability to prevent overlapping (multiple keys are confirmed simultaneously), can help players achieve better operating results. However, in use, loading the Synapse 2.0 configuration occasionally there will be a game out of the situation, while the configuration file is stored in the cloud, so replace the notebook or mouse, you need to download the use again.

As for the notebook touchpad, the spacious area can also achieve a good Windows 8 gesture operation function, sliding and many points are very fluent; The key area is small, but it feels good and has strong feedback force.

Design of side interface of 14 body of Lei Snake blade

As a result of the ultra-thin fuselage design, the Lei Snake Blade 14 is not particularly perfect in the built-in interface, a USB 3.0 interface, an HDMI output interface and a secure latch slot are designed on the right side, and the left side has two USB 3.0 connectors, an AC adapter interface and a headset interface, No optical drive and card reader are provided.

Snake Blade 14 is also equipped with a 1.3 million-pixel camera, color performance, in the dim environment can also achieve a good shooting effect. Generally speaking, although the design of the 14 is not overhangs by predecessors, but the practicality is greatly increased, the thin fuselage is very attractive to the game lover.

Screen and audio effects

If you're talking about the most discordant part of the 14 overall configuration of the snake blade, it's a 14-inch 1600*900 resolution screen. For this price model, even equipped with Retina Retina screen is not excessive, but unfortunately the machine even 1080P Full HD standards have not been achieved. Display effects, color performance is still satisfactory, in the "Hobbit" High-definition trailer, the task of the hair and pupil can be true to display, but because the screen is not an IPS panel, the game slightly tilt the screen, you can see the dark part of the scene will appear annoying white effect. Generally speaking, we think most players will be disappointed with this screen.

Lei Snake Blade 14 screen display effect general

As for the audio effect, the 14 Stereo 2.0 speaker with the V4 Home theater software, can achieve loud and clear music output, volume enough to fill a small room. When we play the Queen's Don T Stop Me now, the piano, guitar, tambourine and other instruments are structured, but the bass effect is very weak. In the game, you can achieve a good voice and background sound performance, bring real scene feeling. Through testing we also found that the "music model" in the Dolby software can achieve the best music, film and game audio experience.

Processor and video card performance

Our test of the Snake Blade 14 is equipped with the latest fourth Daicouri Haswell processor, model 2.2 GHz Four core I7-4702HQ, with 8GB RAM, and 2GB video memory of Nvidia GeForce 765M independent graphics. First of all, in the PCMark 7 processor performance, the machine scored 5873 points, ranked first, exceeding the same Dell Alienware 14 and MSI GE40 two game book with Haswell processors.

PCMark 7 processor Performance test scores

With a solid-state drive, the 14-boot speed of the snake blade is only 7 seconds, one times faster than the other two competing models. In terms of file transfer speed, it takes 36 seconds for the machine to copy 4.97GB multimedia files, with a transmission rate of 141.4Mbps, slightly below the 203.6Mbps of Dell Alienware 14, but still above MSI GE40 and average. Finally, in the OpenOffice Spreadsheet macro test, the snake Blade 14 took 4 minutes 15 seconds to complete 20,000 contact information matching, faster than the average but less than the other two competitive models.

Notebook hard drive transmission speed test scores

The 14-player Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M graphics card, equipped with 2GB of independent memory, is enough to handle most of the large 3D games on the market. First in the 3DMark 11 test, the machine scored 4060 points, although slightly lower than the Dell Alienware 14, but overall performance is very satisfactory.

3DMark 11 Graphics Performance test scores

We also carry out actual game tests, such as the "World of Warcraft" such as the low configuration game, 14 in the high quality mode of Operation 1366*768 resolution can get 104fps frame speed, even if the resolution up to 1600*900, frame rate is up to 92fps.

"Biochemical Surprise" (high-definition) frame rate

And in the higher hardware requirements of the "biochemical Surprise Unlimited" test, the high quality of the full resolution of the frame rate down to 30fps, the screen slightly cotton; In a low-resolution 1366*768 resolution, 107fps frame rate can be achieved. In general, the 14 graphics card performance is higher than MSI GE40, but below Alienware 14, the overall performance is enough to deal with a slightly higher game screen needs, but not enough to challenge large game notebooks.

Heat dissipation and endurance capability

Lei Snake Blade 14 in the day-to-day application of the heat dissipation performance is relatively stable, do not appear large noise. After viewing the 15-minute online high-definition video, the notebook's touchpad temperature is 29.4 degrees Celsius, the hottest part is the bottom of the notebook shaft, 35 degrees Celsius, the overall performance is good. While running the Tomb Raider game, the touchpad portion is 36.6 degrees Celsius, the bottom and the screen hinges are as high as 51.6 degrees Celsius, or slightly uncomfortable.

Thanks to the Haswell processor and Nvidia Optimus Technology (which can be used to complete day-to-day operations with an integrated Intel HD 4600 video card), Snake Blade 14 gained 8 hours and 7 minutes of endurance in a regular notebook battery test (via WiFi), The average level of light and light notebooks is 2 hours higher than the Dell Alienware 14 (5 hours and 17 minutes). However, the MSI GE40, which also supports NVIDIA Optimus Technology, has a longer use time, reaching 8 hours and 20 minutes.

Software and warranty

In addition to its own Razer Synapse 2.0 keyboard and mouse programming software and Dolby Audio software, the snake Blade 14 does not have a cluttered pre-installed software that brings users to a fairly clean Windows 8 system.

In terms of warranty, Blade 14 supports 1 years of machine repair and manual service.

Configuration information

Lei Snake Blade 14 mainly has two configuration versions, the price is 1799 U.S. dollars (about 11030 Yuan) and 1999 U.S. dollars (about 12256 yuan). In addition to the solid State hard drive capacity (128GB and 256GB), the other configurations are exactly the same, including the Intel Core I7-4702HQ processor at 2.2 GHz, 8GB memory, the Intel HD graphics card 4600 graphics card and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M video card.

Evaluation Summary

The new snake Blade 14 looks like a cool, ordinary 14-inch notebook, though it's still very expensive. Slim fuselage and good performance allows you to use it as a daily portable computer, and good game performance can also deal with a number of mainstream games, however, it does not meet all of your high quality game needs, more like you have a powerful desktop or notebook outside a portable game solution.

The most disappointing part of the evaluation process is the non-IPS panel, 1600*900 Pixel low-resolution screen, which is, of course, a cost-led compromise that is not completely unacceptable. In a way, the snake Blade 14 is the sexiest Windows 8 notebook We've ever seen, and it's a sign of the reggae product positioning, and if you're not bad money, you can choose it as long as you don't care about its screen.

Advantages:

· Lightweight fuselage design with excellent portability

· Strong Overall performance

· A comfortable programmable keyboard

· Longer battery life

Disadvantages:

· Poor screen resolution and effect

· General thermal performance when running games

· No card reader