[Original] Great Wall t2000d5b laptop use report

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Great Wall t2000d5b is a mid-range product in the Great Wall t2000 series. In the positioning of Great Wall, the t2000 series aims to provide excellent portability and performance at the same time. Most of the models are equipped with independent display chips and independent Display memory, with impressive configurations, very cost-effective. It is divided into several sub-models based on the CPU, wireless Nic, hard disk, memory, and operating system. T2000d5b is a well-received t2000d5 derivative product. In addition to its appearance, t2000d5b is different from t2000d5 (t2000d5 is black, while t2000d5b uses silver panels ), others can be said to be exactly the same. Next let's take a look at this great wall t2000d5b notebook.

Appearance and Process

Great Wall laptops are known as "IBM in China", and their laptops are both produced by IIPC. The Great Wall t2000d5b is made of engineering plastics and is embedded with a brushed metal plate on the top cover. This metal plate can protect the screen and improve the appearance at the same time, it can be said that two birds in one fell swoop. The machine's external engineering plastic spray silver Matt paint, the internal is black, slightly sand texture, I think the appearance of t2000d5b is not t2000d5 full black so sedated. The appearance of the machine can only be regarded as normal. The joints of the mold are relatively fine, but there is a large gap between the four USB ports, and it is easy to become a place where dust is accumulated.

Port Layout

Most of the ports of t2000d5b are arranged on both sides of the fuselage. As the port is of the 15 inch model, there is sufficient space for port placement. The S-video port, three USB 2.0 ports, four-pin ieee1394 ports, PCMCIA type II ports, and SD/MS card reader interfaces are displayed on the left side of the machine; the backend is the K lock interface, VGA port, battery, listen 11 (modem) Port, and RJ45 (10/100 m Nic) port; the right side includes a DC interface, a DVD drive, a USB port, a headset microphone interface, and a volume control knob. The port layout is reasonable. A separate USB interface provided on the right side provides great convenience for the external mouse. The distance between the three USB ports on the left and the ieee1394 ports is suitable. Generally, external devices do not interfere with each other due to volume problems. Although the S-video port is included, but the S-video connection line is not included, this is a bit disappointing. In addition, the ports that are not commonly used, such as the S-video port, VGA port, and ipv11 port, are not flushed or are congested by rubber, which may accumulate dust.
T2000d5b provides two shortcut keys, which are located in the upper left corner of the keyboard. They enable IE and Foxmail (random disc attachment). Although these shortcut keys are less frequently used than some products. The power button is located in the upper-right corner of the keyboard.

Comfort

The large 15 inch laptop t2000d5b has a weight of only 2.25 kg (including a battery) and a thickness of 26mm. This is quite satisfactory and does not feel heavy even if it is carried for a long time. Due to the wide body, t2000d5b uses a full-size keyboard, in addition to the short keyboard, feel good. The mouse key includes the up/down scroll key, which makes it easy to browse webpages and orchestrate documents.
The Screen Effect of t2000d5b was disappointing. The brightness of the 15 inch LCD screen is moderate, but uneven; the visual angle is small, and the color changes significantly slightly. In addition, the standard resolution is only XGA (1024x768), and the display effect is not very good. Fortunately, the problem of shadow is not serious.
The laptop is equipped with several cooling ports on the left and bottom. Generally, the fan does not work. Even if it runs for a long time, the temperature of the whole machine is very low; when a large number of operations (for example, when starting a 3D Game) are performed, the fan starts to work and the sound is audible but not audible. After a long time, the upper left corner of the fuselage (CPU and display chip) and the lower right corner (hard disk) high temperature.
The t2000d5b is equipped with a set of indicators on both the inside and outside of the shaft to display the power supply and battery conditions, this allows you to easily understand the operation of the machine, regardless of whether the machine is enabled or disabled. I have observed that the two groups of LEDs seem to share a group of LEDs, which is a good design. Below the mouse key are Caps Lock, scroll lock, and numeric lock indicators, as well as wireless network indicators, power indicators, and IDE interface indicators.
The sound of the built-in DVD drive is relatively high, and we found a serious problem here, that is, the drive tray is often stuck after pressing the pop-up key, you must hook the tray with your hands. In addition, two screws were dropped from the computer during the (normal) two weeks of using the computer, and one of them was unknown, this is really disturbing. I hope these are only some issues.
During the two weeks of use, I found a huge flaw in the design of this notebook: Because the LCD and keyboard are very small after the screen is closed, A slight external force may cause the LCD and the keyboard to squeeze each other, leaving a trace of the keyboard on the screen, and the screen can not be wiped with screen cloth, or even professional screen cleaning liquid, apparently, physical damage is caused to the screen. We recommend that you use this machine to pad a thin cloth between the screen and the keyboard when you close the screen, or buy a screen sticker to avoid damage to the fragile LCD.
In addition, it should be noted that the t2000d5b volume control knob is based on the mixer in windows, which means that the volume control knob can only be used in windows, instead of directly controlling the volume of the speaker, this may cause inconvenience to the user.

Configuration and Performance

Great Wall t2000d5b is configured very high, including a 2 MB second-level cache and a Pentium 715 processor running at 705 GHz (a few machines also use a Pentium M processor, the difference is that the second-level cache is only 1 MB), 256 MB ddr266 memory, and ATI mobility radeon 9600 Series graphics card with 64 MB independent Display memory, the only drawback is that the 4200-to-5400-to-40 Gb Fujitsu mht2040at hard drive is used only. (what is puzzling is that the hard drive is marked as-to-on the Great Wall website. In actual tests, t2000d5b scored 9895 points in 3 dmark 2001se (default test) and 2003 points in 3 dmark 2581, which focuses on the directx9 performance of the video card. In pcmark 04, t2000d5b scored 3042 points. By comparing the test scores related to other laptops (or even some desktops), we can see that the performance of t2000d5b is quite strong.
However, due to poor hard drive performance, t2000d5b is not very good in some applications with high requirements on hard drive, such as in UEFA Euro 2004 (FIFA 2004 European Cup) in the case of medium and high image quality, the system must stop responding for a long time due to reading the disk, or even crash. It cannot enter the test of 3 dmark 2005 (also because the reading disk crashes ).
The front-end of the t2000d5b machine has two built-in speakers with a very small volume and the effect can only be said to be audible. This machine has become a weakness of the Entertainment model.
T2000d5b is not equipped with a wireless Nic, and a minipci slot is reserved on the back of the machine for self-upgrade. Unmount the back of the cover can also upgrade the hard disk and memory, t2000d5b reserved two SO-DIMM slots, one of which has been inserted with a memory, the maximum memory can be upgraded to 2 GB.
The machine is equipped with a mah battery. The usage time of the nominal battery is 4 ~ 5 hours, but the actual use is difficult to reach this level. Generally, the application uses about 3.5 hours. If the whole process is used for large-scale computing, the battery will run out in less than 2.5 hours. In the batterymark 4.0.1 test, the condition run score of t2000d5b is 136 points, and the life time is 182 points.

Attachment

The accessories in t2000d5b are quite simple, including a battery, a power cord, a power adapter, a telephone line, a drive disk, and a great wall Software Package CD. The software package includes the OEM version of the anti-virus software, the network firewall of the Rising Star, the V8 version of The hajun super solution, Kingsoft, Virtual CD, and Photoshop Elements (Photoshop is used in the CD package, which will undoubtedly mislead consumers), Acrobat Reader, Foxmail and other 8 "genuine software", officially announced the value of 1388 yuan. In fact, these software is far less than the price, and we found that the Virtual CD software included in the software package is a shared version, in a Sn. the TXT file provides two serial numbers. Obviously, all users who use the software package use these serial numbers. In this case, the Great Wall claims that the "genuine software" should also be discounted. Similarly, the serial number of Photoshop Elements is also provided through SN. txt.

After-sales service

Great Wall Computer promises to provide three-pack policies with one-week package refund, 15-day Warranty replacement, one-year free warranty for the entire machine, two-year free warranty for major accessories, and three-year Limited Warranty Policy, this is consistent with the commitment of most laptop manufacturers in China. Great Wall provides national free warranty calls, but according to our observation, Great Wall is currently in the domestic sales network and repair network scale is not large.

Comments

T2000d5b is a distinctive product with obvious advantages and disadvantages. It provides the performance of high-end products to users at mainstream prices and has excellent portability. It also has major defects in display effect, audio effect and manufacturing process, this is also a problem faced by most Chinese-made laptops. In this case, we hope that Chinese laptop manufacturers will pay attention to product configuration and performance-to-price ratio while enhancing the quality of other products so that they can truly grow into an international laptop manufacturer, in the face of increasingly strong market competition.

Appendix

Reference price$11300
Manufacturing CompanyGreat Wall International Information Co., Ltd.
Production CompanyChina Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Co., Ltd.
Phone number(010) 62011245; 8008100258
URLHttp://www.greatwall.com.cn
ProcessorIntel Pentium M 715
LCD15.1 "TFT
Memory256 MB ddr266
Hard DiskFujitsu mht2040at 40 Gb 4200 rpm
Graphics cardATI mobility radeon 9600 pro
Port4 × usb2. 10/100 × ieee1394 (four-pin), 1 × PCMCIA type II, 1 × SD/MS card reader, 1 × VGA, 1 × 12711 (modem), 1 × RJ45 (M Nic ), 1 × microphone, 1 × earphone, 1 × S-video
Standard accessories1 × 4400mah lithium-ion battery, 1 × power adapter, 1 × power cord, 1 × instruction manual, 1 × service warranty, 1 × telephone line, 1 × driver CD, 1 × Great Wall Software Package
Host weight (including battery)2.25 kg
Host size (length x Width x height, in millimeters)328 × 268 × 26
Operating SystemNone

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Left side of the fuselage | entire machine (open) | entire machine (closed) | entire machine (inverted V-open placed) | rear side of the fuselage | right side of the fuselage