Toshiba New Ben S50d

Toshiba's product is a good choice if you are going to buy a strong and reliable notebook. Toshiba recently launched a mid-range notebook with a model of s50d-a-10g, and made 820 dollars (about 5100 yuan) of attractive prices to attract potential consumers. In this scale of product market, is actually the most competitive area between AMD and Intel, but from the current situation, the demand for Intel is more than the AMD processor.

The Toshiba S50D is one of the few AMD processors that carry a a10-5745m model chip that is currently the most efficient APU processor for AMD applications in notebook products. It has four core configurations and each core employs the piledriver architecture, using the same design as the AMD full-level desktop processor.

S50D's four nuclear processors have reached 2.1GHz per core, with a maximum of 2.9GHz in the case of overclocking. In general, the APU product is the image of the integrated graphics, but Toshiba on the s50d can be said to change the past practice, not only the use of stand-alone graphics, but not the Radeon HD 8610G graphics card, but equipped with a more high-end HD 8550M model.

In fact, Toshiba S50D is not the only recent one by one trial of AMD APU products. Hewlett-Packard Pavilion TouchSmart 15-N070SA used the same AMD Kabini mobile Super processor, while Toshiba's other c50d-a-13g used the same option. In addition, Toshiba's other M50-A-11C switched to the Intel Core i5 processor, and another very competitive competitor could not forget that Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2 11, a hybrid notebook with Intel Pentium processors.

Although the s50d is equipped with an AMD APU that looks powerful, other hardware configurations are not attractive. 8GB of RAM can basically be seen as the standard for midrange notebooks, and although 1TB of hard disk space is also available, 5400rpm rpm seems to be more general.

In addition, although the s50d screen size reaches 15.6 inches, the resolution of the 1366x768 pixel is indeed somewhat low and does not support touch operations. In addition, S50D is also equipped with DVD optical drive, but on the laptop, this is not common.

　　Appearance and connectivity

The connection aspect of the s50d is still more worth introducing. In addition to the Bluetooth 4.0 satisfactory, Ethernet interface is not a gigabit standard, while Wi-Fi only supports 802.11n but band signal. At the same time, two USB 3.0 connectors, a USB 2.0 interface, an HDMI interface and a d-sub output port are also provided on the side of the s50d. There are also standard sockets including the SDXC card reader and the headset microphone.

In terms of appearance, s50d is a typical Toshiba style. The main material of the fuselage is made of plastic, which is then covered with a layer of aluminum metal cover. In addition to the upper cover is silver, the rest of the parts are mainly black color. Although the appearance of s50d is not ugly, it is definitely not beautiful.

Because of the combination of plastic and metal design, the bottom part of the plastic can make people feel a little fragile. The weight of the s50d is 2.38 kg, the thickness of 24 mm, the overall also more moderate, and will not leave a deep impression. Compared with three major competitors, S50D has no advantage in weight and thickness, just slightly better than the satellite C50.

S50D's keyboard is also used for smooth plastic material, but it is more reasonable in terms of layout. S50D number key is large enough, and there is a large space bar and SHIFT key, overall, in the use of the process is more convenient.

Although the weight of the s50d is somewhat large, we don't think it is necessarily a bad thing. Greater weight also brings higher reliability, at least in the materials used to make people feel very practical. At the same time s50d keyboard on the touchpad is also the size of the moderate, can be said from the keyboard and feel, s50d very in line with the requirements of business people.

　　Performance

Let's take a look at the scores of Toshiba S50D in various tests:

　　PCMark 8

Home Test high performance:2611 points

Home Test Power saver:1475 points

50% screen brightness balance performance battery test: 3 hours 52 min

100% screen brightness high performance battery test: 3 hours 7 min

25% screen Brightness Energy-saving mode battery test: 4 hours 17 min

　　3DMark

Ice storm:44210 points

Cloud-gate:4616

Fire-strike:1102

　　DiRT 3

1,366x768 Resolution High quality: 37fps

　　BioShock Infinite

1,366x768 resolution Low quality: 32fps

　　Cinebench R11.5

Opengl:15.48fps

cpu:1.31

　　Cinebench R15

opengl:17.38

Cpu:118cb

AMD APU does not have the slightest problem with the PC Mark 8 test, scoring a score of 2611 points, not only higher than the Pentium processor Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2, but also more than HP Pavilion and Toshiba Satellite C50 using AMD processors. Toshiba Satellite M50, which uses the Intel Core i5 processor, scored higher than s50d.

In addition, in the Cinebench score, s50d gives the impression is also quite profound. Although also lagging behind the Intel processor, it is also a leader compared with other products using AMD and Pentium processors.

The use of Radeon HD 8610 graphics card to replace the a10-5745m in Run Division Test proved valuable. The result of the 3D Mark Ice Storm exceeded 44210 points, once again surpassing three competitors. But it was also lost to Toshiba Satellite M50, which uses the Nvidia GeForce GT 740 graphics card.

And a good run score means that as long as the game screen requirements are not high, s50d basically still can be used to play the game. The best frame rate in the high quality effect test of the 1366x768 resolution reached 37fps, while the 32fps results were achieved in the low quality BioShock infinite test.

In addition, Toshiba did not have a more conspicuous battery for the s50d, so its duration did not give us a deep impression. In the case of balanced mode 50% screen brightness, s50d persisted for less than 4 hours, and after the power saving mode was enabled, the number reached 4 hours and 17 minutes, but the screen brightness was reduced to 25%. It can be said that s50d in the endurance than other competition is slightly worse, but the gap is not obvious.

When we adjust the brightness of the screen to 100%, and in high-performance mode, s50d persisted for 3 hours and 7 minutes, also is a mediocre result. Therefore, in the daily use, basically s50d can not fully adhere to the whole day.

　　Display

S50D's screen resolution is 1366x768, which basically conforms to the mainstream configuration of midrange models, but does not support touch operations. Low-resolution usage is expected, so it's not convenient for some users to basically want to do two windows on the screen at the same time.

S50D's screen quality is also very moderate. 230:1CD/M2 The maximum brightness level is reasonable, but 1.02cd/m2 poor performance, which means that in the contrast of 225:1 s50d performance is not good, it can only provide a relatively small range of color gamut changes, compared with high-end display screen, the overall s50d of a little gray.

In addition, the accuracy of color display, s50d is also worse. The temperature of 6947k is slightly colder than the standard value of 6500K, and the delta E value of 11.31 is a very bad performance. In the performance of sRGB gamut coverage, s50d can only display 59.2% of the range, very general.

S50D's screen can only be used to deal with basic operations, daily work and some low-end games, suitable for users with low requirements. And in the sound performance s50d is not bad, the treble is clearer, but the bass seems a little inadequate.

Compared with most of the same-level products, s50d is equipped with a 1TB-capacity mechanical hard drive, rather than a smaller, more expensive solid-state drive. S50D's 2.5-inch hard disk read and write speed of 106mb/s and 100mb/s, respectively, is a relatively mediocre achievement. The lack of a solid state hard drive means that the application runs and the operating system is loaded in a somewhat slower response rate, and is basically one-and-a-fold for SSD solid-state drives.

　　Summarize

As a midrange notebook product, it is difficult to avoid sacrificing price in quality and performance. So before you plan to buy a s50d, you need to figure out what you want. The powerful combination of AMD APU, independent graphics makes it a big advantage for rivals with low-end Intel graphics. However, other aspects of mediocrity (such as 1TB mechanical hard drives) and poorly performing displays have to be taken into account.

The performance of the entire s50d is very satisfying in its core performance, and it has the computing power to surpass most of the same level of competitors, in addition to facing Core i5, can deal with basic daily needs and low-end games. In addition, a good workmanship, excellent keyboard layout feel and a solid sense of the senses also let s50d have their own characteristics.

However, the 15.6-inch 1366x768 pixel display on the whole is unsatisfactory, in addition to sufficient brightness, the black position, color accuracy and gamut coverage performance are poor. Speakers, connectivity and battery endurance performance is also relatively moderate. Coupled with the bad and not bad design and material, so that s50d have a good or bad characteristics.

If you are going to buy an inexpensive, computational power notebook, while the screen, look and other aspects do not care, then paired with AMD Apu and independent graphics configuration Toshiba Satellite s50d is a more reasonable choice.