Today, the laptop for business people has become an essential "tool", but the traditional business of this, the portability and performance is always difficult to coordinate between. Performance tend to have huge business in this volume, for movement of people is extremely inconvenient to carry. Small size with high performance notebooks become the first choice for many business people. Recently, Dell has introduced a 12-inch business in this - Dell Vostro 1220. Appearance, the black body with a cover piano paint. Meanwhile, Vostro 1220 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, clocked at 2.4GHz, relatively good performance
Dell Vostro 1220 weight tests Appearance
Appearance, Vostro 1220 with a business the usual black color. Body cap to the piano paint process design, and silver inlaid in the middle of DELL LOGO, color contrast, it is extremely eye-catching. However, cover with piano paint consistent common problem, easily contaminated with fingerprints, users often need to wipe. Run through the rounded corners of the fuselage side processing, so that the machine is not only beautiful, but also to strengthen the corners and impact resistant ability. Open the top cover, and C around the screen surface with a dark gray palm rest are matte feel of the design, and a black cap with a very coordinated.
Vostro 1220 12-inch fuselage design, provide for frequently mobile portability. The only drawback is the poor control of the thickness of the machine, the front thickness of the 23.5mm, but for business users is acceptable.
Vostro 1220 uses a 12.1-inch 16:10 screen design, screen resolution of 1280 800, display quite satisfactory. Gently press the cover body on the screen there is a clear ripple, it appears that the compressive performance of Vostro 1220 is quite weak.
In addition, the machine uses cylindrical shaft design, the damping effect is very good, the screen was 180 can be opened to facilitate the various needs of users. However, the shortcomings of this design is easy to crack axis after prolonged use.
The weight of a mobile laptop users more concerned, Vostro 1220 weight to 1.973Kg, travel weight with adapter 2.38Kg. Weight from the following comparison chart, we can see that Vostro 1220 weight control is weak in the machine, an additional 12-inch notebook, Vostro 1220 more than the weight and the weight of more than 13 inches low voltage notebooks, while close 13 inches standard notebook weight, which the user may feel inconvenient to carry.
Dell Vostro 1220 interface layout
Vostro 1220 is in the interface design can be described as "commercial" enough business people to use. The left side of the fuselage interface design is more abundant, taking into account the business people often go out of office, not only designed a common RJ45 connector, RJ11 connector is also designed for easy user access through a variety of ways. Meanwhile, the left side of the fuselage design of the VGA port, USB port, card reader interface, ExpressCard interface, used to meet the needs of various users.
The right side of the interface design is very simple, the whole DVD drive using the traditional design, although convenient for users, but also makes the whole thickness increased. Two USB ports are very reasonable layout, spacing larger, user-friendly plug. However, security keyhole and DVD drive space was too small, use safety lock in the case is bound to affect the DVD drive to use.
The left side of the front fuselage design a speaker, is the "pocket", it seems the whole very little support for the entertainment, and there is no high-definition HDMI interface, described as the standard of business. The middle part of the design of the wireless network switch, user anytime, anywhere access.
Body back without any interface design, basic battery occupies the entire space. However, its design is very user-friendly machine, Vostro 1220 battery larger, it will not only allow capacity to be increased, but also makes the whole bottom of the hold up is to enhance the heat dissipation, and allows users to operate the keyboard more comfortable.
Dell Vostro 1220 Operating Experience
Vostro 1220 keyboard using the traditional keyboard design, limited by machine size, the keyboard keycap size small, which for a large male hand users, would be inconvenient to use. However, matte surface keycap design, the key process deeper, the operation feel good, and avoid inadvertently.
DELL Vostro 1220 battery in the top of the keyboard design of the audio-visual aspects of the operation of shortcut keys, allowing users to use very convenient. Touchpad design is relatively conventional, matte surface design, feel and location effects are good. The bottom of the mouse buttons larger, key processes are deeper, the operation feel normal.
Business people will often carry the application notebook, so the whole temperature and the heat is particularly important. At room temperature 25 environment, Vostro 1220 keyboard surface temperature of 40 , and concentrated in the high temperature near the touch pad, which will directly affect the operation of the user comfort. Bottom of the fuselage temperature up to 41 , the same relatively high, Vostro 1220 seems to be improved temperature control.
Dell Vostro 1220 configuration analysis
Hardware configuration, Vostro 1220 with Intel 45nm Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, clocked at 2.4GHz, with the Intel GM45 + ICH9M chipset, performance is very strong, to provide users with efficient office. As the Vostro 1220 notebook located in the business, so equipped with the Intel X4500 integrated graphics, although the performance can not be comparable with the graphics card, but the user can cope with their daily entertainment needs. In addition, the machine comes standard with 2GB DDR2 memory, 250GB hard drive, to meet the basic needs of the user.
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DELL Vostro 1220n battery with 11.1V 5240MA 6-cell lithium battery, BatteryMark software testing, Vostro 1220 final life of 6 hours and 2 minutes, the performance is very good. This mobile office for business people are often very practical.
Dell Vostro 1220 performance test
Brief description of the test platform: Install Windows Vista Ultimate English operating system, install the necessary chipset drivers, video drivers, sound card drivers and network card drivers, etc.; off Vista Sidebar, close ORC, close the screen saver, turn off hibernation, shut down the system and other automatic Update Updates settings; desktop background set to a solid color, select and set the highest performance mode of the battery; set the system maximum performance mode.
Vostro 1220 a bit weak for entertainment functions. Machine uses Intel X4500 integrated graphics, through the 3DMark test, X4500 scored 1098 points, the score for the integrated graphics is good. For the current general 3D online games can run smoothly. 720P HD playback, CPU occupancy rate in the whole about 27%, the screen is relatively smooth, it seems Vostro 1220 can meet the users like to watch HD movies.
Summary
Overall, this
DELL VOSTRO 1200 battery overall performance is good. Stylish design plus 12-inch body, so that business users to easily carry. Machine uses Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, performance is very good. Meanwhile, the battery life is also doing well. Fly in the ointment is that the machine's thermal performance to be improved.
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