For most consumers, buying a laptop, or the factors that most concern the price, performance under the premise enough lower the price of the notebook also has a higher cost. Lenovo G Series is the main entry-level market the product, its price segment in 3000 yuan - 4000 yuan.
Recently, we received a Lenovo G475 notebook, usually named Lenovo notebook is the last model is the "5" are equipped with AMD processors, the Lenovo G475 is no exception, it uses the AMD E-350 APU.
As the entry-level products, we see that this machine is not in design to make too many modifications, gray-black body to meet most of the consumer's aesthetic, body cap with a stripe texture layout, although the appearance degree in general, but very practical. This cover easily contaminated with fingerprints, and there are strong anti-scratch ability.
This machine uses a 14-inch glossy screen, the standard resolution of 1366 x 768. After the actual test, we found the screen brightness can be adjusted with ten levels, the user can choose according to actual needs. In addition, due to better mirror the translucent screen, so this screen's color performance is relatively good.
I remember in the original association was first introduced ThinkPadEdge series notebook, introduced a new keyboard design, after several years of development, this design has been extended to the association among the most products. Lenovo ThinkPad before the high-touch keyboard has been improved, and the integration of the popular chocolate keyboard design elements into the final design has a unique style of keyboard design. The Lenovo G475 is using this keyboard design approach, feel quite good.
Body interface description and details
In interface design, this machine has the right of the fuselage USB interface, power connector, audio interface and a DVD burner, left side of the fuselage has a USB interface, e-SATA interfaces, cable interfaces and VGA interface. Although this is not targeting high-end machine, but the interface configuration is quite complete, but unfortunately this machine is not configured HDMI.
The Lenovo G475 is not configured too many function keys, we can see beyond the power switch above the keyboard in addition to a one-click fix button only. Lenovo notebook products will now configure a key repair key, the user can very easily use it to backup and restore the system, which is a very useful feature.
We can see through internal dismantling, interior design of this machine is quite reasonable, the entire space is relatively large, it is a good heat dissipation. AMD's new APU E-350APU has integrated graphics core (GPU), without having to configure the graphics card, so the overall heat is very small notebook, a single heat pipe to meet the body's internal heat conduction.
Specific configuration and performance testing
Lenovo G475 can be said that this is not the main high-profile products, but for the average user is also sufficient. This machine is configured with an AMD E-350 APU,
Lenovo G475E battery the processor core, code-named Zacate, clocked at 1.6GHz, and also incorporates the AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics core. The AMD APU E-350 is a low-power processor, TDP is only 18W, it can give a better laptop battery life and lower heat. In addition, AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics core also supports DX11 and UVD3 HD hardware decoding, the user can provide a more efficient video processing capabilities.
Before the start of the performance test, we first AIDA 64 of CPUID tool to see Fengyun AMD E350 APU basic information, which is based on 40nm process technology, the core code-named Zacate, clocked at 1.6GHz, with 512KB L2 cache, the overall TDP is 18W, CPU Core dual-core architecture.
This machine is equipped with a Hitachi 320GB 5400RPM hard drive, HD Tune we tested its performance. Screenshot from the test results, we see that the average transfer rate of this drive 66.2MB / s, the maximum transfer rate of 85.5MB / s, while the minimum transfer rate of 41.5MB / s, plus 18.7 ms access time , its overall performance in the ordinary SATA hard drive in the middle level.
Ability in the game, although
Lenovo G470 battery graphics card is not configured, but the APU integration of AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics core provides relatively good ability to run 3D, and supports DX11, usually mainstream 3D gaming network can basically handle it.
Endurance test and summary
Lenovo G475 equipped with a 48Wh lithium ion battery, usually 14-inch notebook will be configured so the capacity of the battery. We assess the life time of Windows 7 was tested for its endurance. The ultimate life of this machine for 5 hours and 20 minutes, results are very good. This is mainly because AMD E350 APU has an excellent energy-saving design, thermal design power of only 18W, lower power consumption clearly can provide a higher endurance. Of course, this result only as a reference value point of view, according to the user's actual performance will vary in different applications.
Summary
Lenovo G475 battery Media currently quoted at 3250 yuan, as a low-cost notebooks, this machine has a mainstream design, and performance to meet the user's daily basic application requirements. Should be mentioned that, the internal configuration of the AMD E350 APU used in the traditional 14-inch mainstream laptops can be enough to ensure performance under the premise, more cool, standby time will be greatly increased. Ultra-low power consumption, low heat, powerful audio and video decoding experience, mainstream 3D application performance, which is AMD APU has brought us a surprise.
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