First, let's look at the design style of X5.
X5 takes Haier's favorite popular color route. This one in the editor's hand is attractive cherry red, but I saw another blue one at the new product launch. The top cover part is the mainstream wiredrawing design, but the feel is not as smooth and slightly astringent as some products, and the edge part is plastic design, because this is the antenna position reserved for WIFI signals.
The screen part is the mainstream 14 inch design, and the border is also the popular black paint. Intriguingly, there are two symmetrical microphone designs at the top of the screen. Why are there two? It turns out that Haier designed a dual-array microphone for voice control. The advantage is that you can receive speech from different directions as much as possible and improve the recognition effect.
One side of the keyboard is cherry red, but the difference is that it adopts a simple plastic material design, and the appearance of the paint can't be said to be beautiful, but it can only be said to be average. From the editor's point of view: although the color weapon is in hand, the overall aesthetic feeling can't keep up with the times. Compared with other brands' product styles, Haier's skill in notebook design needs to be improved!
Operating feel of keyboard and touchpad
X5' s island keyboard design is quite satisfactory, with six-line layout and regular keys. For people who use computers for a long time, the keyboard of X5 is very fast! However, this keyboard also has obvious shortcomings. The surface of the key is slightly rough, the key stroke is insufficient, and it appears stiff (not elastic enough) when pressed. So people who are used to using the keyboard will definitely feel that the X5 keyboard is not comfortable enough, and there is no feeling when pressing it.
On the contrary, the touchpad is still acceptable, because the area is relatively large and the aspect ratio is relatively large, so it will not feel constrained to use. For example, you can move your finger left and right at will without worrying. Run? Get out! The left and right keys are sensitive and there is no uncomfortable feeling on the whole.
X5 has designed three buttons on the left side of the power button: system recovery button, voice button and WIFI button, among which WIFI button is the most practical and useful, which can conveniently switch on and off wireless signals without internal control, saving trouble!
The editor thinks: X5 keyboard is really not flattering, and there is indeed a gap with the better notebook keyboard.
Speaker appearance
X5 has designed two independent speakers, which can directly transmit sound to our ears. However, these two speakers have not been certified by big brands or professional standards, so the playback effect is average. Interested readers can listen to the following live audition edited and recorded:
Upgrade considerations
X5 uses a metal baffle on the back. In Haier's words, this is to protect users from the electromagnetic signals inside the fuselage. Today, with more and more attention paid to the concept of health, this design is very good!
Through the special baffle design, the memory upgrade becomes very simple, but the original two 2GB DDR3 1600MHz Samsung memory chips need to be replaced by two with the same capacity at the same time to achieve dual-channel performance! Editorial suggestions are basically unnecessary unless it is broken, unless you want to upgrade to 2? 4GB DDR3 .
Hard disk replacement is also very convenient. You can replace the SSD of SATA3 or the traditional hard disk with 7200 rpm. The original 500GB SATA3 Seagate hard disk is designed at 5400 rpm, and its performance is average. The following are its test data:
The editor thinks X5 upgrade is convenient and thoughtful. The original Samsung granule has a large memory and the quality is guaranteed! However, because there is no semi-high mSATA design, users who have no money to change SSDs lose the opportunity to install small-capacity SSDs as traditional hard disk caches!
In terms of batteries, X5 is a bit? Mean? Because only the 4-core design of 2600mAh is adopted, which is quite different from the 6-core design of 3000-4000mAh in some light and thin books, the battery life will be shortened, and the editor estimates that it should be about 4 hours.
Interface extension
Haier X5 itself is a relatively thin design. Although the data shows that the thickness is 23-25mm, the editor always feels very thin by visual inspection! So is the interface a problem? Of course not! X5 owns 2? USB2.0 and 2? The design of USB3.0 has a total of ***4 USB interfaces, but usually there are only 3 such products! And one of USB3.0 comes with peripheral charging function, and your mobile phone tablet can be used!
In other aspects, there are many VGA and HDMI, RJ45 1, an SD/MMC dual-card integrated card reader, a DVD drive and a unique earphone/microphone composite interface. What I want to say here is that the card reader is not designed with dust plug, which is easy to get dust and sundries; And USB is ok, unless you use some big card readers, there will generally be no interface congestion.
So in a word: X5' s interface is very complete, which can completely meet the requirements of daily work and life!
Let's take a look at the basic performance of X5.
X5' s thin and light design makes her choose low-voltage processors such as i5 33 17U, and its performance has shrunk, such as low main frequency and limited turbo frequency, but it can still maintain multi-tasking function. Others, such as memory and hard disk, are mainstream designs. NV GT 6 10M graphics card is officially positioned at the low end, but as a unique display, Haier will match it with HD 4000, which can also make up for the lack of entertainment of Jixian.
Haier X5 (I533 17G40500R7TR)
Parameter name parameter description
processor
Intel Core i5 33 17U 1.7GHz
chip set
HM76
internal storage
Samsung 2? 2GB DDR3- 1600
display card
Intel graphics card 4000, NV GT 6 10M 2GB memory 128 bit width
hard disc
Seagate 500GB hard disk 5400RPM
class monitor
14 inch (resolution 1366? 768)
wireless card
802. 1 1b/g/n
Wired network adapter
Realtek gigabit Ethernet card
Notebook size
345.5x251.5x21.9mm /2. 1 kg
operating system
Windows 8
price
Haier official mall: 4999 yuan
What is the performance of i5 33 17U?
Intel's third-generation Core i5 33 17U processor adopts 22nm 3D transistor technology, which is basically adopted by all current thin notebooks and ultrabooks. According to the test results of CINEBENCH R 10, the single-threaded score of i5 33 17UM is 4332, and the multi-threaded score is 8734, which is normal.
Intel Core i5 33 17U
Building Ivy League Bridge
Core/thread
Dual-core, four-thread
chip set
HM76
craftsmanship
22 nm
TDP power consumption
17W
Main frequency/turbine frequency
1.7GHz-2.6GHz
Level 2 and Level 3 cache
5 12KB、3MB
display chip
HD 4000 graphics card
Graphics card frequency
650- 1250 MHz
Game characteristics
DX 1 1
other
Support energy-saving technology and turbocharging technology.
other
64-bit computing, supporting hyper-threading.
How is the performance of GT 6 10M solo?
Unlike most thin notebooks, X5 not only uses HD 4000 graphics card, but also uses GT 6 10M single display. This product with integrated display properties was scored as 1244 1 in the GPU project of 3Dmark VANTAGE, while the score of this machine was 12654 when testing the same project with its own HD 4000.
In addition, through the test ranking analysis of 3DMARK VANTAGE graphics card, is GT 6 10M true? The products in the entries? The ranking performance is also the lowest level in solo display at present, which is not as good as GT 620M (another NV low-end entry graphics card). To put it simply, there is a certain gap between the two graphics cards of GT 6 series and other high-end stand-alone monitors, so the game performance will not be too strong, but it is not a problem to play mainstream online games such as World of Warcraft, League of Legends and Street Fighter 4 with medium and low quality!
So what the editor wants to explain is: X5 adopts? One episode, one independence? The design of the two graphics cards, in terms of form, seems to be funded by unique monitors, but in fact, the performance is the same!
Overall performance
Through PCMARK 7, we will look at X5' s performance in storage, calculation, image and video processing, web browsing, games and other daily applications.
Because there is no SSD, X5' s test score is ordinary 2292, which does not exceed the editor's expectation, and is still the popularity level of this kind of notebook. Compared with some models with SSD as the main hard disk or cache, X5' s hard disk performance is really average. If you want better response and faster speed, then it is necessary to replace this original hard disk!
Experience in thermal design and temperature control
Thin and light books are usually a headache for heat dissipation. How about X5? We recorded the heat dissipation data of X5 under high load environment, and the pictures are as follows:
The editor runs three softwares at the same time to test the heat dissipation performance of X5. To the editor's satisfaction, the overall temperature of X5 is not high, all of which are controlled below 40℃, and the daily use experience is very comfortable. The highest temperature is located in the radiator and touchpad. For the radiator, it must be very hot, otherwise the heat dissipation is unreasonable, and no matter how high the touchpad temperature is, it can't be justified. After all, this is a common equipment for daily use, and it is often encountered in ordinary operations. I don't want to delve into the reasons here. I can only say that its touchpad is not suitable for long-term use.
To sum up: in terms of comfort, X5 has no problem except that the temperature of the touchpad is not comfortable enough.
Voice control technology? Tinker bell?
X5 is a product focusing on voice operation, which is the most obvious difference between Haier notebook and other products. Haier said that X5' s built-in array microphone and professional noise reduction chip design can improve voice control to a more optimistic level.
The voice control of X5 can realize daily online functions, such as opening web pages, opening software and shutting down. , it can also help us find information on the Internet, inquire about air tickets and geographical location information. What's more advanced is that you can directly convert voice into text and directly input office word!
Through the development in recent years, X5' s built-in voice design can basically meet our general use needs, but its practicability needs to be further improved. On the other hand, voice operation is still an avant-garde design, and the current smart phone can only do a little. Haier can show such courage to bring such functions to users, which shows that Haier is still very optimistic about the future voice control market! For more details about Haier X5 voice control, please refer to Haier official website Reference:
/consumer/computer/laptop/xxl/201212/t20121208 _157085.shtml.
Intelligent somatosensory technology? Air magic 2?
This is also a new thing built into X5! We once gave you a somatosensory introduction on Haier 7G 5S, and now X5 also has this application, which is essentially a software product. The following is a video of the somatosensory experience when editing and testing Haier Ultrabook 7G 5S. The newly launched Haier X5 is also equipped with the same somatosensory software. Please refer to it:
Editor's summary: X5 intelligent voice notebook adopts a more fashionable design, and the whole machine looks very thin and practical from interface to configuration. It is really a computer suitable for ordinary users. However, the operating comfort is still not good. I hope the keyboard can be improved. Finally, the voice control of X5 is also a novel operation mode. Although it is not very practical, it can be used as a supplement to the traditional operation mode. If your hands are tired, try the voice control function of Haier X5!