Lenovo G series is synonymous with stability and durability. Most netizens have a good evaluation of this notebook with the same price. It is such a notebook with a calm and restrained appearance that a "metal wind" began to blow this year. Using Intel's latest platform, NVIDIA's latest discrete graphics card, brand-new mold, design and good cost performance are enough to make everyone fall below the glasses. Lenovo G460 is a business model. Thanks to its brand-new mold and design style, it is "innovative" compared with its predecessor G450. The surface of the top cover is also printed in the film, and the surface is designed with disorderly and orderly thin lines. Each line is not long, but the orderly crossing forms a personalized texture, giving people a sense of dynamic fashion, but these lines are not obvious and can only be easily seen at close range. Because of the process of film overprinting, the phenomenon of fingerprints on the surface still exists, and when you pick up the notebook with one hand, the surface also has obvious slipping feeling.
The overall appearance of Lenovo G460 got rid of the conservative concept of its predecessor G450. The whole machine is made of classic black, and the top cover is designed with smooth lines and circular arcs around it. In addition, the top cover also adopts a downward sloping design, which can give people a refreshing sense of fashion. Of course, in terms of materials, it still continues the advantages of durability of the previous G450. When you lightly press the center of the top cover with your fingers, the surface only sinks slightly, and the surrounding forces will quickly decompose, so that the surface can quickly return to its original appearance. The overprinting process of engineering plastics combined with film not only provides better protection for Lenovo G460 machine, but also makes the surface more wear-resistant and practical.
Lenovo G460 not only has different design, but also can be easily and quickly opened by gravity with one hand. The interior of the fuselage is also made of classic black. There is a 14 inch 16:9 LED backlight LCD screen around the B side, which supports the resolution of 1366×768 at the maximum. In addition, from the side of the fuselage, both the screen and the overall thickness, Lenovo G460 is slightly thinner than the previous G450.
Being able to open the notebook with one hand requires not only the principle of gravity, but also the moderate resistance of the notebook shaft. Lenovo G460 continues the sunken hinge design of the previous G450, which is located on the left and right sides of the notebook. Similarly, the maximum opening and closing angle of the notebook is about 130 degrees. When the notebook swings open, the screen just shakes slightly, but it doesn't close completely at once. There are power-on key, one-button reset key and power mode key under the left rotating shaft, and there are shortcut keys and indicator lights for mute, down-tone, up-tone and display mode adjustment under the right rotating shaft. On the whole, the operating area of Lenovo G460 is not much different from the previous G450, and it also continues Lenovo's high-touch keyboard design. But after careful observation, it is not difficult to find that the small design has changed qualitatively. First of all, at the top of the operation area, Lenovo G460 changed the appearance of the power-on key and one-button reset key from G450 to rectangular design, which is more in line with the design style of the whole notebook. In addition, a shortcut button of "Power Management" is added, through which you can visually see the approximate battery life and adjust the power mode as needed. In addition, the design of aluminum-magnesium alloy palm rest is the biggest improvement of Lenovo G460, and it is also a fashionable design to upgrade Lenovo G460.
Like the previous G450, this keyboard has Lenovo's patented high-touch technology. Keys are designed to be trapezoidal, which makes the area of the keycap larger and the distance between the keys more satisfactory. Moderate keystrokes allow us to get output without great efforts, so in the process of use, we find that the keyboard not only has a fast input speed, but also feels comfortable, and it is not easy to feel tired even if it is input for a long time.
Although the keyboard design is exactly the same as the previous G450, the touchpad and the left and right keys are completely different. First of all, the whole touchpad is surrounded by a circle of metal, and this design can also echo the wire drawing of the palm rest. Secondly, a layer of tiny bumps is used on the surface of the touchpad, so that the fingers can have comfortable contact with the touchpad when in use, and the sensitive positioning also improves the operability, and the right side also has the function of realizing the mouse wheel.
The design side of the left and right buttons is more personalized. The left and right buttons of Lenovo G460 are not separated, but integrated with the touchpad, showing two gray horizontal lines with a circle of dots around them. However, this novel design, for users who have just started to contact, takes some time to adapt to the operation. In addition, a row of status indicators is reserved under the touchpad.
Although the design of metal wire drawing of palm rest can really bring more grade effects to the whole machine and have good comfort to our wrists, the metal palm rest will be particularly cold when it is cold. In addition, the special functions and uses of Lenovo G460 can be seen on the left side of the palm rest, and the logo icon of the new platform is on the right side of the palm rest. The "innovation" of mold and appearance makes us see a different Lenovo G460, but as far as the interface expansion ability of the whole machine is concerned, it still focuses on practicality. From left to right are security keyhole, cooling hole, RJ-45 Ethernet interface, VGA video output interface, USB2.0 interface, e-SATA interface (compatible with USB2.0), Express card slot and HDMI high-definition video output interface. Compared with the left side of the previous G450 fuselage, the G460 designed an HDMI interface closer to the operator, and also changed one of the USB2.0 interfaces into an E-SATA interface with higher transmission speed.
On the right side of Lenovo G460 fuselage, there are a set of audio input/output interfaces, DVD recording drive, USB2.0 interface and power interface in turn. It can be said that Lenovo G460 still continues the practical interface type of G450, with the same number, but some interfaces adopted are adjusted to be more user-friendly.
Compared with the left side of the previous G450 fuselage, the G460 designed the HDMI interface closer to the operator, and also turned one of the USB2.0 interfaces into an e-SATA interface with faster transmission speed. On the right side of the fuselage, G460 has designed a set of audio input and output interfaces, which are located from the right side of the front end of G450 to the right side near the operator. The original USB2.0 interface is designed to the right side of the DVD drive, so that we can better connect the mouse. It would be better if this USB interface can be designed vertically, but there are still many gamers complaining about the design of USB and DVD drive together.
At the front end of Lenovo G460, we can see that it is very different from the previous G450. G460 designs the switch of wireless network card on the left and the slot of all-in-one card reader on the right, which is also convenient for us to use. However, the middle line of the system status indicator remains. After we completely close the notebook, we can still understand the running state of the notebook by observing their display screens. Moreover, the rear end of the fuselage, because of the design of sinking shaft, has not designed any interface.
Finally, we also measured the weight of Lenovo G460, and found that the weight of the whole machine with battery is 2.22Kg, and the weight of the whole machine+battery+power adapter is 2.55Kg when traveling. In the 14 inch notebook, the weight of Lenovo G460 is well controlled and slightly lighter than the previous G450. In addition, the thickest part of Lenovo's whole machine is 35.36mm, which also shows that the thickness of the whole machine is slightly thinner than that of the previous G450. In addition to the innovative changes in mold technology and design, the configuration has also been fully upgraded. According to the test information of EVEREST software, Lenovo G460 adopts the latest Intel Core family i5 430M processor and HM55 chip motherboard, and is loaded with NVIDIA GeForce G 3 10M discrete graphics card. 2GB DDRIII- 1066 memory, 320GB 5400RPM SATA-II hard disk, DVD burning drive, Broadcom 802.6438+006 are standard. Thanks to the architecture of the new platform, the data transmission from three chips (processor+north bridge+south bridge) to two chips (processor +PCH) is realized, thus greatly reducing the waiting time when we run large programs.
Intel's latest Core i5 430M dual-core processor is based on 32nm technology, with the core code Arrandate, the main frequency is 2.27GHz, and the third-level cache enjoyed by * * * is 3MB. When Turbo Boost is turned on, the maximum frequency of a single core is 2.53GHz, which supports synchronous hyper-threading technology. At the same time, in addition to supporting all the instruction sets supported by the previous generation processor, it also supports the brand-new SSE4.2 instruction set, which greatly improves the performance of the notebook in processing text.
L3 cache enjoyed by the processor can improve the calculation efficiency and data hit rate and shorten the waiting time when we use the notebook for daily work. In addition, the processor also adopts DMI bus and integrates PCI-E bus, so that the processor itself can run with only a small amount of data exchange with the PCH chip on the motherboard, which greatly reduces the data delay and reduces our waiting time in the specified operation. This notebook not only inherits the advantages of stability and durability of Lenovo's classic G series, but also shows us Lenovo G460 with more sense of technology and fashion due to brand-new molds and "changes" in appearance. Practicality is still emphasized in the expansion of the whole machine interface, and there are more humanized changes compared with the previous G450, which greatly improves our daily use. In addition, both the weight and the thickness of the fuselage show a weak advantage.
Configuration also keeps pace with the times, adopting Intel's latest platform. At the same time, it is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce G3 10M discrete graphics card. Although it is not strong in 3D graphics, it is completely enough for ordinary users. In addition, the use of the new platform not only reduces the heat inside the fuselage, but also greatly prolongs the battery life of the notebook. In this price segment, Lenovo G460 is a very recommended notebook computer.