Dell’s notebook products have always been known for its rich configuration options, as well as high cost by the majority of consumers, Dell’s Inspiron series targeted at the low end, so that people can enjoy without spending too much of Dell’s excellent quality, quite affordable. The test of this Dell Inspiron 14V does not use a high degree of concern of the current i-series CPU, which uses Intel’s recently launched Pentium dual-core processor P6000, clocked at 1.86GHz, the performance is slightly lower, prices are more close the current market price of less than 4,000 yuan.

Appearance Appreciation

Dell Inspiron 14V with a whole new generation of Dell Inspiron series notebook dies, the same mold as well Celeron and Core i3 series CPU choice. Abandoned the previous generation notebook bright and lively design, overall design tend to mature, more fashion than business showing steady low-key atmosphere.

Inspiron 14V whole work is quite solid, although not as refined a number of Japanese notebooks, but overall the machine joints uniform, fine texture selection, although due to cost constraints, did not use metal, plastic machine slightly stronger sense, but whether practicality or durability, Inspiron 14V has a good performance.

A face and C face has a black finish with a 3D pattern, in fact, printing is a circular process, the visual effect is quite beautiful, compared to previous generations of piano paint, surface treatment technology that will not leave unsightly fingerprints and the slip will also help.

Because these small circles etched odd lines and even the direction of the line is not the same, making at different angles to see the visual effects are not the same, notebook looks quite lively, beautiful.

From this perspective, the pattern was a slash-like, more interesting. In addition, notebook corners over relatively smooth, although the screen with LED backlight technology, but the thickness of the screen is quite thick, and does not reflect the advantages of ultra-thin LED backlight.

Dell Inspiron 14V basically the same thickness before and after, the measured thickness of about 3 cm. Did not reach the level of ultra-thin, but for such a low-end notebook, it is quite satisfactory, the actual use of it does not feel how heavy it is quite satisfactory.

Interface Analysis

For home use, the general user interfaces, and there is not much demand, some of the old interface, such as serial, parallel, have been away from the ordinary users, but for ordinary consumers, meaning more than one USB port is much larger than many do not have access to a serial port.

Inspiron 14V located in the common home entertainment, interfaces, although not too rich, but also basic enough.

Positive addition to the three power LED and a multi-card reader and no other external interfaces, the overall relatively simple, right and left sides of the hole for the speaker where the speaker power is 1W × 2, the sound loud and accurate. Status indicators can display the current switch state laptop, hard disk read-write state, as well as charging indicator, sleep state when the switch is breathing instructions flashing white light is very striking. However, some brightness too high, look straight at night when it was more from the glare.

Reader with a small dust cover, you can block the card reader interface, usually to prevent dust. Card reader supports SD, MMC, MS cards and Sony’s common to use a Sony camera and a small Memory Stick PSP MS DUO adapter is required before you can use, and reading speed is ideal.

The left side of the machine from left to right is the power supply interface, USB interface, cable interface, and DVD burner. Interface arrangement intensive, if you use the larger U-disk and the cable may be less convenient. The missing e-SATA interface will cause inconvenience for some users.

The machine right from left to right headphone microphone port, two USB, and VGA video port, USB-arranged the same intensive, but a total of three USB ports set to meet the basic needs of the general household. The careful reader may have noticed, this laptop is not configured PC Express card slot, and the lack of HDMI support, relevant for users who demand may be more inconvenient.

Rear of the machine without any interface, the left rear cooling fan vent, a vent placed in the rear is very reasonable, will not have any impact on users, will no longer be in the hot summer invasion. This point and the thermal design of Apple’s notebook is very similar, very human.

Dell’s machines use sunken shaft, the maximum open angle of 130 degrees, although the sinking of the shaft 180 degrees, do not start showing. But essential to meet the needs of home users.

Operating experience

For a notebook for the average home user, the operating experience is a good laptop key to success. For notebooks, the die is good or bad, the effect of the screen, keyboard feel is designed to focus on manufacturers.

Inspiron 14V with a resolution of 1366 × 768 16:9 screen, the screen uses LED backlighting, not only power, but more colorful. Screen using the TrueLife technology, the screen surface mirror treatment, inhibit the color chrominance signal drift, to prevent the infiltration of adjacent colors to each other, so sharp sharp color transition. However, in bright outdoor areas, or where a strong light, the screen will have a strong reflection, it seems not so comfortable.

Keyboard Dell Inspiron 14V continued consistent style, using the traditional keyboard, percussion feel quite satisfactory, support in place, key-way medium, I feel more solid. The top row shortcut keys do not need to implement a combination Fn, F1-F12 keys only need to use the Fn combinations. This is very convenient for ordinary users, if you do not need such a feature can start to enter the BIOS by pressing F2 Function key behavior modification options, exchange of these two functions.

Cover with a palm rest and the same surface treatment, not only beautiful, but do not leave fingerprints, and certain non-slip effect, usually used very good care, have a certain practicality.

For the home computer, the camera is also essential configuration, Inspiron 14V using a 30-megapixel camera, the general effect, but is sufficient for online chat. The Inspiron 14V with a full line of 802.11n wireless networks, the antenna sensitivity is very good, even across the load-bearing walls, you can receive a wireless router signal.

Touchpad design is more traditional, moderate size, smooth feel, two buttons feel comfortable dealing with piano paint surface, elastic medium key, key noise is very small, and F12 function key to disable the right button to set up a dedicated, you can always disable the touchpad when an external mouse touchpad to prevent typing inadvertently caused by misuse.

Sunken shaft exquisite workmanship, the screen opening and closing damping medium, but the opening and closing of the general feeling, and Dell Comparison of high-end products still lags far behind.

The power button on the left hinge design, very easy to use. Apart from this, and no other shortcuts design, design style tend to simple and practical.

Use experience

Benefit from good design of body heat, and heat a smaller P6000 processor, or if you just run some simple online office software, keyboard and palm rest area will not have burning feeling, to use a higher comfort .

In the 20 degrees room temperature, you can see in the Internet one hour after the machine under control temperature at 37 degrees below. And the body’s temperature is similar, feel more comfortable. Hard drive is located below the palm care, long read and write operations here will become warm. The game map in the long run, the keyboard parts of the temperature is still acceptable, in general, Dell’s 14V thermal design is quite good.

The bottom during low-load operation, the temperature is not too high, the maximum temperature of 39 degrees. But during the game or full time running the program, the top left near the cooling fan is still relatively hot, is not suitable for large-scale 3D game play on your lap, but the hot air out the rear of the machine, when used in normal operation will not impact, so the overall cooling performance is good. But the fan at full speed the noise is more obvious, and in the Internet, the fan intermittent work, the fan noise is relatively minor.

dell inspiron 14V battery  design in the shaft near the bottom of the notebook, capacity 11.1V 48Wh six-cell lithium power, battery life should not be weak.

Endurance test setup: Windows7 32-bit operating system, install the necessary drivers. Close the screensaver, sleep, wireless network, system protection, automatic updates, set the system maximum performance mode, screen brightness adjustment to the online medium.

Use BatteryMark4.01 software testing, you can see to use the laptop to work nearly three hours. For basic enough for the average family entertainment. Actual use, in the case of full power, power enough to support a high-definition movie watching. For the consumer notebook is taken out if not used regularly, this life fully meet user needs.

Inspiron 14V stand-alone weight and travel weight was 2.223 kg, 2.697Kg, at this level notebook performance quite satisfactory, there is nothing specific.

This notebook only 2G of memory, commonly used enough, but if the need to expand the memory inside the machine also offers a free memory slot available for upgrade, expandable up to 6G.

Performance Analysis

Dell Inspiron 14V and other models did not use the same series with the i3 processor, while the use of the high cost of Pentium Dual Core P6000 processor, compared with the i3-330M, P6000 with Core i used the same system Arrandale core processor , with the Nehalem architecture, 32-nanometer process, compared with 45-nanometer process more energy-efficient, cache also identical in CPU-Z can be seen, L1 cache 32KB Instruction Cache +32 KB from the data cache components. 256KB of L2 cache per core. L3 using shared design capacity of 3MB. In addition to a number of directives to streamline and reduce the frequency, and no shrinking in other areas, outstanding value for money.

Graphics part of the actual use of a new generation of Radeon HD530V core, this core is intended for low-end users, GPU-Z from the data, it is the HD4300 series of improvements from the core, which does not support DX11 effects . 55-nanometer process, memory use 512MB of DDR3 memory. Core frequency of 450MHz, 80 stream processing units. Overall performance nothing particularly special place, but its capability to run games or 3d of the mainstream.

Run Win7 own scoring system, you can see, this computer is more balanced overall performance, nothing is too low, short board, and we know that Intel’s latest integrated graphics processor core, the desktop display performance, independence is not enabled were tested, resulting in lower scores desktop display performance, so the overall performance score dropped 4.4 points.

PCmarkVantage Test total score of 3512, you can see a more balanced performance in all aspects, 2G of memory is enough to meet the needs of most users. Of course, and some use of Core i Series notebook CPU compared to the gap is still not small, but has enough common household.

Through the above analysis and arguments before the test, we can see that the mainstream than the previous generation P6000 series models T4xxx more advanced processor architecture, which in the case of low frequency can be achieved with the T4500 is still similar test scores However, compared with the Core i3 series, there are still gaps, but the P6000 uses an advanced 32nm process, has brought more good thermal environment and a better low cost.

The main test system 3Dmark06 3D graphics part of the theoretical performance. Test results at different resolutions for the 2973 and 2672 points, respectively, if the user does not play some of the large-scale 3D games, then this performance can be said to have been enough, after all, the positioning of the notebook is not to run large-scale 3D games, and some mainstream online game, World of Warcraft and the like can be run smoothly.

Through this professional HD TUNE test drive the software can be seen, Dell Inspiron 14V Samsung 320G hard drive used in this good performance, hard disk speed is 5400, the maximum transfer speed of 88.7MB / sec. Average data for the 69.8 MB / sec data transfer quite stable, the curve is relatively smooth, burst read speed is very stable. 8.1% CPU utilization higher, but overall performance is good.

Street Fighter 4 test

Street Fighter 4 comes through benchmark testing to see out 7275, the average number of frames is only maintained at 28 or more, can only say that you can play, but difficult to run smoothly, testing and evaluation of only E-class.

From the video game Resident Evil 4 on the computer is still relatively high system requirements to run Resident Evil 4 comes the test. You can see the average number of frames in the 12.3 or so, poor fluency. If you want to run smoothly can reduce the quality.

Need for Speed ​​13 test, the default picture settings. In the basic game only lasted around 18. Significant jump in the game feeling. To lower the screen smooth run effects only. Overall performance on the Dell Inspiron N4030 is still remarkable, P6000 HD530v independence was a combination of lower cost, but performance is still relatively strong, there is no performance short board machine, 2G memory, 512MB of memory is also very mainstream.

Summary

Dell Inspiron 14V (Ins14VD-266B) Image Series Forum offer

Dell Inspiron 14V summarize the advantages and disadvantages
Lack of merit
1 craft excellent, stylish
2 balanced performance, the price is right 1 life short
(2) No HDMI, e-SATA interfaces

Today’s highly competitive notebook market, user demand for notebooks vary widely, and Dell Inspiron 14V has a good production process, stylish exterior design, good cost control, and not a weak performance for the emphasis on cost-effective, balanced emphasis on the user concerned, be regarded as a good choice. The disadvantage of this machine is slightly shorter  inspiron 14V battery   ( dell inspiron 14VR battery  ) life, also not equipped with HDMI and e-SATA interface.

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