15.6 inch What's the difference between commercial use? ThinkPad T570 evaluation

IT 168 Evaluation Why do people who go to work generally use ThinkPad? On reflection, I think the most accurate answer is "because I feel at ease."

Just like buying a mobile phone can't just look at the running score, choosing a notebook can't just look at the configuration. Every brand has culture and connotation behind it. When it comes to the connotation of ThinkPad, it must be based on business. T series, really a symbol and memory of an era, adopts top-level processors, high-end graphics cards and reliable and durable data storage. It is for this reason that it can win a place in the desks and handbags of global business elites and become a model of business notebooks.

What is concentration? It is vividly reflected in the new ThinkPad T570. In addition to inheriting the excellent genes of ThinkPad family-graphite black integrated appearance, portable body, floating island keyboard and little red dot classic three-key design, it also has a balanced interface, just right performance configuration, outstanding button feel and the best software and hardware security protection. People have a feeling that "with such a foundation, there is nothing more for a husband".

15.6 inch screen brings more than one or two surprises.

In the mainstream 15.6-inch notebook, the screen ratio of ThinPad T570 is quite high, and the border thickness is 9mm, which breaks through the history of 15-inch T series. The most surprising thing is that it has 1080P and 4K resolution.

The advantage of 4K screen is that it can meet the more professional needs of users, such as architectural drawings, high-pixel photos, medical X-rays and so on. You can see more clear details.

For a long time, the main reason for the slow promotion of 4K UHD screen is that the support of hardware platform performance is not fully in place. It is too difficult to really support such a high resolution without reducing the application experience. In this regard, the ThinPad T570 is well prepared, adopting Intel's latest seventh-generation Core i7 processor and NVIDIA independent display chip, and the overall configuration is up to standard. Later, we also ran tests in a targeted manner.

We got the version of 1080P this time, and the screen material is an IPS screen with a super wide viewing angle. At present, IPS screen is widely used in mobile phones, and everyone is familiar with it. Compared with TN screen, IPS screen has the characteristics of faster response speed, smoother moving picture, wide viewing angle, no afterimage, uniform response speed and colorless bias. The brightness of this screen is as high as 250 nits.

The screen of ThinkPad T570 can be opened at 180 degrees, which brings great convenience to business users. Although the screen can be used to display when it is 90 degrees vertical, the content like CAD drawings is more stereoscopic when it is placed horizontally at 180 degrees.

Worried about spindles? This is made of alloy and has passed 30000 opening and closing tests. I'm afraid the notebook is retired, but it's still good.

The highly recognizable appearance can actually be made thin and light.

Why is ThinkPad black? Many people have asked this question. The answer actually has two layers, perceptual and rational. Rational analysis shows that black helps people to concentrate, so ThinkPad wants users to concentrate all their energy on what is displayed on the screen, not elsewhere. Sensually, this is inextricably linked with the social culture and humanistic understanding of black people, which is in line with the positioning of commercial notebooks. Of course, there is also a saying that black is resistant to dirt.

ThinkPad has always been at the forefront of material technology, and new materials with light weight and high strength are applied to ThinkPad, which is talked about by people. Compared with the magnesium-aluminum alloy commonly used in other notebooks, the ThinkPad shell is made of high-strength PPS material, which can ensure greater compressive strength under thinner conditions. This is a good explanation. As a 15.6 inch notebook, the T570 actually weighs less than 2kg (2.35Kg in the previous generation T560), and the thinnest part is only 19.95mm (22.45mm in the previous generation T560). There is absolutely no problem for this number to enter the top three notebooks of the same size. For male users, it is simply light.

It is worth mentioning that ThinkPad T570 has also passed the 12 military standard test, including shock resistance, moisture resistance, dust resistance, earthquake resistance, high temperature resistance and low temperature resistance. Stricter standards bring higher quality products. Even in the harsh industrial environment, it is very important to ensure that the probability of damage or failure is minimized.

There are not a few safety interfaces for dual battery escort.

Generally speaking, thin design is bound to give up, such as interface. ThinkPad T570 is equipped with a complete interface in a slim appearance. It has three USB 3.0, full-size HDMI, Type-C thunderbolt 3 interface, 4-in-1 card reader and RJ45 network cable interface, which can meet the needs of all scenes at work.

At present, Type-C is almost the standard for high-end notebooks. After all, as a new generation interface standard, it integrates data transmission, video signal transmission, power supply and charging functions. What used to be done with different interfaces now only needs a Type-C, which really opens a new era. Pay attention to the lightning "lightning" next to the Type-C interface, which is the symbol of the Lightning 3 interface. The highest speed can reach 40Gbps, which is four times that of USB 3. 1. ThinkPad T570 can also be equipped with ThinkPad WiGig docking station to provide wireless desktop solutions integrating LAN, video output, USB port and other interfaces.

The power button is located in the upper right corner of C-plane, away from the keyboard, to avoid accidental touch.

The camera is located directly above the screen, with noise reduction microphones and work indicators on both sides. Can meet the needs of users such as video calls and video conferences. , effectively reduce the interference of environmental noise and filter out the noise generated by tapping the keyboard.

The D surface is made of aluminum-magnesium alloy, and the cooling hole area is very large. As for the effect, we will have a special test later. The appearance of keyboard drainage holes also implies the existence of splash-proof design. For commercial notebooks, the design of detachable dual batteries is more scientific than the design of built-in batteries or single detachable batteries, which extends the endurance performance in disguise. ThinkPad T570 adopts double battery bridging technology, which can realize external battery hot plug without shutting down the system.

Dual speakers are hidden in two corners of D-plane. Although the sound quality is not outstanding, watching a movie occasionally can still achieve the effect.

Notebook keyboard with the best feel

For the ThinkPad keyboard, all the little black powder need not be concealed. It is the summary of product experience in past dynasties and the foundation of ThinkPad. The persistence of keyboard feel from generation to generation makes people feel very comfortable. In the process of evaluating T570, what we need to do is to confirm that it is still the notebook keyboard with the best feel.

This is a full-size keyboard. For you who play games, the independent numeric keyboard may be of little use, but it is very convenient for users who need financial calculation and programming. Complex mathematical operations and digital input can be easily completed with only one hand and no wrist movement.

I don't know if you have noticed a detail. The indicator light is skillfully integrated into the buttons, which not only monopolizes the space, but also looks very clear and exquisite.

Little red dot is one of the most classic design elements of ThinkPad. People who haven't used the touchpad may think it is redundant, but those who have used it should know that little red dot's three-key design can completely replace the mouse, and the operation accuracy even exceeds the touchpad.

Why does ThinkPad T570 keyboard feel so good? We also made a comparison. It turns out that each keycap has a certain radian according to ergonomic standards, which increases the contact surface between fingertips and keyboard. Key elastic feedback, key position control in place. One advantage of this floating island keyboard is that it is simpler and more direct to clean up the debris in the gap of the keyboard, and only a rag is needed to complete it. This keyboard can be equipped with an optional backlight function to support two brightness levels.

For business people, the data in the notebook is very important, especially some business secrets related to the fate of the company. Although the Windows operating system provides some security measures, such as login password, anyone who knows a little about computers should know that this trick of preventing gentlemen and villains is not reliable at all. Relatively speaking, ThinkPad T570 is equipped with fingerprint recognition device, which can provide additional security. For the recognition rate, we have done a test, even if there is sweat on our hands, it can reach 100%, which is definitely much more reliable than the home button of iPhone.

The heat dissipation is guaranteed for more than ten hours.

We confirmed that the ThinkPad T570 has a built-in battery capacity of 2040mAh and an external battery capacity of 1950mAh. When the brightness is 60% and the system is not energy-saving, 10 hour online HD movie is requested, and the remaining power is still 12%. Normal business office can really charge a day's electricity.

ThinkPad's cooling system is unique. Adopt bionic eagle wing fan design, the air duct area is larger and wider, and the heat dissipation efficiency will be faster. In addition, using vacuum metal cooling tube and keyboard convection cooling system, the notebook effectively solves the heat dissipation problem. According to official data, the bottom temperature of ThinkPad notebook with eagle-wing fan is 4 degrees lower than that without eagle-wing fan. To find out, we did an airplane abuse experiment.

ThinkPad T570 has advantages in heat dissipation due to its large body. Judging from the pictures taken by the thermal imager, the heat is quickly led out of the fuselage. The temperature of the keyboard and palm rest is only slightly higher than that of the human body, and there will be no discomfort even under high load. The hottest part of the fuselage is located in the cooling hole on the D surface, which is planned, and the mature mold is indispensable.

Performance is far more powerful than you think.

The ThinkPad T570 evaluation machine we got adopted the latest seventh-generation i5-7500U processor, 8GB memory, 256GB solid-state hard disk+1TB mechanical hard disk and NVIDIA 940MX 2GB discrete graphics card. Master Lu runs 142285 as usual, and can hang most commercial notebooks on the market.

The latest CPU-Z 1.77.0 has been able to identify the Kaby Lake processor. We can see that Intel Core i7-7500U is based on Kaby Lake architecture, with 2 cores and 4 threads, the highest frequency is 3500MHz, L3 cache is 4MB, and TDP 15W.

Compared with the previous generation i7-6500U, the performance is improved by 10%, mainly due to the frequency increase. Compared with the fourth generation i7-4558U, the performance improvement is too obvious.

In the chess test, i7-7500U got 14.7438+0 times.

8GB DDR 4 memory comes standard. The most remarkable progress in hardware specifications of DDR4 memory is the substantial increase in frequency. In addition, lower voltage means lower power consumption, and lower power consumption will bring lower heat generation.

AIDA64 memory cache test results.

The performance of i7-7500U nuclear display is improved obviously, theoretically by 30%-40%, and actually by 35-45%. From our actual measurement, we can already play some great games with moderate effect, and the pressure of online games is less. However, ThinkPad T570 is definitely not satisfied with such performance, and it is specially equipped with an independent NVIDIA GeForce 940MX. In terms of parameters, GM 108 kernel based on Maxwell architecture has 384 stream processors, 16/24 ROPs units and texture units.

Compared with Geforce 940M, the main frequency of 940MX is higher. With GDDR5 video memory version (ThinkPad T570 is it), the theoretical performance is much higher than 940M.

ThinkPad T570 is equipped with Samsung's 256GB SSD. According to the test of ASSSDBenchmark, the reading speed is close to 1375MB/s, and the writing speed is over 1 150MB/s, which is excellent. No wonder the boot speed is fast enough, and the game is basically seconds.

The test results of TxBench confirm our above judgment, and the absolute first-class price is the first-class goods.

PCMARK7 is a set of tests for comprehensive performance analysis of PC system, which measures system performance from different angles. Each test item is composed of some small independent workloads, which cross each other. The score of 52 12 is an objective evaluation of ThinkPad T570, which is 15% higher than the previous generation.

In PCMark 8, we conducted two tests, each running independently, in which Home is a virtual home environment to test the performance of the whole machine. Creativity includes seven different test sub-items: web browsing, photo editing, massive photo editing, video editing, media operation, high-end games and video conferencing, among which "massive photo editing, video editing, high-end games and video conferencing" are all high-load test simulations, which require high performance and stability. ThinkPad T570 scored well on these two items.

Judging from the running score of 3DMARK 1 1, the performance of Geforce 940MX with GDDR5 video memory is obviously improved, which can restrain heat and power consumption and bring stronger graphics performance to the notebook. Running League of Legends, an online game that doesn't require high graphics cards, has no pressure, and a large 3D game that doesn't require high graphics cards can run smoothly at the expense of some image quality.

Summary: ThinkPad T570 has shown Lenovo's sincerity, subverting many inherent concepts of users for large-screen business notebooks. In fact, we also found the shadow of game books and ultrabooks in it. Simply looking at the configuration may not be the strongest on the market; Simply looking at the design, perhaps its business atmosphere is still too strong. However, it has its own inheritance and uncompromising spirit. Professionalism and quality are the best descriptions of it. Isn't this the ultimate goal that commercial notebooks have been pursuing?

ThinkPad T570 is worthy of noble blood and your wallet.