The Latest Business Notebook ThinkPad X220 Review

Pure classic style black business

All along, ThinkPad products in the exterior design will seldom make radical changes in this release ThinkPad X220 is no exception. The overall design compared with the previous generation there is little difference in range of children still pure black business to business people that carry the appropriate IBM 08K8048 battery office tool. The model features a 12.1-inch display, maximum resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, the screen color reproduction in place, showing sharp, daily office business users is the best helper.
However, ThinkPad X220 after all, would be a 16:9 screen ratio, which may lead to a lot of business users of controversy, because the daily office, the 16:9 ratio in the mapping, web browsing and other applications, and 16:10 to see the screen more than comforting. This could be considered X220 compared to the previous generation products, the biggest change it.
X220 top part with a metal material, and surface coating a layer of matte matte coating, which often go out to users is very important, after all, when using a laptop on the road IBM 92P1141 battery will inevitably be some bump, it is relatively hard metal body will be more durable notebook.
X220 is one of the few 12-inch notebook product, but also the child has to adhere to this position of the old products. Small, thin body to have a good innate portability, which is the X220 can go out of office long-term choice for business people to become the most important feature of the model.
X220 bottom of the fuselage design did not change, skewed to the right of the battery design to be reflected in the X210, but not the distribution of large thermal windows, only in the thermal component corresponding to the position of arrangement has several sets of simple thermal windows. Place near the battery, X220 provides users with a docking station, which is very important for business users, through the expansion of its various forms, such as industrial users can be achieved through its parallel IBM B321 battery port input and output. In addition, the official can also provide some extensions ThinkPad to achieve the X220 device to facilitate the application.
Although the X220 body is very small, but the interface configuration is not vague, which for business users with great convenience. In the right side, X220 provides users security slot, headphone / microphone jack blend, RJ-45 Ethernet port, card reader and a support charge off the USB 2.0 interface. In addition, we can see the right side of the central baffle design together, through which we can easily replace or upgrade the hard disk.
In most cases, the left side of the fuselage is a common interface to the main distribution area. X220 in this side provides the user with two USB 2.0 ports, VGA port, DisplayPort port, ExpressCard slot and wireless LAN switch. Overall, X220 fuselage interface design is more reasonable, but the RJ-45 interface IBM IB-A30L battery design in the right side of the front will cause little impact on the use of the mouse, the user will definitely lead to a lot of controversy.

The new key design around the touchpad

Lenovo ThinkPad X Series is a major feature in the 12-inch mold design a full-size keyboard, it maintained a compact body but also to ensure the product’s ease of use. In addition, ThinkPad products we see the classic “red dot” design is still to be retained, but also follows from the X201 touchpad since the time of design.
ThinkPad feel comfortable and high-touch keyboard, the key process is longer, so when struck keycap back in full force, the large size of the ESC and the Delete key design was adopted, the classic red TrackPoint use habits, can replace the mouse for operation, the keyboard part of the overall IBM ThinkPad I 1421 battery layout is very compact.
X220 provides users with a webcam, which is also for business users is essential, such as video conference, you do not need additional configuration for video cameras to communicate. The right side of the camera hole, X220 is the integrated microphone, chat application for users of the network provides a great convenience.
While this machine cover and base are using a metal material, but still the plastic palm rest part, but rarely to bump this position, so the traditional engineering plastics have been sufficient. In the upper left corner of the keyboard, there are commonly used distribution function keys, including three volume control buttons, a microphone and ThinkVantage shortcut key to open.
X220 X201 followed since the days of new entrants from the touchpad, and an improved, touch pad at the bottom of the original two separate left and right buttons are abandoned, but to press the touchpad designed to model, we simply click on left or right side of the touchpad, the touchpad IBM ThinkPad R50 battery can be achieved about the original key function. However, in actual use, take some time to adapt to this new mode of operation.

Excellent thermal performance and excellent portability

In mobile performance-related test, we first weight of this ThinkPad X220 was weighed. The whole machine with battery weighs 1.526kg, travel weight of 1.869kg. For a 12-inch notebooks, excellent portability to the inherent characteristics, which is the number of business users to select ThinkPad X series of important reasons.
In the thermal performance testing, we used FurMark software to make this machine run at high load condition, after an hour or so of time, CPU temperature rose to 77 ℃, respectively, the core temperature reached 71 ℃ and 74 ℃, a single temperature from the sensor point of view, ThinkPad X220 cooling system efficiency is good.
By thermal imaging devices, we face the fuselage C and D surface temperature of the test surface. Among them, the most contact with the user’s keyboard part of the maximum temperature of 4 * ℃, the maximum temperature of the bottom of the fuselage 45.5 ℃. From the heat distribution, we can see, the highest temperature of the red zone, the surface for keyboard, the keyboard focus on the left side of the red zone, while the heat IBM ThinkPad T22 battery is concentrated in the bottom of the window part. We see, X220 cooling component design more scientific, regular contact with the user’s wrist rest hand did not touch pad part of the heat source, when used, feel cooler, cooling experience better.
Finally, let us look at X220′s battery life really like? From the battery specification point of view, the model comes standard with a six-cell lithium battery 11.1V/63Wh, we ThinkPad-specific power management software for the assessment of their endurance, and ultimately the measured life time of 3 hours 06 minutes. Of course, this result only as a reference value point of view, according to the user’s actual performance will vary in different applications.

Core i5 2540M processor

In the hardware configuration, this ThinkPad X220 is equipped with 32nm process technology Intel Core i5 2540M dual-core processor, equipped with Intel QM67 chipset, equipped with high-capacity Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM hard drive, and 4GB DDR3 1333MHz high-speed memory, in addition, the machine factory pre-loaded with Genuine Windows 7 operating system. In the video, the model built using the Intel processor-based Core HD 3000 graphics card.
X220 with Core i5 2540M processor, the hardware configuration IBM ThinkPad X30 battery is undoubtedly the biggest bright spot, because for now, Core i5 2410M processor is more mainstream. We first passed AIDA 64 of CPUID tool to see Fengyun Intel Core i5 2540M processor, the basic information, which is based on 32nm process technology, the core code-named Sandy Bridge, the initial frequency of 2.6GHz, the use of Turbo 2.0 technology to accelerate, frequency can be boosted to 3.3GHz, shared L3 cache is 3MB, the overall TDP of 35W, supports Hyper-Threading technology with the latest AVX instruction set.
Basic information about the processor, we use this software CINEBENCH R10 to assess its performance, the software is capable of single-and multi-core processor Lenovo ThinkPad X220s battery performance score given intuitive, Fengyun Core i5 2540M processor soon completion of all the test content, and ultimately get 5177 points its single-core, quad core get 11016 points, compared with the Core i5 2410M, the average score nearly 1000 points.
We have said before, get together with measurements of the X220 Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM hard drive capacity, we HD Tune to test its performance. Screenshot from the test results, we see that the average transfer rate of this drive 77.7MB / s, the maximum transfer rate of 106.3MB / s, while the minimum transfer rate of 44.2MB / s, 17.7 ms access time, the overall reflected in the outstanding ordinary SATA hard drive more.

Business tool to support vPro technology

The send test X220, its biggest feature is that equipped with the latest Intel Core i5 vPro processor, it can promote the comprehensive upgrade of business computing, and improving information security, streamline IT processes, seamless integration of office environment, but also to business life become more colorful.
In the enterprise information security, equipped with Intel vPro processor-based notebooks have Intel anti-theft technology, which can help to protect sensitive data, so that lost or stolen computer is completely disabled, through a combination of third-party Lenovo ThinkPad X220i battery software solutions provider , even if the laptop’s hard disk access on other computers can not access the encrypted data or retrieval. For business users, business information can be possible to avoid leakage. Once the stolen computer was recovered, can be re-activated.
In streamline IT processes, the second generation of intelligent Intel vPro processor family can be configured by simplifying processes, reduce costs to improve the configuration of the intelligent enterprise IT management. The new host-based configuration (Host-based configuration) function can be completely automated in the new computer configuration vPro features, easy to complete within a few minutes.
In addition, second-generation intelligent Intel vPro processor can make the Tablet PC, smart phones and other devices communicate better fusion, do all things. Computer will become a service provider to assist in encryption, virus scanning, message synchronization and full remote control, thus contributing to a comprehensive upgrade of business computing.
Overall, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 battery, and before the biggest improvement is the screen compared to the proportion of left and right keys and touchpad design. Meanwhile, second-generation Core Duo processor i to join, but also the laptop in performance to the next level; 12 inches to bring the best small size mold unparalleled portability for frequent business travelers, the Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is a very a good choice.
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