We often say that buying a laptop depends on the needs of individual practical applications. So how should this principle be followed in the actual purchase process? Today, the author takes five more representative products to explain, to help you make a more reasonable judgment before purchasing.
When choosing a laptop, the point of everyone's entanglement is often not in the game book, but in the thin and light book. Because the game itself has a distinct directionality. The line between thin and light books and business books is becoming more and more blurred, coupled with the emergence of creative design segments, resulting in people often being more entangled when choosing such products.
Many friends will use hardware configuration as standard when choosing thin and light, but this is actually the root cause of your entanglement.
For example, the five products listed in the following table:
It can be seen that the prices of these five products are similar, and the configuration is generally similar. Friends who are familiar with the processor model may have a bottom in mind, and friends who are not familiar with the processor model may be a little overwhelmed to see these five i5s, so it is easy to make people tangled by simply choosing through hardware.
If you have encountered such troubles, you may wish to try to consider the following two dimensions:
First, how much is the budget. This directly determines which price segment of the product is right for you.
Second, what to buy for. Daily office has the choice of daily office, professional application has the choice of professional application, different use needs determine the final choice of products.
Take the above five products, although they are equipped with Intel 11th generation Core i5 processors, but the scope of final application is not small differences, especially after combining the characteristics of the product itself, the application scenario will be completely different.
First of all, the Core i5-1155G7 is an 11th generation Core low-power processor, which is characterized by maintaining sufficiently excellent performance while minimizing low power consumption, providing a longer endurance and lower core temperature for notebooks, so it is very suitable for notebooks with thin and light portable features to assemble.
Secondly, the Core i5-11300H and Core i5-11320H are more powerful standard voltage processors, but compared to the game's 45W power standard voltage processor, its power consumption is only 35W, so it can be applied in a thinner notebook. This makes thin and light notebooks more productive.
Based on these characteristics, if you often carry a notebook out of the office, but do not often do video editing, picture processing this heavy load work, and have relatively high requirements for notebook endurance, then core i5-1155G7 low-power processor model is the right choice.
If you often involve some heavy-duty applications in your daily work and want a laptop with good portability, then the Core i5-11300H and Core i5-11320H processor models are more suitable.
But as we said earlier, relying only on hardware to make judgments will still be entangled, so at this time, you need to put the two factors of "budget" and "what to do" to make judgments.
How to choose daily office?
First of all, if you buy a laptop for daily work, such as video conferencing, PPT presentations, Word document writing, Excel table making, basic picture processing, and other more light applications. Then among the above five products, HP Star 14, Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 14 2021 and Lenovo ThinkBook 14 can meet the needs of such applications.
Determine the "what to do", and then look at the characteristics of the product itself, what points can impress you?
HP Star 14 design is small and stylish, suitable for friends who like light color matching. Its whole machine weight is only 1.41kg, thin to 16.9mm, portability is good.
It offers a 14-inch, 72% NTSC color gamut display, a gamut value that means it can display richer color detail. For example, when the colors of dark gray, gray, and light gray are transitioned, the low-gamut display cannot accurately restore the transition color, while the high-gamut display can perfectly present the difference in transition color, bringing a better visual experience.
In addition, HP Star 14 can achieve an average endurance of more than 8 hours, and supports fast charging technology, coupled with excellent hardware performance, it can be said to be a mobile office weapon.
HP Star 14
Although the same as the main thin and portable products, Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 14 has a weight of 1.38kg and a thickness of 16.9mm, but also strengthens the overall hardware performance performance. Switching the "Beast Performance Mode" with the one-click Fn+Q allows the Core i5-1155G7 processor to perform more powerfully.
It is also equipped with a 56.5Wh lithium battery, and after switching the performance mode to "energy saving", the endurance can exceed 10 hours.
Therefore, don't look at the small new Air 14 and HP Star 14 size is similar, the weight is similar, but there are still some differences between the two in actual use. After the small new Air 14 opens the beast performance mode, because the overall hardware performance is maximized, it can be competent for some heavy load work content or software operation, and even some game applications; after switching to the intelligent mode, the machine will intelligently adjust the performance output according to the actual use of the user, daily office, audio and video entertainment free switching; energy-saving mode can further extend the battery life to meet the needs of users for a long time without plugging in the office.
Lenovo Small New Air 14
Compared with HP Star 14 and Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 14, ThinkBook 14 highlights the business attribute on the basis of thinness and lightness.
Considering that business users often have some remote meeting needs, ThinkBook 14 uses Intel's 11th generation Core AI technology to implement sound source noise filtering based on AI algorithms, which can effectively reduce a variety of common noises such as keyboard tapping, instrument playing, car whistles, and pet calls.
At the same time, ThinkBook 14 has also been optimized in terms of security, introducing Think Shutter black valve physical camera switches to effectively shield privacy snooping. In addition, it has excellent interface expansion capabilities, enabling 40Gbps data transfer speeds with Thunderbolt 4 for 4K/8K display expansion. In addition, in order to facilitate the sharing of screen content, the ThinkBook 14 display is specially designed to open and close 180°.
ThinkBook 14
It can be seen that although the same products are mainly designed for thin and light, HP Star 14, Lenovo Xiaoxin Air 14, thinkBook 14 will still have their own different tendencies in practical applications.
How to choose creative design and efficient productivity?
If you're buying a laptop to do design, video, or anything creative, then if you want a better experience, the ASUS Fearless Pro 14 will bring a good experience.
Creative design content is often accompanied by a more impactful visual experience, ASUS Fearless Pro 14 is equipped with an OLED display, which can achieve 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and support HDR600, brightness can also reach 600nits, can provide professional users with accurate color reproduction effect.
So if you're a designer, photographer, video editor, or anyone else who needs visual reassurance, the Asus Fearless Pro 14 is the right one.
At the same time, the load of creative design related applications is relatively high, such as Photoshop, Premiere, CAD, etc., so the Asus Fearless Pro 14 is equipped with an 11th generation Core i5-11300H standard voltage processor, higher frequency and Turbo capabilities make it can better adapt to the operating needs of these high-load tasks, and the built-in Rui Torch Xe core display can also provide excellent hardware acceleration capabilities.
Asus Fearless Pro 14
If you need more productive productivity, the Dell Smart 14 Pro with an upgrade to the Core i5-11320H processor will give you a satisfying experience. The Core i5-11320H is an upgraded version of the Core i5-11300H with higher main and turbo frequencies for more robust performance support in the face of heavy load tasks.
In addition, the Dell More than 14 Pro has done a good enough control on the portability of the whole machine, with a weight of 1.46kg and a thickness of 17.1mm, which can be said to be powerful and easy to carry.
In addition, this machine is also equipped with Wi-Fi 6 wireless network card, compared to Wi-Fi 5, it has faster speed, more stable network environment, especially in public places with more people using Wi-Fi, its stability will be more prominent, fully protect the mobile office experience.
Dell Lingyue 14 Pro
Conclusion
As a notebook review editor, I often have netizens or friends and relatives ask me how to choose a laptop. Among them, there are often many more questions about the purchase of thin and light books than game books. For example, the five products listed in this article, for friends who do not know much about computer hardware, they seem to be not much different except for the different appearance. However, if you look at the hardware information together with its own characteristics and combined use needs, you will find that the products that can be selected for different application needs are completely different.
Of course, this is not to say that creative design users can not choose products such as the Star 14 and Xiaoxin Air 14, but that if their own needs are clear, the Fearless Pro 14 will be more suitable for their needs. On the other hand, friends who simply pursue portability and long endurance are not unable to choose the Fearless Pro 14, but in terms of its application needs, The Star 13 and Xiaoxin Air 14, which are notebooks equipped with low-power processors, will bring a better experience in these aspects.