As mobile work has become the norm, people have become accustomed to completing work tasks in multiple scenarios such as home, company, café, airport and so on. Compared with the era when all the work was done at the workstation, our requirements for creativity and productivity were higher, and it had to be handy enough to meet our needs to enter the working state anytime and anywhere. Today to bring you asus Lingyao 14 2022 ink blue notebook review, this notebook not only has the 12th generation Intel Core processor i7-1260P, 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, 16GB LPDDR5 UHF memory blessing, with strong performance and long battery life; equipped with the same gear as the ASUS good screen 14-inch 2.8k OLED; but also to achieve enough thin and light portable, commuter travel is no burden. What's more, on this basis, its design also adds thinking about traditional Chinese culture and oriental aesthetics, and outlines the beauty of modern science and technology with a unique and innovative appearance. Treating such a product that can be said to be the benchmark of business light and thin, our evaluation will naturally not be perfunctory, and this article will share with you in detail our experience.
Not only light and thin, but also integrated into the oriental aesthetic thinking of the difference
When choosing a notebook for business purposes, it is difficult not to consider whether it is thin and portable enough, of course, the light and thin portability here is best not to use the compromise of materials to achieve, after all, it will make the notebook lose a certain texture and make people feel inadequate. What is rare is that the Lingyao 14 2022, which adopts the all-metal Seiko body design, still achieves a thinness of 15.9mm and a light weight of about 1.3kg without compromising on the material, which makes us carry it with us without feeling burdened.
Its A-side can be said to be a major innovation in appearance, extracting the ink blue of Chinese landscapes, supplemented by a more modern geometric line design, outlining the beauty of the fusion of modern technology and oriental aesthetics. Exquisite and elegant, the texture is outstanding, and it has a very national charm.
It is equipped with a 90Hz refresh rate OLED Asus good screen, with a resolution of 2.8K. Since this screen is the same as most of the notebook products launched by Asus recently, it is not simple, we still use the part to talk about it in detail later, and here we will sell it first.
Centered at the top of the screen is its HD camera, which supports 3DNR noise reduction, which can help us more in video calls and online meetings. In order to better protect privacy, the keyboard is also designed with special keys to turn off the camera and microphone with one key, and there is a striking indicator reminder, which is very intimate.
Lingyao 14 2022 integrates fingerprint recognition function on the power button, and completes the unlock operation at the moment when the finger presses the power button to start the machine, which is safe and convenient. When you are in a hurry to deal with the work, you no longer have to enter any passwords, and you can more calmly enter the "battle" at any time.
Although the Lingyao 14 2022 is small in size, this does not mean that its input experience will be poor. Its ErgoSense keyboard has a 1.4mm long range, clear compression feedback, and the keycap 0.2mm concave curved surface design is also more suitable for the finger abdomen, and the tapping feeling is better. And, because it is a large size keycap and a 19.05mm full-size spacing design, the finger has more room to move and will not appear cramped. The backlight that supports three levels of brightness adjustment better solves the pain point of typing at night, and when forced to "crazy output" at night, the fingers will not get lost.
Asus's NumberPad digital trackpad also appeared on the Lingyao 14 2022, making digital input more efficient.
The large diagonal trackpad of 5.9 inches also gives us more ample area, allowing us to work efficiently when we do not have a mouse.
In terms of interface, Lingyao 14 2022 is equipped with USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps), HDMI 2.0b (supporting 4K 60Hz), Micro SD card reader, 3.5mm audio jack and other daily required interfaces, and arranged with two Thunderbolt 4 Type-C (40Gbps support PD charging and DP video output), which can meet the expansion needs of external high-performance graphics docks, high-speed SSDs, high-performance docking stations, 8K displays and so on. When we really need more powerful performance, or connect more high-spec equipment, the Lingyao 14 2022 is also up to the task.
Opening the back cover, let's take a brief look inside it. First of all, its fan volume is much larger than imagined, and the 12V voltage fan commonly found in the game book is indeed very secure, and the air volume of the 5V fan used on the thin and light book is undoubtedly much larger, which can further ensure the full release of performance. The 75Wh large-capacity battery visibly occupies a considerable area inside, which is also the premise of this model having a stronger endurance, in fact, in the subsequent endurance test, its performance is also very good.
2.8K OLED ASUS good screen, notebook screen can also be brilliant
Small partners engaged in design and other industries usually have higher requirements for screen quality, most of them have become accustomed to external professional screens to work, after all, the screen of traditional notebooks can not meet their work needs, but if they use Lingyao 14 2022, perhaps they do not have to be so troublesome.
Above we mentioned that Lingyao 14 2022 is equipped with a 14-inch OLED screen, its resolution has reached 2.8K, that is to say, on top of this 14-inch screen, there is a total number of pixels of more than 5 million, 2.5 times the number of pixels on the 1080P screen, so that this screen can present more details, the picture is delicate and outstanding, and it is every bit of the picture.
The 16:10 golden ratio gives the screen more vertical space and provides more room for maneuverability when working. The oversized opening and closing angle of 180° further allows unlimited use and can be freed.
The 90Hz refresh rate of OLED material, with a response speed of 0.2ms, is already smoother than our common high refresh rate LCD panel e-sports screen. In the game, movie and other scenes where every frame of the picture needs to be changed and refreshed, it loads the picture more quickly and the clarity of the picture action is higher.
Using the IPS screen and the ASUS peerless screen for the refresh rate comparison test, we can intuitively see that the ASUS peerless screen is clear and smooth, while the traditional IPS screen is obviously smeared.
This OLED screen covers 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, and under the guarantee of more professional color gamut standards, it can be competent for more professional-grade video image creation.
Lingyao 14 2022 also supports color gamut switching in MyASUS software, and the optional color gamut includes native, Display P3, DCI-P3, and sRGB. We can avoid the color management problem under Windows through this method, so that the excellent screen quality can be better applied.
In other parameters, this screen can also be said to have no shortcomings, up to 600nits peak brightness, 10000000:1 high contrast, 0.2ms response speed, and 10bit color depth brought by 1.07 billion colors, color, brightness, contrast and other parameters all-round beyond the traditional notebook screen. Watching movies and dramas outside of work, the audiovisual feast brought by the high-quality screen with Dolby Atmos + Harman Kardon Master Sound effects is also excellent, and the sense of presence and immersion is also stronger.
What is even more rare is that each Lingyao 14 2022 screen has been accurately calibrated from the factory and passed the DisplayHDR 600 True Black and Pantone color certification. After our test, its Delta E average is only 0.97, which means that it is higher than the general so-called professional display color accuracy, we directly use the notebook original screen to complete more professional work content is no longer a luxury.
In order to have a more intuitive understanding, we compared the Lingyao 14 2022 with the IPS screen notebook in our hands, and when displaying the same screen, we can easily see the difference between the two. If you look closely, you will find that the transition of color on the side of Lingyao 14 2022 is obviously more natural, while the IPS screen notebook is much darker, the color contrast is not sharp, and the similar colors are also pasted together.
Many people will worry about the OLED screen in low brightness, but we don't have to worry about it on this computer. The screen of Lingyao 14 2022 supports DC dimming, and has passed the strict certifications such as T V Rheinland hardware-level low blue light certification and SGS Eye Care eye care certification.
OLED screen life is also a topic that many small partners are very concerned about, in fact, because the Lingyao 14 2022 screen uses optimized E4 luminescent materials, through the cost of stacking, improve the brightness and life of the screen, delay the attenuation of pixel brightness. On this basis, Lingyao 14 2022 can also intelligently monitor the aging of pixels, make algorithmic compensation, and can open pixel refresh, pixel offset, auto-hide taskbar, factory default dark mode and other multiple protective measures in ASUS OLED Care, so that the screen can maintain the best state to fight for a longer time.
12th Generation Core Processors Deliver More Powerful Performance Than Expected
Many people think that the two words of business light and thin and "performance" are not a world thing, which is actually the stereotype it left on everyone under the limitations of previous technology.
Small size thin and light books like Lingyao 14 2022 now have quite good performance, and its performance is used to complete complex work tasks, and even used to play some online games.
i7-1260P this processor using the new Alder Lake architecture to build, as a new member of the 12th generation Core processor family, it also uses a heterogeneous design, large core using the new Golden Cove microarchitecture, small core using the new Gracemont microarchitecture, with 10nm process process, Turbo and single-core performance have been greatly improved. The i7-1260P has a total of 12 cores and 16 threads (4 large cores and 8 small cores), the highest turbo frequency reaches 4.7GHz, and the L3 cache is also increased to 18MB. Higher energy efficiency ratio, 28W TDP, can have far more than the performance of the traditional thin and light cost equipped with 15W low-voltage processor, Lingyao 14 2022 supports the highest CPU performance release of 30W, so that office entertainment is no longer limited.
Lingyao 14 2022 is equipped with Intel Iris Xe graphics, its core number has soared from the previous generation of 32EU to 96EU, has been able to face most online games, and has a better performance in codec and other work.
Benchmarking was conducted using CPU-Z, which scored single-threaded 688.4 and multi-threaded 5429.4. Take this achievement to compare, many H35, H45 standard voltage processors will lose the battle, the energy efficiency ratio is very terrible, last year was criticized H35 multi-core performance is not powerful, it seems that the new P28 processor out of several more cores to solve.
In 3DMARK's CPU Profile test, it had a single-threaded score of 859 and a maximum thread score of 4765. Compared with last year's more popular i7-1165G7 or i5-11320H and other processor performance, it can be said that it is a more conventional upgrade in single-threaded performance, but the nearly doubled improvement in multi-threaded performance is amazing.
Fritz Chess Benchmark is a chess testing software that simulates algorithms for thinking about chess through AI, which can be used as a theoretical performance reference for computer science computing. Here, it has a single-threaded score of 3570 thousand steps per second and a multi-core score of 24256 thousand steps per second, similar to the above test results, and will not be repeated.
Since CINEBENCH's engine is based on C4D real commercial software, which belongs to the standard widely used in the 3D industry, and even includes many game engines, it tests the principle of rendering complex 3D scenes through the CPU, which is very suitable for testing the actual performance of the computer in terms of creation, so we directly use R15, R20, R23 family barrels here to test. Here, the lingyao 14 2022 CINEBENCH R15 test result is a single-core score of 221, multi-core score of 1591; CINEBENCH R20 test result of single-core score of 584, multi-core score of 3817; CINEBENCH R23 test result of single-core score of 1646, multi-core score of 10627. From the overall performance, even compared to the AMD R7-5800U, which is known for its multi-core performance, its multi-core performance is stronger.
X264 and X265 video encoding is a video encoding format that we often come into contact with, and it is also suitable for testing the real performance of notebooks in video processing scenarios. For re-encoding of X264 and X265 video formats, the average processing speed of the Lingyao 14 2022 is 51.39fps and 28.73fps. This means that in the video creation scene, it is also almost the same as the performance of the 12th-generation H45 processor, which can quickly complete the codec task.
Use 3DMark's Night Raid to test its graphics capabilities, and the final score is 18495 points, and the sub-card score is as high as 22143 points. The Full Blood 96EU really makes it perform better, with more graphics processing power.
In the actual test of the game, in the resolution environment of 1920 × 1080, the preset "DOTA2" can run to the average of 106.341 frames in the whole process, and the high preset can run to 86.63 frames. Judging from this result, it can provide us with a good game experience without sacrificing the screen, of course, it is still recommended that you do not take it to gnaw the hard bones of the AAA game.
We used CrystalDiskMark to test the hard drive of the notebook and got very good results. Sequential read and write speeds of 6787.22MB/s and 5070.71MB/s make the movement of large files no longer a time-consuming and laborious task. Because it uses TLC flash memory particles, it also has a longer service life on the basis of stronger performance, which is very reassuring.
PCMARK's tests provide a comprehensive picture of how the PC console actually performs in terms of everyday basic functionality, productivity, and digital content creation, and we take it as our overall consideration for this notebook. We see that Lingyao 14 2022 gets a total score of 5352. Among them, the children commonly used basic operations 9927 points, productivity 6662 points, digital content creation 6292 points. We can find that in terms of productivity and digital content creation, which is more difficult to be light and thin in everyone's expectations, it still has a good performance, which can be seen that it is used to tabulate, process photos, render or video editing is more than a little stronger than the general thin and light book.
In fact, Lingyao 14 2022 is relatively powerful due to heat dissipation, and the temperature control is quite good in the case of performance support, which also provides a good environment for lasting performance release. In the room temperature of 25 ° C environment, we conducted a half-hour single bake test, in such an extreme environment, the processor power consumption can still be stabilized at nearly 35W, the processor temperature is only 89 ° C, the core components can be said to be at a very healthy temperature for full performance output.
Let's use a thermal imager to pay attention to the surface temperature, and after half an hour of the grill, the maximum surface temperature of this notebook reaches 42 ° C, which at first glance will think that the heat is concentrated near the keyboard. However, we actually found through the touch that the keyboard temperature is not so hot, only a little warm feeling, here should be the D-side heat dissipation area and the keyboard vertical coincidence caused by the illusion.
In such an extreme environment as a roaster, Lingyao 14 2022 is still not hot, let alone daily use.
In terms of battery life, in the battery life test we conducted through the PCMARK10 modern office mode, its test score exceeded 14 hours, which is also very rare and excellent in the thin and light books that are known for battery life. Whether it is not done to go home to roll, or to go out all day, do not have to consider the use of no adapter, and when there is a condition to charge, PD fast charging is enough to make it quickly return to blood, instantly supported.
summary
Lingyao 14 2022 can be said to be a very subversive product, although it has been expected to perform more comprehensively when seeing the Evo logo on its fuselage, but its breakthrough in many aspects still makes the author impressed by it. Thoughtful and unique design, excellent professional screen, performance that can perfectly meet the needs of office entertainment, and very satisfactory battery life and fast charging functions, it almost meets all the expectations of business thin and light users. On the road to realizing the value of life and completing your career achievements, perhaps it is exactly the help you are looking for.