As a "social person", self-expression is the basic demand of everyone. And the era of self-media that we are now living in can be said to be a golden age for every "social person" who is eager to fully display himself.
We used to be the end of the information transmission network, but when social media reaches everyone, we can be the hub of information sending and receiving. Everyone has the right to speak, everyone is a creator, your hobby is no longer just to please yourself, but also to show your style and attitude to the world - love photography, photos convey your examination of beauty; love sports, sweat conveys your positive and optimistic personality; love to cook, food conveys your taste of life; love travel, travel experience inspires you to think about the world...
Therefore, the only thing you need to do is to discover your own shining points, and then through the most handy creative tools, your creations will be lit into brilliant fireworks that illuminate the night sky, so that everyone can see your light.
Primary creative needs, we can directly through the mobile phone to complete, but for higher-order creative needs, mobile phones in the control, function and performance, there are bottlenecks. Therefore, advanced authoring requires desktop devices, such as PCs. The PC does conform to this trend, and the new concept of "creation book" is the form of the PC.
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What is a "creative book"?
Like "game books", "student books", and "business books", creative books correspond to specific needs of creation. Since there is a clear positioning, the creation will naturally have a clear evaluation standard. Taking the high-performance creative book of dell Lingyue 16 Plus as an example, let's talk about the new "content" behind the new concept of the notebook "creation book".
<b>Performance: Powerful hardware performance to accelerate the realization of ideas</b>
In the era of self-media in which the weight of communication media is increasingly transitioning from graphics to videos, the creative carrier is more of a picture/video. The forms of creation are also more diverse, such as video editing, graphic design, post-photography, etc. Therefore, the demand for performance in the creation book gradually increased.
As a creative book, the hardware configuration level of The Lingyue 16 Plus should not be underestimated. I have this one with an 11th generation intel High Performance Edition H45 processor and RTX3060 graphics card, and has 32GB of large memory.
The Cinebench R20 has a running score of 4354 points and a single-core score of 574 points on the i7-11800H multi-core on the Lingyue 16 Plus.
In 3DMark's CPU benchmark, the CPU score is 12243 points, and for comparison, the benchmark CPU score of the 10th generation i7-10875H is generally around 10000 points.
So the i7-11800H anchored the standard of the 11th generation of laptops of the Lingyue 16 Plus, and the GPU that matched it, Dell chose the RTX 3060. In the graphics card running sub-database, as a mobile-grade GPU, its performance has surpassed the previous generation of desktop GPU RTX 2060.
3DMark directly ran the Time Spy test item, the score is 6263 points, for comparison, the gamebook equipped with RTX 2060 (9th generation i7-9750H) scored 5730 points, the specific test results are as follows:
The i7-11800H + RTX 3060 is currently a mainstream configuration in mobile-grade platforms. The powerful i7-11800H can make the creation software run more smoothly, and the RTX 3060 can not only provide powerful picture rendering power, but also accelerate various mainstream creative software with the support of NVIDIA's RTX platform, such as smoother graphic drag and zoom when using AI to make drawings, faster application of LR parameter adjustment, and smoother da Vinci upgraded video...
The 16 Plus uses a cooling system that Dell calls the "Eye of the Hurricane", which includes 3 fans, 4 air outlets and 26 round hole air outlets. Powerful CPU and GPU are the basis for creative exertion, but at the same time, their heat generation is also huge, whether this cooling system can give full play to the full strength of the i7-11800H and RTX 3060, it is inevitable that people will sweat.
However, in actual tests, the performance release effect of the i7-11800H and RTX 3060 under the "Eye of the Hurricane" of the Lingyue 16 Plus set was unexpectedly good. At room temperature of 30 °C and the normal placement of the desktop, FurMark and AIDA64 double-baked for a total of 48 minutes, CPU power consumption dropped from 60W to about 36W about 1 minute after opening the GPU, while GPU power consumption dropped about 7W after double-baking for about 7 minutes, and then it could be stabilized at around 57W.
In addition to the powerful CPU/GPU and stable and efficient cooling system, the Lingyue 16 Plus also has very high storage specifications, and the high-end version uses dual-channel 32GB 3200MHz memory and 1TB of Samsung PM9A1 SSD. The CrystalDiskMark of the 1TB PM9A1 measures speed as follows:
The importance of high-speed / large-capacity memory and hard disks for content creators is self-evident - the faster the memory and hard disk, the shorter the startup and material loading time of large creative applications, and the more spacious the operating environment of the application with the larger the capacity. To avoid bottlenecks in subsequent uses, it is important to choose high-speed, high-capacity memory and storage configurations.
<b>Interaction: More intuitive interaction, improve the efficiency of creation</b>
For digital products, the interactive experience is a decisive factor in determining creative efficiency, even exceeding hardware performance. As the main way of interaction, the notebook screen, keyboard and trackpad are self-evident in their importance to creation.
The Lingyue 16 Plus uses a narrow 16-inch bezel screen, which is relatively large enough that whether it is multitasking or using large creative software such as PS/ LR / PR, it will not feel limited, and the immersion of the screen is relatively strong.
And one of the most attractive things about content creation is that the Screen of the Lingyue 16 Plus is a 16:10 aspect ratio. 16:10 Compared with the 16:9 aspect ratio of ordinary notebooks, the screen will appear "higher", because most of the Internet content is displayed vertically, and the corresponding content creation software is also designed vertically, so the 16:10 aspect ratio screen is naturally more efficient for content creation, which is the same as the business will try to choose the 16:10 screen.
This 16-inch screen is a 3K resolution 3072 × 1920 screen, with a retina-level screen standard. When you turn on the 200% zoom factor, you'll find that its fineness is so good that even a 20cm line of sight can hardly perceive the presence of font aliasing — you know, the normal viewing distance of a notebook should be around 40cm, and Windows hasn't been known for text rendering.
Since it is a screen for content creation, in terms of color, the screen of the Lingyue 16 Plus is also more prominent. The officially claimed gamut coverage is 100% sRGB, the actual test sRGB coverage is 99.1%, and the DCI P3 gamut coverage is 78% (sRGB color gamut volume is 110.5%, DCI P3 is 78.2%), but more eye-catching, it is 10 bits.
The so-called 10 bit, that is, the color depth is deeper, the most intuitive presentation is when displaying the gradient color, the color transition of the 10 bit color depth screen is more natural than the 8 bit, and the color will not be faulted. Even if you browse web pictures and watch 10-bit movies every day, the 10-bit screen will have an experience bonus, and for graphic design and post-photography and video editing as a content producer, the 10-bit screen is one of the necessary links for high-quality content output.
The icing on the cake is that the screen of the Lingyue 16 Plus also has DC dimming and anti-blue light processing at the hardware level. DC dimming and anti-blue light are the screen eye protection means that have gradually begun to be valued in recent years, DC dimming can avoid stroboscopic, anti-blue light can reduce the impact of blue light on the biological clock, for high-intensity, long-term content creation, these two points of optimization for visual fatigue will have a more obvious delaying effect.
The screen is all-encompassing, and the Design Idea for the More 16 Plus trackpad and keyboard is "Big" and "Full".
The area of the Lingyue 16 Plus trackpad is almost the same as that of the touchpad, and the size is about 135 × 90mm. The obvious advantage of a larger trackpad is that it gives the fingers more room to maneuver. Windows is very friendly for 3-finger and 4-finger gesture support, and after skillful use, this large-area trackpad control is very efficient, whether it is multi-finger control or fine control, it can be completed efficiently.
The trackpad position of the Lingyue 16 Plus is biased to the left, mainly because it uses a full-key design, and the letter area is located on the left, so accordingly, the position of the trackpad is also adjusted.
The logic of increasing the numeric keypad is obviously also because the Lingyue 16 Plus needs to correspond to the changing creative needs as a creative book, so adding the numeric keypad can increase the fault tolerance rate. The numeric keypad occupies the keyboard space more or less or causes the keycap area of the Lingyue 16 Plus to be small, but after adaptation, its key feel is still good, the rhythm of the keys when high-intensity input is very good, and it comes with backlighting, which is more suitable for diversified creative scenes.
<b>Mobility: Creation does not distinguish between occasions, and the creation book also pays attention to mobility</b>
The creative needs corresponding to the creation of the book are not limited to the desktop, whether it is text creation, post-photography or video editing, on-site production is actually not uncommon, so mobility is also one of the factors that need to be considered when choosing a creation book.
"Thin and light" and "portable" For a 16-inch i7-11800H + RTX 3060 notebook, of course, there will be a bit of a false proposition, after all, this configuration must be supplemented by a huge cooling system to ensure performance output, and the huge heat dissipation will inevitably lead to an increase in size and weight. However, on the 16 Plus, there are still obvious traces of movable directional optimization.
First of all, there is the body size.
With a body thickness of only 16.8mm and a length and width of only 355 × 248mm, the Lingyue 16 Plus can easily fit into a messenger bag designed for a 15-inch notebook.
Then, there's the endurance.
The Lingyue 16 Plus is built into an 86Whr (the entry-level model is a 3-cell battery of 56Whr) lithium-ion battery, such a large capacity battery is obviously specially prepared for non-desktop scenes, I have tried the Lingyue 16 Plus in the later stage of the photo consumption speed of about 36W, so if this is the benchmark, the Lingyue 16 Plus can still stick to about 2 hours and 20 minutes without replenishing the power.
In terms of charging, the 135W power adapter included with the More than 16 Plus is really inconvenient, but it comes with a Thunderbolt 4 interface, which supports 100W PD fast charging, and the high-power PD charger is usually very small, so the existence of this Thunderbolt 4 interface undoubtedly enhances the endurance of the Lingyue 16 Plus.
<b>Scalability: The interface can not be much, but Raiden 4 must be indispensable</b>
Because it is positioned in a variety of content creation usage scenarios, ideally, the I/O interface of the author should be numerous and versatile.
Although the 16 Plus does not have much space to place the I/O interface because the side of the fuselage needs to be reserved as a heat dissipation outlet, it also has 2 USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A interfaces, 1 Thunderbolt 4 interface, and 1 HDMI 2.0 interface in addition to the power jack and the 3.5mm headphone jack.
A total of 4 interfaces can basically meet the daily usage needs, and the existence of the Thunderbolt 4 interface greatly alleviates the pressure of the More than 16 Plus interface: when used on the desktop, the Raiden 4 interface can be directly expanded through the docking station or adapter to expand the use of a large number of additional interfaces.
Therefore, as a creative book, if it is subject to objective conditions, it cannot be done in large quantities and good versatility, and the high-speed interface with super scalability of the lightning interface should be a necessary interface, and daily use can at least provide the creator with an effective I/O interface expansion program.
<b>Design: creative temperament, serious and formal</b>
The temperament of creation is rigorous and serious, so the design style of the creation should also be formal and serious.
The overall style of the Lingyue 16 Plus has a strong "Lingyue Wind", which tries to hide the tangent angle diagonal line of the D side, the upper and lower edges of the A side are slightly curved, the right angle is retained directly left and right, coupled with the gray-blue aluminum alloy shell of the moon night, giving people the first impression of "reliable".
The work can be playful, but the attitude of creation must be serious - the lingyue 16 Plus and the positioning of the "creation book" complement each other.
Integrating the micro-level performance, interaction, mobility, scalability and form factor into the Entire Machine of the 16 Plus, you can find that it is completely a tool designed for content creation. Of course, it also has pros and cons and cons, such as the side interface for heat dissipation concessions, keyboard feel for the numeric keypad concessions, but in general, it may be the most creator-friendly PC laptop at present.
Taking the high-performance creative book Dell Smart 16 Plus as an example, it is not difficult to define the "creator": a computing platform for content creation services, a productivity tool that takes into account both desktop and mobile. It is a completely new concept, but at the same time, it is also a product of the trend of self-media.
<h2>They said</h2>
<b>Elite:</b>
As a writer, my performance requirements for computers are actually not high. My most feverish operation at work should be to use lightroom post-photo bar (escape) I have used Dell's Lingyue 16 Plus for about half a month, it gives me the performance space I can not touch the top, that is, I have never had a "card" feeling when I use it.
I'm not sensitive to performance, but I'm sensitive to screen and battery life and portability.
Because it is mainly dealing with text, if the screen is not high-definition enough, you can clearly see the jagged teeth of the text rendering, and that feeling is what it is, just like listening to lossless music with headphones for 5 yuan... The 16-inch screen of the Lingyue 16 Plus with 3K resolution is completely unsynny, and I really have that feeling of "using it is a pleasure" when I use it.
I usually do some self-media operations, so Where to go will generally try to carry a notebook, so battery life and portability are very important to me. As far as my own use of the feeling, the Lingyue 16 Plus daily code word open long battery life mode with a 7-8 hours is not too much of a problem, when waiting at the airport or in the event site shorthand is not to worry about whether the power is plugged in, how many problems there are.
As for the portability, the Lingyue 16 Plus is a narrow border screen, so although it is a 16-inch screen, the fuselage is actually not so large, and the ordinary backpack can also be loaded.
Overall, I'm still quite comfortable with the Lingyue 16 Plus, although I think it's still a bit of a bad book 😳 to use code words
<b>Hawthorn (amateur photographer):</b>
Big Ka-yo, I'm an amateur photographer who likes to hang out with my camera and take some photos to entertain myself. Having had the privilege of experiencing the Lingyue 16 Plus for two weeks before, I was invited to talk about my feelings about using it, so I will throw bricks and stones to talk about my views!
I mainly put it at home as a small desktop (but the performance is much better than the real small desktop in my own group), with one of my Dell U2515H for post-production photos. U2515H is a Dell monitor bought a long time ago, in fact, I have been worried about whether it has been colored after so many years, so when doing the later stage, I am a little worried. The Lingyue 16 Plus reassures me that its color gamut has 100% sRGB, the color accuracy is also high, it gives me a benchmark, that is, its color rendering is certainly not wrong, I can compare its color on the U2515H large screen to do fine color grading.
Then the memory of the Lingyue 16 Plus also has 32GB, Lightroom this large post-production software is more memory, the memory is larger, whether it is program loading or photo switching, detail processing speed is faster, and its processor and graphics card are very strong, especially the RTX graphics card on the LR this creative tool software has accelerated optimization, color adjustment, preset application of the response speed is faster, automatic masking on the brush edge image recognition is more accurate, And all of this will make me more efficient in my post-production photos.
In addition, I didn't expect that the Lingyue 16 Plus actually has an SD card slot, and it is really creative and friendly to be able to directly insert the card to read photos! I give it a perfect score!
<b>Nikki (Graphic Designer):</b>
I am a graphic designer for an Internet company. Although I am a graphic designer, in fact, almost all the things related to "diagrams" are my responsibility, including APP UI, advertising banners, simple C4D modeling, and even post-photo... The tools used are large software such as Adobe Family Buckets.
Under the limitation of work content, my performance requirements for computers are relatively high, memory and hard disks are larger, and CPU and GPU are stronger. The company's computer is a desktop, and there have been upgrades in the middle. Try the 16 Plus to see if it's possible to move workflows to a notebook. Because the company is very idle when it is idle, but it is really busy when it is busy, if you can run the workflow on the notebook, the work will be much more flexible.
The storage configuration of the Lingyue 16 Plus I use is 32GB memory + 1TB hard disk, 32GB of such a large memory can ensure the smooth operation of large software, and the desktop I use in my company is also 32GB of memory, I feel that the startup speed of the software is not much different. If the 1TB hard disk is well managed, it is still very useful.
Lingyue 16 Plus i7-11800H + RTX 3060 performance I think is enough, when I do design every day, I actually don't feel that there is Caton, especially Nvidia's RTX graphics card, it is adapted to many design software, such as AI to do large vector graphics more smoothly, PS / LR color adjustment application is faster, SketchUp rendering is faster, the reason why many designers will now prefer NVIDIA graphics card, mainly is the directional optimization and AI of RTX graphics cards Powerful performance.
Raiden 4 interface is also worth mentioning, I have my own Thunderbolt docking station, with the docking station, whether it is an external dual display or plug in the network cable, connected to the hard disk, it is very convenient. I think the notebook has a lightning interface, which will make me feel more secure.