Compared with previous generations of products, X280 has undergone drastic changes. The classic dual-battery design was cancelled and a thinner body was replaced. The interface has been greatly adjusted. In addition, ThinkPad X280 has brought amazing changes by upgrading to the brand-new eighth-generation Core KabyLake Refresh low-voltage processor, which may be the result that many business people want.
Design: from light to thin
In recent years, other brands of notebooks are seeking great changes in appearance, bringing new visual impact to consumers, while ThinkPad, like an alternative, continues the appearance of black corners and continues to be low-key without losing its toughness. In my opinion, Xiaohe's classic all-black design is a golden signboard, which maintains a high degree of recognition. The LOGO of ThinkPad is like a quiet handsome guy lying in the upper left corner of the top cover, and that touch of red means the finishing touch. In the eyes of many business people, this is the most perfect and there is no need to modify it. Do you agree?
It must be pointed out that ThinkPad X280 adopts a brand-new mold. The fuselage material changed from glass fiber+engineering plastic to carbon fiber+magnesium alloy, which definitely increased the cost, but not only reduced the thickness and weight of the fuselage, but also made it stronger. For business people who have to carry a notebook with them all the year round, you can have your cake and eat it, and you no longer need to choose between thinness and firmness.
X280 is only 17.8mm thick, 1.3kg bare metal. Compared with the previous generation X270, the thickness of 20.3mm and the weight of 1.32kg, the slimming effect is very obvious. A4 paper size, can be easily put into a backpack. Where is this? Is it the rhythm of the office?
In addition to many classic design elements, ThinkPad X280' s attention to details is also worth learning from friends. For example, the touch is delicate and warm, there is enough friction, the edges are properly handled, the seams at the metal rotating shaft are small enough, and even you will find that the corners of the screen are thickened.
Input experience: the feel is refined like this.
In my opinion, an important measure of productivity tools is input experience. To put it bluntly, typing is fast and feels good. As the ThinkPad X280 emphasizes, the X-shaped support is firm, the drum structure and the keys of 1.8mm provide excellent elasticity, and the smile curve of the key cap fits the fingers, so that users can get a more comfortable and accurate tapping feeling in the process of efficient input. It should be noted that the key layout of X280 is different from that of the previous generation. Because the fuselage becomes narrower and the space bar becomes shorter, an insert key is cancelled, which needs to be used in conjunction with the Fn key.
Keyboard backlight can be adjusted in two stages. The significance of keyboard splash prevention is that when an accident happens, you can stand up your notebook calmly and make it watertight.
Although the increasingly large touchpad is perfect in the control experience, ThinkPad still hasn't given up on little red dot. Why? Naturally, it is little red dot. The following three buttons can be operated quickly without leaving the keyboard, and the accuracy is higher than that of the touchpad. This special control experience can replace the mouse in the scene without the mouse, which is exactly what business users want.
Security guard: I can't believe it. It has thought of it.
Someone once asked me, "Is the security of employees' personal laptops a private matter? ".In my opinion, this is not only a private matter, but also a major event. It is no exaggeration to say that business secrets and important data are related to the life and death of an enterprise. Once leaked or lost, it will bring huge losses to enterprises, and even suffer irreparable devastating blows. In order to protect information security, the most common way is password protection, but the biggest problem of password protection comes from the complicated password input process and the easy disclosure of passwords. ThinkPad gives a perfect solution-fingerprint identification, and it is also a push-type fingerprint reader. With the function of Windows Hello, it can realize extremely fast boot.
Of course, you can also choose the infrared camera model for face recognition, which is a more "black" technology. Not only safe, but also more convenient.
ThinkPad X280 also has a design that must be praised, that is, "ThinkShutter Black Valve". This kind of physical slider can simply block the camera and avoid artificial pasting, which is very helpful for the protection of business privacy. We must guard against hackers.
Security is also the top priority of business processes!
Extended design: wonderful addition and subtraction
In terms of interface, the left side of ThinkPad X280 is equipped with Type-C interface, Thunderbolt 3 interface, USB 3.0 interface and HDMI interface. The RJ45 interface that appeared in the previous model was abandoned and replaced by a dedicated mini Ethernet interface.
There is a USB 3.0 interface on the right, which can also charge the mobile phone when it is turned off. It is the perfect charging treasure for mobile phones in case of emergency.
It can be seen that although ThinkPad X280 pursues the design concept of light to thin, its interfaces are still rich.
In addition, ThinkPad X280 supports 4G, and the card slot is reserved on the back, so users need to install WWAN module themselves, and the antenna has been reserved in the fuselage for a long time.
ThinkPad X280 adopts an integrated bottom cover design, which is very simple because there is no old docking station interface. Cancel the dual-battery design introduced by the previous generation model, and the overall model is thinner!
The speakers are hidden on both sides of the bottom, and the sound quality is acceptable. As far as heat dissipation is concerned, we have also done tests, and the heat on the surface of the fuselage is very uniform.
Performance evaluation: very satisfied
ThinkPad X280 has various screen specifications such as anti-glare surface and touch mirror. We got the version of 12.5 inch touch mirror screen, and the resolution reached 1920× 1080.
The maximum opening and closing is 180 degrees, which can make full use of screen touch, facilitate display, and zoom in and out with one hand.
In terms of screen quality, we use the Starscream color calibrator for testing.
The screen of ThinkPad X280 has a color gamut of 95% sRGB, 73% NTSC and 77% Adobe RGB, which is much better than the previous generation ThinkPad X270, and unprofessional retouching can be assured.
In terms of hardware configuration, we get that this ThinkPad X280 uses Intel's brand-new eighth-generation Core i7-8550U processor, 16GB memory, and 5 12GB NVMe SSD, which is obviously improved compared with the previous generation ThinkPad X270. In Cinebench R 15 test, the performance of multi-core 583cb+ single core 154cb far exceeds that of the previous generation i7-7500U processor, even in the competition with the standard pressure i5-7300HQ, which is common in game books.
The graphics card adopts Intel UHD 620 with eight generations of processor cores, has 24 EU units, and the graphics card frequency is 300MHz- 1 100MHz, which is absolutely enough for normal business work.
In the office environment test of PC Mark8, ThinkPad X280 scored nearly 5,000 points, which showed stable performance for daily complex office applications and quickly entered the system to open the software.
PCMark 10 benchmark gives 2708 points, of which 8 193 points are obtained for common basic functions (application startup score, video conference score and web browsing score), 6,897 points are obtained for productivity (spreadsheet score and writing score), 2,697 points are obtained for digital content creation (photo editing score, rendering and visualization score and video editing score).
ThinkPad X280 is equipped with a Samsung PM98 1 NVMe SSD with a capacity of 5 12GB. In the test, the writing speed is as high as 1960.29MB/S, the reading speed is 2276.43MB/S, and the reading and writing speed at 4K is also outstanding.
In terms of battery life, we conducted a simulation test through PCMark 8, and the final result was 5 hours, 365,438+0 minutes. In light business books, this performance is excellent. ThinkPad X280 also supports RapidCharge technology. 1 hour can charge 80%, and it can be fully charged in less than 2 hours, which largely makes up for the notebook's dependence on power supply, increases office hours without power supply and improves office efficiency.
Added value: beyond your imagination
The appearance of ThinkPad X280 comes from the perfection of ThinkPad series from the inside out. In addition to pre-installing Office 20 16 genuine office software, it also has a customized version of computer housekeeper, which integrates hardware settings, official driver updates and customer service, and can quickly customize hardware functions such as battery, TrackPoint little red riding hood and camera privacy.
In addition, ThinkPad X280 users can also enjoy a full range of after-sales service:
1. One-year or three-year parts and labor warranty. Within the first-year warranty period, we will provide limited on-site service and one-year accident protection service in Chinese mainland 180. Optional upgrade extended warranty service, optional upgrade hard disk non-recycling, accident protection, data rescue service and exclusive service.
2. There are nearly 1,000 service stations in 1-6 cities nationwide to ensure that users can enjoy the original after-sales service of ThinkPad all over the country.
3.400-690-8888 high-end dedicated line, one-click direct access, expert online service. In addition, Lenovo WeChat area or visit the business-specific service area of the web version, and choose telephone, online letter, QQ and other repair methods. To meet the needs of multiple repair reports, users can choose the repair report method that suits them according to their needs. Whether it is working days or holidays, quality after-sales service throughout the year.
Summary: As Zhao Hong, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of China Think Division, said, "The discovery and development of new technologies have become a new driving force to help enterprises develop at a high speed, and' mobility' and' higher efficiency' have become the future of enterprise office methods". ThinkPad has been focusing on the innovation and development of productivity tools, with the concept of user demand as the core. ThinkPad X280 is not only an efficient productivity tool, but also an IT solution that combines options, software and services and is suitable for enterprise applications. It should be the basic mode of future business.