Among marketing methods, price wars are commonly used by various brands. In 2012, HP launched a notebook with less than 3,000 yuan, which was a very challenging low price for many brands. In order to capture consumers who pursue low prices, more and more notebook brands launched Low-priced laptops are even cheaper than mobile phones. But low price does not mean low quality. The editor below will introduce to you a low-priced but high-quality ultrabook launched by Lenovo, the Lenovo S400.

Composite material shell is cheap but not low quality

The shell of Lenovo S400 is made of engineering plastic, although the material is not mid-to-high-end. It's metal, but the workmanship is meticulous. The outer shell is painted with a fine-matte spray paint, which looks very high-end from a distance. Although the feel of this material cannot be compared with that of metal casings, it is much more practical than those shiny piano paint casings. It uses high-performance composite materials, is 13% lighter than ordinary engineering plastics, is acid and alkali resistant, and is more environmentally friendly.

There is only a metal "Lenovo" product logo on the top cover of the Lenovo S400, and the top cover has an extremely simple appearance. The surface of the top cover has a matte feel to the hand. Compared with the HP Pavilion 14 at the same price, the appearance is slightly less beautiful, but the texture is higher. Moreover, this kind of case is not easy to be stained with fingerprints and is easier to take care of.

The narrow-edge screen used by Lenovo S400 can improve the user’s visual experience, but its screen specifications are not very bright. This is a common 14.0-inch LED backlit screen with a screen ratio of 16: 9. Maximum resolution 1366×768. There is a 720P camera above the screen.

Keyboard control details and wrist rest

Lenovo S400It adopts a full-size chiclet keyboard. The keyboard style is also a high-touch keyboard common to all new products of Lenovo this year. The keycaps have a certain concave curvature, which is easy to fit the fingers. The surface of the keycaps has been frosted, so it feels more comfortable.

The S400’s hinge adopts a sunken hinge design. The difference from Lenovo’s Y series and V series is that its hinge shell is polygonal instead of the common arc shape. Because it uses a traditional lithium battery instead of a lithium polymer battery that can change its shape, as the body becomes thinner, the appearance of the battery will appear more abrupt. This is why there is an arc-shaped protrusion in the middle of the two rotating shafts.

Rich interfaces and heat dissipation and battery life tests

There is a USB3.0, HDMI, RJ45 and Lenovo exclusive on the left side of Lenovo S400 The recovery key has a reasonable key width design and a more user-friendly position arrangement. For example, Lenovo's recovery key is placed at the side corner, which can reduce the chance of misoperation.

Lenovo S400 uses a set of 32Wh 4-cell series lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 2200mAh. It seems that its battery specifications are almost comparable to those of a netbook. In the actual battery life test, we were able to get 211 minutes, which is equivalent to 3 hours and 31 minutes. Because most of the test content of our test software Mobliemark is lightweight Office applications, generally speaking, the test results will be longer than the actual trial. Some. Generally speaking, the battery life of the S400 is relatively average.

There is another Lenovo S405 that is similar in appearance to the S400. There is basically no difference between the two notebooks in appearance. There are some small differences in configuration, so the price of S405 is cheaper than S400. In the past two years, Lenovo has also launched many new products on low-end phones, including SBoth the 400 and S405 are old products from 2012. Friends who want to buy a low-end machine can consider the new models launched by Lenovo. You can also choose a favorite notebook at a price of around 3,000.