As the main cost-effective E-series product in the ThinkPad family, the newly upgraded ThinkPad E550 is not only pre installed with Win10, but also equipped with the dreamlike RealSense 3D reality technology, so that more users can easily enjoy a new PC experience. The transformation of PC experience has come.
appearance
After unpacking, we can see the notebook body, the three guarantee card, the user manual, and a power adapter, which are very concise.
The body A of the ThinkPad E550 is covered with a layer of black skin like coating, and aluminum alloy materials are used at the screen flip. The two complement each other and are very comfortable in hand and appearance.
On the right side of the machine is a charging port, a USB 2.0 interface, and an optical drive. On the left side is a cooling port, network cable port, VGA interface, HDMI interface, and two USB 3.0 interfaces.
The battery capacity is 3950mAh
Intel RealSense 3D reality technology camera
Power key and JBL speaker opening
Crater keyboard
Although the price of the ThinkPad E550 is not high, it still maintains the fine tradition of the ThinkPad series. The crater style keyboard is fast, powerful, and light to use. In many cases, the small red dot is more practical than the touch pad. At the same time, JBL speakers are also used, which is rare in the past ThinkPad E series. Compared with most laptops on the market, its external sound quality is above the average.
There is only one power adapter in the accessory. The power adapter is small in size, and the input power is 20V==3.25A. Different from the ordinary power interface, the opening of E550 series is square, delicate and beautiful.
screen
The high configuration version of ThinkPad E550 uses a 15.6-inch 1080P high split screen, which is much more delicate than the regular split screen in terms of display effect. The screen is made of fog surface material, and its maximum brightness is 175 nits, covering 60% sRGB color gamut in terms of color gamut.
system
ThinkPad E550 comes pre installed with genuine Windows 10 system
Turn on panel mode in settings
Flat panel mode
The ThinkPad E550 is pre installed with a genuine Windows 10 operating system. Windows 10 is easier to use than Windows 8. At the same time, Windows 10 uses the computer mode by default, but it can also be switched to tablet mode through settings. There are not many pre installed software in the ThinkPad E550, and the whole system is very simple. The high configuration ThinkPad E550 (8GB of memory) still has 80% (more than 6GB) of memory available at boot when Windows 10 64 bit is pre installed
performance
In terms of configuration, our ThinkPad E550 is a high configuration version of i5. It uses Intel Core i5 5200U, the main frequency is 2.2GHz, and the maximum Rui frequency can reach 2.7GHz. It has two cores and four threads, the three-level cache is 3MB, and the TDP is 15W. At the same time, it is also equipped with AMD R7 M265 unique display, eight raster processing units, the bit width is 32bit, the bandwidth is 8.0GB/s, the GPU core frequency is 825MHz, and 2GB video memory. The memory is 8GB DDR3L 1600MHz of a single Hynix.
In terms of score, although the TDP of the Intel Core i5 5200U is only 15W, its performance is good. The 1M test takes 18.656s in the Seper PI, and the scores of Fire Strike (Include demo), Cloud Gate (Include demo), and Ice Storm (Include demo) in 3DMark are 1370, 5696, and 31493 respectively. Although such graphics card performance cannot cope with large-scale stand-alone games, there is no problem with casual games such as Hearthstone Legend.
RealSense 3D realism
The high configuration version of ThinkPad E550 supports Intel RealSense 3D reality technology. The ThinkPad E550 is equipped with a special 3D front camera, which can realize perceptual computing by accurately identifying actions, gestures, facial features, etc. Through it, we can realize 3D scanning of cameras, physical measurement, gesture control in the air, etc. It looks very cool.
Games that support RealSense 3D realism
I downloaded a Star Warship game, which supports RealSense 3D reality, moves the flight path of the aircraft through the displacement of the palm, and changes the missiles launched by the aircraft through gestures, such as closing five fingers to identify the start of shooting, and V-shaped gestures to launch missiles. In use, we found that if you do not control the aircraft by hand, you can control the aircraft by swinging your head from left to right!
With regard to the Intel RealSense 3D reality technology of the ThinkPad E550, we will publish a special experience review article. Interested readers can follow our subsequent articles.
Endurance&fever
In the endurance test, our test environment is high-performance mode, with 75% screen brightness and 20% volume, The 1080P video code rate is 2996kbps. Only in the 60 minute Hearthstone Legend game can it be played by speakers. In other cases, it is played by earphones. After three and a half hours of endurance test, 5.5% of the power is left. Most of the power consumed is used in games. If you don't play games, maintain video playback WIFI Internet access for 5 hours is not a problem at all, and the endurance level is above the average level in laptops.
In terms of heating, we ran the toaster for 30 minutes and measured its temperature, which was only about 37 degrees. This temperature can already be described as cool.
summary
The ThinkPad E550 has well inherited some of the advantages of the E series, such as low power consumption, low heat, high cost performance, comfortable ThinkPad keyboard feel, and the classic red dot. In its design, it tends to mix beauty and business. At the same time, in this generation of E550, the high-end version also uses RealSense 3D reality technology, Such a ThinkPad E550 really makes us feel different from the previous E-series experience. Maybe today's ThinkPad E-series has come to the time to make changes. In this era of stacking PC, The E-series does not place its weight on the configuration. It mainly improves itself from the aspects of user experience, ease of use, and lightweight. Maybe this E-series will be more popular with white-collar workers. in addition This ThinkPad E550 also supports JD's trade in promotions, and interested friends can go to JD to learn about it.
parameter
Model: ThinkPad E550 20DFA048CD
Dimensions: 372.8mm x 245.1mm x 31.8-35.6mm
Weight: 2500g
Screen: 15.6 "16:9 LED
Resolution: 1920 * 1080
CPU：Intel Core i5 5200U
GPU：AMD Radeon R7 M265 2GB
Memory: 8GB DDR3L-1600MHz
Storage: Hitachi 1TB 5400 rpm
System: Windows 10 64 bit
Battery: 3950mAh
Camera: 720P video recording
Others: Bluetooth 4.0 HDMI x1、USB 3.0 x2
