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[Gearbest Review]Since the laptop was born in 1985, it seems that apart from becoming thinner and thinner, its shape has not changed much. What is visible to the naked eye is half the screen and half the keyboard. Compared with the changes in mobile phones from “candy bar” to “touch screen” to “folding screen”, notebooks seem to be somewhat less innovative. But this is not the case. Innovations about notebooks have always been endless. Among these innovations, dual-screen design was once considered to be the future form of notebooks, but in the end, after a period of “buzz”, it was still a niche market.
In fact, there is a brand that has never given up on innovation. From the W5Fe with a small secondary screen in 2007 to the UX260 in 2018, ASUS has been seriously studying dual-screen design. Therefore, this recently released Lingyao 14 dual screen gave me a big shock. Perhaps this product will become a milestone product in the history of dual screen design.
The surface is unremarkable, but there is something wonderful inside.
In terms of appearance, the overall appearance design of the machine continues the Lingyao series. The body is made of recyclable magnesium aluminum alloy materials, focusing on low carbon and environmental protection. The low-key and restrained style of the matte black paint is in sharp contrast with the stunning feeling when the dual screens are unfolded, and has a certain impact.
When I first got this machine, my colleagues thought it was just an ordinary laptop. Until I told him that the keyboard could be removed, he blurted out the phrase that applies to all scenarios, yes, It’s “amazing!” This kind of contrasting design, to be honest, can really bring a lot of satisfaction to its owners.
In fact, in the past, the most difficult problem to promote dual-screen notebooks was the interactive experience of the second screen. Everyone should know that operating on this kind of full touch screen, no matter how you slide or drag, is a very smooth experience, but it is unrealistic to want it to replace the tapping feeling of the keyboard. .
In response to this situation, Lingyao 14 Dual Screen, on the basis of continuous optimization of the on-screen keyboard, adopts a magnetic keyboard design to ensure that users can type on the keyboard for a long time, which can be tightly connected through the 6 magnetic contacts below. Cover the lower screen with the ground, “disguising” itself as an ordinary laptop. When you take it off, it automatically turns into an almost frameless super large dual screen.
It is worth mentioning that ASUS has fully considered the usage scenarios of dual-screen notebooks which are different from the way conventional notebooks are placed. Therefore, a large-area metal bracket is installed at the bottom of the machine. According to the author's visual inspection, its maximum opening and closing angle has exceeded It has a right angle of 90°, so it can fully meet the needs of use at different angles.
Dual-screen design, double happiness
Judging from the name, ASUS put the two words “dual screen” in the name, indicating that it has done enough “homework” for the dual-screen design. Among them, the five forms provided by ASUS really take the characteristics of dual screens to the extreme.
The first one is naturally the standard notebook mode. The keyboard is connected to the computer through magnetic contacts. At first glance, it looks like a normal 14-inch notebook. Usage is the same as traditional laptops, with basically no difference. When the keyboard is removed, the secondary screen is activated, and a six-finger click can wake up the virtual keyboard. This is the second virtual keyboard mode of Lingyao 14 dual-screen, which projects the keyboard onto the second screen. Build a virtual full keyboard interface. The first home screen still displays the main content.
It is worth mentioning that more tools can be opened through six-finger pull-down, and you can switch between many tools by sliding with two fingers. It can be a digital tablet, or a workbench for editing, retouching, and coloring. It can be used as an office The processing efficiency is directly doubled.
The third is the waterfall mode, which can be awakened with five fingers. At this time, the secondary screen serves as an extended display screen, providing a display area of nearly 20 inches. The bottom bracket can also be unfolded at multiple angles. The dual-screen interaction method can be easily Go beyond the limitations of traditional notebooks.
In waterfall mode, it is very beneficial for friends who usually handle multi-tasking work. You can type on the upper screen while checking information on the lower screen. You can read books and take online classes on one screen, and take notes on the other screen. The two screens operate independently without interfering with each other. And this new form of use can also display the interface of a software on two screens at the same time, thereby browsing information in a more efficient way, significantly improving the user experience and work efficiency.
The fourth is a book-like portrait mode. This mode can be activated by rotating the Lingyao 14 dual screen 90 degrees and standing it on the desktop through a stand. The left and right split-screen experience in this mode is great, and it is very suitable for reading documents, PDFs, viewing long pictures, or doing some design work, Excel tables and other information.
The last one is the sharing mode. Thanks to the maximum 180° opening and closing angle of the Lingyao 14 dual screen, two full-size 2.8K ultra-narrow bezel OLED touch-sensitive ASUS screens can be stretched out at the same time. In this mode Next, the content on the screen can be rotated 180° as needed, tiled on the desktop, and the content mirrored to the other party. Real-time operations can also be synchronized to the other party. During meetings or presentations, there is no need to cast the screen, and there is no need to put the computer on the screen. This eliminates the hassle of moving back and forth, making communication smoother.
ASUS has a great screen and excellent quality.
With five ways of displaying and using the screen, its screen quality will naturally not fall behind. The screen quality of the two Lingyao 14 dual screens remains the same. Both use a 14-inch 16:10 OLED touch screen, with a high contrast ratio of 1000000:1, 2.8K high resolution, 120Hz high refresh rate and 0.2ms response time. .
It is worth mentioning that the screen also supports VRR variable refresh rate. You can use a lower refresh rate to reduce energy efficiency when browsing general documents, and you can switch to 120Hz high refresh rate in highly dynamic scenes such as video editing and games. efficiency, resulting in a silkier picture.
In the UFOtest web test, it can be seen from the pictures taken by the author with a shutter speed of 1/60 that smearing is the most serious due to the low refresh rate of 30Hz, 60Hz has some smearing, and the top 120Hz is due to Refresh speed, almost no smear.
In addition, the two OLEDs of the Lingyao 14 dual screen also support 100% P3 wide color gamut, four professional color gamut switching, 10-bit color depth, ΔE<1, DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, and RGB complete sub-pixels without PPI Damage, pixel-level compensation technology to prevent screen burn-in, TUV hardware-level low blue light flicker-free certification, SGS Eye Care eye protection certification, support for full-brightness DC dimming (HDR mode), and anti-flicker mode can be said to completely improve the screen quality. full.
In order to verify the true screen quality of Lingyao 14 dual-screen, the author used Spyder X color calibrator and DisplayCal software to see how the color accuracy and color gamut of this screen perform.
Display P3 mode
sRGB mode
In terms of color accuracy, the author tested the color accuracy performance in the more extensive Display P3 and sRGB modes. In Display P3 mode, the average color accuracy ΔE value of this notebook is 0.74, with the highest value being 2.37; in sRGB mode, the average color accuracy ΔE value is 0.72, with the highest value being 2.11. It can be seen that the screen color deviation of this notebook is extremely low and the color accuracy is extremely accurate.
Display P3 mode (left), sRGB mode (right)
In addition, it can also be seen from the two color accuracy maps of Display P3 color gamut mode and sRGB mode that this screen displays all colors very accurately, worthy of such a dual-screen design.
Native color gamut, sRGB color gamut, Display P3 color gamut (from left to right)
In terms of color gamut, the author tested three modes respectively, namely native color gamut, sRGB color gamut and Display P3. It can be seen from the results that in the native color gamut mode, the sRGB color gamut covers 100% and the color gamut volume is 184.7%; the P3 color gamut covers 99.9% and the color gamut volume is 130.8%, which is an excellent performance; in the sRGB mode, the sRGB color gamut covers It is still 100%, the color gamut volume is 107.5.1%, and the performance is equally excellent. Display P3 mode sRGB color gamut coverage is still the familiar 100% and color gamut volume is 156.4%, and P3 color gamut coverage and color gamut volume have also reached very excellent levels.
primary color gamut
sRGB color gamut
Display P3 color gamut
It is worth mentioning that in the color gamut coverage diagram, the test results for these three modes are still excellent. The colored area in the figure is the actual performance of the screen, and the dotted line is the standard range by default. Therefore, it can be seen that whether it is the native color gamut, sRGB color gamut, or Display P3 color gamut, their coverage has reached a perfect level, which shows the performance advantages of this screen. It can really be called a screen that makes image creators happy. A good screen.
Thin and light dual screens can also have high performance
Generally speaking, laptops that focus on design and are thin and light always perform poorly in terms of performance, but Lingyao 14 Dual Screen is an exception. The machine is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor, 32GB LPDDR5X 7467MHz memory, 2TB PCIe4.0 solid-state drive, and the GPU is the Intel Sharp Core Display that comes with the processor.
It is worth mentioning that the Core Ultra series is Intel's latest series, and this processor is the highest in this series. Therefore, in terms of performance, it may be even better than some all-round notebooks that are known as “all-round”.
According to CUP-Z data, the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor uses 6 performance cores, 8 energy efficiency cores, and 2 ultra-low power cores, for a total of 16 cores and 22 threads. The highest core frequency can reach 5.1GHz, it has 24MB level 3 cache, and the basic TDP is 45W.
After actual testing, the Lingyao 14 dual-screen scored 764.3 and 8170 in the CPU-Z single-core and multi-core performance tests. This performance is indeed the level that the highest-spec model in the family should have. At the same time, under the CINEBENCH 2024 test standard, the single-core score was 108 and the multi-core score was 796. The performance was in line with expectations. Under the CINEBENCH R23 test standard, this processor has a single-core score of 1869 and a multi-core score of 15548, surpassing the i7-13700H standard processor in gaming notebooks and competing with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, a high-performance desktop processor. In comparison, the gap is also very weak.
Under the 3DMark CPU Profile test standard, the Core Ultra 9 185H processor scored 1012 for single thread, 1941 for 2 threads, 3457 for 4 threads, 4889 for 8 threads, 6008 for 16 threads, and 6915 for the maximum thread. Overall, multi-core performance is good. In addition, 3Dmark’s TimeSpy test score is 3893, including a Graphics score of 3520 and a CPU score of 9784.
In terms of productivity, through the PCMark 10 benchmark test, it can be seen that the Lingyao 14 dual screen scored 10284 for common basic functions, 9756 for productivity, 9837 for digital content creation, and the final overall score was 7138. Therefore, this notebook has good performance whether it is facing daily productivity or more demanding digital media and other activities.
From the above actual measurement, it can be seen that the Lingyao 14 dual screen benefits from the blessing of Core Ultra 9 185H, which can bring users a relatively excellent user experience whether in entertainment, leisure or work.
write at the end
In general, thanks to ASUS's years of experience in dual-screen design, this Lingyao 14 dual-screen is no longer a distinctive but impractical product. When used as an ordinary notebook, it can provide users with a practical high-performance experience. When converted to dual-screen mode, users can also gain an efficient and novel experience that conventional notebooks do not have. Among them, the silky smooth connection makes me most happy. If there is an extra step or slow response, the user's experience will be greatly reduced. However, ASUS has turned this into a plus point. Take off the keyboard and it will turn into dual screens in seconds, put the keyboard on and type directly.
In addition, the five screen display modes of Lingyao 14 dual-screen fully demonstrate ASUS's diversified and in-depth research on users' actual usage scenarios, so that the dual-screen design is no longer a flashy representative, but a A more efficient form. In addition to the temporary virtual keyboard, the Lingyao 14 dual screen also has a drag-and-slide operating console adapted for different software, and paired with a dedicated stylus, it can be said to be a divine tool for creators, greatly improving creativity. efficiency.
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