From the perspective of industrial design to buy ultrabook: Lenovo Lenovo X1 Carbon dismantling machine + MI millet Air notebook interpretation

Hello everyone, I'm Neo. Recently millet laptop Air can really be described as hot. Even before the conference was finished, many friends who had originally planned to start with MacBook Air immediately asked me if they could consider buying millet.

Think about it, after all, Apple's low-view TN screen is really hard to gain a foothold in today’s era of IPS. However, there are so many ultra-pole models, and the replacement is very fast. Therefore, thinking about "granting people with fish is not as good as giving people fishing," and then simply recommend the opportunity to a friend, and everyone to talk about the ultra-pole book to buy the methodology. With limited knowledge and capabilities, it is also hoped that the great gods will leave messages in the commentary area for discussion.

I. The supernatural model in mind.

May be in my personal dark feelings of Neo, it may be true that the gang of geek engineers in Yamato Laboratory is really very powerful. When it comes to Ultrabook, my first thought is the Thinkpad X1 Carbon . This may be the final product of the traditional Windows camp. After several generations of evolution, it has become more and more mature.

However, as a rational fruit powder, it is impossible to ignore Apple's MacBook, a symbolic, "surreal" future notebook. Minimalist design, perverted single-interface and fanless design, and then had to compromise too much performance loss, let Neo believe that at this moment, it is not time for the MacBook to be in place.

And as the "2 in 1" camp model of Surface Pro and Surface Book , I am sorry that the cost-effectiveness and sense of design, coupled with the very few keyboard input experience that I have to use when I have to use a few times, have kept me on the sidelines status.

So after this millet laptop Air launch, in addition to everyone has been very thorough on the configuration and pricing issues, Neo I am more concerned about the industrial design of the millet notebook. And this is also a key factor that affects the ultimate user experience.

In addition to the above models, there is still a bead: Dell XPS 13 , as a small brother has been selling the 15-inch models, XPS 13 is not hot, but also shows Dell's own for the Ultrabook All imagination, it is a good good product.


Second. Thinkpad X1 Carbon dismantling

Well, almost on paper, please follow the process of Neo X1 Carbon 2016 (hereinafter referred to as X1C) to take a look at some of the current details of the ultra-pole industrial design.

First of all, the screen borders are quite standard, not as good as the XPS series.

Very solid 180° opening and closing hinges.

First of all, the appearance of the interface part, X1C spacing design is good, the chance of fighting USB interface is not great.

The dismantling itself is not difficult, and all the screws on the bottom can be loosened. The whole machine adopts the design of the lower battery, the upper circuit, and the core component of the current ultrabook.

There are anti-lost-screw designs. Screws cannot be easily removed, and honeycomb reinforcing lines can be seen throughout the bottom cover.

Let's take a look at the bottom cover. The heat-generating areas of the CPU heat sink and the fan are covered with copper.

Internal alignment has a card fixed, fully reinforced anti-rolling skeleton.

The CPU and memory are soldered to the motherboard, and the black heat-dissipating copper tubes guide the heat to the fan.

In a small space, the use of the bottom air intake, the rear air exit is the most effective, and it also has the least impact on the user experience.

Thinkpad X1C Industrial Design Summary:

The beauty of the design is too subjective to comment. The thicker screen borders provide good protection. The thick hinges ensure long-term durability. The internal design adopts "on the main board and the battery" + "outside the wind". The heat dissipation design ensures that even if the computer is hot during the user's use, it will not affect the keyboard letters and touchpads most frequently touched by the user, and the impact of hot air is also reduced to a minimum .

III. Interpretation of millet notebook Air design

Comparing the excellent example above, naturally, from the limited resources of the official website, taking the 13.3-inch exclusive edition as an example, a glimpse into the design skill of the notebook air.

Although Xiaomi uses a black integrated glass frame and tries to reduce the influence of the frame, the bottom frame is still large, as seen from the red circled part of the figure.

The interface part does not know why the design spacing is small.

Feeling tired, the official website is a mess of black pictures, but it can be seen that Xiaomi also adopted the "on the motherboard, under the battery" strategy.

However, because the motherboard design is large and the second m-SATA channel SSD position is reserved, the battery capacity will naturally have to be compressed. It is no wonder that the battery capacity is 37Wh and 40Wh.

Far less than the 52Wh of X1C.

You have to say what magic millet, can reduce the power consumption of their own Intel CPU and NVDIA GPU? I think only down-clocking performance.

In terms of heat dissipation, Xiaomi tried to use a single heat pipe to suppress the "CPU" + "individual display" circled by the red box. This is also a bit of a terrible thing. I don't know if the actual effect is any, but it is worrying. The fans chose a large and small turbofan with similar structure to the X1C.

In addition, it can also be seen here that the interface spacing can be designed more open.

Here's a comparison of the design of the MacBook Pro 13/15 with a built-in CPU.

Not to mention that the same single heat pipe is not too thick, at least two sides of the dual fan layout looks more reasonable than millet. Perverted custom battery modules are also one of the secrets of MacBook's unique life.


Millet Notebook Air Industrial Design Summary:

1. Thicker border

And there is a problem with reflective glass.

2. Heat dissipation

The internal design adopts the current popular "upper board, lower battery" + "rear air" heat dissipation design, but the single heat pipe transfers the heat of the CPU and the independent display card to the fan at the other end of the notebook, causing some concern about performance. I don't know why I didn't design separate designs such as wind on both sides.

3. Interface craze

In addition, these very specific things for the workmanship, the use of materials, and the screen display effect are clearly not yet speculative. If you have the opportunity to get the millet laptop Air actual machine, give everyone the details of the actual teardown and testing.


IV. Ultrabook Industrial Design Summary

Above we compared the disassemble analysis of X1C and analysis of information provided by Xiaomi Notebook Air's current official website, which shows that the most basic elements of Ultrabook:

Thin and light appearance, SSD, low voltage CPU

Any company wants to do, as long as the purchase of the corresponding accessories, into a small enough mold is not difficult to do. However, in order to be aesthetically pleasing, the interface is reasonable, the screen vision is good, the internal heat dissipation is smooth, and the battery has to leave a lot of room. However, it is often difficult to perfect the eastern wall to repair the Western Wall. Of course, in addition to the two popular ultrabooks analyzed above, any book of interest on the world can be interpreted using these basic principles of industrial design.

Only by clarifying their own needs can we be able to achieve our goals. If you do not play games, it is to have an online office notebook. Indeed, even if Xiaomi is not equipped with this very strong 940MX, it will only increase power consumption and heat dissipation pressure.

In the end, it is definitely based on the usual practice of giving advice based on personal opinions:

1. Adequate budget, hoping to start a stable business book that can solve problems within 3 to 5 years : Thinkpad X1C


2. Ibid, but do not like the appearance of Thinkpad , recommend Dell XPS 13


3. There is a clear need for video clips and photo retouching , but it is not yet on the desktop, obviously the MacBook Pro 13


4. Different from Neo, I like to pursue the latest and most fashionable things . The MacBook (rose gold) is enough for lightweight applications. In fact, the appearance is still very good, and the keyboard is not as bad as some of my friends; otherwise, according to the budget, Get on Surface Pro or Surface Book !


Oh, yes, if you want to play the game, you really don't think about watching the ultrabook . If you don’t use a tabletop, you have to pick a boat or alien, ROG and other games. If a worker wants to do something good, he must first sharpen his tools. We still let the ultra-pole to do his work.  

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