Review Dell Studio 14z
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Latest 14-inch notebook premium company Dell, Dell Studio 14z, promises to give you what they want from a high-performance notebook. Studio 14z, of course, very thin and lightweight 14-inch laptop that Dell has ever produced. The manufacturer promises more than 6 hours of battery life, but it will have to suffer some inconvenience. Continue reading this review, and you will know that we found in this notebook for a couple of weeks.
Dell Studio 14z has the following specifications:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 cache)
- OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (64 bit)
- Display: 14.0 “(1600 x 900) LED
- Memory: 3GB Shared DDR3 at 1066MHz
- Data Warehouse: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
- Wireless: Dell 1515 Wireless N
- Battery: 8-cell 74Whr Li Ion Battery
- Dimensions (W x D x H): 33,5 x 22,9 x 2 – 3 cm
- Weight: 2,06 kg
Construction and Design
The appearance of a laptop much like Studio 15, but Dell has been able to make it thinner and easier by removing the optical drive. At first glance it may seem inconvenient, but most mobile users do not use the optical drive in your laptop away from the wall outlet. Of course, you can separately buy an external optical drive (DVD or DVD / Blu-ray), but only if you need one.
Notebook Case is made from a combination of plastic and magnesium, for the balance of lightness and reliability. Such a structure withstand many years of hard use, but would like to see and the area under the keyboard was also made of magnesium alloy, not plastic.
In the closed condition laptop seems slight and subtle, but a small imbalance of weight makes 8-cell battery. Lid of the screen is painted matt paint color Ruby Red (ruby red) and has a rubberized texture. Under intense pressure lid sags, but the ripples on the screen does not appear.
Dell Studio 14z offered in a variety of color combinations: Black Chain Link, Midnight Blue, Promise Pink, Spring Green, Plum Purple and Ruby Red. In September, Dell Design Studio promises to expand the list of available color combinations to 120, although, given the uncommon is the model in Russia, you just do not have to suffer because of similar color notebook computer from a neighbor.
Below laptop battery is visible and the only cover, removing that, you can get into the compartment with the memory. To get to the hard drive, will have to completely disassemble a laptop.
The screen and speakers
14-inch screen Dell Studio 14z-one of the best screens with bright colors, excellent contrast and good viewing angles. LED backlight rather uniform, and offers a number of brightness settings.Aspect ratio 16:9, but it is becoming the standard for all notebooks and Dell arrived clever equipping Studio 14z screen with high resolution of 1600 x 900. Horizontal viewing angles are excellent, you will not experience any problems while watching a movie with a friend or company. Upper vertical viewing angles are slightly better than average – the colors are not very blurred when viewed from above, but get distorted and inverted at large viewing angles.
At first glance, the two small speakers located above the edges of the keyboard, look weak and pitiful. Many feel that these dynamics will publish a weak, quiet sound, but we forgive these people for their quick conclusions. In the Dell Studio 14z has four stereo speakers: two small at the keyboard, sending the sound up, and two more from the butt-end laptop, sending the sound down. Two small speakers emit a high frequency, two large, medium and low. Sound is not so good in comparison with high-quality external stereo system and a subwoofer, but it is best that we met in the 14-inch laptops. If you are not going to fill the room sound at a party, then the external speakers you do not need. Built-in speakers perform their task on a solid top five.
The keyboard and touchpad
The keyboard has full-size keys with enough space between them and the excellent depth of pressing. Each key has a smooth surface and a frame. Optionally, the keyboard can be supplied with built-in backlight, which is very useful when typing in dark rooms or classrooms. The only negative – very large deflection of the keyboard itself. When printing with minimal keystrokes much flex. If a bit larger pressing, the keyboard is like a springboard. We believe this is due to the lack of optical drive. His place was empty and nothing creates a counter for the deflection. We were unpleasantly surprised by such a deflection. On the other hand, the keyboard, which does not bend, really good keyboard.
For 14-inch notebook touchpad a little big. Both buttons when you publish a quiet clicks. Manufacturer touchpad company ALPS, but the laptop uses a closed-source drivers from Dell. We are not fans of these drivers, but have to admit that the touchpad is very sensitive and has a slight delay.
Ports and Features
A set of ports Studio 14z is a mixed picture. Dell has built into the notebook, three USB-ports, one of which is a combined USB / eSATA, as well as FireWire and ExpressCard/34 slot. If you have an external monitor or HDTV television, you will be pleased to learn of the presence in Studio 14z HDMI and DisplayPort, as well as audio output. Unfortunately, Dell had to sacrifice in his Studio 14z three things without which the use of a laptop can become problematic. First, as we said earlier, deprived of a laptop optical drive, so forget about viewing the DVD-Video without using an external drive. Secondly, Dell has forgotten to install SD-card reader in the Studio 14z. Of course, Dell offers an optional SD-card reader to be installed in slot ExpressCard, but in the yard in 2009, when every laptop should have a built-in SD-card reader. And the last of what we would like to find in the Studio 14z, is missing
VGA-connector. Of course, most of the new monitors use HDMI or DisplayPort, but a considerable number of projectors to display presentations still require a connector VGA.
In front there is nothing
Visible behind the screen hinge and battery.
Left: Lock slot Kensington, Ethernet, USB, ventilation grate, DisplayPort and HDMI
Right: ExpressCard/34, two connectors for headphones, mic, FireWire, USB / eSATA combo port, USB and power connector.
Productivity and performance
Performance Studio 14z based on the Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 and the video card Nvidia GeForce 9400M G is very good for mobile multimedia notebook. Worth mentioning that the configuration of our laptop is very similar to the configuration of 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro, but judging by the tests, Dell has a great performance and lower price than the Apple MacBook Pro.
System performance for this price range is fine. Graphics Card Nvidia 9400M perfectly copes with playing video games, compared with the integrated graphics from Intel. In our test, with the game Portal Studio 14z showed an average of 39-45 frames per second at 1280×800, maximum settings, and one portal. If you remove the display of portals, the frame rate rises to 60. But if you choose 2 of the portal, then the frame rate of 23-25 frames per second. The starting price of 26 000 rubles for Studio 14z looks very attractive. Unlike netbooks, which are not equipped with a hard disk over 160 GB, Studio 14z is available from the hard drive up to 500GB which can store up to 125 000 songs, 142 000 photos or 133 film in DVD-like quality. Hard Drive 320 GB from our survey has a good balance between performance and price.
Comparative results of processors wPrime (the lower the score, the better the performance):
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HP Pavilion dv4t (Intel Core 2 Duo T9600@2.8GHz)
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26.972 seconds
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Dell Studio 14z (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600@2.4GHz)
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31.713 seconds
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Toshiba Satellite E105 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8400@2.26GHz)
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33.961 seconds
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Apple MacBook Pro 13 (Core 2 Duo P8400@2.26GHz)
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34.209 seconds
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Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8400@2.26GHz)
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34.628 seconds
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Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400@2.0GHz)
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38.125 seconds
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Sony VAIO CS (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400@2.0GHz)
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38.314 seconds
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PCMark05 characterizes the overall system performance (the higher the score, the better the performance):
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HP Pavilion dv4t (2.8GHz Intel T9600, NVIDIA 9200M GS 256MB)
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5,463 PCMarks
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Dell Studio 14z (2.4GHz Intel P8600, NVIDIA 9400M G)
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5,370 PCMarks
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Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, NVIDIA 9300M GS 256MB)
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5,173 PCMarks
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Toshiba Satellite E105 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Intel 4500MHD)
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4,836 PCMarks
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Sony VAIO CS (2.0GHz Intel T6400, Intel X4500)
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4,428 PCMarks
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Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 (2.0GHz Intel T6400, Intel 4500MHD)
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4,143 PCMarks
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Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Nvidia 9400M)
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4,136 PCMarks
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3DMark06 characterize the performance of graphics and gaming capabilities (the higher the score, the better the performance):
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Dell Studio 14z (2.4GHz Intel P8600, NVIDIA 9400M G)
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2,233 3DMarks
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Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, NVIDIA 9300M GS 256MB)
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2,211 3DMarks
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Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Nvidia 9400M)
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2,139 3DMarks
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HP Pavilion dv4t (2.8GHz Intel T9600, NVIDIA 9200M GS 256MB)
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1,741 3DMarks
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Toshiba Satellite E105 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Intel 4500MHD)
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1,030 3DMarks
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Sony VAIO CS (2.0GHz Intel T6400, Intel X4500)
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899 3DMarks
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Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 (2.0GHz Intel T6400, Intel 4500MHD)
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811 3DMarks
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All indicators 3DMark06 for all the above systems were obtained at 1280 x 800 (widescreen format 16:10) or 1280 x 768 (for 16:9).
Results of performance hard disk HDTune:
Heat and Noise
The cooling system works very well, maintaining a low temperature inside the case. After a long period of use area to the right of the touchpad becomes noticeably warm, heat is also being felt near the bottom of the hard drive and memory modules. But the temperature was less than 38 degrees Celsius and measured after 30 minutes of serious load on the system that, in principle, should show real results of heating at any job.
The noise level is very low, the fan produces a small constant noise and effectively brings hot air from the shell. If you put the profile “High performance” or switch your laptop into a socket, then the noise becomes more noticeable, but only in a very quiet room.
Battery life
Due to the screen brightness 70%, active wireless module and the power profile set to “balance”, Studio 14z lasted 4 o’clock 58 minutes. For use in the classroom or for watching movies this time will be enough, but it might not be enough for long trips. 8-cell 5400 mAh, 74 Wh battery does a great job for 14-inch laptop, but it does not meet the company’s statement on the Dell for more than 6 hours of battery life.
Conclusion
If your child or family looking for a notebook handy for sharing, you should look at the Studio 14z. Relative price / performance Studio 14z one of the best 14-inch notebooks on the market. Excellent design, excellent dynamics and a good screen make Studio 14z a good choice.
Nevertheless, Studio 14z has strong competitors in the face Notebook Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 and popular HP Pavilion dv4t. The fact that the Studio 14z no optical drive, a slot for SD cards, as well as the standard port VGA, means that some potential buyers have search laptop in another location. In addition, the keyboard is much flex. However, if you want to find an alternative to MacBook Pro, take the Studio 14z.
For:
- Attractive Design
- Excellent price / performance
- Great screen and speakers
Cons:
- No optical drive
- No VGA out
- No SD-card reader
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