IT168 evaluation see the title, what is your first feeling? If you are a fruit powder, what will your first feeling be? Is it just a curiosity to Asus Ling Yao 3 this product, or think this is just a "Black" MacBook parsing article? It is undeniable that Apple's change in the field of mobile phones and notebooks is unmatched by any other company, not to mention the iPhone, the MacBook series has changed people's perception of traditional computers, " The original computer can also be made so thin and light, "CNC one molding process, glass touchpad, thin body, and smooth Mac OS system so that many users are crazy."
Remarks: Conclusion At the end of the article, the friends of “Monkey Express†can directly skip the “long contrast†in the middle.
So is the current notebook imitating Apple?
The answer is naturally negative. In the past eight years, with the rapid development of notebooks and the continuous crackdown of smart phones, the current PC circle landscape has become more clear. Asustek, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and other first-tier PC makers have gradually launched some small brands out of China and even international markets. For PC makers such as Asustek to reach today, and have a fairly good market share, the fundamental reason is to have their own core technology, R & D team. Learning from Apple's style may be possible, but in the core design, they are absolutely impossible.
So what are the differences between ultra-thin notebooks and MacBooks that are being developed by today's Windows camp PC vendors? Today, we have experienced the powerful black technology of today's PC manufacturers by comparing Asustek's ASUS Lenovo3 notebooks and Apple's new 12-inch MacBook, which was introduced in the first half of this year.
Appearance: varies from person to person
ASUS Ling Yao 3 has royal blue, rose gold and quartz gray three color
ASUS Ling Yao 3 and the new 12-inch MacBook are all using the CNC one-piece molding process. This brand-new manufacturing process created by Apple nowadays only these world-class PC makers can fully transplant it, which is why many friends feel that The appearance of the CNC one-piece molding process is the root cause of imitating Apple. Regardless of the craftsmanship, the appearance of the two can be said to have their own advantages, Asus Ling Yao still continues the classic concentric shape; while the MacBook is still simple and plain appearance, from the A side we can not judge who can not be judged Look better, after all, aesthetics vary from person to person.
Screen: The new 12-inch MacBook is slightly taller
ASUS Ling Yao 3 equipped with a 12.5-inch 1080P full HD micro-border display, screen ratio is extremely high, up to 82%, even more than 81.3% of the micro-boundary notebook originator Dell XPS 13, but this difference is still invisible to the naked eye of. The new 12-inch MacBook uses a 12-inch 2K resolution display, so the visual experience is better than ASUS Lingyao 3. In terms of size, the ASUS Lingyao with a micro-frame design is slightly smaller. some.
We all know that the MacBook Pro's excellent display is entirely dependent on the Retina display it carries, which is why many users spit on the MacBook Air. The new 12-inch MacBook is equipped with the same Retina display as the MacBook Pro. At the same time, the screen uses a technology that increases the pixel aperture. In simple terms, when the screen reaches the same brightness, it saves more than the previous technology. 30% of the electricity consumption, so that longer life. About the ASUS Ling Yao 3 with a 1080P resolution screen and the new 12-inch MacBook with a 2K resolution, who will have a longer battery life, we will introduce it later.
Keyboard: ASUS Ling Yao 3 Rolling
First of all, let's put aside the keystrokes of the keyboard. The keyboards of these two models adopt a micro-frame design. This is even more amazing than the screens that are accustomed to the micro-frame design. The micro-frame design greatly increases the keyboard keys. The size of the process makes the 12-inch or 12.5-inch body have a keyboard size of about 14 inches, which greatly reduces the occurrence of finger touch and other phenomena.
When it comes to keystrokes, we have to say that ASUS Lingyao 3 completely crushed the keyboard feel of the new 12-inch MacBook. ASUS Ling Yao 3 has a 0.8mm key size, while the new 12-inch MacBook only has a 0.4mm keystroke size, which makes the latter keystrokes almost barely feel, it seems that Lenovo's latest Yoga Book is gone With a sense of pressure, the overall percussion experience is completely absent, and typing for a long time will feel pain in the palm of your hand.
Compared to the 12-inch new MacBook, ASUS Ling Yao 3's key process feel is relatively comfortable and a lot of, 0.8mm key process so that the machine's overall experience dumped a few streets, you do not look at only the difference between the key process size of 0.4mm, but This is crucial, and the 0.8mm key range is sufficient to meet basic typing needs such as light office. After all, the aircraft is positioned as a "business-only book."
Weight: ASUS Ling Yao 3 slightly lighter
ASUS Ling Yao 3 uses a 12.5-inch 1080P Full HD screen, than the size of the 12-inch new MacBook machine is slightly larger, but the weight of the whole is lighter than the former, ASUS Ling Yao 3 light to 910g, than the 12-inch new MacBook is also lighter than 10g, and it's quite light in your hand. Even a girl can easily hold it with two fingers. But honestly, the weight difference of 10g is not felt by ordinary people.
Touchpad: almost the same
The new 12-inch MacBook touchpad is slightly larger
If Apple's trackpad is one of the best input devices available today, I believe that not many people will refute it. Its glass touch experience has brought the input feel of the notebook to a whole new stage, and the glass touchpad has become one of the standard features of the ultra-thin notebooks in the new era. ASUS Ling Yao 3 uses the same high-sensitivity touch panel that is almost the same as Apple's touch experience. The overall use of the two is not significant, but given the differences between Windows and Mac OS systems, the specific experience is different from person to person. , but the glass touchpad combined with the special settings of the Windows 10 system, so that we can feel like a mobile phone touch experience, quite good.
For the newly added Force Touch feature of the new 12-inch MacBook, the coolest thing is that when you browse a web link, you do not have to open or jump to a new page, you can pop up the contents of the link on the current page, which is really convenient for quick reading, but This is limited to the browser and map features. Other features are temporarily unavailable.
Interface: Both only include USB-C interface and headphone jack
Two such extremely thin and light notebooks will naturally save a lot of interface design, after all, the traditional USB-A interface is too thick for such a slim body, perhaps this is not very much for many users today Convenient, after all, the USB-C interface is still the mainstream today, but we can not deny that the USB-C interface will become the mainstream of the future, not only positive and negative pluggable and compatible with video, data and charging, multi-purpose function is not comparable to other old interfaces of.
Performance: ASUS Ling Yao 3 processor better
In fact, due to system differences, it is inconvenient to talk about performance, but ASUS Lingyao 3 is capable of plugging higher performance Intel i5-7200U or i7-7500U seventh-generation processors under such a thin body. Rare, and the new 12-inch MacBook is equipped with a slightly lower performance but more power-efficient Core M processor, for many friends of the office performance of the processor, the Intel 7th Generation Core i processor is more attractive .
Life: equal
Life time has always been the most attractive place for MacBook users. In addition to the difference between Mac OS system and Windows system itself, this new 12-inch MacBook uses a new screen pixel aperture increase technology and lower power consumption Core M processor. The battery life under the 2K screen has been extended. From the actual experience of the two notebooks, we can feel that the life time of the two is comparable. If we simply browse the web, we will have no problem for eight or nine hours. If we count the video and other applications, we will have no problem. Hours can hold on.
The battery life of the new 12-inch MacBook will be slightly longer in the experience of life time in some specific environments, which is entirely due to its more power-efficient Core M processor, optimized 2K screen, and Mac OS operating system.
to sum up:
From the above eight aspects, perhaps many users will feel very chaotic, it is difficult to distinguish which of the two models which performance is more excellent, the following Xiao Bian made a brief summary for everyone:
ASUS Ling Yao 3 better than the new 12-inch MacBook:
1. First, the keyboard is more comfortable to use;
2, higher hardware performance;
3, larger body size is lighter;
The new 12-inch MacBook is better than Asus Ling Yao 3:
1, the screen resolution is higher;
2, the special life time experience will be slightly higher.
So who do you like better with these two notebooks?