Tecra R840 is the latest line of laptops aimed at business people with Toshiba Portege R830 was introduced in the market. While no lightweight with his brother but R840 still shell durability against impact, waterproof, characterized entrepreneurship design but the price more attractive than the R830.
Model tested, Toshiba Tecra R840 equipped configuration includes 14-inch screen size HD resolution 1366 x 768 pixels, Intel Core i5-2410M-speed 2.3 GHz, 4GB RAM, hard drive 500GB 7200 speed within minutes, the HD graphics chip Intel Graphics,
Design
Not as thin and light Tecra R840 Portege R830, but still pretty design "standard" weight of 1.9 kg and 2.8 cm thickness. Outer shell of the machine is encapsulated in hard plastic with horizontal stripe design remains popular. This design is not sticking your fingerprint and especially suitable for business users do not like the "polished" as many current mid-range laptop.
Tecra R840 has many similarities to the R830 design from the silver hinge, the gateway to the cooling system and keys. Most obvious distinction between the two models is R840 14 inch big screen while the R830 is 13 inches. Outside of the R830 is also brushed aluminum instead of horizontally so as R840.
Tecra R840 is the most lightweight laptops Tecra line current. High technology designed to help computer Stifness Resin firm against the bent, buckled and increased longevity, durability of the product. According to the manufacturer, the halt trials of strength, impact resistance when the R840 crashed at an altitude of 0.76 meters, equivalent to 100kg of pressure on the LCD screen lid.
R840 Tecra fully equipped from the VGA port, HDMI and USB 3.0 to eSATA. The design of ports and optical drive is quite reasonable, but the USB ports are too limited, only a 2.0 ports and a 3.0 port.
However, the machine has USB 2.0 ports rather interesting feature is the charger for other devices such as phones, MP3 players .... even when the machine is turned off (Sleep & Charging).
Keyboard, touchpad
Tecra R840's keyboard no difference compared with previous models, R700 Portege or both R830 latest. This keyboard with full size easy to manipulate the keys and good spacing. The downside is no separate dedicated keys and navigation keys a bit small, so very easy to handle by mistake.
The keyboard also has a spill-resistant 30ml water flows directly.
Toucpad also a plus point on the R840, the surface roughness feels "real" special use and is very accurate. Comfortable operation plus two mouse buttons have a moderate settlement, quieter and lighter. Fingerprint reader slot in the middle and almost two mouse buttons right next to the finger, they sometimes do in this slot machine free on fingerprint identification program a bit uncomfortable.
In addition to the touchpad, the palm rest surface on both sides of the same class is also designed exterior with horizontal stripes plastic layer is still a strong point of the machine increases the comfort for users and especially to better heat dissipation.
Part 2: Monitor, performance
Monitors
Use the display screen size 14 inch HD resolution 1366 x 768 pixels to fit the anti-glare for outdoor use. Experience the best screen for clear sharp images only view the machine as the writer may feel really good form before R700. When looking angled about 70 degrees from the perpendicular screen, some images on the screen does not show true color or difficult to follow.
Performance
Toshiba Tecra R840 equipment configuration includes 14-inch screen size HD resolution 1366 x 768 pixels, Intel Core i5-2410M-speed 2.3 GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive within the speed 7200 minutes, HD Graphics Intel graphics chip.
With hardware like this, this model achieved 4.7 points (get low score by clicking the graphic capabilities) by the system when the spots on the Windows Experience Index Windows 7 Professional (32bit). On a scale of detail, to reach 6.9 point processor, RAM memory is 5.5 points while the 54.7 graphics capabilities for gaming and graphics point to reach 6.1 points.
Continue using PCMark Vantage program to assess the overall strength, reaching R840 Tecra 4682 points, no less than a model using second-generation Core i7 chip, discrete graphics about nearly 7,000 points.
Do not use discrete graphics, but rather by the integrated graphics chip. However, the chip is used in conjunction with Intel Core processor should i second generation with 3D Mark 06 score is pretty impressive, reaching 2367 points. Current models use integrated graphics chip Intel Core i3 of the second generation on the market around 1,400 points in the same form i5 a previous generation is only about 1,500 points.
Continue to use the program to evaluate Cinebech 11.5 microprocessors and try OpenGL. Results achieved with 2.43 point processors and graphics cards with 4.19 frames per second.
R840 Tecra hard drive that is using a 500GB 7,200 revolutions per minute. In fact the rate of reading data averaged 81.3 MB / sec, higher than average in the hard school 60MB/giay speed 5400 rpm and approximately the same compared to the hard drive speed today.
Toshiba integrated a lot of systems management features similar to the R840 models for other entrepreneurs. PC Health Monitor Manager can manage many features such as battery, the level of "harden" battery, CPU temperatures, mail or fan speed.
In addition, the R840 can also shock resistant hard drive. When the appliance detects sudden changes in position or powerful, automated alerts and the speed down to limit the ability to corrupt or lost data. This warning can also turn off operation only on the taskbar.
Part 3: Thermal, battery, audio
Radiator
R840 Tecra use a fan inlet at the bottom edge and a heat sink side to create continuous airflow circulating in the machine through the main processor to absorb heat and release outside. Technology radiator with fan and heat sink as Toshiba has been quite successful in promoting the R700 continue on this model.
When using normal apps, Tecra R840 hardly occurs even when running hot and heavy machinery applications just warm up a bit and still be able to use comfortably on two legs.
Battery
Tecra R840 uses 6 cell battery included. 66Wh capacity due to machine it took just over 3 hours if used just to charge the battery up from 7% to 100%.
Tested: Firefox 10 loading site and automatically reloaded every 15 minutes, open a page and listen to music online for continuous playback using headphones instead of speakers and the volume level to 70% and 50% of light machine run until it automatically shut down (the 5% level), the time it reached 5 hours 30 minutes.
Meanwhile a treadmill test for HD movie playback 720p and continuously until the machine off, turn off Wi-Fi connection, instead of using external speakers and headphones at the volume level to 70% (negative bar of Windows Media Player program to 100%), 50% brightness until the machine runs itself off (also at 5% battery), the time it reached 5 hours 01 minutes.
This is really a very impressive figure of R840 Tecra. Do not use low voltage processors, but the machine is more than double battery life compared to other popular laptop or even multiple machines with a price. Have been part of this time is on eco mode works pretty smart. When you enable this mode and continuous use basic web surfing time this amount can be up to 6 hours.
Duration used batteries according to manufacturer announced that seven hours.
Audio
As laptops for business people should not invest R840 Tecra much in invest of sound. Speaker system on this model has a small volume, sound more natural treble while the bass in the music quality is not done.
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