From single champion to pentathlon Evo’s rigorously certified all-round laptop is here

When buying a laptop in a mall, shopping guides often emphasize which key functions a certain laptop has, but being prominent in one item means that other aspects often have to be compromised.

For example, the battery life is not high and the performance is too thin. Heat dissipation may not be good, anyway, fish and bear’s paw cannot have both.

Today in 2020, a single outstanding notebook can no longer meet the demand. People’s requirements for notebooks are not only powerful performance, but also meet the needs of various mobile scenarios, such as thin and light appearance, long battery life, fast response speed, and high speed. Reliable connection ability.

As the leading brother in the PC industry, Intel has actually noticed the diversified needs in the past few years to urgently change the notebook industry from the source.

It believes that the current notebook experience is imperfect. It cannot only have one or two advantages. It must be the almighty king. , No longer have shortcomings.

For this reason, Intel began to develop a new generation of notebooks for the future, and united hundreds of partners in the PC industry to redefine notebook needs, and then led manufacturers to innovate together.

In 2019, it was the first to launch the Athena Project to reshape the notebook experience. The Athena Project notebooks have fully taken into account the various needs of users when they leave the factory.

Now users do not need to consider and compare various parameters and indicators. As long as the Athena notebook is purchased, it can be used out of the box. The Athena project is just the beginning.

In 2020, Intel has launched an Evo-certified notebook. It relies on the Athena project to create a more powerful notebook- if the previous notebooks have only been promoted from passing to the single championship level, then Evo certification is an all-around learning notebook.

The non-disciplined schoolmaster Evo certified notebook should be a hundred athletes’. Evo notebook is not only a learning tyrant but also an unbiased learning tyrant.

Almost every major indicator must reach the top level on the market, including performance, battery life, fast charging, Wi-Fi, interface, nuclear display, appearance, and so on.

All these advantages add up to become a hundred almighty, ensuring that there is no slot in every aspect.

This year’s Evo certification divides the notebook experience into three parts: fast, long, and dazzling, which specifically involve performance, battery life, and appearance design.

Fast refers to the fast speed of the notebook. There are 4 contents, including the latest 11th-generation Core CPU performance, as well as the fast wake-up capability of only 1 second, Wi-Fi 6 speed, Thunderbolt 4 (commonly known as Thunderbolt 4). 4).

The 40Gbps transmission speed, etc., all aspects of experience are pursued fast and sensitive. Long, it refers to the battery life of the Evo notebook.

The minimum requirement is 9 hours, which is achieved in a real scene with a FHD full HD screen. It also has to support fast charging, charge for half an hour, and work for 4 hours.

The last point is dazzling. On the one hand, it refers to the cool design of the new generation of Evo-certified notebooks. On the other hand, it refers to the GPU performance of Evo notebooks.

The device has almost doubled and can already support some 3A game masterpieces to run smoothly at 1080p. The performance is already very useful and there is no need for a separate display.

What does Evo’s fast and dazzling mean? As mentioned earlier, the previous notebooks are at most one or two outstanding, and there are still compromises in other aspects, but Evo is not partial, just like an all-around competition in a sports game, it is not a single game, but a variety of different There are a total of 10 track and field competitions.

10 events will compete for at least 2 days. The events on the first day need to test speed, explosiveness, and jumping skills, including 100-meter races, long jumps, shot puts, high jumps, etc., and on the second day, endurance and endurance are the main features, including 110-meter hurdles, pole vault, javelin, 1500-meter long-distance running, etc.

Evo notebook is like this. It not only tests performance, network speed, interface and other performance, explosive power but also takes into account endurance tests such as battery life and fast charging. At the same time, it must also specify the size of the notebook-small size, thin and portable, so many projects are done simultaneously It’s really not easy.

Intel personally supervises the formation: a single miss is eliminated. For notebooks, due to the limitations of the fuselage structure, they are inadequate in terms of battery, weight, and heat dissipation.

Intel’s Evo is now still doing a hundred amphitheater. Is this possible? So this was not an easy problem at the beginning, Intel had to go out and work with industry partners to tackle various problems.

First of all, Intel has invested a lot of engineering resources in co-manufacturing Evo specifications. In the past, Intel was mainly responsible for the processor. However, in Evo notebooks, Intel has to participate in notebook R&D and testing from beginning to end. Starting from every detail, It may be the most complicated Evo specification in the past 20 years. It contains 79 pages, involves more than 30 categories, and has more than 100 indicators. Evo notebooks must meet the guidance and certification of this “collection”.

Intel has opened three laboratories around the world. It has participated in the pre-research of notebook manufacturers, including display panels, touch screens, ALS sensors, microphones, speakers, cameras, WiFi modules, memory, SSDs, batteries, and chargers. Key functional components such as a keyboard and touch keyboard have clear requirements.

Additionally, to the in-depth participation in the R&D and design stages, Intel also acted as the final test certification, which may be the most difficult part of Evo certification.

On the one hand, Intel wants to solve the problem of how to test. For this reason, Intel’s technical department has developed a unique set of automated test workflow tools that can simulate 25 real use scenarios, including typical applications such as Office, and various popular applications.

Application scenarios such as video conferencing platforms, instant messaging tools, streaming media platforms, and web browsing tools basically cover all aspects of notebook office/entertainment requirements this year.

It solves the problem of how to test, and the more critical issue is how to judge-Evo notebook pursues a hundred amphitheater. For this reason, Intel has set requirements.

Only when every indicator required by Evo is met can it be certified. One indicator cannot be achieved. When it arrives, it can only be eliminated, even if the other aspects meet or exceed Evo’s requirements.

This requirement of eliminating a single item off-target puts a lot of pressure on notebook manufacturers.

The most difficult of the 25 tests is battery life. Under the real experience of FHD screen, the battery life of not less than 9 hours is a test of the strength of the notebook. One of them is a manufacturer.

In the endurance test, Intel’s notebook was less than 9 hours, but Intel eventually rejected its Evo certification, even if this notebook is very good in other aspects, its performance and appearance are very impressive.

Under Intel’s stringent standards, only 40 of the more than 150 11th-generation Core notebooks this year received Evo certification, and the pass rate was about 1/4, and as many as 3/4 of the models often failed to meet a certain indicator.

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Intel’s “perverted” test has caused many manufacturers to suffer, but from another point of view, under strict standards, not only the quality of Evo notebooks has improved, but manufacturers are also starting under such demanding requirements. Substantial innovation, through technological upgrading, to meet Evo’s requirements.

Specifically, everyone has seen that Evo notebooks attach great importance to appearance this time-a a full-screen design with a high screen-to-body ratio has become the focus, but the narrow bezel will also affect the antenna design of the notebook.

For this reason, Intel has worked closely with the screen supplier. Breakthrough innovations in antenna technology have reduced the space occupied by the antenna to 10% of the original, thus solving the problem of the screen frame. A 14-inch display is inserted into a 13-inch notebook.

There is also the motherboard size. The 11th-generation Core processor itself reduces the PCB area and can be placed under the first three rows of the keyboard to reduce space occupation. Some OEM manufacturers have further optimized the motherboard size by 18% while cooling.

Capacity increased by 28%, battery life increased by 20%, these are achieved through close cooperation with Intel.

In short, for Evo certified notebooks, Intel made up its mind this time. Not only did it invest a large number of engineer resources to participate in the partner’s notebook research and design process, but also strictly checked the final test and certification, and required strict standards.

Many laptops are certified, but the Evo-certified laptops are like diving into a dragon, and the experience is completely different. There is almost no shortcoming in the whole body, and it can be described as a hundred almighty champion in the PC world.

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