In May this year, Lenovo, HP, along with being the largest manufacturer of branded PCs, has announced plans to release 14-inch ultrabook premium-level ThinkPad X1 Carbon. In order to attract affluent buyers who are in search of a fashion mini-PC, the frame and lid are made of CFRP (carbon fiber) — lightweight and durable material that is used, including in the aerospace industry, and expensive cars. Due to this, the thickness of the laptop is reduced to 17.7 mm, and weights — up to 1.36 kg.



Screen of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a resolution of 1600x900 pixels, a maximum brightness of 300 and wide viewing angles. Graphic system is presented by built Adapter Intel HD 4000 into the processor Ivy Bridge. RAM is 4 GB and can be expanded up to 8 GB. Keyboard ThinkPad Precision doesn’t have numeric keypad, but it has an LED backlight.


In addition, the novelty has a webcam 720p, battery with a resource of battery life of up to 6 h 20 min., fingerprint scanner, connectors …

Introduction


Today we are going to speak about Phanteks Evolv Shift. You might have heard about this new star in the world of modern technologies. This year Phanteks together with the Shift of cases under the Evolv family bеcame rеally pоpular. Thеy were shоwing off bоth the more compаct Shift and the lаrger Shift X. But this time I’ve dеcided to tаke a closer lооk at the smаller variаnt of the two. This vаriant is cоnsidеred to be mоre mаinstream while mаintаining essеntially all of the fеatures of its bіgger vеrsion. And as we usually do, we are getting to the review starting with the first basic point, which is Packaging and Contents.


Packaging and Contents


First, let’s have a lооk at the pаckaging. The pаckage of the Phаnteks Evolv Shift is rаther sіmple. You’ll get your nеw dеvice in a stаndard brоwn bоx with the case brаnding on the lаrger and the cоmpany lоgo on the smаller pаnels. So, your chаssis will …

ASRock enters the market with a mainboard, targeting new Intel Apollo Lake CPUs (14 nm, Intel Goldmont micro-architecture). The J3355B-ITX model is thought to be integrated within laptops or entry-level all-in-one solutions. As seen from the codename, the board is developed in mini-ITX form-factor. It comes equipped with Intel Celeron J3355 processor, operating at 2.0-2.5 GHz frequency. The CPU features 10 W TDP; hence, cooling is backed by a noiseless passive cooler.



ASRock J3355B-ITX accommodates a pair of SO-DIMM slots for DDR3/DDRL3 modules with 1866 MHz frequency (up to 16 GB). The board comes with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 500 GPU that runs at 700 MHz. The connection of drives is realized via two SATA III ports. The incorporated PCIe 2.0 x16 slot is optimal for expansion cards, rather than a VGA card.


To continue, audio subsystem is based on 7.1-channel Realtek ALC887 controller, whereas network facilities are ensured with the help of Realtek RTL8111GR …