Thinkpad T530: Changed A Lot on Keyboard

ThinkPad T series product is well known with excellent performance, excellent quality and perfect design. The ThinkPad T series of products designed for business people in the office building, perfect unification of performance and portability makes this series of products with the business machine model, is also making it a pioneer of ThinkPad products.

The new ThinkPad T Series T530 laptop uses Intel’s new IVB platform i5-3210M processor with NVIDIA NVS 5400M + Intel HD Graphic 4000 graphics, 4GB DDR3 1600MHz memory, and 1TB HDD hard drive.

ThinkPad T530 and W530 are similar mold, still in black, its top corners cover is still with aluminum-magnesium alloy material, the internal uses rollcage to reinforce the fuselage. But it did not like the W530, W530 is equipped with the same color correction device, so the roof of the LED lights is from three to two, the left-most color calibration status indicator to be removed.

T530 didn’t like W530 workstation equipped with 1920 x 1080 resolution RGB LED Screen (wide color gamut screen), but is equipped with 1600 x 900 resolution ordinary TN screen. Because the screen is heavier, the ThinkPad T530 metal hinge is wider, to ensure enough robustness, through actual use, can easily open the lid, one hand and shaking head cover will not appear in any Angle.

Due to W530 i7-3820QM processor is 45W maximum TDP is 45w, NVIDIA Quadra K2000M maximum TDP is 55w, the two combined TDP has reached 100 w, so in order to ensure the biggest machine performance, ThinkPad W530 is equipped with a power of 170w adapter, its volume is equivalent to two T530 90w adapter.

In addition, the ThinkPad T530 and W530 adapter plug is also different, W530 and fuselage connection plug has two symmetrical internal bulge, its purpose is to distinguish the conventional adapter in order to protect non-matching machine is not damaged by overcurrent.

Another large part of the difference must be regarded as keyboard. ThinkPad T530 is not as equipped with a backlit keyboard as W530, and we can clearly see this point from the space bar, whether or not had a backlit keyboard, the keyboard light will be set at the top of screen. Before we review the biggest change of keyboard, you can try to get drivers from here: lenovo thinkpad t530 drivers.

Although change to an island type keyboard, like W530, ThinkPad T530 retained the traditional keyboard shortcuts, including Think Vantage key, Enter key, and Fn combination key print from blue to white, while the C face looks more concise, but became less marked. And on the keyboard keys, T530 and W530 also has a slight difference, compared to the appearance, T530 buttons is frosted surface texture, while W530 touch up to more smooth.

Another obvious difference is that the area where the right side of the touchpad, because T530 is not equipped with color correction device, to the right of the touchpad did not like the W530 has a module, as the rest of the keyboard area, there was no different.

ThinkPad T530 interface layout is completely the same with W530, it provides the 34 mm EC card slot, the all-in-one card reader, 12.5 mm DVD burner, RJ45, mini DP, VGA, USB 3.0 x 2, USB 2.0 x 2 (wherein rear yellow interface can charge off function, change to the left eSATA USB 2.0), 1394, SmartCard card slots.

ThinkPad T530 changed the standard DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort, so take up smaller space, perhaps due to start this year, Intel start to promote the Thunder Bolt. (Thunder Bolt interface has the same shape with Mini DisplayPort interfaces, easier to deploy in the future versatility.)

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