Article introduction

The original text is in Chinese, and it was translated by Google.Please understand that there are some unsatisfactory words!The original text can be viewed at https://www.song1118.com.

The previous article contains nearly 70 pictures with more than 4,000 words. It is divided into the following chapters:

• Breach of agreement

• Calm down

• Qi and Spirit

• Break up

• Undecided

Breach of agreement

The main computer that I have used daily for many years has been a heavyweight performance notebook for three reasons:

First: It is more energy-efficient than desktop computers, and takes up less space;

Second: Even if there is no uninterruptible power supply, you are not afraid of data loss caused by sudden power failure;

Third: Convenient to carry and can be moved for operation;

Therefore, more than ten years ago, the author had carried a 17-inch and a 15-inch laptop on his back many times, and he was happy and even thought it was a person who strengthened his body and practised martial arts.

With the development of time, technological progress, and the author’s work content has also changed, the current status is adjusted to:

In fixed places, heavyweight performance laptops are still used, but when going out, they use spare thin and light laptops.

However, current mainstream thin and light notebook computers often have some shortcomings compared with heavyweight performance notebooks, mainly due to their relatively low performance and a small number of built-in hard drives.

In this regard, I have looked for new solutions, such as a very geek-oriented, deeply customized based on ThinkPad X201, 51nb X210.

In addition to the customized version of the notebook for the comparison of geeks, the mechanical revolution Code 01 that was launched in the past year (June 2020) is also considered. The mechanical revolution Code 01 uses the same mold of its own Umi Air, with a 15.6-inch magnesium alloy body. The weight is 1.47kg and the thickness is only 16.8mm, which is light and thin enough;

The processor is equipped with AMD R7 standard version, 8 cores 16 threads, integrated VEGA core graphics card is said to have stronger performance than the MX250 alone, which is enough performance;

In other respects, dual fans, dual heat pipes, dual memory slots, 91wh batteries, this configuration is good.

However, in terms of storage, it only has one M.2 SSD slot...

Although the initial price of R5-4600H/8G/512GB is 4299 yuan, and the initial price of R7-4800H/16G/512GB is 4899 yuan, the price is indeed very attractive, but the storage cannot satisfy the author's attempt, so I gave up decisively.

As time comes to the present, the mechanical revolution has launched a new generation of Code 10. The author has a look:

Switch to the Intel 11th generation Core standard processor, switch to a 16-inch 16:10 screen, especially with two M.2 SSD slots-good! very good! That's it!

Therefore, the author violated the "self-agreement" that I said that I would not buy any laptops in December of this year, and made an appointment and payment on JD.com, and then waited for the good news of express delivery.

Calm down

I placed an order for payment on November 27, but the delivery was delayed. The author is calm. After all, as the first product of the mechanical revolution, it takes time to get it. The author has long been rumored.

Half a month later, on the eve of Double 12-on the afternoon of December 11, JD Express arrived. 

The author began to unpack the box on the second day: under the very thin and fragile JD logistics outer box, it is the origin of the mechanical revolution. The factory has a brown-yellow outer box with a black bold English MECHREV and logo in the center. There is only a warning symbol for the built-in lithium battery of UN3481 in the lower left corner. Why it says "only", you can find out below.

There are product-related information on the upper side of the outer box:

Product model: Mechanical Revolution Code 10-7CC6U

Model code: i7-11800H----This is actually the model of the CPU used;

Production date: November 16, 2021-11 days earlier than the author's order date, and it will reach the end user one month later.

The color is Turing Grey... Turing Grey? I only know that Turing is the father of computer science and that there is a city called Munich, but I have never heard of Turing Ash. However, the Code series of mechanical revolution is known as the programmer's book, and it is also regarded as a kind of tribute to Turing, the father of computer science, and it is acceptable: one day, will there be "Turing red"?

On the other side of the outer box, there are detailed manufacturer information, implementation standards, outer box dimensions, and transportation safety tips. It is very standardized and the style is worth maintaining.

As a CCC Class A product sold in China, laptops are indispensable for China Energy Label (CHINA ENERGY LABEL). The first-level energy consumption is marked on the laptop, with a typical energy consumption (kWh) value of 31.2.

The official seal on the top of the outer box proves that the original seal has not been opened.

Open the outer box, and there is an inner box of the same material and color:

One side of the inner box is decorated with an abstract drawing of a printed circuit board. From the author's personal point of view, the effect should be better if the inner box is directly used as the outer box.

Open the inner box, and finally you can see Code 10 under the protection of white foam.

The cardboard-isolated space on the side of the host, as well as the power supply and the power cord, are both packaged in a very thin transparent plastic bag, which gives a sense of strict cost control, but there is no blame for safety.

On the contrary, the plastic bag storing the paper packing list, M.2 SSD heat sink, matching silicone grease pad and locking screw, but the materials used are normal.

This paper packing list is also a computer warranty certificate. The combination of the two is environmentally friendly and convenient. Why not?

The power supply is produced by FSP, the model is FSP090-DBBN3, the external input is 100 to 240 volts AC adaptive, and it provides 19 volts 4.74 amps of DC output, and the power is 90 watts.

The slim style continues to spread to the transparent plastic bag packaging the Code 10 host, and this plastic bag does not have an additional seal or paste design, just unfold it directly.

Qi and Spirit

Qi and spirit refer to people who are angry and spiritual.

After taking out the Code 10 body from the plastic bag lazily packed like a temporary worker, I finally saw Turing Grey.

The upper cover of Code 10 is very flat with rounded corners. According to official information, its material is "aerospace grade magnesium-aluminum alloy", and the official term for the color of the body is "grey with a high sense of luxury, low-key and steady."

But I feel that the CODE logo nameplate on the side of the screen cover, subtly replacing the letter "O" with the image logo of the mechanical revolution, is the real "high luxury and low-key".

The body size of Code 10 is 355mm x 246.5mm x 17.8mm, which is less than 18mm thick, which is very thin for current conventional 16-inch laptops.

In the center of the front of the base of the fuselage, there is a groove for opening the upper cover of the screen;

Compared with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 with a thickness of 8.3 mm, the front side will not look very thin.

The Code 10 body adopts an indented wedge-shaped design on the left and right sides and under the front.

The ports on the left side of the fuselage of Code 10, from left to right are:

Power indicator and power interface;

Two Thunderbolt 4 ports: This is one of the important reasons why I decided to buy Code 10, compatible with USB-C, supporting DP and PD;

HDMI port:

Audio jack: 3.5 mm, composite input and output;

The ports on the right side of the body of Code 10, from left to right are:

Two USB-A 3.1 ports;

Power button: Integrated fingerprint recognition function, and supports direct fingerprint recognition by pressing the button when cold boot, without fingerprint recognition in the Windows login interface, which surprised the author, I like it!

According to official information, on the right side of the fuselage, some models can also be equipped with an SD card reader.

Code 10 has no ports on the back of the fuselage. The main reason is that it uses a sunken penetrating screen shaft.

From this perspective, the author thinks that Code 10's fuselage has strong lines and good texture.

The texture of the bottom of the Code 10 fuselage is also good. Although the wedge-shaped design makes the surrounding oblique indentation unsharp, the overall layout is symmetrical and bright, making it feel very serious.

The most eye-catching thing at the bottom is the nameplate on the left. It adopts a magnetic design to ensure that it is not easy to fall and the user can easily remove it. After removing it, you can see the label of this Code 10 related information, and the above is blank. There is enough space for users to leave their signatures. Although users can play freely here, there is not enough space to put an emergency banknote.

At the bottom of the fuselage, there is a long rubber foot pad at the front and rear. Near the rear is the entire heat dissipation grille, and near the front, there is a speaker grill on the left and right.

On the right side of the bottom, close to the cooling air intake grille, there is an emergency reset jack for downtime at the place marked by the yellow box.

If you look closely, you can clearly see a yellow-red cable inside the fuselage from the left of the bottom cooling air intake grille, which shows that the official does not care much about such details.

But in another detail, the author thinks that the official has done a good job: open the top cover of the screen and place a protective non-woven fabric between the keyboard and the screen, with warm reminders and words of thanks for new users printed on it --- -This is very good, the added cost is basically zero, and the feeling it brings is absolutely positive.

After Code 10 unfolded the screen cover, it suddenly made the author dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, as if returning to the era when the IBM ThinkPad laptop was king-4:3 narrow screen border?

Of course, this is an illusion, Code 10 is a 16:10 screen.

But the narrow border is undeniable, the specific values are not listed, just look at the picture: the left and right sides are very narrow, the top and bottom are slightly wider, and the camera placed above can only be a pinhole design, and the infrared camera is also abandoned. , Thus does not support Widnows face recognition function.

At the same time, the unfolding angle of the Code 10 screen can reach 165 degrees. Although it has not achieved 180 degrees, it is much better than most laptops with an unfolding angle of 135 degrees.

The C side of Code 10 also uses magnesium-aluminum alloy, a 6-row 84-key keyboard, and a huge touchpad in the center.

The huge touchpad is densely covered with various labels. From the labels, it can be seen that this is a multifunctional touchpad that supports switching to a numeric keypad and can also adjust the brightness and volume. The specific usage will be tested after the boot.

The Fn function combination keys of the 6-row 84 keyboard are relatively complete, such as Fn+Esc to disable the touchpad, Fn+F5 to control the camera, and even an independent Bluetooth switch Fn + F5.

The Del button commonly used by programmers is in the upper right corner. At the same time, the four buttons Home, PgUp, PgDn, and End are arranged vertically on the far right side. The four direction buttons are also standard sizes, which bring very good results. The keyboard is easy to operate.

The fly in the ointment is that as a 16-inch model, there is no independent numeric keypad. At the same time, the right Shift button is grabbed by the arrow keys, and it takes some time for users to adapt.

The code 10 keyboard has a decent keystroke of 1.4 mm, but I think the key feed is soft, and the sound is as if beating a blow. When using it, I can’t help but imagine: Can this be replaced by the ThinkPad W520 keyboard? ...

Fantasy belongs to fantasy. For the real Code 10, I think its appearance is excellent, especially its 16-inch 16:10 screen with a narrow bezel design and a huge touchpad. The viewing angle effect is really impressive. profound.

The size and weight are also very well controlled, and the unfolding angle of the screen can be close to 180 degrees, which more satisfies the needs of most programmers.

In this way, for programmers, Code 10 seems to be a machine full of life and spirituality...

For the author, who is not a programmer, I also feel that the performance is worth looking forward to!

However, before the official start of the actual test, we will first disassemble the machine to check its internal structure, and see how it is different from the previous generation Code 01 based on the AMD platform, and how Code 10 has evolved.

Break up

It can be said that Code 10 is the best disassembly and assembly model in the author's 2021 history.

The reason is simple. It is locked by a total of 12 screws 10 short and 2 long at the bottom. There is no easy-to-disassemble and easy-to-install tenons, no strange double-sided tape, and no official anti-dismantling stickers with bad intentions.

After removing the 12 screws, use your thumbs and fingernails to easily cut the connection between the fuselage and the bottom cover from the side of the fuselage, and then remove the bottom cover.

The inside of the bottom cover is very simple. There is no complicated mechanism except the metal dust-proof net corresponding to the heat dissipation grille. As for the material, because the official only advertised that the A and C sides are made of "aviation-grade magnesium-aluminum alloy", it is naturally considered Most people think it is low-grade and cheap plastics-of course, I don't think all plastics are cheap and low-grade.

Inside the bottom cover, a strong magnet is fixed with black tape. This is the key component to realize the bottom magnetic nameplate. It is simple and crude, high in quality and low in price, and completely effective.

The bottom of Code 10 after removing the bottom cover, this is the official promotion of "details are everywhere, and the internal structure is completely black."

What are the details of the yellow and red cables that can be seen through the bottom mentioned above?

The white cable on the left and the brass in the lower left corner. Did you forget the blackening?

The yellow-red cable that can be seen through is used by the cooling fan on the left;

Forget about the blackened white cable on the left, it is used by the small circuit board connected to the USB-A port on the right side of the fuselage.

The right side fan with dual heat pipes and dual fans uses a cable that is not in a more conspicuous color, so the above cannot be seen when viewed from the outside of the fuselage.

There is no label on the left fan, and the right fan has a label with JORAY DV 5V 05 A BF060A05P on it.

According to the search of BF060A05P, I found the same JZR fan used in Acer laptop.

It can be seen that the two fans on the Code 10 use the same model, but when installing, one is for the back installation and the other is for the front installation. As for why Code 10 is JORAY and Acer laptop is JZR, I don’t know. Anyway, they are all MIC...

Having said that, Intel's 11th-generation Core CPU with standard pressure only has a centralized display, plus dual heat pipes and dual fans. The performance of Code 10 is worth looking forward to.

In addition to dual heat pipes and dual fans, Code 10 also has dual memory slots - and, from the strange L-shaped layout of the previous generation Code 01, it has been changed to a common and pleasing side-by-side layout.

Below the memory slot on the right is the second empty M.2 2280 SSD slot.

Dated stickers can be seen in many places inside the fuselage. Three of them can be seen in this picture. They are on the memory module, motherboard and battery, all in November 2021.

The main M.2 2280 SSD installation location of Code 10 is in the lower right corner of the bottom of the fuselage, at the battery and speaker In between, it is covered by a brass-colored heat sink. You need to loosen the two fixing screws to remove the heat sink before you can take it off.

After the main hard disk is removed, all four fixing screws of the battery can be removed, and the built-in battery of Code 10 can be removed.

The built-in battery of Code 10 is a 3-cell lithium-ion battery, produced by Dongguan Ganfeng Electronics, the model is SSBS81, the rated capacity is 6065mAh*11.55V=70Wh, and the charging voltage is 13.2V.

There is a dedicated CODE logo on the upper left corner of the front of the battery, which is exclusive to Code 10.

The back is almost entirely black, which can be described as the best part of the machine for blackening, and there is no safety certification mark on the whole body.

After the built-in battery is removed, the memory of Code 10 can also be removed.

Two 16GB DDR4 3200 memory, the brand is Crucial under Micron (Micron).

The factory-installed M.2 SSD is 1TB Samsung PM9A1 ---- about this point, the official product even directly marked it on the product sales page. It can be seen that this can also be a selling point. It can be seen that you dare to meet frankly.

A view of the inside of the bottom of Code 10 with the built-in battery removed.

It can be seen that the center of the battery compartment is the installation space for the touchpad, and some areas are filled with black foam strips to ensure the stability of the battery. The bottom area of the battery compartment is equivalent to the C surface, and some areas are designed with honeycomb ribs to enhance the strength of the C surface.

There are many interfaces on the edge of the motherboard near the battery compartment, from right to left, as follows:

CN2----Battery interface;

CN10----Keyboard cable interface;

CN41----It is an empty pad. According to the above, the author speculates that it may be an SD card reader cable interface;

CN9----Touch version cable interface;

Unknown number ---- It should be the keyboard backlight interface;

In the end, there is only one vacant interface on the far right side, near the wireless network card, marked as CN4...

After watching for a long time, I found a Winbond eight-pin chip that was suspected to store BIOS nearby, and concluded that it was an interface for the motherboard’s BIOS battery.

However, why is it not connected to the common CR2032 lithium manganese battery?

After this question was sent, an unofficial reply was received: "This machine is just like that. Now notebooks have built-in batteries. There is no need to add a button battery."

In this way, it seems that Code 10 not only created the first standard-voltage intel set display notebook, but also created the first notebook without a motherboard battery?

Therefore, the above-mentioned code 10 outer box, only the built-in lithium battery warning sign of UN3481 product----but not the built-in lithium metal battery warning sign of UN3091 product, it has been echoed before and after. 

As for whether the laptop motherboard battery is really "unnecessary", I will talk about it later, let's take a look at other details inside Code 10.

The ports and buttons on the right side of the fuselage use independent small circuit boards, which are connected to the main board through three cables, as shown in the following figure from left to right:

Power button cable;

The cable of the fingerprint reader integrated on the power button—Because some models do not have a fingerprint reader, the independent cable design is used, which is flexible;

The data of the USB-A port and the power supply cable of the entire small circuit board;

In addition, if it is a model with an SD card reader, based on what I know and see, the entire small circuit board needs to be replaced.

On the left side of the fuselage, there are the dual Thunderbolt 4 ports and the HDMI port. Because these two Thunderbolt 4 ports are relatively far away from the CPU installation location, I am a little worried about whether these two Thunderbolt 4 are directly connected to the CPU. However, The actual test can be finalized after booting.

In addition, on the left side of the mainboard of the fuselage (equivalent to the right side viewed from the bottom), the author also found a second suspicious point-there is a 24-pin vacant pad, and there is a motherboard near the edge of the fuselage. The square gap-this space, this location, it seems too suitable for the Ethernet card chip and RJ45 port. Could it be that Code 10 originally designed a built-in Ethernet card, and then it was castrated?

In order not to affect the heat dissipation effect of the original factory, the author of the dismantling of Code 10 ends here.

The author has watched carefully and continues to disassemble Code 10, as long as the upper cover of the screen is not operated, the whole disassembly process is very easy.

Undecided

First explain a problem:

Code 10 is the second generation of the Code series of mechanical revolution. The first generation is called Code 01. Readers who are not computer professionals may ask why the first generation is called 01, and the second generation is called 10 instead of 02.

Because the first generation is called "01", it is not only 1, but also represents the creation of a new type of laptop from 0 to 1, and also represents the 0 and 1 of the computer binary code;

Therefore, the second-generation "10" should not be read as "ten", but as "one zero". It is because this "10" is binary, which is equal to the decimal "2".

Of course, from 01 to 10, it is not ruled out that there is another meaning: the first generation uses the AMD platform, and the second generation uses the intel platform, which is a huge upgrade-just like the next generation of Huawei Mate 10. Mate 20 is not called Mate 11, and the next generation of Samsung Note 10 is called Note 20 instead of Note 11.

I really hate this meaning!

In any case, since the birth of Code 01 last year, the mechanical revolution has set up the banner of ultimate productivity and programmers!

And now, Code 10 is armed with a brand-new body armor, holding a brand-new platform sword, implementing a facelift with a 16-inch 16:10 screen, and using a cheap special effect magic that starts at RMB 7,000. Blessing:

Under such circumstances, what about the actual appearance, combat power, endurance, and anti-strike ability of Code 10, which is the author's preset battlefield?

The banner has been set, but hesitate...

Please see " The Ultimate Productivity Programmer's Notebook MECHREVO Code 10 Review Part 2"

Stay tuned!