Dell Ling Yue 5280 Reviews | The first Intel all-Internet PC

Nowadays, under the tide of mobile Internet, in order to meet the needs of the times, the movement of traditional PCs has become an inevitable trend. For a portable laptop, we need not only light and long life and other characteristics, or that these ultra Extreme even many years ago, the Internet must have standard performance, has been difficult to meet today's laptop users.Recently, Dell released its Spirit series of new products - Ling Yue 12 5280, which is the industry's first Intel all-Internet PC .

This computer uses the current ultra-pole this popular host + keyboard split design, but also from the product name is not difficult to see that the spirit of 12 5280 screen size is 12.3 inches, which is 13-inch thin light notebook market It seems very maverick.

As a tablet laptop, the spirit of the 12 5280's weight is only 805g; Although compared to 12.9-inch iPad Pro heavy 128g, but we must know that this is an equipped with Intel Core, authentic PC running Windows 10 Products, sparrows are small, all-encompassing.On the parts, the more spiritual 12 5280 provides a keyboard base and active capacitive pressure-sensitive stylus, the same is the standard configuration of tablet products.

Earlier we mentioned that one of the reasons that the existing Ultrabooks do not meet the needs of the mobile Internet is the inconvenience of accessing the Internet.Although all the notebooks support WLAN, it is assumed that users need to be on the go or at Internet cafe, but found that the quality of public Wi-Fi is extremely poor, in these cases are extremely super-can not do a good job tasks, or even directly abolished.

There are many traditional laptop users on the Internet Tucao, which 'added connectivity to laptops LTE' very high voice. In the past, such an argument can be directly counted as brain damage - a computer to insert SIM card? Take a computer call? This is walking on the road may not be as silly X?

But if you think about it again, what are the most important features of contemporary smartphones that really make phone calls?

In the experience, Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 the most unique features - dual card full Netcom, really make us an eye-opener. Its SIM card slot is similar to the Android smartphone with or slot, you can insert two Nano SIM card, you can also insert a Nano SIM card and a TF card for storage expansion.

For two years, people have been calling the host + keyboard detachable touch screen laptop into a combo notebook, but when you really try the Spirit 12 5280, a product that can be connected anytime, anywhere, you will Understand, this is the real tablet + laptop combo products.It can complete the Tablet PC is good at mobile Internet tasks, but also connected to the keyboard base after the change, so that you summon division gorge a fierce battle.

By the way, Ling Yue 12 5280 is the industry's first 2-in-1 notebook that supports 4G LTE connectivity. This product represents a milestone in the history of laptops for cross-border integration of traditional PCs and mobile devices.

Having said important features, we again from the perspective of evaluating a laptop, re-examine the spiritual 12,580, which includes workmanship, screen look and feel, performance life and so on many aspects of the experience .After all we need is a rely on a Spectrum combo, rather than just unique in function, daily use but stuttering tasteless products.

Ling Yue 12 5280 uses a full magnesium alloy body, the case after anodized color and sandblasting, showing a good matte feel, but the flip bracket and the rest of the body shell of the sand there are subtle differences, so flip Bracket part of the feel to be more delicate some of the holes in the Ling Yue 12 5280 flip bracket near the axis of rotation, we guess these are the antenna where it is LTE connection.

Connected to the keyboard base, the more spiritual 12 5280 turned into a laptop, its flip bracket is responsible for supporting the fuselage, can provide 0 ~ 125 ° flip angle.The random supplied base of the base with velvet package, though not as good Surface Laptop Alcantara skin-friendly, but the latter's cost is fundamentally unstoppable.Lingu 12 5280 keyboard base magnetically connected to the host, the suction quite sharp, you can even hold the base with your hand hanging It seems that at home using computers do not have to worry about the bear child hit it gently smashed the host.

Keyboard and touchpad feel is good, although the 1.4mm key process knocked a long time will feel feedback weakness, but as portable to go out to cope with the task is absolutely enough; in the touchpad gestures, the more spiritual 12 5280 Finger touch 'touch includes pop-up right-click menu, the ratio of two fingers open and close the zoom interface, scrolling up and down and scrolling left and right;' Three Finger Zen 'touch contains sliding up to open the multi-tasking interface, sliding back to the desktop quickly Back to app), swipe left and right to quickly flip backstage applications, and 'Four-Finger Zen' includes the ability to swipe left and right to switch virtual desktops.

In addition, the Ling Yue 12 5280 keyboard base also provides a drawstring, out of the pen can be directly linked to the machine on the back of the body slightly concave camera to avoid violence when you move the table on the computer Camera scratches the details of these designs all reflect the Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 as manufacturers rely on.

Spirit of the more 12 5280 (including the base)
Cherry MX Board 6.0

Connected to the base of the keyboard 'complete Spirit of the more 12 5280' is not heavy, after our measurement, it weighs only 1.1Kg, even a Cherry MX Board 6.0 are heavier than such a computer in the bag carrying , May not be as good as a dictionary existence.

Screen, the more spiritual 12 5280 with 12.3-inch IPS panel, aspect ratio 3: 2, resolution of 1920 * 1280, the color can also meet the 100% sRGB color gamut and 72% of the NTSC color gamut. Experience we found , The screen is slightly greenish in terms of white balance and hue, and you need to calibrate the screen if you want to use it to finish the post-production work etc. As for the maximum brightness of 400nit ... Do you think you should not open it when you go to the cafe? Good, so scolded.

As equipped with a TDP only 4.5W Core i7-7Y75 processor, Ling Yue 12 5280 will naturally become a fan of noise-free notebook 0. To say i7-7Y75 this u origins of the U, in fact, it is Core m7-6Y75 Sequel, with dual-core four-thread and 4MB L3 cache; Intel found Kaby Lake toothpaste squeeze more, 7Y75 called m7 again is not enough identity, so it directly promoted to the i7 family of products.It should be noted that, Although its Core frequency can directly soared to 3.6GHz, but due to fanless CPU cooling design is slow, i7-7Y75 Turbo is not stable, in essence, is still the highest-performance m-class processor.

In high performance mode, we ran GeekBench 4, which benchmarked Benchmark CPU performance for Spirit 12 5280, which achieved a single-core score of 4,168 at 4,164 / multicore, approaching the previous generation's low-voltage i5-6287U.

Other configuration parameters, 8GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory enough to meet the daily tasks, as a tablet laptop, Ling Yue 12 5280 motherboard is also difficult to eat higher memory specifications.Hardware, it is equipped with 256GB of Micron 1100 Series SSD, we run a crystal read and write speed test, the results are as follows:

The overall performance of the platform is limited circumstances, this piece of Micron 1100 ran Seq read and write results were 515.1MB / s and 497.5MB / s, is quite good.We also tested the new machine for the Spirit 12 5280 boot Time, come to 12.5 seconds results.If you consider from the perspective of the tablet, this is a beast of performance; and as a thin laptop, this performance will not delay.

All in all, Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 belongs to a flagship business users Tablet PC Combo office products, with easy to deal with the daily Web, documents, pictures and other tasks performance, near the limit of portability and decent workmanship and details; With Intel Modem's support, dual SIM full network connectivity 4G LTE connectivity is its most special feature point.Although only with two USB Type-C interface and a 3.5mm headphone jack does not seem rich, but overall This seems to be its only weakness.

Now is the 4G step by step into the '4.5G era' of 5G, the concept of Internet of Things is always on the rise, and with the epicenter of the Spirit of 12 5280, Dell has become the driver of 4G LTE laptop Perhaps one day, all the notebooks in the market will have a SIM card slot, and the combo will actually deliver all of its usefulness.

Finally, two suggestions to buy it, for business travelers who travel frequently, the campus network environment is not good or even there is no wireless network of student parties, and the urgent need for a thin and light notebook products to meet the working efficiency of debris time users, The more 12 5280 is a very good choice. The price of 6,299 yuan in the absolute largest product in the plant can be considered close to the people, no matter from the design, workmanship or performance experience point of view, this product is very impressive price / performance.


Nowadays, under the tide of mobile Internet, in order to meet the needs of the times, the movement of traditional PCs has become an inevitable trend. For a portable laptop, we need not only light and long life and other characteristics, or that these ultra Extreme even many years ago, the Internet must have standard performance, has been difficult to meet today's laptop users.Recently, Dell released its Spirit series of new products - Ling Yue 12 5280, which is the industry's first Intel all-Internet PC .

This computer uses the current ultra-pole this popular host + keyboard split design, but also from the product name is not difficult to see that the spirit of 12 5280 screen size is 12.3 inches, which is 13-inch thin light notebook market It seems very maverick.

As a tablet laptop, the spirit of the 12 5280's weight is only 805g; Although compared to 12.9-inch iPad Pro heavy 128g, but we must know that this is an equipped with Intel Core, authentic PC running Windows 10 Products, sparrows are small, all-encompassing.On the parts, the more spiritual 12 5280 provides a keyboard base and active capacitive pressure-sensitive stylus, the same is the standard configuration of tablet products.

Earlier we mentioned that one of the reasons that the existing Ultrabooks do not meet the needs of the mobile Internet is the inconvenience of accessing the Internet.Although all the notebooks support WLAN, it is assumed that users need to be on the go or at Internet cafe, but found that the quality of public Wi-Fi is extremely poor, in these cases are extremely super-can not do a good job tasks, or even directly abolished.

There are many traditional laptop users on the Internet Tucao, which 'added connectivity to laptops LTE' very high voice. In the past, such an argument can be directly counted as brain damage - a computer to insert SIM card? Take a computer call? This is walking on the road may not be as silly X?

But if you think about it again, what are the most important features of contemporary smartphones that really make phone calls?

In the experience, Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 the most unique features - dual card full Netcom, really make us an eye-opener. Its SIM card slot is similar to the Android smartphone with or slot, you can insert two Nano SIM card, you can also insert a Nano SIM card and a TF card for storage expansion.

For two years now, people have been calling the host + keyboard detachable touchscreen laptop as a 2-in-1 notebook, but when you really try the Spirit 12 5280, a product that can be connected anytime, anywhere, you will Understand, this is the real tablet + laptop combo products.It can complete the Tablet PC is good at mobile Internet tasks, but also connected to the keyboard base after the change, so that you summon division gorge a fierce battle.

By the way, Ling Yue 12 5280 is the industry's first 2-in-1 notebook that supports 4G LTE connectivity. This product represents a milestone in the history of laptops for cross-border integration of traditional PCs and mobile devices.

Having said important features, we again from the perspective of evaluating a laptop, re-examine the spiritual 12,580, which includes workmanship, screen look and feel, performance life and so on many aspects of the experience .After all we need is a rely on a Spectrum combo, rather than just unique in function, daily use but stuttering tasteless products.

Ling Yue 12 5280 uses a full magnesium alloy body, the case after anodized color and sandblasting, showing a good matte feel, but the flip bracket and the rest of the body shell of the sand there are subtle differences, so flip Bracket part of the feel to be more delicate some of the holes in the Ling Yue 12 5280 flip bracket near the axis of rotation, we guess these are the antenna where it is LTE connection.

Connected to the keyboard base, the more spiritual 12 5280 turned into a laptop, its flip bracket is responsible for supporting the fuselage, can provide 0 ~ 125 ° flip angle.The random attached base with velvet envelope, not as good as Surface Laptop Alcantara skin-friendly, but the latter's cost is fundamentally unstoppable.Lingu 12 5280 keyboard base magnetically connected to the host, the suction quite sharp, you can even hold the base with your hand hanging It seems that at home using computers do not have to worry about the bear child hit it gently smashed the host.

Keyboard and touchpad feel is good, although the 1.4mm key process knocked a long time will feel feedback weakness, but as portable to go out to cope with the task is absolutely enough; in the touchpad gestures, the more spiritual 12 5280 Finger touch 'touch includes pop-up right-click menu, the ratio of two fingers open and close the zoom interface, scrolling up and down and scrolling left and right;' Three Finger Zen 'touch contains sliding up to open the multi-tasking interface, sliding back to the desktop quickly Back to app), swipe left and right to quickly flip backstage applications, and 'Four-Finger Zen' includes the ability to swipe left and right to switch virtual desktops.

In addition, the Ling Yue 12 5280 keyboard base also provides a drawstring, out of the pen can be directly linked to the machine on the back of the body slightly concave camera to avoid violence when you move the table on the computer Camera scratches the details of these designs all reflect the Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 as manufacturers rely on.

Spirit of the more 12 5280 (including the base)
Cherry MX Board 6.0

Connected to the base of the keyboard 'complete Spirit of the more 12 5280' is not heavy, after our measurement, it weighs only 1.1Kg, even a Cherry MX Board 6.0 are heavier than such a computer in the bag carrying , May not be as good as a dictionary existence.

Screen, the more spiritual 12 5280 with 12.3-inch IPS panel, aspect ratio 3: 2, resolution of 1920 * 1280, the color can also meet the 100% sRGB color gamut and 72% of the NTSC color gamut. Experience we found , The screen is slightly greenish in terms of white balance and hue, and you need to calibrate the screen if you want to use it to finish the post-production work etc. As for the maximum brightness of 400nit ... Do you think you should not open it when you go to the cafe? Good, so scolded.

As equipped with a TDP only 4.5W Core i7-7Y75 processor, Ling Yue 12 5280 will naturally become a fan of noise-free notebook 0. To say i7-7Y75 this u origins of the U, in fact, it is Core m7-6Y75 Sequel, with dual-core four-thread and 4MB L3 cache; Intel found Kaby Lake toothpaste squeeze more, 7Y75 called m7 again is not enough identity, so it directly promoted to the i7 family of products.It should be noted that, Although its Core frequency can directly soared to 3.6GHz, but due to fanless CPU cooling design is slow, i7-7Y75 Turbo is not stable, in essence, is still the highest-performance m-class processor.

In high performance mode, we ran GeekBench 4, which benchmarked Benchmark CPU performance for Spirit 12 5280, which achieved a single-core score of 4,168 at 4,164 / multicore, approaching the previous generation's low-voltage i5-6287U.

Other configuration parameters, 8GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory to meet the daily tasks enough, as a tablet laptop, Ling Yue 12 5280 motherboard is also difficult to eat higher memory specifications.Hardware, it is equipped with 256GB of Micron 1100 Series SSD, we run a crystal read and write speed test, the result is as follows:

The overall performance of the platform is limited circumstances, this piece of Micron 1100 ran Seq read and write results were 515.1MB / s and 497.5MB / s, is quite good.We also tested the new machine for the Spirit 12 5280 boot Time, come to 12.5 seconds results.If you consider from the perspective of the tablet, this is a beast of performance; and as a thin laptop, this performance will not delay.

All in all, Dell Ling Yue 12 5280 belongs to a flagship business users Tablet PC Combo office products, with easy to deal with the daily Web, documents, pictures and other tasks performance, near the limit of portability and decent workmanship and details; With Intel Modem's support, dual SIM full network connectivity 4G LTE connectivity is its most special feature point.Although only with two USB Type-C interface and a 3.5mm headphone jack does not seem rich, but overall This seems to be its only weakness.

Now is the 4G step by step into the '4.5G era' of 5G, the concept of Internet of Things is always on the rise, and with the epicenter of the Spirit of 12 5280, Dell has become the driver of 4G LTE laptop Perhaps one day, all the notebooks in the market will have a SIM card slot, and the combo will actually deliver all of its usefulness.

Finally, two suggestions to buy it, for business travelers who travel frequently, the campus network environment is not good or even there is no wireless network of student parties, and the urgent need for a thin and light notebook products to meet the working efficiency of debris time users, The more 12 5280 is a very good choice. The price of 6,299 yuan in the absolute largest product in the plant can be considered close to the people, no matter from the design, workmanship or performance experience point of view, this product is very impressive price / performance.

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