In order to ensure that the sales of the two products will not interfere with each other, Chen Zifan once again thought of Lenovo's Savior Y900 when it was mentioned. It was known as "the tablet with the best screen in the Android camp" when it was first launched.
But the price is 4999...
It still starts with 8GB of storage.
At that time, many people thought there was no problem. Samsung's 14-inch or above tablets were almost selling for 10,000, and Lenovo was selling them for 4,999. Isn't it very cost-effective?
But the reality is:
At the price of 4,999, there is also a Lenovo Xiaoxin notebook to choose from. It also has a 14-inch screen and has the same high score and handsomeness. The IPS screen is much more eye-friendly than the OLED screen. The most important thing is that it is equipped with windows.
Why should the Savior Y900 compete with Xiaoxin?
Just because it is more cost-effective than Samsung?
Are you kidding me?
You must know that the sales volume of Samsung's 14-inch or above tablet computers is very average. If they want to make similar products, unless the price can be so low that they are completely different from their own laptops, everything will be in vain.
Samsung also makes laptops, but their laptops often cost 10,000+, and some cost 20,000+. This completely misses the price range.
Therefore, Chen Zifan has reason to suspect that Lenovo does not have the same group of people who make products and do market research and pricing. Otherwise, why would it produce various failed operations every time? Or maybe hunger marketing never sells...
good!
If you don’t sell, consumers won’t wait.
Although Chen Zifan is not a fan of Lenovo, he has to thank Lenovo for providing him with a lot of failed experiences. Of course, every company must have several excellent products and its own fans.
Stardust Technology will also have certain advantages if it wants to enter the laptop market. Laptops these days are basically bulky and bulky. If it seizes the opportunity to make an "ultimate thin and light notebook", it may be able to turn around in one fell swoop.
With excellent thin and light notebook designs such as LG Gram and Dell XPS as templates, plus Stardust Technology's usual design elements, as well as various alloys of Stardust's leading materials... the product is not good even if it is not excellent.
The excellence here only refers to the excellence in appearance and configuration for the time being. Even if there is no product yet, you can still predict the level of its workmanship and quality control. For example, some basic configurations:
Screen, battery, fast charging…
Laptops priced at 5,000 to 7,000 are already very expensive these days, unlike in 2022 when laptops priced at 10,000 yuan are everywhere, and there are also high-end brands with religious blessings such as Alienware and ROG.
Therefore, you can rest assured in terms of materials and configuration, including fast charging, which may be as fast as 60 to 100W. The only thing that troubles Chen Zifan is what material should be used for the screen of the Stardust notebook.
Similar to IPS screens, Star Vision can also be made, but Chen Zifan will still consider choosing OLED screens first. IPS light leakage is one reason, and more importantly, OLED screens have really good display effects.
Bright and transparent, dark and pure.
It can also be made very thin.
The disadvantage is that the service life is not that long, and there are problems such as stroboscopic flicker. It will not be friendly to users who are sensitive to stroboscopic flicker. Star Vision has also improved on this shortcoming, and has launched several eye protection solutions.
DC-like dimming, high-frequency dimming…
Chen Zifan prefers high-frequency dimming, because the DC-like dimming on the OLED screen will cause a serious color cast on the screen. High-frequency dimming is much better, but high-frequency dimming actually has shortcomings.
Under high brightness conditions, the screen may "flicker" and switch back and forth between the two color styles. Although the two color styles are very similar, as long as your eyes are fine, you can definitely see the difference.
But it is definitely stronger than DC-like dimming.
Next year's Stardust 4, Stardust 4+, and Stardust-Amazon will all use new high-frequency dimming screens.
In order to avoid "flickering" under high-brightness conditions, the factory-preset limit brightness will definitely be slightly lowered. Probably 50 to 100 nits lower will be fine. Even so, the screen brightness of Star Vision will still be the same. It is the industry benchmark level.
Chen Zifan is very confident in this.
It stands to reason that a laptop screen brightness of around 300nit is sufficient, and the screen brightness of a Stardust laptop will definitely start at 500nit.
It can not only create a "good-at-a-glance" feeling of the screen, but also create anxiety for consumers, making many consumers who use less than 500nit brightness think of switching to another one. However, there are indeed some people who need such a high brightness. You can't kill him with a stick.
In terms of keyboard layout, Chen Zifan will also arrange a relatively "new" style, which is also derived from the standard keyboard. Major computer manufacturers also play this way, hoping to add some elements of their own.
In order to create a "high-end feel", single-button white light must also be arranged. Forget about RGB. If you use RGB on a thin and light notebook, you may really not want to sell it...
It makes sense to pair it with a gaming laptop.
Chen Zifan himself made some product design drawings for the Stardust notebook, and then asked Zhao Wushang to arrange the establishment of a new project team, and then let designers and engineers connect to start designing and developing new products.
Regarding the CPU of the Stardust notebook, it will be designed by engineers from Changhe Engineering. After all, it is equipped with Stardust OS, and there is no need to change the production architecture. It is a bit like an "enlarged" mobile phone CPU.
However, the specifics are definitely different.
The 28nm process uses Changhe Engineering's unique stacking technology. Chen Zifan is really curious about what the final product will look like, but the work on the graphics card will have to wait for a while, and this requires a new architecture.
[Stardust Technology] does have a GPU architecture that was previously developed by [Analysis of Shanzhai] and [Synthetic Creation]. However, the requirements for nanometer process technology are relatively high. If it can have 20 nanometers or 14 nanometers...
Then there will be no problem.
This is the first time that Chen Zifan has seen an architecture that takes into account theoretical computing power, execution efficiency, and flexibility at the same time. It can be said that it takes into account the advantages of both A and N cards, while eliminating their shortcomings.
For example, the power consumption is too high...
The hardware configuration is not enough. The PC version of Stardust OS must keep up. The programmers at Stardust Network headquarters are also working hard. However, Chen Zifan has no idea of going to Stardust Network. The programmers there are a bit too crazy. Going to work one by one is like risking your life.
After get off work, that's another story.
Work hard at work and have fun after get off work.
The timing was very good.
Over at Stardust Games, Chen Zifan made a phone call to An He. Since he experienced the joy of being a "capitalist", except for some of the more difficult things, An He would personally lead people to do the rest.
Simply much happier than before.
But she is a little unhappy now:
"What? PC data interoperability?"
"Isn't this a life-threatening situation?"
PS: More updates will be added tomorrow, lots more.
(End of chapter)
