联想 聯想 Lenovo Thinkpad Helix

by Ching-Wan Yip


Last Updated: June 13, 2013 2:28 PM

First published: March 28, 2013

release date: April 16, 2013

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-helix/

http://blog.lenovo.com/products/thinkpad-helix-rip-and-flip-premium-convertible

others

Doc

datasheet (tech spec) - http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-helix/thinkpad-helix-datasheet.pdf

http://lenovo.com/psref/

HMM

2013/01/08

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/helix_hmm_en_0c10337.pdf

Service Training

http://service.lenovo.partner-management.com/content/CourseWarePublic/18124/player.html

UG

2012/12, 2013/03/25

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/helix_ug_en.pdf

System service parts

no Self-service CRUs or Optional-service CRUs other than Tablet Digitizer Pen

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?DocID=PD026781

keyboard dock

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?DocID=PD026782

 

Forums

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/bd-p/X_Series_Tablet_ThinkPads

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/When-is-the-Helix-release-date/td-p/1047985/page/35

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/ThinkPad-Helix-educator-presenter-corner-I/td-p/1096643

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/Helix-Digital-Pen-Pressure-Sensitivity-issue/td-p/1092963/page/2

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thinkpad-edge-x1-x100e-x120e-sl-l/

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/715595-thinkpad-helix-3.html

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/lenovo-ibm/

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/lenovo-ibm/53433-thinkpad-helix-looks-promising-67.html

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/lenovo-ibm/56461-flipsteady-case-cover-stand-thinkpad-helix-2.html

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=106922

Videos

LenovoVision - Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSxszPf91b8

LenovoVision - Lenovo Unboxed: ThinkPad Helix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4pglhhS6T8

LenovoVision - ThinkPad Helix: Incredible Engineering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDZvNrpoVY

Spec

M/T: 3697, 3698 (TopSeller - SMB), 3700, 3701, 3702 (OnSite - Global Models Plus (GMP) )

Accessories

http://www.lenovoquickpick.com

http://www.lenovo.com/accessoriesguide

 

Good

Bad

 

Drivers

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034630

 

      WU/SU  
audio
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 6.0.1.6804 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034265
BIOS
BIOS Update Utility for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 1.10 16 Apr 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034627
ThinkPad Setup Settings Capture/Playback Utility for Windows (SRSETUPWIN) for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) 1.02 27 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032441
Bluetooth and Modem
ThinkPad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate Software for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 12.0.0.4300 20 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034548
Camera and Card Reader
Integrated Camera/Integrated Rear Camera Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 3.4.7.21/1.0.0.73 21 Apr 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034284
Chipset
Intel Chipset Support for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 9.3.0.1021 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034626
Intel Management Engine Firmware 8.1 for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), XP 8.1.30.1350 27 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032435
Intel Management Engine Interface 8.0 for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 8.1.0.1263/8.1.0.1281 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034606
Display
Adaptive Brightness Registry Patch for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 1.2 19 Feb 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034286
Displa and Video Graphics
Intel Wireless Display for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 3.5.40.0 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014970
Enterprise Management
SCCM package for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 01 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034625
Mouse and Keyboard
Registry Patch to Enable KBD/TrackPoint/TouchPad for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 1.00 25 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034632
Synaptics ThinkPad UltraNav Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 16.3.1.13 31 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034724
Networking: Wireless LAN
Intel Wireless LAN (11abgn, abg, bg) for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad

15.05.7000.1763

28 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032424
Power management
Lenovo Power Management Driver for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - Notebook 1.66.0.22 28 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032258
Software and Utility
Broadcom NFC Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 1.0.0.4020 20 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034562
Hotkey Features Integration for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad 4.21.1100 02 Apr 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS029026
Intel Smart Connect Technology 3.0 for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 3.0.42.1767 13 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034466
Intel Smart Connect Technology Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 1.0.7.0 20 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034546
Lenovo Settings Dependency Package for Windows 8 (32-bit, 8 64-bit) - Notebook 1.1.1.10

21 Apr 2013

  http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031946
Lenovo Tablet Service for Windows 8 ( 64-bit), 7 ( 32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix, Twist S230u 1.0.0.16 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032245
Storage
Intel SATA Controller AHCI Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 11.6.0.1030 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034629
ThinkVantage Technology
ThinkVantage System Update 5.02 for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Desktop, Notebook, Workstation 5.02.0011 16 Apr 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS012808
USB device
Lenovo USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter Software for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix, X1 Carbon 3.16.1.0 26 Mar 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032189
Video
Intel Graphics Driver for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Helix 9.17.10.2849 18 Jan 2013   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS033969

Test Model

3701 CTO

Firmware - BIOS, UEFI

first boot - configuration changed, reboot itself even Esc to Startup Interrupt Menu and F12 to boot alternative device. Fxx keys are hightlighted with gray now

2nd boot to Acronis 2013 with hotfix - the UEFI text meny is shifted to right

Intel VT and VT-d disabled by default, Secure Boot On, Intel Rapid Start enabled (enter after 3 hours?)

firmware update SCT Flash Utility by Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

 

 

Device Manager

Solution Center said 2 missing unknown devices - false report - http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-Tablet-ThinkPad-Laptops/System-Health-shows-two-unknown-devices-DevMgmt-MSC-shows-none/td-p/1021949

Disk

76.7GB free of 100GB, C400-MTFDDAT128MAM

39.98GB used pre-boot. 5 partitions

CrystalDiskInfo 5.60 x64 cannot show info (pending 5.62)

Task Manager

Processes

Startup

Users

ClickPad

occasionally drag all the way to right

cursor froze (keyboard still work) and crash completely try to shutdown, cannot shutdown once

new software still cannot change middle click property like Windows 7. cannot change to click from scroll.


CPU-Z

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

1.63.0 (pending 1.64)

GPU-Z

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

0.7.0

Thermal

FLIR i7 thermal camera - http://www.flir.com/thermography/americas/us/view/?id=54156

front

37.3°C

back

43.2°C

Acoustic

Pyle PSPL05R - http://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PSPL05R/Digital-Sound-Level-Meter-With-recording-Function

49 dB on top of dock cover, 52 dB if open cover

Audacity 2.0.2 Frequency Analysis spectrum plot - sample MP3 of the noise (normalized) recorded Sony PCM-D50 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-audio/resource.latest.bbsccms-assets-cat-audio-latest-pcmd50.shtml

LCD Color/brightness

cross check with old GretagMacbeth eye-one monitor (x-rite i1 Match) v3.6.2? pending

x-rite i1display pro i1profiler 1.4.2- http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=1454

adaptive brightness off

crash if ADC on, compare profile also crash

Datacolor Spyder4Pro 4.5.4 - http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder4pro/

default - adaptive brightness on

70% sRGB

50% NTSC

53% AdobeRGB

LCD Viewing Angle

pending

Battery rundown

pending

Wireless

802.11n disabled by default in driver, enable before can connect to both bands

TRENDnet 450Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Router TEW-692GR
1.0.2.0, 18-May-2012
2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n mixed mode
Auto 20/40MHz
5GHz 802.11n only
Auto 20/40MHz

cannot connect to WPA2 Enterprise PEAP without manually create profile and disable certificate verification first

pending

SSD

Benchmarks

WEI

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows7/products/features/windows-experience-index

  Helix Windows 8 64 X1 Carbon Windows 8 Enterprise 32 X1 Carbon Windows 8 Enterprise 64 X1 Carbon Windows 7 64 Micrsoft Surface Pro Windows 8 Pro 64
Processor 6.9 6.7 6.9 6.9 6.9
Memory (RAM) 5.9 7.3 5.9 5.9 5.9
Graphics 5.3 5.5 5.4 5.8 5.6
Gaming graphics 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.4
Primary hard disk 8.1 8.1 8.1 7.9 8.1

WinSAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_System_Assessment_Tool

MB/s
Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi T430s T420s
W520 T510 T400/W500
CPU LZW Compression
206.07 174.59 243.92 267.54 220.56
495.30 171.94 119.46
CPU AES256 Encryption
100.92 83.69 117.71 129.63     106.00 228.19 77.55 62.17
CPU Vista Compression
553.80 601.28 650.05 719.58+ 745.99 1311.40 569.76 368.56
CPU SHA1 Hash 633.67 545.80 739.87 891.80 653.23 1397.21 420.36 568.14
Uniproc CPU LZW Compression
83.63 68.99 99.44 107.72 78.42 94.79+ 69.51 61.87
Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 52.10 39.29 60.44 66.43 46.34 59.53 38.03 32.76
Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 208.13 237.40 243.24 273.65 261.65 251.55+ 207.42 194.03
Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 357.95 304.14 413.22 420.78 319.53 343.79+ 238.53 297.66
Dshow Video Encode Time (s) 2.88483 2.75325 2.46806 2.45161 2.61391 1.45114 3.35620 5.31552
Memory Performance 12898.00 12785.98 14939.07 15768.97 13239.94 9235.90+ 6194.03 5322.44

 

Time

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/use-windows-7-event-viewer-to-track-down-issues-that-cause-slower-boot-times/3253

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2012/09/19/measure-boot-performance-with-the-windows-assessment-and-deployment-toolkit.aspx

ADK assessment

pending

SunSpider

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

pending

HWINFO

http://www.hwinfo.com/

4.16 - no info of LCD

 

PCMark

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmark

PassMark

http://www.passmark.com/

v8.0 1016 (pending 8.0 1020)

  Helix (v8 1016) X1 Carbon W8E32 (v8) T430s (v7) T420s (v7)
Rating 1692.9 1558.1 1548.9 1061.1
CPU Mark 3541 2592 4535.0 3099.7
2D Graphics Mark 492.4 454 433.0 356.8
3D Graphics Mark 397.8 432 478.2 300.7
Memory Mark 1592 1254 1324.5 948.2
Disk Mark 2403 3451 792.5 462.1

 

SiSoftware Sandra

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/

pending

AS SSD

http://alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?download_id=9

  Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Intel 521 Taichi DH71 W8-64 SanDisk X100 256 T420s W7E64 SSD Crucial m4 256 W520 W8E64 SSD Samsung 840 Pro 256
  Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq MB/s 431.23 191.37 460.82 144.24 425.79 334.97 497.34 236.56 495.07 428.16
4K MB/s 19.37 46.60 17.71 36.66 19.94 37.80 15.77 47.41 20.96 56.06
4K-64 Thrd MB/s 260.56 116.36 132.65 131.29 300.55 158.42 177.53 168.36 379.90 247.79
Acc.time ms 0.122 .362 0.195 0.284 0.134 0.100 0.124 0.522 0.113 0.044
Score 323 182 196 182 363 230 243 239 450 347
  664 470 780 599 1029

 

CrystalDiskMark

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

1000MB

  3.02e Helix 3.02e-X1 Carbon Win8E32 3.01-X1 Carbon Win7-64 W520 Intel 520 3.01-Win7-64 T430s Samsung 830
  Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s] Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s] Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s] Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s]
Seq 445.8 183.5 429.6 178.1 433.4 247.1 487.9 403.5
512K 339.4 194.1 375.2 177.1 353.5 239.0 342.6 389.2
4K 21.42 43.33 19.66 41.43 19.67 48.08 22.34 55.89
4K QD32 266.2 167.4 132.7 174.2 229.7 231.6 303.6 151.3

ATTO Disk Benchmark

http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

HD Tune Pro

http://www.hdtune.com/

pending

HD Tach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Tach

pending

Bitlocker

pending

USB 3.0

pending

IntelBurnTest

version 2.54, 419.83s, 2.40GHz max. (2.60GHz only if one core active?)

  Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 (v2.54) T430s (v2.53) T420s (v2.53)
Linepack (GFlops) 27.8-29.3 26.6-26.9 ~35-36  ~28-29
time (s) 30.537-32.122 33.2-33.5    

HandBrake

http://handbrake.fr/

pending

TrueCrypt

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Mean Helix X1 Carbon T430s  T420s
AES (GB/s) 1.2 1.2 1.5 1.4
Twofish (MB/s) 214 209 274 243
AES-Twofish (MB/s) 181 178 233 207
Serpent (MB/s) 125 125 160 137
Serpent-AES (MB/s) 113 113 142 125
Twofish-Serpent (MB/s) 74.0 78.4 101 87.6
Serpent-Twofish-AES (MB/s) 73.5 73.6 95.3 83.4
AES-Twofish-Serpent (MB/s) 72.4 73.8 94.5 82.4

 

3DMark

http://www.3dmark.com/

3DMark 11 Advanced Edition 1.0.5.0 - 1280x720

P580 - driver not approved

pending - new bundle 2013 & PC Mark?

Maxon Cinebench

http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html

pending

FurMark

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

pending

VMD

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

pending

NAS Performance Toolkit

http://www.intel.com/products/server/storage/NAS_Perf_Toolkit.htm

pending

DPC Latency Checker

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/

about startup

pending


Ethernet

pending Belkin USB 3.0 adapter

WiDi

http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wtech/iwd/sb/CS-031109.htm

pending PTV3000

Chimera

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/benchmark/benchmark.html

pending

*nix

pending

dual boot http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2013/03/12/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu-12-04-in-uefi-mode/

Windows 8 OEM

Start menu

Norton Studio?

rara.com?

Extras

Traditional Desktop apps

Windows Store apps

Programs

Pricing, Options

pending

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Helix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad#ThinkPad_Helix

Reviews

pending