Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga

by Ching-Wan Yip

Last Updated: August 5, 2014 8:26 AM

First published: Mar 20, 2014


ThinkPad Yoga (also called S240)

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/yoga-series/yoga/

announced: Sep 5, 2013 - http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1714

Blog

http://blog.lenovo.com/design/introducing-thinkpad-yoga

Videos

Tour - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqB1ZgBoMA0

Incredible engineering - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqxYFGxSXE

Think Innovation Minute: ThinkPad Yoga Lift 'n Lock Keyboard - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBAY0JJ0CLk

Yoga Goes Business Black: Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga Hangout - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2f0eeiiG_Y

Forums

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-Edge-S-series/bd-p/Thinkpad_edge

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=72

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/731068-lenovo-thinkpad-yoga-330.html

Good

Bad

others

vs X1 Carbon Gen 2

not one Halo machine


ThinkPad Yoga
X1 Carbon Gen 2
keyboard
semi-classic
(same as Helix generation)
adaptive keyboard - "new" layout
screen
12.5"
14"

1920x1080 1600x900

400 nits IPS 250 nits TN

touch + pen 4-in-1 multimode tablet

weight (travel)
3 lb 15.3 oz 3 lb 8.1 oz
weight (laptop only)
3 lb 6.75 oz 2 lb 13.4 oz
external display port
mini-HDMI (2 screens active)
HDMI + miniDP (3 screens active)
4-in-1 SD card slot
yes

battery

rapid charge
battery capacity 47 Wh
45 Wh
AC charger
45W
65W
Ethernet

mini-port with dongle
fingerprint reader

yes
NUI - Gesture control

yes
NUI - Voice control

Dragon Assistant on some models
storage 2.5" 7mm SATA + M.2 M.2
material
Magnesium and Aluminum + Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) Top: new non-black, non-"rubbery" Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic + Glass-Fiber Reinforced Plastic

Bottom: Magnesium/Aluminum

Specification

no data sheet yet

Models: 20C0, 20CD

User Guide - 2014/03/05 - http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/s1_yoga_ug_en.pdf

Setup Guide - http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/s1_yoga_swsg_en_sp40a26898.pdf

Driver Matrix - http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&DocID=DS038353

HMM -2014/03/05 - http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/s1_yoga_hmm_en_sp40a26742_01.pdf

Parts list - 2013/11/07 - http://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkPad/yoga_fru_bom_20131107.pdf

PSref - http://lenovo.com/psref/

Glossy -

 

 

Preloaded Applications - 3rd party Applications – Only certain NLS preloads - bloatware - Why?

Pricing

as of 2014/03/19

 

Tested System

20C0-0042 and CTO

from Setup Guide

System board

(composit of 4 photos, don't completely lined up)

no SO-DIMM sockets, soldered to systemboard - PSref tabook.pdf

crucial is wrong, it lists 16GB kit (8GBx2) "upgrade" available, for 2 slots

Device Manager

Weight

by WFU Post Office scale

laptop - 3 lb 6.75 oz

AC adapter - 8.5 oz

travel weight (2 pieces) - 3 lb 15.3 oz

Battery

Stella Sony or Simplo 8 cell 46Wh Polumer

powercfg battery report

Sony 45N1705 LiP

DESIGN CAPACITY - 47,060 mWh

FULL CHARGE CAPACITY - 47,060 mWh (out of the box)

wrong capacity 1st use - dangerous?

FCC over design reported - 47,969 mWh instead of 47,060 mWh

running handbrake, high performance profile

drained to 5% shutdown - 2h07m

charge back to 94% - 2h09m

99%    0m - not charging
98%    3m
95%    7m
90%   14m
84%   21m
77% 30m 74% 35m
69% 41m 63% 49m 57% 57m
53% 1h00m
50% 1h04m 45% 1h10m 43% 1h15m 35% 1h25m 29% 1h30m 25% 1h37m
19% 1h43m 17% 1h46m
13% 1h52m 10% 1h55m - 1st warning 6% 2h05m - 2nd warning --- 5% 6% 5m 9% 9m 11% 13m 14% 18m 18% 25m 20% 27m 32% 45m 34% 50m 38% 58m 46% 1h09m 61% 1h24m 65% 1h30m 70% 1h40m 85% 1h56m 88% 2h00m 94% 2h09m

Battery - Windows Assessment

ADK 8.1 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh825285.aspx

failed in non-standard administrator account - cannot run Metro Video for mp4?

administrator group account - no Anti-Virus warning

battery life during full video playback settings

Total Duration (min) : 558.92
 Time spent not running workloads (min) : 5.63
 Local Video Playback Energy Efficiency Workload : 553.29
 Estimated energy used by workload (mWh) : 45930
 Estimated workload energy consumption rate (mWh/min) : 83.01
Battery consumed (%) : 94
Projected time to shutdown (min) : 566
Network traffic rate (KB/min) : 7.32
Display off time (%) : 0.00
 Average overall display brightneess (%) : 56.50

AC Adapter

45W, X1 Carbon (Type 34xx) has 90W, X1 Carbon Gen 2 has 65W, Helix has 45W

FRU - Delta, Liteon, Chicony

power usage

P3 Kill A Watt http://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html - 0.57-0.62A - 41W

APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 https://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500G - - pending W

Thermal

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

Fan UMA: PCC+ Furukawa?

- pending

Acoustic - noise level

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

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

pending

Benchmark - WEI

no WEI UI in Windows 8.1

http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/tipstricks/WEIwin81.html

  ThinkPad Yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 Sony VAIO Pro 13 Helix X1 Carbon Touch i7 X1 Carbon X1 Carbon i5-3317U X1 Carbon Micrsoft Surface Pro T430s 4GB 7200 T420s 3GB 5400 T420s 4GB 320-7200/128-SSD W520
  Windows 8.1 64 Windows 8.1 64 Windows 8 64 Windows 8 64 Windows 8 64 Windows 8 Enterprise 32 Windows 8 Enterprise 64 Windows 7 64 Windows 8 Pro 64 W7 64 W7 32 W7 64  
Processor 7.3 7.4 6.9 6.9 7.2 6.7 6.9 6.9 6.9 7.2 7.0 7.1 7.5
Memory (RAM) 7.5 7.6 7.6 5.9 7.5 7.3 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.9 5.5 5.9 5.9 4GB
7.5 8GB (4GBx2 bottom slot G.Skill)
7.6 (Another 4GB crucial+original Samsung)
Graphics 5.9 5.9 5.8 5.3 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.8 5.6 6.5 (6.6 Optimus) 5.3 4.7 4.9 (Optimus, Intel HD3000)
6.9 (Discreet, 2000M)
Gaming graphics 5.2 5.3 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.4 6.5 (6.6 Optimus) 6.2 6.1 6.8 (Optimus, Intel HD3000)
6.9 (Discreet, 2000M)
Primary hard disk 8.2 8.1 8.6 8.1 8.1 8.1 8.1 7.9 8.1 5.9 5.9 5.9 (HDD) 6.7 (SSD) 5.9

 

Benchmark - WinSAT

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

MB/s
ThinkPadd Yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi T430s T420s
W520 T510 T400/W500
CPU LZW Compression
238.02 238.65 206.07 174.59 243.92 267.54 220.56
495.30 171.94 119.46
CPU AES256 Encryption
1235.14? 1263.36? 100.92 83.69 117.71 129.63     106.00 228.19 77.55 62.17
CPU Vista Compression
636.75 637.11 553.80 601.28 650.05 719.58+ 745.99 1311.40 569.76 368.56
CPU SHA1 Hash 773.47 958.79 633.67 545.80 739.87 891.80 653.23 1397.21 420.36 568.14
Uniproc CPU LZW Compression
88.0 101.89 83.63 68.99 99.44 107.72 78.42 94.79+ 69.51 61.87
Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 336.45? 375.10? 52.10 39.29 60.44 66.43 46.34 59.53 38.03 32.76
Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 226.55 263.23 208.13 237.40 243.24 273.65 261.65 251.55+ 207.42 194.03
Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 383.90 428.47 357.95 304.14 413.22 420.78 319.53 343.79+ 238.53 297.66
Dshow Video Encode Time (s) 2.70669 2.67998 2.88483 2.75325 2.46806 2.45161 2.61391 1.45114 3.35620 5.31552
Memory Performance 15798.61 17305.41 12898.00 12785.98 14939.07 15768.97 13239.94 9235.90+ 6194.03 5322.44

 

Benchmark - CPU - Handbrake

http://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake 0.9.8 - 2h10m Grandmaster 7.27GB DVD

  fps Model CPU clock RAM OS  
19m28s   X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4200U 1.60GHz (Turbo to ? GHz) 4/8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
21m33s 181 X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.12-2.17GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Intel 240GB SSD
19m29s 200 ThinkPad S1 Yoga i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.23-2.33GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Lite-On 256GB SSD
20m56s 186 Sony VAIO Pro 13 i7-4500U 1.80GHz (runing at 1.60GHz even at 86% utilitzation using high performance profile, cannot Turbo to 3.0GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
16m32s 236 X1 Carbon Touch i7-3667U 2.00GHz (Turbo to 2.95GHz) 8GB Windows 8 64-bit  
pending   X1 Carbon Non-Touch i5-        
21m28s 182 Surface Pro i5-3317U 1.70GHz (Turbo to 2.38GHz) 4GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
17m00s 229 T430s i5-3320 2.60GHz 4GB Windows 7 32-bit  
10m01s 389 M14R2 i7-3610QM 2.30GHz 16GB Windows 7 HP 64-bit mSATA boot, data on HDD
19m27s 200 T420s i5-2520 2.50GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit Intel mSATA boot, not enough room, source on Seagate BackUp Plus FAST STDA4000100 USB 3.0
11m17s 345 W520 i7-2720QM 2.20GHz (Turbo to 2.69-2.97GHz 16GB Windows 8 64-bit (Samsung 840 PRO RAPID mode enabled DXM06B0Q firmware
26m50s 145 T410 i5-M520 2.40GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit  

 

Benchmark - PCMark

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

PCMark 8 Home Conventional 3.0

- pending

PCMark 7 pending

Benchmark - PassMark

http://www.passmark.com/

v8 build 1031

  X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240GB ThinkPad Yoga 4200U Samsung 128GB X1 Carbon W8E32 (v8) T430s (v7) T420s (v7)
Rating 1764.5 1954.7 1558.1 1548.9 1061.1
CPU Mark 3177 3574 2592 4535.0 3099.7
2D Graphics Mark 485.6 575 454 433.0 356.8
3D Graphics Mark 423.2 519 432 478.2 300.7
Memory Mark 1770 1864 1254 1324.5 948.2
Disk Mark 4442 2527 3451 792.5 462.1

 

Benchmark - SiSoftware Sandra

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

2014 SP1C 20.25

  Yoga
4200U**
2014.05.20.28
Yoga
4300U*
X1 Carbon Gen 2
4300U
X1 Carbon W8E32 T430s W7E64 SSD T420s W7E64 SSD W520 W8E64 SSD
Score kPT 3.20 3.95/4.02 3.27 3.98 4.17
4.36 (2012-1845)
4.18 7.04

 

* didn't completely finished test first time. mouse crashed on second time.

** Aggregate Memory not reported, OpenCL error 339

Benchmark - FurMark

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

1.13.0

720 preset

  X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga 4200U X1 Carbon
points 346 413 423
fps 5 6 7
  (min:6, max:9), 60000 ms (min:7, max:10), 60000 ms  

 

Benchmark - GeekBench

http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/windows/

v3.1.5 x32

performance

X1C2
4300U
single-core score

X1C2
4300U
multi-core score
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
single
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
multi
  2770 5289 2560 4777
integer 2716 5975 2454 5282
floating point 2696 5752 2444 5214
memory 3030 2992 3004 2897

 

Benchmark - IntelBurnTest

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?197835-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

v2.54

  X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
X1 Carbon
W8E32 (v2.54)
T430s (v2.53) T420s (v2.53)
Linepack (GFlops) 24.2526-27.5642 29.4538-32.9418 26.6-26.9 ~35-36  ~28-29
time (s) 32.429-36.857 27.135-30.349 33.2-33.5    

 

Benchmark - MediaCoder

http://www.mediacoderhq.com/dlfull.htm

0.8.29.5602 2014 Mar 25

9m57s 731MB 1920x1080 10Mbps MPEG-Ps -> 1Mbps MP4

  ThinkPad Yoga X1 Carbon Geen 2 X1 Carbon W8E32 (0.8.18.5360 2013/02/01) X1 Carbon W8E64 T430s W7E32 HDD
time 12:45 / 765.1 s 14:22 / 862s 14:18 / 860s 13:04 / 785s 12:18 / 731s
speed 23.5 fps / 0.8 x 20.9 fps / 0.70x 20.9 fps / 0.70x 23.0 fps / 0.77x 24.5 fps / 0.82x

 

Benchmark - Graphics - 3D Mark

http://www.3dmark.com/

3DMar

v1.2.362 March 12, 2014

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 1.0.132

  Yoga T430s 
Score P913 P688
Graphics Score 807 591
Physics Score 3247 3801
Combined Score 838 695
GraphicsTest1 FPS 4.04 3.58
GraphicsTest2 FPS 3.68 3.56
GraphicsTest3 FPS 4.79 3.79
GraphicsTest4 FPS 2.43 1.37
PhysicsTest FPS 10.31 12.07
CombinedTest FPS 3.9 3.23

3DMark Vintage

PhysXLoader.dll error

3DMark 06


need to install futuremark systeminfo v4.26 update to see results
3DMark Score - 6357.0
SM2.0 Score - 2240.0
HDR/SM3.0 Score - 2633.0
CPU Score - 3380.0
GT1 - Return To Proxycon -  18.6 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest -  18.7 FPS
CPU1 - Red Valley -  1.07 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley -  1.7 FPS
HDR1 - Canyon Flight -  24.7 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze -  28.0 FPS  

Benchmark - Maxon CineBench

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

R15

OpenGL

24.5 fps - HD Graphics v.10.18.10.3383, 98% Ref. Match

CPU - 226 cb, Single Core 92 cb, 2.45x MP ratio

11.5

OpenGL

fps

CPU

pts

- pending

Benchmark - Graphics - VMD

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

1.9.1

3172 fps DNA

CPK

  yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 X1 Carbon W8E32 T430s Discreet (Optimus) T430s Integrated (Optimus) T420s
fps 82 56 44-46 60 46 28

 

Benchmark - Graphics - Chimera

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

1.8.1

- pending

Benchmark - NAS Performance Toolkit

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

pending

Benchmark - DPC Latency Checker

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

1.3.0

max. 1060 μs

Benchmark - Firefox

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

28.0

about startup 0.1.12 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/about-startup/

 21 start
 31 main
 99 startupCrashDetectionBegin
181 createTopLevelWindow
552 firstLoadURI
551 firstPaint
602 sessionRestored
    startupCrashDetectionEnd
 43 selectProfile
 43 afterProfileLocked


c.f. with other http://users.wfu.edu/yipcw/atg/moz_ff_tb/firefox/startup/

Benchmark - SunSpider

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

1.0.2

ms ThinkPad Yoga S1 X1 Carbon Gen 2 X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi W8-64 T430s W7E32 HDD T420s W7E32 mSATA W520 W8E64 SSD
IE 105.8 113.5 (11.0.9600.16521 update 11.0.4) 141.7 (10 desktop) 120.6 (10 desktop) 129.9 (10 metro) 183.9 (9) 203.3 (9) 113.0 (10 desktop)
FF 181.2 (28.0 no addons/plugins)
191.2 (27.0.1)
  231.6 (19.0.1) 211.4 (19.0.1) 188.7 (19.0) 203.1 (19.0) 197.7 (19.0.1)
Chrome 194.1   204.8 (25.0.1364.97) 190.2 (25.0.1364.97) 175.3 (25.0.1364.97) 194.7 (25.0.1364.97) 169.2 (25.0.1364.152)

 

Start Up

ADK

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 8.1 download

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39982

What's New in 8.1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn247001.aspx

assessment - startup and shutdown experience - fast startup

seconds Yoga* X1 Carbon Gen 2 X1 Carbon UEFI/GPT UEFI/GPT bitlocker MBR fast startup MBR bitlocker MBR full boot T430s* W520*
BIOS init 3.541 3.597 3.351
yellow - threshold 2.0s
3.350 4.730
red - threshold 4.0s
4.727 4.751 5.541 6.497
- firmware POST 3.542? 3.591 3.264 3.260 4.138 4.146   4.497  
boot, excluding BIOS 6.012 15.928 7.600 9.169 10.296
yellow
13.525 17.182 6.785 8.606
- main path 4.512 6.928 4.933 6.336 6.130
explorer init too slow
7.525 9.682 3.785 6.606
- post on/off 1500 9000 2.667
yellow
2.833

4.167
yellow

6.000
red
7.500
red
3.000 2.000
shutdown 8.782 4.741 4.578 4.498 4.910
red: query devices took too long
yellow: suspend devices
6.680 2.497 3.347 4.221
issues 17 (4 warnings) 58 (4 Warnings) 9 9 12 39      

* with missing device drivers

eventvwr

processes, services, memory usage - pending

CPU-Z

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

1.69

GPU-Z

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

0.7.7

HWInfo

http://www.hwinfo.com/

4.37

LCD

12.5" nits, HD+

LEN40E2 (Jtouch or Gunze 18.8mm)

ICM - pending

the default 125% scaling is horrible, you pay more and got a lousy fussy display?, change back to 100% to get crispy sharp display (yeah, text are small, you know that when you bought it right?)

 

ghosting problem on some LG Philips panels -

FHD Touch w/ or w/o digitizer FRU - (Jtouch or Gunze 18.8/19.4mm)

LEN40E4

Pen + digitizer

Wacom FEEL driver compatible for pressure sensitive. Only one button on barrel and no eraser button on end

http://us.wacom.com/en/feeldriver/

Lenovo's WinTab Driver

LCD - color/brightness

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

adaptive brightness off

(still crash if ADC on, compare profile also crash like Helix?)

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

pending

LCD - viewing angle

pending

 

Storage

SSD - 2.5", 7mm, SATA 6.0Gb/s

mSATA SSD

HDD - 5400 rpm 2.5", SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7mm

Storage - CrystalDiskInfo

256GB Samsung

MZ7TD256HAFV-000L9
firmware update FWSD22 DXT02L5Q -> DXT04L5Q

128GB Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV-000L1

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd.php?hdd=SAMSUNG+MZ7TD128&id=4920

6.1.12

6.1.9

LITEONIT LCS-256M6S 256.0 GB - http://www.liteonssd.com/

Storage - SSD utility

liteon ?

S.M.A.R.T.

Samsung Magician 4.3 - doesn't recognize OEM drive

Storage - AS SSD

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

1.7.4739.38088

128GB Samsung

256GB LiteOn

  X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U Samsung 128 ThinkPad Yoga
128GB Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV
ThinkPad Yoga 256GB Lite-On LCS-256M6S X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U LiteOn 256 LGT-256M6G X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240 Sony VAIO Pro 13 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 FW 05? (FW06+RAPID? - pending)
  Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq MB/s 497.32 127.20 507.95 125.24 487.51 412.39 483.63 405.74 502.41 301.85 1103.7 702.45 431.23 191.37 460.82 144.24 425.79 334.97 497.34 236.56 495.07 428.16
4K MB/s 23.49 68.92 27.64 80.15 31.42 73.90 27.92 59.28 21.08 87.71 28.19 72.68 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 312.66 94.40 316.32 97.27 302.24 254.33 214.31 193.71 209.83 213.81 408.85 225.73 260.56 116.36 132.65 131.29 300.55 158.42 177.53 168.36 379.90 247.79
Acc.time ms 0.032 0.052 0.078 0.042 0.058 0.049 failed failed 0.151 0.231 0.087 .055 0.122 0.362 0.195 0.284 0.134 0.100 0.124 0.522 0.113 0.044
Score 386 176 395 190 382 369 291 294 281 332 547 369 323 182 196 182 363 230 243 239 450 347
  748 777 955 739 754 1183 664 470 780 599 1029

 

Storage - CrystalDiskMark

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

128GB Samsung

3.0.3a

256GB

3.0.3 x64

1000MB

  Yoga 3.03 X1 Carbon Gen 2 3.02e Helix 3.02e-X1 Carbon Win8E32 3.01-X1 Carbon Win7-64 W520 Intel 520 3.01-Win7-64 T430s Samsung 830
[MB/s] Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq 503.4 418.0 482.6 318.2 445.8 183.5 429.6 178.1 433.4 247.1 487.9 403.5
512K 377.7 402.8 421.9 312.6 339.4 194.1 375.2 177.1 353.5 239.0 342.6 389.2
4K 33.95 86.38 38.81 99.90 21.42 43.33 19.66 41.43 19.67 48.08 22.34 55.89
4K QD32 326.8 291.9 201.1 124.1 266.2 167.4 132.7 174.2 229.7 231.6 303.6 151.3

 

Storage - ATTO Disk Benchmark

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

128GB Samsung

256GB Lite-On

Storage - Anvil's Storage Utilities

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/anvil-storage-utilities-releases-new-storage-and-ssd-benchmark/

128GB Samsung

1.1 2014

Storage - HD Tune Pro

http://www.hdtune.com/

Storage - HD Tach

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

Bitlocker

pending

TrueCrypt

http://www.truecrypt.org/

7.1a 50MB

Mean X1C2 4200U ThinkPad Yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Helix X1 Carbon T430s  T420s
AES (GB/s) 1.3 1.3 1.5 1.2 1.2 1.5 1.4
Twofish (MB/s) 207 208 238 214 209 274 243
AES-Twofish (MB/s) 183 186 194 181 178 233 207
Serpent (MB/s) 122 120 138 125 125 160 137
Serpent-AES (MB/s) 113 110 128 113 113 142 125
Twofish-Serpent (MB/s) 78.0 78.0 88.1 74.0 78.4 101 87.6
Serpent-Twofish-AES (MB/s) 73.8 73.1 83.5 73.5 73.6 95.3 83.4
AES-Twofish-Serpent (MB/s) 73.7 73.0 83.5 72.4 73.8 94.5 82.4

 

SD

SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I 95MBps, 633x 64GB

copy from SSD - maximum : 81.6 MBps (only has 81.3 MBps explorer progress bar screen capture, composit with other run's task manager and reesource monitor)

UHS-II / Class 3 U3 speed / SDXC 4.0 spec. capable? - pending

USB 3.0

limited to 12 USB drives using two 10 port USB hubs (+internal SSD, SDXC, 4 network drives) - Not enough USB controller resources error

USB View said 6 end points in use off xHCl and Intel 8 Series controllers

12 open level 1 open, 6 level 2 available.

copy from Seagate BackUp Plus FAST STDA4000100 USB 3.0 on right port, won't recognize drive on left always on port - 236 MBps.

USB 3.0 hub

- pending

Anker 10 port hub VIA VL812 Chipset 4A 900 mAh max. http://www.ianker.com/product/68UPHUB-B10U

Satechi 10 port hub

Plugable 7 Port USB 3.0 Hub with 4A Power Adapter (VIA VL812 Rev B2 Chipset and updated firmware v9081 http://plugable.com/products.

High Point RocketStor 5122B dock

Icy Docl MB981U3-1SA 2.5"/3.5" SATA & IDE

StarTech eSATA dock with fan

UASP capable like Thermatake x5 (not duet?) ?

Lenovo USB 3.0 dock

Optical Drive

- pending

LG BP06 Blu-Ray

Samsung SB218BB slim DVD

Samsung SE-S204 Feb 2008 F/W TS01 (white) AC powered - boot recovery DVDs ok

Lenovo Slim DVD

Windows To Go

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/products-and-technologies/devices/windowstogo.aspx

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

- pending

Wireless

Intel Wilkins Peak 2 7260 2*2 11ac+BT4.0 M.2

maximum 867Mbps

AC1900

1300+600 Netgear Nighthawk R7000 firmware V1.0.2.194_1.0.15 http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx , copy from QNAP

512Mbps

Firmware Version 1.0.3.24 - pending

AC1750

1300+450

best 469 Mbps against Netgear R6300 AC1750 V1.0.2.68_1.0.49 1300Mbps 5GHz WPA2-PSK [AES] Channel 153 http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R6300.aspx from QNAP TS-659 Pro II QTS 4.0.3

intel wireless 16.6.0.8 driver. 16.10 pending

from the server side, max. at 54.69 MB/s

from DiskStation DS1511+ DSM4.3-3810 2013/11/06

459Mbps

66.9MBps

AC1200

867+300

edimax BR-6478AC AC1200 867Mbps, 4MB NOR Flash, 64MB RAM, Rev A Hardware, Boot Code 1.0, WPA2 Pres-shared Key AES, v2.09 firmware, 2014/ 03/19 http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=484&pl1_id=3&pl2_id=18

- 361 Mbps max.

from the server side, max. at 42.42 MB/s

802.11n wfu

98.4 Mbps max. from ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition [X-RAID2 6x Seagate ST31000528AS [931 GB] , 1GB RAM [4-5-5-15 DDR2]], RAIDiator 4.2.25 - intel driver - 16.6.08, 2013/10/14

Bluetooth

4.0 (+HS?)

- pending

Ehernet

USB 2.0 or 3.0 dongle (option not included)

AXIS? driver version ?

copy from Netgear R6300 from QNAP TS-659 Pro II QTS 4.0.3- ? Mbps

Keyboard/TouchPad

On Screen Display OSD

No icon showing (2 levels) backlight levels like T430s

UltraNav - TouchPad and TrackPoint

no buttons clickpad ("integrated five buttons") multi-touch

Control Panel - TouchPad, TrackPoint, classic - Middle Button - no control of neither, scroll, zoom like old one?

Synaptics Control Panel

Audio

High Defi nition (HD) Audio, Conexant CX20751 codec

Smart Audio II

 

Dolby

Home Theatre Plus vs. v4?

- pending

Audio output

TRRS 3.5mm combo output to TRS splitter (optional)

KM-IPHONE-2TRS http://www.kvconnection.com/product-p/km-iphone-2trs.htm

KM-IPHONE-2TRS-ECM - http://www.kvconnection.com/product-p/km-iphone-2trs-ecm.htm

- pending

OneLink

OneLink $119.99 4X10A06077 Black (Heatwave Red and Frost Silver only in non-US markets) - pending

OneLink Pro $179.99 4X10E52935 - pending

Output

Ambient Light Sensor

ALS by ???

OEM software

disk layout

128MB GPT

1000MB UEFI

Windows_OS

2 restore partitions? one unknown type?

21.7GB used, 206GB free on 227GB capacity

 DISKPART> list part
 Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
   -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
   Partition 1    Recovery          1000 MB  1024 KB
   Partition 2    System             260 MB  1001 MB
   Partition 3    Reserved           128 MB  1261 MB
   Partition 4    Primary            106 GB  1389 MB
   Partition 5    Recovery            11 GB   108 GB

 

plugincommucation.exe crashed when first connect to network

programs

Start Menu

still too much crapware

Lenovo Transition

PrtSc doesn't work when rotate into portrait mode - why?

Lenovo Settings

no more hotspot?

even system update just updated settings dependency, got the message again (new version has auto update [& new flat Metro/iOS 7 design]?)

Lenovo Startpages

Why?

http://lenovo13-comm.msn.com/?pc=LNJB
http://home.lenovo.com/

Lenovo Solution Center

alert for Cisco AnyConnect VPN client (not part of OEM, ours install) and an unspecified unknown device in device manager?

Norton Internet Security

30-day trial

Nitro Pro

trial?

ThinkPad Smart Mark

by PenPower Technology, Chinese Traditional or Simplified

 

 

Drivers

audio      
Conexant CX20751 Audio Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 8.65.9.0 18 Feb 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038344
BIOS      
BIOS Update Bootable CD for Windows 8.1 (64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 1.14 (Q*, B* only go to 1.05) 19 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038335
BIOS Update Utility for Windows 8.1 (64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 1.14 19 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038334
ThinkPad Setup Settings Capture/Playback Utility for Windows (SRSETUPWIN) for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad 2.02 27 Feb 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032441
Bluetooth and Modem      
Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Software for Bluetooth(R) Technology for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 3.1.1307.0362 23 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038331
Camera and Card Reader      
Integrated Camera Driver(720P 1M) for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 5.13.911.3/6.2.9200.10239 14 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038345
Realtek PCIE Card Reader Driver for Bluetooth(R) Technology for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 6.2.9200.21234 23 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038332
Chipset      
Intel Chipset Device Software for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 9.4.0.1027 25 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038348
Intel(R) Management Engine Interface Driver for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 9.5.15.1730 22 Dec 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038351
Display and Video Graphics      
Adaptive Brightness Registry Patch for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 8, Twist S230u, Yoga, X1 Carbon (Machine types: 20A7, 20A8) 1.2 13 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038333
Intel HD Graphics Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 10.18.10.3282 25 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038346
Intel HD Graphics Driver 10.18.10.3383 06 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS039408
ThinkPad Monitor INF File for Windows 8.1 (64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 5.03 02 Jan 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS037801
Enterprise Management      
SCCM package for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 01 16 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038336
Mouse and Keyboard      
Digitizer Firmware Update for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 0131 28 Nov 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS039146
Synaptics ThinkPad UltraNav Driver for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 18.0.7.39 07 Apr 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS034647
ThinkPad Smart Mark for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad S540, S1 Yoga 1.0 07 Nov 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038725
Networking: LAN (Ethernet)      
Lenovo USB3.0 Ethernet Adapter Software for Windows 8 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 8.8.911.2013 22 Dec 22013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS039484
Enabling Wake on LAN from Standby for ENERGY STAR Version 4.0 for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 1.08 03 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS013949
Networking: Wireless LAN      
Intel Wireless LAN Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 16.10.0.5 25 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038330
Power management      
?      
Software and Utility      
Auto Scroll Utility for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad 2.10 25 Dec 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031684
Broadcom Near Field Communication Driver for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 1.1.0.3130/1.1.0.3100 18 Feb 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS039500
Hotkey Features Integration for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad 5.25.0000 16 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS029026
Intel Smart Connect Technology Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 4.2.41.2710 18 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038350
Lenovo QuickControl for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Notebook 2.00 22 Dec 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS035726
Lenovo QuickDisplay 2.0 for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad 2.0.0.53 18 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS040770
Lenovo Settings Dependency Package for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Notebook 2.0.0.16 21 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031946
Storage      
Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkPad Yoga 12.8.0.1016 25 Oct 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038349
Solid State Drive Firmware Update Utility for Windows 8.1 (64-bit), 8 (64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad FWSD20 10 Feb 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS038904
ThinkVantage Technology      
Patch module for Lenovo System Update for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Notebook, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation 1.00 25 Nov 2013 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS039047
ThinkVantage Active Protection System for Windows 8.1 (64-bit), 8 (64-bit), 7 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit) - Notebook 1.79.0.3 09 Mar 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014892
ThinkVantage Password Manager 4.5 for Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit), 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation 4.50.7.0 04 Apr 2014 http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031504

Firmware / BIOS

only updated to 1.05 (vPro) 2014/02/26 via System Update for B* , not 1.14 - only for Q*? manual install doesn't work either, said version already loaded.

need to disable OS optimazation before can do recovery from 3 DVDs. Windows complains about SecureBoot not configured correctly in desktop watermark. Have to turn it back on.

Acronis

True Image 2004 Premium build 6673 2014/02/22 http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/updates/ cannot boot if SecureBoot is on

failed to image or restore multiple times, with 2013 build 5551 with UEFI hotfix also

VirtualBox

https://www.virtualbox.org/

pending

*nix

kubuntu - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2193327

 

Accessories

 

Reviews