The added performance of the Core i5 chip does have its drawbacks, however.
Using balanced power settings, we record mains power draw whilst playing back a 720p movie trailer.Īs expected, the Core i5-powered ThinkPad is by far the superior performer - to the tune of 154 per cent where CPU and memory are concerned.Ĭinebench - utilising all four threads available to the Core i5 chip - paints a similar picture.Īlthough both notebooks utilise integrated Intel graphics, the performance gap between the Core 2 Duo's associated GMA 4500MHD and the Core i5's on-chip Intel HD Graphics is clear to see.īoth notebooks will still struggle to game at decent image quality settings, but should you choose to add an optional Blu-ray drive to your ThinkPad, Intel's HD Graphics will make light work of high-definition playback. In order to measure battery life, we run the notebook on balanced power settings and loop a 720p movie trailer, measuring the time taken to hibernate.
Run using high-performance mode.Ī PC benchmark used to test the DirectX 9 performance of a system's graphics card. Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses as many cores as possible. Seagate Momentus 320GB, 5,400RPM, 8MB cacheĪ cross-platform benchmark used to measure memory and processor performance.
Intel WiFi 5100 (b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.0 Intel WiFi Link 1000 (b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1 Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.40GHz, 3MB L2 cache, dual-core) Intel Core i5 430M (2.26GHz, 3MB 元 cache, dual-core) We'll endeavour to add a wider range of comparison notebooks at a later date, but for the purpose of this review we'll be gauging performance by comparing Lenovo's ThinkPad Edge 15 to an Intel CULV-based Acer Timeline 3810T. This mid-to-high-end configuration fetches £700 at retail, making the Edge some £300 cheaper than a similarly spec'd T-Series ThinkPad.įew notebooks have yet been given the attention of our revamped benchmark suite, hence the current lack of comparison systems.
Latitude Ultra-portable laptops also work with all E-Family notebook docking solutions.For the purpose of our review, Lenovo provided a sample equipped with a 2.26GHz Intel Core i5 430M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, integrated Intel HD graphics and a 64-bit install of Microsoft's Windows 7 Professional operating system.
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