PC World - USA (2019-11)

NOVEMBER 2019 PCWorld 47

don’t discount a

Whiskey Lake platform

like the ThinkBook 13s

because it doesn’t sport

the latest label.

It’s important to

place these results into

the proper perspective.

Many of the notebooks

we test are consumer

PCs, some with high

price tags attached. We

compared the Lenovo

ThinkBook 13s to a

variety of the consumer

and business machines,

weighted more toward

the consumer market.

Pay attention to where

the ThinkBook 13s

places—though its

results are middling

overall, its absolute

scores aren’t bad. And

for the price, it may be

worth a purchase.

Historically, PCMark

8’s suite (Work, Home,

and Creative) offers a

range of applications

tests, from general office

work (word processing

and spreadsheet

calculations) to VoIP

HP Spectre x360 13 (2019) (Core i7-8565U)

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th Gen) (Core i7-8550U)

HP Spectre x360 13T

(Core i7-8550U)

Samsung Notebook 9 Pen

(Core i7-8550U)

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s

(Core i5-8265U)

Lenovo ThinkPad L480(Core i5-8250U)

M(Core i5-8250U)icrosoft Surface Pro 6

M(Core i5-8250U)icrosoft Surface Laptop 2

PCMark 8 Work 2.0

(Native resolution)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,632

3,415

3,510

3,077

3,533

3,150

3,474

2,860

PCMark 8’s scores establish the central thesis of the ThinkBook 13s: average
in terms of performance, but the low price makes it a good value.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon

(6th Gen) (Core i7-8550U)

HP Spectre x360 13 (2019)

(Core i7-8565U)

HP Spectre x360 13T(Core i7-8550U)

Sam(Core i7-8550U)sung Notebook 9 Pen

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s(Core i5-8265U)

M(Core i5-8250U)icrosoft Surface Pro 6

Lenovo ThinkPad L480

(Core i5-8250U)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 2

(Core i5-8250U)

PCMark 8 Creative 2.0

(Native resolution)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,582

3,397

3,519

3,244

3,541

3,253

3,515

2,932