PC World - USA (2019-11)

48 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2019

REVIEWS LENOVO THINKBOOK 13S

calls, image

manipulation, light

gaming, and even some

video editing. PCMark

10 modernizes all of

these tests, and

combines them into a

single overall

benchmark.

For simplicity’s

sake, we’ve provided

the PCMark 8 Work

and Creative tests

below, comparing the

ThinkBook 13s to some

of its competitors. It

fares pretty well.

We have fewer

PCMark 10 scores to

compare to, but here

are some representative

samples to place the

ThinkBook’s

performance into

context. The ThinkBook

13s scored 3,752,

slightly higher than the

3,737 that the well-

regarded Dell XPS 13

Lenovo’s ThinkBook

13s again falls to the

middle of the pack in

this Cinebench test.

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

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

Lenovo ThinkPad L480

(Core i5-8250U)

Microsoft Surface Pro 6

(Core i5-8250U

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s

(Core i5-8265U)

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

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

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

Cinebench RT15.038

(All threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

623

567

595

553

604

558

576

532

Intel’s “Whiskey Lake” architecture and the ThinkBook’s robust cooling

propel it high up in the Handbrake video-conversion test, a real-world

transcoding exercise

Lenovo ThinkPad L480

(Core i5-8250U)

Lenovo ThinkBook 13s

(Core i5-8265U)

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

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

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

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

HP Spectre x360 13 (2019)

(Core i7-8565U)

HP Spectre x360 13T

(Core i7-8550U)

HandBrake 0.99.0 Encoding (H.264)

(Seconds)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,701

4,116

3,874

4,302

3,799

4,137

3,879

4,373