The IdeaPad S940 felt peppy throughout my testing.
Windows 10 Pro ran smoothly, and the laptop handled
multitasking and media editing without any hiccups.
My only complaint was that the rear edge of the system
tended to heat up during demanding tasks.
PRODUCTIVITY, STORAGE, AND MEDIA TESTS
PCMark 10 and 8 are holistic performance suites
developed by the PC benchmark specialists at UL
(formerly Futuremark). The PCMark 10 test we run
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processing, spreadsheet jockeying, web browsing, and
videoconferencing. The test generates a proprietary
numeric score; higher numbers are better.
PCMark 8, meanwhile, has a Storage subtest that we
use to assess the speed of the system’s storage
subsystem. The result is also a proprietary numeric
score; again, higher numbers are better.
Windows 10 Pro
ran smoothly,
and the laptop
handled
multitasking
and media
editing
without any
hiccups.