Lenovo Yoga 13 Review > Software and Performance

Software and Performance

The Lenovo Yoga thirteen ships with Windows 8 64-fleck, making it the first organisation we have tested to ship with Microsoft'due south latest Os.

I'll stop well short of doing a full-on review of Windows 8 but just annotation that if you are totally new to the Bone, information technology will certainly take some fourth dimension to get used to. I've had a little experience with Windows 8 beforehand merely even still, information technology took a bit to get the hang of things initially. After a couple of weeks, however, I felt pretty well versed and fifty-fifty found that there were some things I preferred over the tried and true Windows seven I've been using for years.

One of those things is how speedily the operating organization loads from a cold boot. I clocked a complete kicking at just eleven seconds; faster than whatsoever other organisation I have tested to engagement by a significant margin. Windows eight and the solid state drive can share the credit for this feat.

Upon booting into Windows 8 for the beginning time, I navigated to the add / remove programs menu and surprisingly found merely half a dozen or so programs that I would remove from the go-go. This is refreshing equally the last several notebooks I have reviewed shipped with at least a dozen or more bloatware apps.

Given this new platform, we were forced to modify our benchmarking procedures slightly. PCMark Vantage refused to requite an overall score now matter how hard I tried. Nosotros are too doing away with our "real-world" web-browsing bombardment test in favor of the much more than standardized Powermark application. All of our other testing procedures take been carried over from Windows 7.

Benchmarks Results

Synthetic Tests	Yoga 13	Aspire S5	TimelineU M5	MacBook Air

3DMark 06
3DMark Score	4393 3DMarks	5263 3DMarks	11958 3DMarks	5785 3DMarks

PCMark Vantage
PCMark Suite	N/A	13643 PCMarks	6743 PCMarks	Northward/A

Application Tests	Yoga thirteen	Aspire S5	TimelineU M5	MacBook Air

iTunes Encoding Test	1 min 25 sec	1 min xv sec	1 min 19 sec	51 sec

File Transfer Examination
Small files	24 sec	ten sec	1 min 11 sec	22 sec
Large file	22 sec	10 sec	1 min 19 sec	22 sec

The iTunes encoding tests consist of converting 14 MP3s (119MB) to 128Kbps ACC files and measuring the operation's duration in seconds. For file transfers, we measure how long it takes to re-create two sets of files from ane location to another on the same hard bulldoze. On the modest files test nosotros transfer 557 MP3s, totaling two.56GB. For the big file, these aforementioned MP3s were zipped into a single file measuring ii.52GB.

Gaming Performance	Yoga xiii	Aspire S5	TimelineU M5	MacBook Air

Far Cry 2
1024x768, Medium Quality	23.five fps	35.two fps	69.0 fps	37.3 fps
Native res, High Quality	15.3 fps	21.9 fps	55.5 fps	xix.iii fps

StarCraft 2
1024x768, Medium Quality	sixteen.9 fps	21.8 fps	39.7 fps	25.1 fps
Native res, High Quality	ten.8 fps	15.2 fps	29.ix fps	sixteen.1 fps