New x220 questions

Hi guys, I just got a new x220 and was wondering what are some ways I can measure the performance of this laptop. The specs are below:

Processor Intel® Core™ i7-2620M
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 - English
Total Memory 6GB DDR3
Hard Drive 128GB SATA 1.8" Solid State Drive
Display 12.5” HD WXGA (1366 X 768) IPS, LED, W/ 720p HD Camera
Graphics Intel® HD Graphics 3000
Battery 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (Up to 2.5 Hours Run Time)
Ethernet/Wireless Intel® Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (2x2 AGN)
Mobile Broadband Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network upgradable
Bluetooth Yes
Integrated Camera Yes
Color Black
Fingerprint Reader Yes

I'm not sure where I could find threads on this.

Also, the laptop doesn't have a built in mic it seems? Or do I have to enable it somewhere?

Moreover, I've been having some desktop icon issues where the icons just show up all as the same weird icon (a paper with a window inside). Is this some bug of x220 or jut windows in general?

Another post said to check for backlight bleeding. I did observe some minor bleeding, 3 spots at the bottom of the screen. Would this be something I should bring up to the tech support?

Lastly, when I looked at the WEI of my x220, it shows as follows:
7.1/7.5/4.7/6.2/6.7 How come the Graphic's is so low? Also, when I had an Asus Zenbook, the SSD inside is rated 7.8 or 7.9, but the SSD on x220 is only 6.7? Thanks for all inputs!

 

I have an X220 Tablet, My scores are 7.1/7.7/4.8/6.2/7.7

Specs in the sig.

 

Might want to make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your video card. I have the Intel HD3000 and my Graphics WEI score is 5.7.

What make and model is your SSD? Are you sure it's a 1.8" drive? As far as I know, the x220 HDD bay takes 2.5" drives only.

 

Weird thing. I updated the driver for intel HD3000 and now it dropped down to 7.1/7.5/4.2/5.6/6.7....what's going on?

 

@ gamekingr

Your WEI scores are low.

Mine, out of the box (with 4GB RAM), were 7.1, 5.9, 4.8, 6.2, 7.7. I just let all the recommended Lenovo and Microsoft updates install themselves. I installed 8GB HyperX RAM and I upgraded to Win 7 Pro x64.

My WEI scores went up to 7.1, 7.6, 6.3, 6.3, 7.6 -- which are high graphics scores for this particular Intel HD graphics chip.

I know none of this really helps you but I will try to look into more later as I want to see if I can this mSATA SSD working.

 

i've discover more updates that I needed to do. After completely updated the assessment gave me the score of 7.1/7.5/5.7/6.2/6.8. Seems more reasonable. Is the reason that my hard disk score is much lower than urs due to Toshiba sucks and intel ssd is better? Thanks

 

I think that that hard disk score is good. It looks like Intel is probably better than the Toshiba.
The SSD in my desktop PC only gets WEI score of 5.9. I think I need a new SSD there -- it was one of the first Kingston-based ones...

 

See my post here for a table which shows how the RAM configuration affects the graphics performance. All the tests were on my T420s with i5-2520M CPU.

Note that you may need to rerun WEI twice for the results to be correct. I needed to do that during my testing.

John

 

Toshiba SSDs don't look so good compared to others, check out: NVELO Dataplex SSD Caching Software Review - Seven mSATA SSDs Prove An Amazing Concept - The SSD Review

 

Scores: 7.1/7.4/6.3/6.3/7.7

8GB of Samsung RAM (I matched the 4GB of RAM that came with the laptop).

 

Score:

7.1 / 7.5 / 6.3 / 6.3 / 7.9

i5 2540M /8GB 30nm Samsung RAM/ Samsung 830 SSD