Lenovo ThinkPad 8 Windows 8.1 Tablet Review

Name: Lenovo ThinkPad 8 Windows 8.1 Tablet Review
Brand: Lenovo

by Joshua Gulick — Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 11:38 AM EDT

Next, we fired up some well-known benchmarks to see how the ThinkPad Lenovo 8 compares to other tablets on the market. Aside from adjusting the power settings (so the tablet's screen doesn't time out during testing), we leave the tablet in the condition in which it arrives. That means that any preloaded programs that run automatically at startup are still running in the background. Generally, the cleaner the system, the better.

Javascript & Web Browsing Performance

General Purpose Workloads

SunSpider 0.9.1 is a Javascript benchmark that has been around for a long time, so we have plenty of tablets to compare the ThinkPad 8 to, including one of its closest competitors, the Dell Venue Pro. Lower scores are better in this test. We also ran Browsermark, which runs the tablet through a series of tasks involving Flash, Silverlight, and HTML5, among others. Higher results are better in Browsermark.

The ThinkPad 8 took top honors in SunSpider and fared reasonably well in Browsermark. In both cases, the ThinkPad 8 outperformed the Dell Venue 8 Pro, which isn't surprising: The ThinkPad 8 has slightly newer hardware. Next, we fired up the graphics benchmarks.

Tags: Intel, Lenovo, Atom, quad-core, Windows, tablet, full hd, Bay Trail, QuickShot

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.