Discrete graphics are only offered on these if you buy them overseas; they are not available (yet) with a separate graphics card in the US. I have one and the Intel HD Graphics 3000 does a pretty decent job of gaming, but you'll have to turn the settings down.
According to Lenovo's tech support, the Windows 7 images and recovery discs that are currently shipping with Lenovo notebooks and desktops don't support UEFI and the GPT format. So none of them will be booting in under 10 seconds even if you have the fastest available consumer SSD. We need to wait for EE 2.1 to get those boot times.
So I guess this video isn't telling the whole story...
Companies and their lies. I'd like to see if all of Lenovo's Thinkvantage software is installed (it doesn't look like they are to me). Was anyone allowed to handle Lenovo's "10 second" boot PCs at CES? You know, check to see if they didn't have most of the Windows services disabled or missing most of the software a typical Lenovo PC would come with. The "secret sauce" part...
What you see in this video is not what owners of new Lenovo computers will be getting. Shame on you Lenovo.
I've confirmed this. I got a T420s and the installed system does not use UEFI and hence the drive does not use the GPT partition format. I installed a 160GB Intel X25-M SSD. I set the BIOS to UEFI only mode and tried the recovery discs. It, of course, failed. It only succeeded when I did not use the UEFI only mode.
With the SSD, the T420s does not boot under 10 seconds. Good job Lenovo, you duped this first (and last) time customer with your marketing tricks and lies.
Ya, the Thinkpad experience has really gone downhill ever since Lenovo took it over from IBM. I guess I'm starting to understand why the US defense contractor I work for stopped using Thinkpads and switched to Dell and HP only since Lenovo took it over.
Not only has the quality gone down, Lenovo is trying to milk the Thinkpad name by slapping it on things like the low budget Edge and other non-Thinkpad worthy devices.
You need reinstall the whole system into the SSD and modified by LENOVO EE 2.0 to achieve 10 seconds booting. The one in this video is original E420s with SSD installed, the Win-7 Driver IS in the SSD, that's the reason so fast booting.
Lenovo also advertises the T420s as a 10 sec boot device. I found out that it needs a special BIOS which Lenovo doesn't provide. You also need a special UEFI preload image which Lenovo also doesn't provide. So Lenovo is advertising boot times from development systems that they don't actually sell.
Is it the HDD or SSD?
staffersteward 5 months ago
hey does it has discrete graphic, how is gaming on it.
jcsf3 7 months ago
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savagesanity 7 months ago
Discrete graphics are only offered on these if you buy them overseas; they are not available (yet) with a separate graphics card in the US. I have one and the Intel HD Graphics 3000 does a pretty decent job of gaming, but you'll have to turn the settings down.
savagesanity 7 months ago
Install Soluto, so we can see the actual in Windows startup time.
TheSilentwarrior99 8 months ago
What hard drive(s) was installed on this system?
legnd700 9 months ago
According to Lenovo's tech support, the Windows 7 images and recovery discs that are currently shipping with Lenovo notebooks and desktops don't support UEFI and the GPT format. So none of them will be booting in under 10 seconds even if you have the fastest available consumer SSD. We need to wait for EE 2.1 to get those boot times.
So I guess this video isn't telling the whole story...
sean97419 10 months ago 2
@sean97419
Companies and their lies. I'd like to see if all of Lenovo's Thinkvantage software is installed (it doesn't look like they are to me). Was anyone allowed to handle Lenovo's "10 second" boot PCs at CES? You know, check to see if they didn't have most of the Windows services disabled or missing most of the software a typical Lenovo PC would come with. The "secret sauce" part...
What you see in this video is not what owners of new Lenovo computers will be getting. Shame on you Lenovo.
yotra100 10 months ago 2
@sean97419
I've confirmed this. I got a T420s and the installed system does not use UEFI and hence the drive does not use the GPT partition format. I installed a 160GB Intel X25-M SSD. I set the BIOS to UEFI only mode and tried the recovery discs. It, of course, failed. It only succeeded when I did not use the UEFI only mode.
With the SSD, the T420s does not boot under 10 seconds. Good job Lenovo, you duped this first (and last) time customer with your marketing tricks and lies.
012nala 10 months ago
@012nala
Ya, the Thinkpad experience has really gone downhill ever since Lenovo took it over from IBM. I guess I'm starting to understand why the US defense contractor I work for stopped using Thinkpads and switched to Dell and HP only since Lenovo took it over.
Not only has the quality gone down, Lenovo is trying to milk the Thinkpad name by slapping it on things like the low budget Edge and other non-Thinkpad worthy devices.
sean97419 10 months ago
@012nala
You need reinstall the whole system into the SSD and modified by LENOVO EE 2.0 to achieve 10 seconds booting. The one in this video is original E420s with SSD installed, the Win-7 Driver IS in the SSD, that's the reason so fast booting.
lipong168 6 months ago 2
@lipong168
Lenovo also advertises the T420s as a 10 sec boot device. I found out that it needs a special BIOS which Lenovo doesn't provide. You also need a special UEFI preload image which Lenovo also doesn't provide. So Lenovo is advertising boot times from development systems that they don't actually sell.
012nala 6 months ago
dang, thats sweet
edfungus 10 months ago
Just white noise picked up by my Evo.
jcmese 10 months ago
0:19 is it the CPU Whine or what?
mareslive 10 months ago
Haha this boots about four times faster than my high-end pc with an ssd! ^^
TheFlyingFruit 10 months ago
hey howd you get the trackpoint off?
shigityshigityshwa 10 months ago
cool
pigjames2007 10 months ago
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT! Lenovo over everything!
eyelem01 1 year ago
Can't wait for one!!! Sooooo awesome!
gohongyi 1 year ago