EE2.0 Fast Boot Demo on ThinkPad Edge E420s

Here is a video of the Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0 Fast Boot running on a ThinkPad Edge E420s. I added captions to underscore how quickly each boot phase transitions. Total boot is 7.35 seconds as measured by the Microsoft Velocity tool. For the record, that's Danica Patrick's autograph on the screen.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Lenovo
• Enhanced Experience 2.0
• Thinkpad
• John Mese
• Danica Patrick

[jcmese]

Just white noise picked up by my Evo.

[staffersteward]

Is it the HDD or SSD?

[012nala]

@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.

[lipong168]

@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.

[savagesanity]

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.

[jcsf3]

hey does it has discrete graphic, how is gaming on it.

[TheSilentwarrior99]

Install Soluto, so we can see the actual in Windows startup time.

[legnd700]

What hard drive(s) was installed on this system?

[sean97419]

@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.

[012nala]

@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.