It seems these days that every music artist/producer/DJ/whatever is using MacBooks and other Apple products. I, on the other hand, chose to go a different route: I chose to use ThinkPads. Lenovo products, let alone ThinkPads and other Think products, are greatly underrated in the music industry and very rarely utilized. I think this …
Just as we did last year for the Broadwell lineup, this article is supposed to help people navigate through the jungle of the ThinkPad lineup when deciding which ThinkPad to buy. Build Quality While we can´t say anything about long-term build quality yet of course, there are certainly a few things we do know already. …
Back in early January when the new Skylake ThinkPad models were announced, we were confronted by a little mystery regarding the storage used in various T- and X-series models: Models like the T460, X260, T560 and T460p all were announced to be available with a 256 GB PCIe SSD option. No big deal you might …
This guide will show you how to overclock your Skylake CPU using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility or also known as Intel XTU. If you do not have a processor with an unlocked multiplier, overclocking may either be disabled or severely limited. Use undervolting and overclocking with caution. Lowering the voltage too much can cause instability. Overvolting is …
With this article, we will help you backing up and restoring drivers, applications, wallpapers and the factory OEM image that came with your Yoga 900. Backing up drivers & applications The drivers and applications are stored on the 4th partition of the SSD. The partition is about 25GB in size on the 256GB SSD model. …
Introduction This guide will show you how to install, set up and configure Dolby Home Theater v4. Before getting into all of that, let’s take a look at what Dolby Home Theater is in the first place. What is Dolby Home Theater v4? Most people will be vaguely familiar with the term Dolby. “Dolby Labs …
Maybe you may have seen the ThinkPad P50 and ThinkPad P70 prototypes at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam, IFA 2015 in Berlin or other events. If you did, you may have noticed a HDD status indicator light integrated in the front bezel. However in the prototypes it appeared to be non-functional. We asked around, and we …
Some Lenovo machines contained incursion vulnerabilities that allow breaking into System Management Mode (SMM). While most recent ThinkPads are affected, there are also some affected consumer machines. Lenovo describes the vulnerabilities as follows: Some BIOS implementations permit unsafe System Management Mode (SMM) function calls to memory locations outside of System Management RAM (SMRAM). An attacker …
In this short article, I want to take a look at how the ThinkPad Chiclet keyboard has evolved over time, since the initial announcement in 2010, over the introduction to mainstream ThinkPads in 2012, until today (2015) and the future generation (Skylake, 2016), which we already got a peek on with the new ThinkPad P series and the …
If you are reading this, you are probably trying to choose between the ThinkPad w541 which is capable of using quad core Haswell processors or the ThinkPad W550s which uses low voltage dual core processors from Intel with a newer Maxwell graphics card, the Quadro K620M. The Lenovo ThinkPad W541 is a rebranded ThinkPad W540. …