Naturally, a low-voltage dual-core chip isn't going to stand a chance against a faster quad-core processor in a synthetic measure of CPU performance like SiSoftware’s Sandra Arithmetic module. Lenovo isn’t just shooting for a lower price on this one, though. It's also trying to equip you with usable battery life for those times when you want to pick the IdeaCentre Horizon up and lay it down on the coffee table in your living room. The Dell system doesn’t even have a battery.


The IdeaCentre Horizon enjoys a win in Sandra's Memory Bandwidth sub-test thanks to its use of DDR3-1600. Curiously, although we found DDR3-1600 in Dell's XPS 2710 as well, the company had it configured to run at 1333 MT/s.

This is the first review where we've used TouchXPRT, a home media benchmark that synthesizes a touch-oriented workload. It doesn’t actually require that you have fingers in order to run.
Of course, Dell's XPS 2710 wasn’t around by the time we rolled this metric into our all-in-one test suite. You'll see it applied to other systems moving forward though, giving us a larger library of comparison data.

- Lenovo's Table-Sized IdeaCentre Horizon PC
- What Is A Table PC Used For, Anyway?
- Getting To Know The IdeaCentre Horizon
- Brightness, Contrast, Uniformity, And Gamma
- Color Gamut, Accuracy, And Calibration
- Test Settings And Benchmarks
- Results: 3DMark And PCMark
- Results: Sandra And TouchXPRT
- Results: Battlefield 3 And Far Cry 3
- Results: Skyrim And F1 2012
- Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Results: Adobe Creative Suite
- Results: Productivity
- Results: File Compression
- Energy, Heat, And Battery Life
- The Overall Efficiency And Value Of Lenovo's IdeaCentre Horizon
I wish Tom's would aim their incredible testing abilities at these types of claims. I would like to know if MY Lenova is making me vulnerable.
Lenovo X230
i7 ivy bridge processor
16 GB RAM
500 GB 7200 rpm drive
HD4000 integrated graphics
* connected to one external Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24" monitor.
Why have a PC? Just buy a big a## table.
Why have a PC? Just buy a big a## table.
Ahh, I thought it used both as I've seen some reviews on this website where software uses the cpu and gpu accelerated openCL together.
Also a weird thing I've noticed is that in this article 7zip hands down beats every other program in both file compression time and size, yet in articles such as this one winrar is faster by a factor of over 2. Why is there such a discrepency? The articles are even using the same versions of the program.
Ahh, I thought it used both as I've seen some reviews on this website where software uses the cpu and gpu accelerated openCL together.
Also a weird thing I've noticed is that in this article 7zip hands down beats every other program in both file compression time and size, yet in articles such as this one winrar is faster by a factor of over 2. Why is there such a discrepency? The articles are even using the same versions of the program.