Affordable ThinkPad Yoga Convertibles are on everyone's lips these days, a category which Lenovo helped to pioneer. The ThinkPad L380 Yoga is an affordable convertible that expands Lenovo's business range. Find out in this detailed review whether this economy ThinkPad Yoga does enough to convince us.
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Performance:price ratio for L380 Yoga is king, but PWM.... how bothersome is it really??? I ordered it anyway. Will see how it goes.
I got my L380 Yoga last week and I am very happy with it.
PWM isn't bothering me at all (although my eyes are quite good I'd say), PCMark8 claims around 5-6h of battery and I get a score of about 7,000 in Passmark CPU Benchmark.
There is only one thing: the CPU never uses more than 15W under full load, all power limits seem to be at 15W and apparently can't be set higher. I've tried Intel's XTU, Throttlestop etc. but nothing works. When launching the Memory Tab of RWEverything, I get a bluescreen. That might also be a reason why it's so affordable... ;-)
Don't get me wrong, the performance is still great and with undervolting it (-0.110 V) I can get another 500 points at Passmark but I'd like to have the option to get more out of it. Especially considering that the CPU temperature never got higher than 75°C...
Quote from: AnotherOneThinksAPad on July 04, 2018, 13:53:21
There is only one thing: the CPU never uses more than 15W under full load, all power limits seem to be at 15W and apparently can't be set higher. I've tried Intel's XTU, Throttlestop etc. but nothing works. When launching the Memory Tab of RWEverything, I get a bluescreen. That might also be a reason why it's so affordable... ;-)
That's a result of the U-series processor used, which all max out at 15W: ark.intel.com/products/124967/Intel-Core-i5-8250U-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3-40-GHz-