Cameras and Battery Life

Before I dive into the Helix'south battery life, I desire to touch briefly on the cameras on the tablet. On the front you go a 2-megapixel (1080p) 16:9 sensor, and on the back there's a five-megapixel 4:3 sensor. Both are very mediocre in terms of quality, with a lot of washing out and generally poor color reproduction. The rear camera will exist handy for the occasional document photograph in good lighting, but otherwise you probably won't desire to use information technology.

Every bit for battery life, I was actually very impressed with what the combination of a 35 Wh internal bombardment and Intel's Core 1000 CPU delivered. The ThinkPad Helix lasted noticeably longer than the Yoga three Pro during my standard use of the device, which is a good issue because the Helix's battery and display are 22% and 24% smaller respectively.

When writing Word documents, editing Excel spreadsheets and browsing the web in Chrome, I achieved effectually seven to eight hours of battery life with the brandish set to a moderate effulgence level. This is a skillful upshot; it's around what I would expect for this sort of device, and matches Lenovo'southward battery life estimates. The original model was rated for six hours of life, and had a 20% larger (42 Wh) battery, which is a great upshot for the efficiency of Intel's Core 1000 chip.

As you lot can see from the battery results higher up, Core Thou fares a lot ameliorate in the ThinkPad Helix than the Yoga 3 Pro. In video playback, the Helix lasted equally long as a super low power Bay Trail 8-inch tablet, while in Wi-Fi it lasted an admirable six hours.

I also recorded a quite decent result in an intense use benchmark: playing Crysis iii at 100% screen brightness. Here, the Helix lasted two and a one-half hours, which was more than double the length of the Alienware 13. Granted the Alienware is a gaming machine with more powerful hardware, only I thought the Helix would fare worse than it did.

If you lot opt for the Ultrabook Pro Keyboard, you'll go an extra 26 Wh bombardment (7% smaller than the original Helix's keyboard dock). This battery will allegedly extend the total system bombardment life by four hours to a full of 12, though as I didn't have time with it, I tin can't verify those claims.