Enhanced Experience 2012
Where is the Enhanced Experience at CES this year? Rest assured we have some great technology we are working on for our 2012 systems. But in the interim, I’d like to highlight one particular co-engineering effort that’s timely and a great example of what the Enhanced Experience is all about. One of the best parts of my job at Lenovo is collaboration with partners who share a dedication to providing the absolute best customer experience possible. Take AuthenTec, for example, the company that makes the fingerprint sensor solution that ships on many Lenovo ThinkPad laptop PCs. They understand one of the tenets of the Enhanced Experience development philosophy – never be satisfied, always strive for improvement. With the advent of their new TCS5D smart sensor with the TCD51 biometric companion processor we looked together at ways to further improve the performance of the Power-On Authentication feature which allows users to quickly boot or resume their system from standby with the swipe of a finger. Power On Authentication eliminates the typical delay and interruption of the laptop’s pause and the need for the user to enter a Windows password, enhancing the customer experience while also providing the protection of biometric security. Any small improvement we could identify would translate directly to faster time-to-productivity for the end user. Here is a side-by-side video of the...
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John Mese, our resident Windows 7 optimization expert (there’s really a much bigger team behind the man), talks about how Lenovo is putting the brakes on idle time waiting for your PC to start. Here he shares how we did it, but like all good cooks, keeps the secret ingredient a secret. “Wow, can I see that again?” “When can I have this?” “OK, so how did you do it?” These were the common reactions to the ultra-fast-booting Lenovo computers we demonstrated a few weeks ago at CES in order to promote the release of the Lenovo Enhanced Experience 2.0. We showed six PCs—three laptops and three desktops—all of which booted up in less than 10 seconds: IdeaPad Y570 IdeaCentre B520 IdeaCentre K330 ThinkCentre M90z ThinkPad T420s ThinkPad Edge E420s You can watch it here. It won't take long. Setting the Bar Honestly, when I first started working on this demo, I wasn’t sure if a sub-10-second boot time was achievable. A standard/default install on the exact same hardware configuration was already pretty fast at around 15 seconds. And it’s exceedingly difficult to find ways to significantly improve upon an already fast PC. Think of it as trying to shine an already shiny car. Well, not only were we able to break the 10-second barrier - we shattered it. To use the vernacular, we “PWNed” it in the face. The ThinkPads on display (which...
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