Lenovo ThinkPad X201s specs:

i7-620LM (2GHz),
2GB RAM,
320GB 7200rpm HD,
12. inch 1440×900 LCD,
Intel HD graphics,
Win7 Pro 32 bit,
Intel 802.11agn wireless,
Bluetooth,
Modem,
1Gb Ethernet,
UltraNav,
Secure chip,
Fingerprint reader,
6c Li-Ion battery,
The only difference between ThinkPad X201s and ThinkPad X200s is that Lenovo ThinkPad X201s adds touchpad.

ThinkPad X201s inherited ThinkPad X200s shortcoming completely: no camera, no dedicated WWAN antenna.

Put two laptops together, we can see that the interfaces on the left side of ThinkPad X201s and ThinkPad X200s are almost the same except that USB port can be used as power supply interface.

The right interfaces of X201s and X200s are exactly the same:

Then look at the bottom side, it is almost identical with the X200s, there is no two-speaker configuration on X201s.

Since there is no much change in appearance, now remove the keyboard to see the structure inside. Removed the keyboard and palm rest of ThinkPad X201s and ThinkPad X200s, the internal structure of them are similar, and screws positions are identical. Does this mean that we can upgrade ThinkPad X200s with the motherboard of ThinkPad X201s? No, because the palmrest interfaces connecting to the motherboard has changed. In fact, Lenovo ThinkPad X201s adds a touchpad, so interconnecting link is changed from 10-pin to 18-pin, the interface is undoubtedly be changed, so if you want to save the costs, you must replace the motherboard and the palm rest at the same time.

These are ThinkPad X201s and ThinkPad X200s palmrest, put together, the above is the X201s, the following is X200s. of course, if not connected to the fingerprint, palmrests are universal.

This is Lenovo ThinkPad X201s CPUz information. They are primary, secondary and tertiary cache, which is the biggest change on Arrandale processor.

X200s CPUz information

More information about Lenovo ThinkPad X201s processors

Lenovo ThinkPad X200s

Now we test two laptops by wPrime, it reflects that Arrandale processor progress greatly.

First test with the 1.61 version, which is i7-620LM:

This is the SL9400:

The difference almost doubled, it is somewhat surprising. Then 2.0 version of the test result is also surprising.

This is i7-620LM, results is 23-24s or so:

The SL9400 is about 45s, the results are very close to the 1.61 version, directly illustrate the progress of the new platform.

We have briefly introduced Lenovo ThinkPad X201s. we can see the progress of new platform users who are used to Lenovo ThinkPad X200s will be glad with Lenovo ThinkPad X201s as the outlook of it is as same as Lenovo ThinkPad X200s while the performance of the laptop is greatly improved. It is a nice choice.