Lenovo ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop review

The advantage: The Lenovo ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop  is a solidly built laptop-tablet hybrid with all the security features your IT department needs. Thanks to dual batteries in the tablet and keyboard base, it can run for a full workday.

The disadvantage:  The Helix is stuck with Intel's less efficient previous generation of CPUs, making it feel especially expensive.

Conclusion: Even with the best detachable-screen hybrid hinge we've seen, the older CPU and high price of ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop make the ThinkPad Helix a hybrid for a select audience only. This convertible PC plays a laptop perfectly, but its weight and size make its less useful as a tablet.

 The last Lenovo laptop through our labs was the gorgeously thin and light X1 Carbon. The X1 nicely illustrated the company’s ability to deviate from its ‘solid but boring’ design principles without entirely throwing out the traditional ThinkPad aesthetic. The Twist does the same, sticking to the ThinkPad look whilst putting a bit of a spin on the form factor.

Opening the Twist up, you might be forgiven for thinking it’s just a regular laptop with an undersized hinge. However, the big difference – so aptly conveyed in the name – is that the Twist’s screen can be rotated 180 degrees. That gives you a number of options, the most obvious being to close the screen back-to-keyboard leaving you with a hefty ol’ tablet. However, you can also lean the screen back, using the keyboard as a picture-frame stand, in what Lenovo calls ‘stand mode’. Alternatively, you can turn the whole thing upside-down and use it in ‘tent mode’, if you just need a screen and don’t have much desk space.

Removing the screen from the base, flipping it around, and reattaching it has a couple of obvious uses. One is to create a kiosk-style display, with the screen pointing toward your audience without a keyboard or touch pad in the way. I've used Lenovo's own Yoga 13 like this many times, and if you share a lot of onscreen content, it can be a useful feature, especially if you can still drive the system from behind, as you still have access to the keyboard and touch pad.


As a tablet, the ThinkPad Twist is far from a model specimen. Its 1.25kg weight is light for a laptop, but far too heavy for a tablet. Holding it one-handed for any length of time is draining, but the 12.5-inch screen size makes it just a bit too large to hold it two-handed and control with your thumbs. It does work well laid flat on a table, which would be a good way to share the display in roundtable meetings. However, low brightness and a highly reflective screen limit the viewing angle. Unless you’re looking straight down at it, you won’t see all that much.

Performance in our comprehensive suite of benchmarks was dead on the average for Ultrabooks based on the same processor, except in storage-based tests where its hard drive/SSD hybrid setup simply can’t compete with SSD-only solutions.

Amazing  Lenovo ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop Battery:

Lenovo ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop Battery

•  Brand: Lenovo laptop battery
• Chemical: Li-ion
• Rating: 14.8V
• Capacity: 2870mAh
• Color: BLACK

This Li-ion, rechargeable ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop Battery is also compatible with: LENOVO 33473MC laptop
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Made with high and good brand cells,  Lenovo ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop Battery has a good performance in ThinkPad Twist S230u laptop.