ThinkBooks are coming with AMD Ryzen this year - 16:10 QHD OLED, RTX Graphics, big batteries - stay tuned... EDIT: It's September 2021 and finally out in the USA! Right now you can grab the Ryzen 5 / 3060 model for $1250 at a discount.
Thanks for the review Lisa, I just got one of this in a slightly different version for Asian countries I guess. Awaiting for its arrival and this review has given me some confidence on what I'm gonna deal with. Looks promising for light users.
Thanks for the great review. Having used Lenovo workstation grade laptops for content creation for a long time: I am so over carrying power bricks like that to cover for the Low battery life. Having tested an M1 based device I don’t think I will buy another intel laptop like this.
I love your reviews Lisa. One thing you missed is that the included RAM might be soldered in. All the other Thinkbook 15 models in this generation are set up that way. That makes upgrading the included ram chip on the Thinkbook 15 series, in general, next to impossible. The bottom is plastic.
Thinkbook 15p G2 from lenovo psref The bottom is aluminium Aluminium (Top), Aluminium (Bottom) Memory Slots Two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots, dual-channel capable . Nothing is soldered. Two slots. Easy to upgrade.
I have the G2 version. Apart from a very silent fan without the annoying whine, there a lot of major disappointments. Also on this particular model in the video, when you are going from left to right starting at 1:16, you can see that there is a different amount of space between the hinge and the chassis for the one hinge compared to the other one. -price/build quality ratio - Large bezels - Build quality is very flimsy and plasticy - Screen brightness not high enough - which means the battery life is very very very poor. 4 and a half hours of office time without Bluetooth or additional devices is very poor especially for such a physically large laptop. - too small backspace key and often turning of and on the num lock - Screen hinges very fragile and not symmetric. - screen looks grey and sometimes it’s like it wants to be sharper than it can be. - Heavy when you consider it is a full plastic laptop. The good: keyboard feels good apart from the backspace issue and the fan never a high pitched tone.
I have this laptop with a 10750H + 1650Ti. Just to highlight some big faults with this laptop. 1 - Up and Down arrow keys are not full size. This is minor. 2 - At least with Portuguese keyboard, page up and page down is combined with the (tiny little) arrow keys+fn. This will drive you mad if you massively need to use them. 3 - The cooling solution is complete bad design. This laptops should be recalled. Sharing the same heat pipes with the GPU and CPU when you have dissipation only on one side of the system will cause throttling when GPU and CPU is in moderate or high use. This laptop throttles if you use the CPU and GPU (both combined) at just 50% or higher. If the GPU have moderate load, the CPU (further away in the heat pipe) is not cooled. Is totally unacceptable and I'm very very disapointed with this laptop and strongly advise every one to avoid it.
are the fans constantly on? i returned my previous lenovo laptop because the fans are constantly running for no reason. does this laptop have the same problem?
Deal breaker for me: the keyboard does not seem of good quality . It is 💔 Too bad it has the perfect specs for me. Can you compare the keyboard with the legion 5/legion 5 pro?
Just curious, why does the back(forward) slash key above the enter key have that little extension on the bottom of the key. My Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook has the same thing. Any purpose for it ? Thanks.
Lenovo should get rid of their logo on that kind of laptop and put the Thinkbook logo on the middle proudly... the design is immaculate with its two tone lid and lenovo has a clear mind when making keyboard... i hate that metallic keyboard that has same color as the body other brand use. this thinkbook use black keyboard like all laptop should be
im aware theyre not popular, but any slim bezel 17inch chonky laptops worth looking into on the way? without intel, and with something on the level of 70 series and 3 ssd slots, and a 4k screen (option at least)
The only problem with it is that it's not a thinkpad. Bad arrow keys, bad tracpad, I have to give it a miss. Would like a P50 or p70 series with a mortal graphics card and mortal price.
I don't know why Lenovo still insisting on putting number pad and the red click ball as we are in 2021? Dell tried to take some tips from Apple by mKing a large track pad and and good keyboard.
Yikes that keyboard layout is still miles worse than the old IBM 7 row keyboard layout. No trackpoint either. Specs mean nothing if the actual input controllers are painful to use since none of them are as intuitive as that legendary 7 row keyboard layout. Too busy trying to be like Apple I guess.
This $1000 laptop does not have the inverted-T arrangement for the arrow keys, which most power users definitely want. But the $700 Thinkpad E15 laptop does have good arrow keys. Why does Lenovo shortchange their customers in this way? omg
