Tested! Lenovo ThinkBook 14 Review
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The Lenovo ThinkBook 14 comes with ample computing power and a few nifty features that'll prove to be useful in the average office environment like a hidden USB port for tiny dongles, and one-touch power and unlock, but fails to get the basics right, such as display, audio, and touchpad.
LENOVO THINKBOOK 14 DETAILED REVIEW
Since its inception in the early 1990s by IBM, the ThinkPad brand has been associated with high-end enterprise-grade computing. ThinkPad models, usually sold in an all-black paint scheme with red accents, have generally never come cheap, except the relatively newer E- and L-series ones. Lenovo, the ThinkPad brand’s second owner, launched the IdeaPad brand in early 2008 to cater to everyday consumers. These models are generally more colourful and stylish. Since then, both brands have had distinct definitions and co-existed independently. Now, however, Lenovo is throwing a new name into the mix.
Called ThinkBook, the new sub-brand from Lenovo finds itself straddling the space between the ThinkPad and IdeaPad in terms of features, looks, and even price. This space in between is designed to cater to working professionals in small and medium businesses (SMBs). At least, that’s how Lenovo sees it. The ThinkBook is designed to carry over all the essential features of the ThinkPad (data encryption support, etc.) while infusing the IdeaPad’s DNA (style, friendliness, etc.) Now, let’s see if all of that has gone according to plan in the Lenovo ThinkBook 14, which is expected to go on sale this month starting at a rather steep price of Rs 80,000+.
PERFORMANCE
The Lenovo ThinkBook 14 can be configured with up to an Intel 10th Gen Core i7 CPU with six cores along with 24GB of RAM and 2TB of storage on a hard drive (or 1TB on a solid-state drive). Our review unit came with the Intel Core i7-10510U chip, a quad-core variant of the top-end processor. It was complemented by 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage on a Samsung PCIe NVMe M.2 solid-state drive. The ThinkBook 14 can be bought with discrete graphics in the form of an AMD Radeon 625 graphics card but our review unit employed internal Intel UHD Graphics.
The review unit bagged decent scores on our CPU and GPU benchmark tests. On PCMark 8’s Accelerated Creative test, the review unit scored 3843 points. The IdeaPad S540, by contrast, scored a slightly lower 3584 on the same test. The Asus VivoBook X403, which costs about Rs 54,610 at the time of writing this review, also scored a marginally lower 3724 on the same test. On 3DMark’s Fire Strike and Cloud Gate, the review unit scored 1192 and 9079 points, respectively. I was happy to note that our review unit had fared splendidly on our storage test.
Everyday performance of the review unit was pretty good except for one minor glitch, which we’ll address in a minute. I was able to use everyday applications such as Word, Excel, OneNote, Chrome, File Explorer, Photos, and WhatsApp for PC independently without having to wait a long time for any of them to open. All of these apps behaved well and responded quickly. File open times were especially fast. But it was while switching between these applications (multitasking) that I noticed an anomaly. The window switcher showed a noticeable amount of lag almost every time I hit Alt + Tab. The switcher often remained on the screen for over one whole second after I had released the combination keys for switching windows.
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