[Video Review] Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 – brings performance to the table, but lacks in other areas


Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 (Intel) in-depth review

A ton of notebooks was released at CES 2021. The majority of them - meant for gaming, and sporting the latest and greatest from NVIDIA and AMD. However, in order to keep ourselves in check (and while we wait for most of the aforementioned laptops to become available), we will take a look at the ThinkPad E15 Gen 2. Ultimately, it is a notebook, that aims at the budget business laptop crown, fighting with the HP ProBook 450 G8, and the Dell Latitude 15 3510.In order to achieve that, Lenovo is sporting the Tiger Lake processors from Intel, which finally deliver both CPU and GPU performance t[...]

Pros

  • Great spill-resistant keyboard
  • Good performance
  • The display doesn't flicker at any brightness level (LGD064C)
  • Supports Wi-Fi 6 and two M.2 PCIe x4 drives
  • Optional IR face recognition and fingerprint reader

Cons

  • Covers only 53% of sRGB and not uniform luminance across the area of the display
  • Only two USB Type-A ports, one of which runs at 2.0 speeds
  • No SD card reader

Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 (Intel) - Specs

  • LG LP156WFC-SPD1 (LGD0563)
  • Color accuracy  4.9  3.8
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 2000GB SSD
  • M.2 Slot
  • 1x 2280 +1x 2242 M.2 PCIe x4 slot  See photo
  • RAM
  • up to 40GB
  • OS
  • Windows 11 Pro, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Home, Windows 11 Home, No OS
  • Battery
  • 45Wh, 3-cell
  • Body material
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate, Aluminum
  • Dimensions
  • 365 x 240 x 18.9 mm (14.37" x 9.45" x 0.74")
  • Weight
  • 1.70 kg (3.7 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 2.0
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • Thunderbolt 4, Power Delivery (PD), DisplayPort
  • HDMI
  • 1.4b
  • Displayport mini
  • Card reader
  • Ethernet LAN
  • 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ac/ax
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.0/5.1
  • Audio jack
  • 3.5mm Combo Jack
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • optional
  • Web camera
  • HD
  • Backlit keyboard
  • optional
  • Microphone
  • Dual Array Microphone
  • Speakers
  • 2x 2W, Dolby Audio
  • Optical drive
  • Security Lock slot
  • Kensington Lock
  • Compartment for Wireless Earbuds

All Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 (Intel) configurations

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