Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

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来自 : Severin Kolakov 17 特点 2021 / 05:58 | 3

With the barrage of new laptops that got released around the time of CES 2021, with most of them being gaming-oriented devices, we kind of lost track of the other great additions to the laptop market.

The budget category is becoming more interesting with every passing year, with hardware becoming more powerful, there are great options that can punch above their weight. One such device is the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2, which comes with the latest Tiger Lake chips from Intel, which bring with them the best iGPUs that you can find right now.

Without further ado, here are LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2.

Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2: Full Specs / In-depth Review

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Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

处理器: Intel Core i5-1135G7
视频卡: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
内存: 4GB RAM
存储: 256GB SSD

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Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

处理器: Intel Core i5-1135G7
视频卡: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
内存: 8GB RAM
存储: 512GB SSD

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Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

处理器: Intel Core i5-1135G7
视频卡: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
内存: 16GB RAM
存储: 1000GB SSD

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3 reasons to BUY the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

1. The Design and build quality

While the base is made out of plastic, we didn’t notice flexing that is outside the boundaries. The lid, however, is 100% aluminum, and it has the cool to the touch feeling, that is unanimous with aluminum. Dimensions-wise, the laptop retains the 18.9 mm profile, but somehow it has managed to shave off 200 grams off of the weight, bringing it down to 1.70 kg. Also, the laptop has passed the MIL-STD-810H strength tests from the US military.

2. The Upgradeability

What happens with most budget laptops is that to make the production costs low, the manufacturers utilize soldered memory, leaving the option to expand it down the line in the dust. The ThinkPad E15 Gen 2, has one SODIMM slot for future RAM expansion, that supports up to 32GB of DDR4 memory, working at 3200MHz, and two M.2 PCIe x4 slots, one for 42mm, and one for 80mm drives.

In case you’re afraid to open up your laptop or are just inexperienced, we will have our detailed teardown video, which shows a step-by-step way of safely getting access to both the SODIMM RAM and SSD storage slots.

3. The I/O and features

The I/O is great, considering the price point. You get a Thunderbolt 4 connector, but there is a caveat, the same port doubles as the charging port, and as you’ll see in the battery life section of the article, you’ll need the port a lot. Other than that, you get two more USB Type-A ports, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and an HDMI connector.

One great feature of the ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 is the spill-resistant keyboard, which is great for the clumsier of us. The keyboard, even without the spill-resistant aspect, is one of the best keyboards ever. It has a long key travel, making for a great typing experience. The feedback from it is clicky and quiet. It has a dedicated NumPad, as well as a backlight and the infamous Red Nipple.

2 reasons NOT to buy the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2

1. The Battery life

The battery life here isn’t great, even with the already very power-efficient Tiger Lake processors. The laptop’s relatively small 45Wh unit managed to last through 6 hours and 57 minutes of web browsing and 6 hours and 54 minutes of video playback. The way we do our battery tests is with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.

2. The Display

The Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2 comes with a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS panel that has comfortable viewing angles, a good contrast ratio, and a decent pixel response time. Additionally, the screen doesn’t use PWM to adjust its brightness, making it safe for prolonged periods of time. Unfortunately, its budget nature showed itself quite prominently, when we tested the color coverage and color accuracy. It covers only 51% of the sRGB color gamut.

Below you can see the results from our color coverage test, which uses the 24 most commonly used colors. The results are both with the factory settings (left) and with our “Gaming and web design” profile applied (right).

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