Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen 2 (Intel) review – Great Display, Quiet Workhorse

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to open this machine, you have to undo 8 captive Phillips-head screws. Then, pop the zones behind the hinges with a lever tool. After that, pry the sides and the front with a thin plastic tool.

Here’s how the bottom plate looks on the inside.

The battery here is the base 52.5Wh variant. The optional version is an 86Wh model. Since the connector is built into the battery, you have to wear gloves while removing the unit to avoid short circuits.  To take out the battery undo the six Phillips-head screws that fix it to the chassis. The capacity is enough for 20 hours of Web browsing or 9 hours and 5 minutes of video playback.

The devices with discrete graphics solely rely on 16GB or 32GB of soldered LPDDR5x memory. The iGPU-only models have a SODIMM and can be found with two different RAM versions. The DDR4-based machines have 8GB of soldered RAM while the iterations with the newer DDR5 memory boast soldered 16GB. According to Lenovo, the DDR4 SODIMM supports up to 32GB memory modules while the limit for the DDR5 SODIMM is 16GB. However, since the CPUs can support up to 96GB, this laptop likely wouldn’t have issues running a larger amount of memory than the official manufacturer’s specified limit.

On the right of the SODIMM, you can see the WWAN slot for optional 4G connectivity. For storage, you get just one M.2 slot for 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. There is a long thermal pad below the preinstalled NVMe.

The cooling is simple. It has one big fan, a heat pipe, one side-mounted heat sink, and a heat spreader.

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Nuky

27 days ago

I have similar T16 Gen 2, only with i7-1355U and 1920 x 1200, 300 nits, 45% NTSC display. My display is good for office work but not great for someone who would use laptop for multimedia. Display in reviewed unit must be much better for that. If i could change something i would go for bigger 86 Wh battery because this 52.5 Wh doesn’t go much further than 4 hours for me while browsing and using MS Office when display is near that 300 nits. Speakers are also considerably worse than on my P1 Gen 6.

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