Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 6 (Intel) review – Great for Work, Easy on the Ears
Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance
To open this laptop, you have to undo 9 Phillips-head screws. The ones on the bottom aren’t captive while the others are. Then, pop the panel with a thin plastic tool in the top two corners. After that, fully pry the back and work your way around the sides and the front.
Here’s how the bottom plate looks on the inside.
The battery in our machine is the default 45Wh variant. You can also get the optional 71Wh model. If you want to take out the battery you have to pull out the connector from the motherboard and undo the five Phillips-head screws that fix the unit to the chassis. The capacity is enough for around 10 hours of Web browsing or 8 hours of video playback.
The RAM zone is covered with some foil. According to Lenovo, the two SODIMMs support up to 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz memory in dual-channel mode. However, since the CPU 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.
For storage, there are two M.2 slots compatible with 2242 or 2280 Gen 4 SSDs. We can spot a thermal pad below the preinstalled NVMe.
The cooling looks decent for an iGPU-only laptop. It has a large fan, two heat pipes, one long top-mounted heat sink, and a heat spreader.
Author: Nikolay Palaozov
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ThinkBook 16 G6 ABP (21KK) Battery uses the highest quality graded and sorted ‘A’ Grade cells.
do suggest between E series and thinkBook 16
We currently have a review of the ThinkPad E16, so read both and try to see what’s more important for you. From our experience, ThinkPads and ThinkBooks are very similar, they just have different designs.
We have about 20 ThinkBooks at work and i am not happy with their robustness compared to Thinkpad L series we have. Electronics are ok, not that many more failures than L Thinkpads. Can’t speak for E series because we don’t have any.
What about configuration with core i7 13700H processor and 71 W battery, will it still last around 10 hours of Web browsing on a single charge or it is only true for configuration with Intel u-series processors and 45/71 W battery?
ja
Absolute non-sense battery review. I own thinkbook 16 with Intel u7 and it barely lasts 4 hours of internet browsing and all battery saving options are enabled. 7 hours is unachievable. This test is clearly faulty
trash, loud fans, gets hot easily
loud fans with having on old app that should be no effort for it !
bad quality!