Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 (AMD) review – snappy business device with long battery life

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

The CPU can maintain super stable clocks no matter the load. The temperatures in the first two columns are low, which is good. The frequencies are higher than the 2.0 GHz base frequency, so all looks fine here.

Comfort during full load

Even in Best Performance mode during max CPU load, the single fan isn’t noisy at all. It’s almost quiet. The center of the keyboard feels a bit warm, but nothing serious. You have three performance modes at your disposal.

Under 100% CPU stress, the fan speed is around 3100 RPM.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with 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. The 57Wh battery has enough juice for 14 hours and 17 minutes of Web browsing, or 10 hours of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 57Wh

9h 30m

Acer Aspire 5 54.6Wh

11h 52m+24.9%

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14 56.6Wh

11h 52m+24.9%

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15 47Wh

8h 37m-9.3%

Dell Vostro 3535 54Wh, 4-cell

8h 37m-9.3%

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 16 52.5Wh, 3-cell

9h 30m

HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10 76Wh, 4-cell

11h 05m+16.7%

Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 4 57Wh

5h 56m-37.5%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 57Wh

14h 17m

Acer Aspire 5 54.6Wh

11h 07m-22.2%

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14 56.6Wh

14h 17m

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15 47Wh

11h 07m-22.2%

Dell Vostro 3535 54Wh, 4-cell

11h 07m-22.2%

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 16 52.5Wh, 3-cell

11h 07m-22.2%

HP ZBook Firefly 16 G10 76Wh, 4-cell

25h 00m+75%

Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 4 57Wh

8h 20m-41.7%

Author: Nikolay Palaozov

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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Janusz

2 years ago

Bardzo mnie ciekawi, czy po zainstalowaniu w komputerze dwóch fizycznych dysków istnieje opcja wyłączenia jednego z nich w bios? Bardzo mi zależy na uruchomieniu trybu praca – dom na służbowym sprzęcie:)

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