Today Lenovo is saying a slew of updates throughout a big portion of their ThinkPad lineup, and updating their business-focused merchandise for 2021. Some of the massive adjustments for this yr are spectacular and welcome, with Lenovo committing to bringing feature-parity between their AMD and Intel choices, in addition to refreshing a few of their laptops with 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, and persevering with the development of bringing again 16:10 facet ratio shows for a greater productiveness expertise.
ThinkPad X13 and X13 Yoga
Although a number of the ThinkPad X lineup bought refreshed again at CES, Lenovo is continuous the 2021 updates in the present day on the X13 and X13 Yoga merchandise, and the adjustments make these already spectacular units much more so.
On the processor facet, Lenovo is providing both 11th Gen Intel Core – aka Tiger Lake – processors with vPro non-obligatory, in addition to AMD Ryzen 5000 Pro choices. Lenovo says they’ve heard the suggestions from prospects and are working arduous to shut the characteristic and choice hole between the 2 platforms. For essentially the most half, prospects selecting AMD or Intel could have the identical specs and choices accessible for the remainder of the product, corresponding to shows, reminiscence, and so forth, aside from the platform particular options corresponding to Intel supporting Thunderbolt Four and PCIe 4.0.
The X13 and X13 Yoga will even be getting Wi-Fi 6E which means 6 GHz help, and for those who need connectivity when out and about, sub-6 5G is an choice on the X13, or 4G is out there on each fashions.
Lenovo can be persevering with to maneuver to 16:10 shows, with the taller shows filling out extra of the physique and offering extra vertical pixels for productiveness. This is a good development, and one that ought to not have taken this lengthy to return again to, as in fact the unique widescreen ThinkPads had been all 16:10 earlier than your entire trade moved to 16:9. Lenovo can be proud to supply low-blue mild {hardware} help on the shows, and in contrast to most low-blue mild applied sciences which trigger a red-shift on the show, the backlight bodily produces much less of the anxious blue lights, permitting the show to nonetheless preserve the right white stability.
As it is a correct enterprise machine, there may be additionally addition safety corresponding to Match-On-Chip fingerprint readers constructed into the ability button, and the Intel fashions will help Human Presence Detection which permits the machine to lock when you’re away and unlock whenever you get again. This might be via the IR digital camera, and so far as the visible digital camera, Lenovo is together with an choice for each HD with IR, in addition to FHD with IR, the latter being a pleasant addition due to the rise in video conferencing during the last yr.
The up to date ThinkPad X13 might be accessible in May beginning at $1139 USD, and the X13 Yoga might be accessible in April beginning at $1379.
ThinkPad T14, T14s, and T15
ThinkPad T14
When most individuals think about ThinkPad, they doubtless consider the venerable T Series. Lenovo mentioned they’re engaged on characteristic parity between Intel and AMD, and one of many adjustments is just not branding the merchandise in another way primarily based on the CPU, however for the T collection, it doesn’t seem like they’ve fairly gotten there but. There might be ThinkPad T14 i, ThinkPad T14s i, and ThinkPad T15 powered by Intel, and for the 14-inch fashions, those branded with out the i might be AMD Ryzen primarily based.
Although the T collection is, a minimum of for this gen, sticking with 16:9 facet ratios, with a number of choices for the 14-inch and 15-inch vary together with UHD shows with Dolby Vision. Lenovo can be providing its PrivacyGuard shows for additional safety, and a few low-power choices relying on the way you configure it.
ThinkPad T14s
As far as efficiency, the laptop computer will provide as much as Core i7 11th Gen with vPro choices, or AMD Ryzen 5000 Pro. Memory might be as much as 32 GB…
