Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G7 QOY 21NH0005GE
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Qualcomm and Microsoft want to bring the advantages of the efficient ARM architecture to the Windows segment. The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7 QOY demonstrates how this is done: This big-screened 16-inch laptop costs less than $1,000 while offering a battery life of more than 24 hours.
Source: PC World
Lenovo pitches the Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 7 as a budget business laptop. Many people will be thrilled to get this kind of machine from their jobs. Yes, it’s not going to be ideal for gaming or CPU-heavy tasks, but as a 16-inch productivity machine that gets very long battery life with snappy desktop application performance, you could do a lot worse. If the applications a business needs all run well on Windows on ARM — and most do now — then it’s a fine machine. Lenovo told us that this laptop sells for $999. I’m not aware of any other 16-inch Snapdragon X-powered laptops except the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge, which is a higher-end machine that starts at a retail price of $1,450. From that perspective, I suppose it’s good value for a 16-inch Snapdragon laptop.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/31/2024
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Laptop Mag
As far as budget-friendly business laptops go, the ThinkBook offers plenty. The laptop’s performance isn’t breaking any benchmark records, but it's more than enough to handle your email, spreadsheets, and video calls. The FHD webcam is rather high-quality for a laptop webcam, making it ideal for the hybrid worker. The keyboard is also rather satisfying despite being more mushy than average. And it’s hard to argue with 21 hours of battery life. That said, the display is a massive disappointment. So if you need to do a lot of graphic design or editing work, we would not recommend the ThinkBook at all. The base configuration is a bit expensive for a budget laptop.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/16/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
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Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 1.7 TFLOPS: An integrated graphics adapter that the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core X1P-42-100 SoC features. Compared to the faster 3.8 TFLOPS and 4.6 TFLOPS X1-85 iGPUs, this one does not just run at lower clock speeds but also has fewer unified shaders at its disposal, with 768 being the most likely number. The underlying architecture is reportedly not much different from what was used in the Adreno 730. As for its gaming performance, it's only just sufficient for pre-2020 games at resolutions such as HD 720p on low graphics settings.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
SD X Plus X1P-42-100: A relatively affordable ARM architecture processor (SoC) for use in Windows laptops. The X Plus 8-core chip features 8 Oryon CPU cores running at up to 3.4 GHz, along with the 1.7 TFLOPS X1-45 Adreno iGPU and the 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU. The super-fast LPDDR5x-8448 memory controller known to us from other Snapdragon X chips, USB 4.0 support, TB 4 support and PCIe 4 support are all onboard as well.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
70.87%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
