Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 Series

Processor: AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 250, Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255H, Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 5 228V
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 780M, Intel Arc 130V, Intel Arc 140T
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.37kg, 1.404kg, 1.472kg
Price: 999, 1080, 1199 euro
performance: 63%, features: 71%, display: 82%, mobility: 80%, workmanship: 83%, ergonomy: 90%, emissions: 89%

 

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 21T0003NGE

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Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 21T0003NGE
Processor: AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) R7 250
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 780M
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.472kg
Price: 1080 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Lenovo ThinkPad E14 G7-21SYS00H00

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Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad E14 G7-21SYS00H00
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 7 255H
Graphics Adapter: Intel Arc 140T
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 1.404kg
Price: 999 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 21U2002QGE

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Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 21U2002QGE
Processor: Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 5 228V
Graphics Adapter: Intel Arc 130V
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 1.37kg
Price: 1199 euro
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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.

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Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

AMD Radeon 780M: Integrated graphics card in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series APUs based on the RDNA3 architecture with 12 CUs (= 768 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 3 GHz.

Intel Arc 140T: Integrated graphics unit of the Intel Arrow Lake H/HX CPU series. It is based on the Xe+ architecture and features 8 cores (128 CUs)

Intel Arc 130V: An integrated graphics adapter that lower-end Intel Lunar Lake family processors employ. This is a direct successor to the Arc 7 iGPU; DirectX 12 Ultimate is fully supported here and the iGPU also supports hardware-decoding a long list of popular video codecs such as h.266 VVC, h.265 HEVC, h.264 AVC, AV1 and VP9. It is clear the 130V isn't fast enough to run most triple-A 2024 games at 1080p. However, it's still more than good enough for an occasional gaming session Helldivers 2 and Ready or Not run perfectly well at 1080p / Low.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c):

R7 250: A powerful laptop processor (APU) of the Hawk Point family. This isn't an entirely new APU; instead, the R7 250 is an R7 8840U in disguise. Its eight Zen 4 cores run at 3.3 GHz to 5.1 GHz and are SMT-enabled for a total of 16 processing threads.

Intel Arrow Lake:

Ultra 7 255H: High-end mobile processor based on the Arrow Lake architecture with 16 cores divided into 3 clusters. The fast 6 P-cores clock at up to 5.1 GHz. There are also 8 smaller E-cores with up to 4.4 GHz and 2 small low power cores (same architecture) with up to 2.5 GHz. It integrates a small NPU with 13 TOPS peak performance and supports vPro Essentials.

Intel Lunar Lake:

Core Ultra 5 228V: One of the 2 slowest Lunar Lake processors as of Nov 2024. It features 4 new Skymont E-cores and 4 new Lion Cove P-cores running at up to 3.5 GHz and 4.5 GHz respectively, along with the new Arc 130V iGPU and 32 GB of on-package LPDDR5x-8533 RAM. The 228V's level 3 cache is pretty small as compared to more expensive Ultra 7 2xxV and Ultra 9 2xxV chips at 8 MB vs 12 MB. Its multi-thread performance is very close to the R7 7730U and the R7 7735U, and it eats up to 37 W in short-term loads.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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14.00:

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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86.37%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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