Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Series
Processor: AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000) R7 PRO 5850U, AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R5 PRO 4650U, AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R7 PRO 4750U, Intel Alder Lake-P i7-1260P, Intel Comet Lake i5-10210U, Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1365U, Intel Tiger Lake i7-1165G7Graphics Adapter: AMD Vega 6, AMD Vega 7, AMD Vega 8, Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs, Intel UHD Graphics 620
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.23kg, 1.254kg, 1.27kg, 1.272kg, 1.299kg, 1.3kg, 1.306kg, 1.38kg
Price: 1400, 1560, 1939, 2080, 2300 euro
Average of 16 scores (from 32 reviews)
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20T00044GE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20T00044GEProcessor: Intel Comet Lake i5-10210U
Graphics Adapter: Intel UHD Graphics 620
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.254kg
Price: 1560 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Reviews
Last year’s Lenovo ThinkPad T490s won our "Editor’s Choice Award“. The successor, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s with Comet Lake-based Intel CPUs is just as good. However, because there is a more attractive option with an AMD chip, the Intel-based ThinkPad T14s Gen 1 is not going to sell as well. Read our review to learn why.
Foreign Reviews
Source: Tuexperto ES→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Good processor; decent gaming performance; nice webcam. Negative: Relatively high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/11/2020
Source: Tuexperto ES→EN Archive.org version
Positive: Good processor; decent gaming performance; nice webcam. Negative: Relatively high price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/11/2020
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UJS00K00
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UJS00K00Processor: AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R7 PRO 4750U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Vega 7 512 MB
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.272kg
Price: 1400 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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The ThinkPad T14s with the AMD Renoir processor offers much more performance and is also less expensive than the Intel version. But what about the power consumption and the battery runtime? We have a closer look at the differences of the two models.
Source: It Pro
Performance from this chip is phenomenal under sustained load, but in day-to-day use the target audience is unlikely to notice the difference compared to the latest Core i7-powered Dell XPS 13. And if you’re willing to switch allegiance from Windows, the M1 MacBook Pro (and even the cheaper Air) are faster still in optimised programs whilst being even sleeker. We also question this laptop’s value for money: a 256GB SSD at this price is positively stingy, and while the warranty lasts three years, it’s return-to-base rather than on-site. This leaves the ThinkPad T14s in the uncomfortable middle ground, unable to lift itself away from the new MacBooks and its corporate rivals.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/26/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: It Pro
Performance from this chip is phenomenal under sustained load, but in day-to-day use the target audience is unlikely to notice the difference compared to the latest Core i7-powered Dell XPS 13. And if you’re willing to switch allegiance from Windows, the M1 MacBook Pro (and even the cheaper Air) are faster still in optimised programs whilst being even sleeker. We also question this laptop’s value for money: a 256GB SSD at this price is positively stingy, and while the warranty lasts three years, it’s return-to-base rather than on-site. This leaves the ThinkPad T14s in the uncomfortable middle ground, unable to lift itself away from the new MacBooks and its corporate rivals.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/26/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Laptop Media Archive.org version
Considering the price of the laptop, and the performance it offers, it is probably one of the best business laptops for high-workload scenarios. Not only does it offer supreme power, but it also has quite a lot of goodies in terms of security. You get a dedicated TPM chip onboard, the AMD Memory Guard technology, dual biometric authentication (thanks to the IR face recognition, and the fingerprint reader, both of which work extremely well).
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/05/2020
Source: Laptop Media Archive.org version
Support, online available, Short, Date: 11/05/2020
Source: Laptop Media Archive.org version
Considering the price of the laptop, and the performance it offers, it is probably one of the best business laptops for high-workload scenarios. Not only does it offer supreme power, but it also has quite a lot of goodies in terms of security. You get a dedicated TPM chip onboard, the AMD Memory Guard technology, dual biometric authentication (thanks to the IR face recognition, and the fingerprint reader, both of which work extremely well).
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/05/2020
Source: Laptop Media Archive.org version
Support, online available, Short, Date: 11/05/2020
Source: On MSFT Archive.org version
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T-lineup is a great thin business laptop and with the addition of AMD’s Ryzen PRO chipsets, businesses looking to skimp a few pennies are now being served options that are almost $500 less expensive than its Dell competitor.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/28/2020
Source: On MSFT Archive.org version
Lenovo’s ThinkPad T-lineup is a great thin business laptop and with the addition of AMD’s Ryzen PRO chipsets, businesses looking to skimp a few pennies are now being served options that are almost $500 less expensive than its Dell competitor.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/28/2020
Source: PC Mag Archive.org version
The ThinkPad T14s flirts with a four-and-a-half-star rating and an Editors' Choice nod, missing those marks mainly due to Lenovo's wrongheaded decision to deny AMD customers a 4K screen option (and the fact that we like to see a Thunderbolt 3 port in an over-$1,000 notebook). But if you're content with a 1080p display, the T14s is a sensational business laptop—lighter, faster, and $493 cheaper as tested than the Dell Latitude 7410 (though that comparison is a bit flawed, since the Dell has a gorgeous 4K display), and a genuine, more affordable alternative to the super-stellar ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Its Ryzen 7 Pro CPU is a monster, delivering near-mobile-workstation levels of raw multithreaded performance, and its engineering is faultless.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/11/2020
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Mag Archive.org version
The ThinkPad T14s flirts with a four-and-a-half-star rating and an Editors' Choice nod, missing those marks mainly due to Lenovo's wrongheaded decision to deny AMD customers a 4K screen option (and the fact that we like to see a Thunderbolt 3 port in an over-$1,000 notebook). But if you're content with a 1080p display, the T14s is a sensational business laptop—lighter, faster, and $493 cheaper as tested than the Dell Latitude 7410 (though that comparison is a bit flawed, since the Dell has a gorgeous 4K display), and a genuine, more affordable alternative to the super-stellar ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Its Ryzen 7 Pro CPU is a monster, delivering near-mobile-workstation levels of raw multithreaded performance, and its engineering is faultless.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/11/2020
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Mobile Tech Review Archive.org version
The 2.8 lb / 1.27 kg ThinkPad T14s is the more affordable counterpart to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It has a 12.95mm matte black magnesium alloy shell, the usual excellent ThinkPad keyboard and is available with a variety of displays. You can get it with AMD Ryzen 5 Pro (6-core) and Ryzen 7 Pro (8-core) CPUs for a significant performance boost, or with Intel 10th gen Comet Lake 4-core CPUs for Thunderbolt 3 support. The laptop has ample ports, optional 4G LTE WWAN, a fingerprint scanner, Windows Hello IR camera and strong battery life.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/05/2020
Source: Mobile Tech Review Archive.org version
The 2.8 lb / 1.27 kg ThinkPad T14s is the more affordable counterpart to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It has a 12.95mm matte black magnesium alloy shell, the usual excellent ThinkPad keyboard and is available with a variety of displays. You can get it with AMD Ryzen 5 Pro (6-core) and Ryzen 7 Pro (8-core) CPUs for a significant performance boost, or with Intel 10th gen Comet Lake 4-core CPUs for Thunderbolt 3 support. The laptop has ample ports, optional 4G LTE WWAN, a fingerprint scanner, Windows Hello IR camera and strong battery life.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/05/2020
Source: Neowin Archive.org version
If only it came with a UHD display. Seriously, I get that there are some advantages to choosing Intel, and others to choosing AMD. In terms of what the platform offers, I think there are more advantages from AMD, although you do get Thunderbolt from Intel. What I don't care for is OEMs creating their own value propositions for Intel by only offering certain configurations with an Intel processor. It's not cool.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/30/2020
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Neowin Archive.org version
If only it came with a UHD display. Seriously, I get that there are some advantages to choosing Intel, and others to choosing AMD. In terms of what the platform offers, I think there are more advantages from AMD, although you do get Thunderbolt from Intel. What I don't care for is OEMs creating their own value propositions for Intel by only offering certain configurations with an Intel processor. It's not cool.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/30/2020
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Lon.TV Archive.org version
Lenovo's new T14s laptop is available in both AMD and Intel varieties. The AMD offers substantial performance advantages over the Intel version.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/15/2020
Source: Lon.TV Archive.org version
Lenovo's new T14s laptop is available in both AMD and Intel varieties. The AMD offers substantial performance advantages over the Intel version.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/15/2020
Source: Neowin Archive.org version
Hands-On, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/01/2020
Source: Neowin Archive.org version
Hands-On, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/01/2020
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UJ0014GE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UJ0014GEProcessor: AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R5 PRO 4650U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Vega 6
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.3kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Reviews
Source: Ultrabook Review Archive.org version
This 2020 ThinkPad T14s is a refreshed iteration of last year's ThinkPad T490, and that's fine by me. The competent and efficient AMD Ryzen Pro hardware implementation is what primarily puts it on the map for potential buyers looking for solid performance in a compact chassis, and while this delivers and outmatches the Intel-based alternatives out there, it's not without its quirks, as explained in the detailed review down-below.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/22/2020
Rating: Total score: 85%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Mega Obzor RU→EN
Positive: High performance; premium design; metal case; excellent cameras; good cooling system; nice display.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/04/2021
Source: Giz.ro →EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/03/2020
Rating: Total score: 85%
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UH001AUK
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s-20UH001AUKProcessor: AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU) R7 PRO 4750U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Vega 7
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.27kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Source: Expert Reviews
All that adds up to a laptop that may be competent across the board but fails to excel in any one particular area. Performance is excellent under sustained load but it’s not significantly better than the latest 11th gen Intel Core i7-powered Dell XPS 13 and battery life is weaker than its big rivals, too. For corporate types, however, it is better value than the business-grade HP Elite Dragonfly, and there’s a plethora of configurations to choose from too. If you’re in the market for any laptop for any purpose at around the £1,000 mark and above, then you’d be doing yourself a huge disservice not to put the M1 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops at the top of your list. They’re much better all-rounders than the ThinkPad T14s and better value too.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/01/2021
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Hexus
The ThinkPad proposition naturally includes a high-quality chassis outfitted with an excellent keyboard and ample I/O, and the T14s is only a few small tweaks away from ticking every relevant box. The default webcam ought to be better, chunky bezels lend a somewhat dated appearance, we'd like to see Lenovo be more adventurous in the display department. This system with a 16:10 touchscreen would be hard to beat.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 01/20/2021
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G2 20WM003TGE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G2 20WM003TGEProcessor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-1165G7
Graphics Adapter: Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.306kg
Price: 2080 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Even though Lenovo renews its premium model of the ThinkPad T-Series from the ground up, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 still keeps its 16:9 format, going against the current trend for displays. The fact that it still achieves a very good result is primarily due to the excellent input devices and equipment.
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G2 20XGS01100
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G2 20XGS01100Processor: AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000) R7 PRO 5850U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Vega 8
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.299kg
Price: 1939 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Despite its redesign the ThinkPad T-series premium model comes with a 16:9 display for the final time in its life. Its input devices continue to excite, and overall efficiency was improved dramatically thanks to AMD's Cezanne-generation resulting in lower emissions, longer battery life, and a higher level of performance.
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G3-21BR00G0GE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G3-21BR00G0GEProcessor: Intel Alder Lake-P i7-1260P
Graphics Adapter: Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 1.23kg
Price: 2300 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Source: Laptop Media
Price is often a deciding factor when buying pretty much anything in life. Laptops are no different, and right from the get-go, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 doesn’t start on good terms. Especially when you consider the fact, that perhaps most of this device’s users would be corporate employees, who have little to say. Unfortunately, the big thing that separates it from its non-“s” brother is the lack of memory upgradeability. Still, you can configure it with up to 32GB of RAM pre-purchase, and you get an M.2 PCIe x4 slot with Gen 4 support. When we see the feature list, we can understand the relatively high price. The machine sports a fingerprint reader, a 1080p Web camera with a privacy shutter, and an IR face recognition sensor. On top of that, the keyboard is spill-resistant, and there is optional WWAN connectivity. You can expect either a 4G, or 5G connection, but that depends on your WWAN card – Quectel EM05-G and Fibocom L860-GL-16 are CAT4 and CAT16 4G cards, while the Fibocom FM350-GL offers Sub-6 GHz 5G. Speaking of connections, the port selection of this machine is pretty good too – there are two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI connector, two USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, and optional Smart Card readers. Unfortunately, there is no sign of an SD card reader, but you can’t get everything. So, if you don’t really care about the price tag, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 is a fantastic compact and feature-packed business notebook. We would definitely consider it for a workhorse enterprise unit.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/09/2023
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/28/2023
Foreign Reviews
Source: Go4it.ro →EN
Positive: High mobility; nice performance; premium design; solid workmanship; no bloatwares. Negative: Expensive.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/29/2023
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 i7-1365U
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 i7-1365UProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-U i7-1365U
Graphics Adapter: Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.38kg
Price: 1400 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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The ThinkPad T14s G4 includes over 4 different CPUs and 6 different display options to choose from. After checking out a handful of them, we now have a good idea of which to recommend and which to avoid.
Source: PC Mag
The best business notebooks in our eyes are the HP Dragonfly G4 and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, but the ThinkPad T14s Gen 4 is not far behind. We might recommend you to replace its base screen with the sharper OLED panel, but at its widely discounted price the T14s is a decent deal that'll give years of reliable service.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/19/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Mag
The best business notebooks in our eyes are the HP Dragonfly G4 and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, but the ThinkPad T14s Gen 4 is not far behind. We might recommend you to replace its base screen with the sharper OLED panel, but at its widely discounted price the T14s is a decent deal that'll give years of reliable service.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/19/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Comment
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.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
Intel UHD Graphics 620: Integrated GPU (GT2, 24 EUs) found on some Kaby-Lake-Refresh CPU models (15 W ULV series). Technically identical to the previous Kaby-Lake GPU called HD Graphics 620.
AMD Vega 7: Integrated graphics adapter of the Ryzen APUs based on the Vega architecture with 7 CUs (= 448 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 1,600 MHz.
AMD Vega 6: Integrated graphics adapter of the Ryzen APUs based on the Vega architecture with 6 CUs (= 384 shaders) and a clock of up to 1,500 MHz.
Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G4 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 96 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.
AMD Vega 8: Integrated graphics card of the Ryzen APUs based on the Vega architecture with 8 CUs (= 512 shaders) and a clock of up to 2.100 MHz.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Comet Lake:
i5-10210U: Comet Lake based low power quad-core processor (technically identical to Whiskey Lake and still produced in 14nm++). The CPU cores can clock between 1.6 and 4.2 GHz (all 4 cores 3.9 GHz max.) with HyperThreading (8 threads). The integrated memory controller supports LPDDR4-2933 and using cTDP up/down the performance can be adjusted by the OEM (10 - 25 Watt possible, 15W default). Compared to the faster i5-10510U, the level 3 cache was reduced from 8 to 6 MB.
AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU):
R7 PRO 4750U: Mobile Octa-Core APU using Zen 2 cores clocked at 1.7 to 4 GHz and a Vega graphics card with 7 CUs clocked at up to 1600 MHz. The PRO version of Renoir is offering additional security and management features.
R5 PRO 4650U: Mobile Hexa-Core APU using six Zen 2 cores clocked at 2.1 to 4 GHz and a Vega graphics adapter with 6 CUs clocked at up to 1500 MHz. The PRO version of Renoir offers additional security and management features.
Intel Tiger Lake:
i7-1165G7: An upper mid-range, quad-core processor of Tiger Lake product family. The i7 is designed for use in ultra-light (yet actively cooled) laptops; it is manufactured on Intel's third-gen 10 nm process marketed as SuperFin. The CPU cores run at 2.8 GHz (base clock speed @ 28 W TDP) to 4.7 GHz (single-core Boost frequency). This i7 features the 96 EU Intel Iris Xe G7 iGPU; it was the second-fastest CPU of TGL-UP3 line-up when Intel initially launched the series in 2020.
AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000):
R7 PRO 5850U: A mobile Octa-Core APU with Zen 3 cores clocked at 1.9 to 4.4 GHz and a Vega iGPU with 8 CUs clocked at up to 2000 MHz. The PRO CPUs offer additional management and security features.
Intel Alder Lake-P:
i7-1260P: An upper mid-range Alder Lake family CPU featuring 4 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. This 28 W SoC is designed for use in ultra-light (yet actively cooled) laptops. Core i7-1260P's performance cores are Hyper-Threading-enabled for a total of 16 threads. This 12th Gen CPU runs at 1.5 GHz to 4.7 GHz and supports "Essentials" tier vPro features. Last but not the least, Core i7-1260P has a built-in 96 EU Iris Xe GPU, not unlike certain 11th Gen Tiger Lake-UP3 processors.
Intel Raptor Lake-U:
i7-1365U: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.3 to 5.2 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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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84.23%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.