Lenovo V14 Gen 2 reviewed: A silent, affordable office laptop, thanks to passive cooling.

In our detailed review, the affordable Lenovo V14 G2 demonstrated itself to be a silent office laptop, thanks to its passively-cooled, quad-core Intel Pentium Silver N6000 CPU.

Performance is acceptable, considering the device's intended office and web surfing use, with light multi-tasking also a possibility. However, system performance suffers as the 8 GB of RAM is configured for single-channel mode. Unfortunately, dual-channel mode cannot be activated retrospectively as only one RAM slot and no additional soldered RAM are available. Despite this, the laptop's memory can be expanded to 16 GB.

You get a good keyboard, and, apart from the lid, a very sturdy plastic case. Thankfully, Gigabit ethernet is on-board, as is a 2.5-inch slot for a SATA 3 SSD or hard drive, although the 512 GB PCIe 3.0 SSD delivers rather average transfer rates.  

The biggest shortcoming is the TN display which is dark and suffers from washed-out colors and narrow viewing angles. For this reason, the Lenovo laptop should primarily be used docked and connected to an external monitor using the provided HDMI 1.4b port. DisplayPort, Power Delivery and backlit keys are absent, and the 6-hour battery life is somewhat short.

Additional details and analysis can be found in our extensive Lenovo V14 Gen 2 Intel review. The configuration we reviewed is currently not available anywhere, however, the larger, review-configured Lenovo V15 G2 is available on Amazon for around 390 dollars.