Maximum efficiency: Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 shows why Lunar Lake is the perfect choice for business laptops

Faster, faster, faster - performance is one of the most important factors when buying a computer. The more fast a PC is, the more powerful tasks it can run.  Accordingly, performance should always be king - and for desktop PCs, it pretty much is.

The picture changes when it comes to laptops. Simply increasing the performance can have a very negative impact on other aspects of the laptop, like the heat output, fan noise and battery life. This is especially true if the performance is not really needed, because applications like e-mail, office and web-browsing the only things many people run. This is especially true for many business laptops. Here, efficiency often trumps pure performance.

In the Windows segment, there are three different CPU manufacturers that compete for customers: Intel, the old market leader, AMD, the perennial challenger, and Qualcomm, the ARM based upstart. This begs the question: Which platform is best for corporate customers? A question which we can answer after reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 Intel, as Lenovo offers this laptop model with all three CPU options, and we already tested all three.

Surprisingly, the picture we had in most of the preceding generations has reversed: Intel offered a high level of performance, but bad efficiency, while Qualcomm CPUs were not very powerful, but did not consume a lot of power. This year, Intel Lunar Lake is not quite able to keep up with the performance of the competition, but the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 Intel runs less hot and loud than the competition - with the battery life as excellent as the Snapdragon model.

This is why the Intel variant is the winner for us in the end: For business customers, Intel Lunar Lake is the best overall package. If more performance is needed, the alternatives are better, but there are compromises in other areas there.