Hi, just a clarification. The speakers are not downward facing. They are upward facing and under the keyboard. They sound a bit more muffled than last years model, but still pretty good for a business class laptop.
I bought one last week (I have a gen 5 too), it’s not great, don’t keep your hopes up. Terrible latency with the keyboard and that haptic touchpad, hopefully they fix their drivers. Battery life is a bit better (165h + rtx3000). I use it for solidworks and performance is better on my gen 5 with a 12700h + a1000. I/O score on the solidworks benchmark is also super bad on the g7, I think due to the core camm2 memory. Memory scored really low on passmark too
I like that the SSD is upgradable with a 2280 SSD and good ports. This makes it easy to work with for the user and IT department technicians. All employees dealing with data analysis, finance, and accounting will like it. Weakness is the 4 core ARC iGPU. It is barely above Intel Iris XE (worst iGPU on the market). Hard pass for gaming, video editing, or any intensive use of the GPU. Also, the battery life is worse than the previous iteration (X1 Carbon Gen 11).
Awesomely detailed review! Many thanks!
Nice to see such a detailed thinkpad review. The keyboard button travel doesn't look as deep as older models but glad to hear it's still excellent.
My gen 6 still working great! Just the battery is only charging to 80%. So, the T14s is my optional replacement.
Waiting for T14 gen 5 AMD review from your channel
Working on The ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 (Intel) review as we speak! 😉
After seeing this review I'm glad I bought a ThinkBook instead
Hi, just a clarification. The speakers are not downward facing. They are upward facing and under the keyboard. They sound a bit more muffled than last years model, but still pretty good for a business class laptop.
Ahh, you said it correctly in the audio part of the review. It was at the beginning that you said something different.
P1 G7 next please 🥺 no one is reviewing that laptop
It's on my radar! 👍
I bought one last week (I have a gen 5 too), it’s not great, don’t keep your hopes up. Terrible latency with the keyboard and that haptic touchpad, hopefully they fix their drivers. Battery life is a bit better (165h + rtx3000). I use it for solidworks and performance is better on my gen 5 with a 12700h + a1000. I/O score on the solidworks benchmark is also super bad on the g7, I think due to the core camm2 memory. Memory scored really low on passmark too
Seems the better option would be to go with the T14 or P14s?
Working on The ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 (Intel) review as we speak! 😉
I like that the SSD is upgradable with a 2280 SSD and good ports. This makes it easy to work with for the user and IT department technicians. All employees dealing with data analysis, finance, and accounting will like it.
Weakness is the 4 core ARC iGPU. It is barely above Intel Iris XE (worst iGPU on the market). Hard pass for gaming, video editing, or any intensive use of the GPU. Also, the battery life is worse than the previous iteration (X1 Carbon Gen 11).
Waiting for T14 and T14s gen 5 models
What is the diffrence between T14 & T14s?
T14s = slimmer + soldered on memory.
Solid.
Is the touchpad good tho?
is there a possibity to get the haptic touchpad working on linux?
Don't talk so fast but excellent review
That battery life is horrendous!
Could you please tell me if the 2.8K OLED display is gloss or matte because it's not very clear from the specs?
I looked at other reviews and the oled screen looks matte.
Anti glare so def not glossy