Lenovo Thinkpad E15

Lenovo Thinkpad E15 Price in Pakistan

Design

On the outside, the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 looks a lot like its predecessor. Taking a closer look at it does reveal some differences, like the fact that the new chassis is thinner now. A visible difference is the keyboard integration into the palmrest (bottom load keyboard). This looks visually nice but does constrain reparability of the keyboard. Also, the new model uses more aluminum: With the ThinkPad E490, only the lid was made out of the lightweight metal. With the new ThinkPad E14, the base cover is as well though it should be noted that this is not standard. There also are models that use a plastic base and lid. The aluminum base does improve the haptic quality a lot, but it also shows fingerprints very quickly. The workmanship of our unit is not perfect: When opening the screen, there is a creaking noise. This will definitely impact the rating negatively.

Processor

The Lenovo Thinkpad E15 is equipped with the Intel Core i5-1135G7 is a quad-core, mid-range SoC designed to be used in ultra-light laptops. The Tiger Lake-UP3 processor was introduced in September 2020. It features four Willow Cove CPU cores running at 2.4 GHz (base clock speed @ 28 W TDP) Boosting up to 4.2 GHz (1-core Boost). The all-core Boost clock speed sits at 3.8 GHz. This is a Hyper-Threading-enabled CPU, allowing for up to 8 concurrent processing threads.

Graphics

The Lenovo Thinkpad E15 is equipped with the Nvidia GeForce MX350 is a dedicated entry-level mobile graphics card for laptops. It was released in February 2020 and is based on the same GP107 Pascal chip with 640 shaders as the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 for laptops. The memory bus is cut in half to 64 bit (GDDR5). First benchmarks, Nvidia states on the product page that the MX350 offers 2.5x of the performance of a Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 in an i7-1065G7 (vs 2x for the MX330). Therefore, demanding games of 2019 like The Division 2, Metro Exodus or Rage 2 will only run in lowest detail settings acceptable. Less demanding games like Fifa 20 should run fine in high settings and even 1080p. However, this is always also depending on the used processor and main memory.

Display

Apart from the obligatory TN HD option (1366×768), which should be avoided by all means, there is only a single screen option: A matte FHD screen (1920×1080) that is based on IPS technology and does not offer touch support. According to Lenovo, the brightness of the screen should reach 250 cd/m², but we measure 293 cd/m². This might be an outlier for this specific unit, but at least in terms of brightness, the E ThinkPad does not disappoint this time.