Laptop buying recommendation Is the Lenovo ThinkPad for you?
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1. Display LF score – 7/10
IPS display with FHD resolution (1920x1080) offers very sharp visuals, excellent viewing angles and good color reproduction. Brightness is great for indoor usage and just visible under direct sunlight. Much better than TFT displays available on most laptops under a 40k pricing. Anti-glare display helps with visibility even against the light.
Not recommended for color grading tasks or extensive outdoor usage.
2. Keyboard – LF score -10/10
Best typing experience on any laptop. With large keycaps and super soft touches, highly recommended if your work involves replying to lots of emails, and typing lots of documents. Also comes with optional backlit to get work done even in the dark.
3. Charging – LF score – 10/10
Type-C universal charging. Use any type-C charger to fuel up your laptop, even a high capacity phone charger.
Carry a single charger for all your devices phone, tablet, airpods/earbuds
4. Battery life – LF Score – 9/10
The highest battery life options on any windows device for over 10 hours of real world usage. You can choose between portability or extended battery life anytime with swap to replace batteries.
5. Build quality – LF sore – 9/10
The only laptops used in space or in the icy winds of the Antarctica. These devices are build to perform no matter how rough the environment is.
6. Connectivity – LF score – 10/10
The laptops has 2 USB-A ports for connecting pendrive, storage drives, phones, external accessories (mouse/keyboard). HDMI port for external displays/monitors. Audio jack for headphones, ethernet port for LAN connectivity. USB-c port for modern peripherals and charging. WI-Fi and Bluetooth to support all wireless connections.
All this without carrying any dongles
7. Portability – LF score - 9/10
At just 1.3Kgs in weight, this is just as light as a macbook air and lighter than the Macbook pro.
8. Design LF score - 9/10
A classic business design in matte black that blends beautifully in any office environment.
9. Operating system LF Score - 10/10
Can be configured with whichever flavour you like Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Ubuntu, or even Chrome OS. (Genuine license, no pirated versions)
Performance
1. Processing LF score – 7/10
suitable for 75% of the customers
Intel i5 8th gen 4 core processors – Recommended for apps Gchrome, MS Office, Canva, VLC, Whatsapp, Email clients, Whatsapp, Adobe PDFs, Spotify, MS word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Netflix, Prime video, Web development
Not recommended for high performance gaming, video editing, graphic designing, photoshop, 3d modelling/rendering, Machine learning or AI applications.
2. Memory/RAM LF Score – 9/10
Upgradeable with 2 slots.
8GB – For users who open 3-5 apps at a time or 10-15 chrome
16GB – for users who open 6-10 apps at a time or 25-35 chrome tabs open at a time (recommended for most users)
24GB – for users who open 12-16 apps at a time or upto 45-60 chrome tabs open at a time
32GB – for users who open 15-20 apps at a time or upto 100 chrome tabs open at a time. Also recommended for running large datasets, Virtual machines, or IDEs
3. Graphics LF score - 7/10
Integrated graphics suitable for browsing, editing office documents, Media consumption on Youtube, Netflix etc. Supports casual gaming like solitaire, minesweeper, Asphalt etc. Valorant/Counter strike at low settings (30-40fps). Can support photoshop, Autocad for people learning to use these softwares. Not suitable for professional video editing or high resolution image manipulation or 3d rendering/modeling
4. Storage LF score - 8/10
256GB – suggested for most users to store your personal files, photos, about 30-40 movies
512GB – For lots of media files, videos and photos, Data backup from phones and other devices.
You can always upgrade with an external storage drive
5. Cooling/Thermals LF score - 9/10
Most thin and light laptops get very hot with long usage hours, but thinkpads are very efficiently cooled. Unless used for gaming, laptop just gets warm but not extremely hot.
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Recommended for
Best starting device for school students.
College students pursuing courses in law. Engineering, liberal arts, Medicine, Media and Journalism, Sciences, commerce or business administration.
For Professionals working in legal, finance and accounts, operations, Medicine, Digital marketing, growth and strategy, health and wellness, business development and partnerships, Human resources and talent acquisition and project/product management.
Not recommended for
Professionals working with machine learning or AI, Big data, Architects for 3d modelling/rendering, Video production, graphics and media design, Game design, android/iOS development.
Tried and tested for Excellent performance with the following Applications
Productivity
1. MS OneNote
2. MS Word
3. MS Excel
4. MS Outlook
5. MS Onedrive/ Google drive
6. MS Powerpoint
7. Adobe Acrobat
Browsers
1. MS Edge
2. Brave
3. Chrome
4. Opera
5. Firefox
Collaboration
1. Zoom
2. MS Teams
3. Slack
4. Google Meet
5. Whatsapp
6. Cisco Webex
Social Media
1. X (Twitter)
2. Reddit
3. Facebook
4. Instagram
5. Snapchat
6. Pinterest
7. Discord
8. Linkedin
Entertainment
1. Netflix
2. Prime Video
3. Spotify
4. Disney plus
5. Youtube
6. VLC Media player
Creative
1. Photoshop/Lightroom
2. Audacity
3. GIMP/Inkscape/Krita
4. Shaper 3d/ Autocad
5. Visual studio code
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