Lenovo thinkpad t480


this one here is your bread and butter 14-inch business laptop that doesn't try to be the thinnest the lightest the sexiest though happily the t-series has gotten slimmer has gotten lighter over time 3.6 pounds which is one point six three kilograms you know not Super Duper light almost twenty mill meters thick but that's actually an improvement but what's so good about this what makes it not Mickey Mouse is the fact that it's like the laptops of old that you can

Bay also AM to socket in there and a hard drive base so all of that stuff is kind of like old-school awesomesauce makes your IT department happy and even makes some folks who aren't IT folks happy presume on saying that you can grow into our grow beyond when you actually need to add more RAM a bigger hard drive whatever that sort of thing is starts around 1050 dollars or so we're gonna look at it now so the t 480

wattage likes your powers so they run a little bit faster than you might expect sort of like dell does with the XPS 13 the 9370 latest generation model so that model that i'm talking about the base model has a Core i5 and it has eight gigs of ram ddr4 24 inch of mega its that part's good and if 500 gig hard drive hard drive it's nostalgic isn't it you don't see that ultrabooks much but you know some

display not even Full HD this is the stuff the IT department buys when they hate you know it's not really this this is when when they're budget constraint and the boss tells them okay you got an outfit 25 people with decent durable laptops that meet milspec standards are pretty thin not bad-looking great keyboards so skimp on the display so that's why that option exists you probably want to go with the full HD display which is available in touch or non touch versions those are IPS displays and they're mad they're all mad which is nice even the touch models and there's like no glare on them which is a good thing it's the same tiles that are use also on the t4 80s that we recently reviewed now that the 1080p panels themselves still don't have such great color gamut unfortunately the brightness is okay at 246 minutes and that's the same panel whether you get non touch or touch in terms of the panel ID number you can see the metrics are on screen there so it's

resolution that's the 2560 by 1440 option that's non touch and matte but it look better that one has some somewhat better color calibration and color saturation that probably matches the standard for consumer laptops in this price point which would be about full srgb and 75% of Adobe RGB when it comes

t4 80s and all the other Intel 8th gen think pads that we reviewed so far they're using the Ultrabook CPUs inside which is to say they're fast and Lenovo has done a very good job with cooling and also with providing a little extra watch to the CPU they get better than average benchmarks even over time like the PC mark ain't benchmark which I was tell you folks it's one of the longer running benchmarks takes up to a half an hour to complete and usually you see a graph where it goes like this in terms of the clock speed drops edit turbo boost so much it with this one it's pretty much straight across the top like you'd see with a 45 mobile workstation or in gaming laptop so that's the good stuff there you got Intel you HD 620 integrated graphics Nvidia MX 150 dedicated graphics is optional but 2 gigabyte of RAM for me RAM for that I it'll give a little extra you know it's not concerned into a gaming laptop or anything like that but a little bit of extra kick and yeah if you're playing something like Skyrim in fact you will get somewhat better frame rates because that's not a very demanding game it's kind of old but is there to give premier a little extra hutzpah of that sort of thing we don't have that unfortunately lenovo didn't send us that model i'd like to see what the thermals are like but typically it's been news than so many laptops now that are thin and light I don't expect that it's going to be much of a thermal issue going on there one trick though lenovo wants you to buy a vPro cpu which is the slightly more expensive cpu option it's not technically required they just doing this because they want you to spend a little more money you get a obviously a larger heatsink if you do that because they're gonna put a heatsink over the CPU and the dedicated GPU as well

makes it a little different and a little bit more of a power user machine for those you were out there doing save virtual machines vm's and you're running several VMS you need more RAM to do that more than anything else you got four cords to throw at it now you've got the rim to throw at it too lastly the big selling points here

anymore including an actual Ethernet jack built in an SD card slot that houses an entire SD card it does not stick out in an annoying way you've got full size HDMI you have two USB 3.0 ports on here you have the Lenovo docking connector for the latest style docking station that side mounts on there and you have a USB C slash Thunderbolt 3 port and the charger is USB sea-based so you'll have to find the splitter if you need to charge it or a dock or something like that at the same time as using those ports and hardware info 64 utility reports that as being four lanes so it should be full speed all the way for that Tim so that's a good thing there so it's a nice little modern touch and again for power users as ever it's one of the best keyboards on the market and all those keyboards are just so comfy you get better-than-average key travel you excellent damping the whole thing just feels cushy in all the right ways but not mushy it's a wonderful typing experience for those of you who do content creation via the written word there trackpads are also quite good so roomy enough trackpad and Microsoft precision styled these days and you have the NAD point eraser stick pointer with its own little dedicated buttons too so

sadly has disappeared from the X line with the X 280 but still here with the T 480 if you get the T 4 80s the slimmer lighter model you did not get the removable battery the bridge battery system likewise the carbon doesn't have that so that's the one of those little power user things that sets it apart slide 2 latches you remember how that was our laptops in the old days right and there it is the battery so this is the smaller battery it's available in two different capacities this is the 24 watt hour which is the same capacity as a 3-cell internal battery this one obviously sits flush with the product so if you wanted to look like as slim as possible there you have it and Lenovo claims around 15 point 6 hours untime with this Plus this which is about o 48 watt hour of battery which is really optimistic Lenovo like most PC manufacturers is overly optimistic you can also get the 72 watt hour battery which will stick out it'll have a hump it'll also raise it from

upgradable laptops you probably would wanna upgrade it's a little bit more annoying to get the bottom off there's Philips head screws are all visible it's just the clips around the battery bay or a little bit tenacious maybe work it off and then there you have it there is the internals right there that's the front 24 watt hour battery for the bridge battery system the one that's now middle ECL inside because what we have to unscrew and take it apart to get to that battery right there here we have our hard drive bay you can recognize the cage right there for those who tinker with your laptop so where's the m2 SSD slot aha you can't have both a hard drive and an m2 slot because you take that out and notice we have the SSD ml we don't have a hard drive hard drive could fit in here but what they do if you go with the m2 SSD and even PCIe is they put on this little daughter card here and then they mount it into here using the hard drive bay crafty very crafty so there's that stereo speakers one on each side pretty decent sounding just like the t4 80s in fact and we have to RAM slots both cover the little mylar there's one slot and this is the other one we have an 8 gig module in ours we're makings of ram total the max would be 32 gigs if you point with 2 16 gig modules and it's ddr4 24 hundred megahertz ram that they're going with here you know their stuff would be if you want your optional 4G LTE that's the slot for that right there we don't even have any wires in here pre-installed for that for ours and this is your Wi-Fi card which is an Intel 82 65 a Seikh right there and that's our really decent-sized found there and it is effective in terms of cooling in terms this does not get hot to the touch nor loud now we don't have the nvidia MX 150 graphics option here's our cpu under the heat sig and the Nvidia stuff would go right over here and the heatsink would extend over if we had that and again they're tying that to the purchase of a V Pro CPU so they're doing a little up charge there it's not that would be an absolute technical requirement they just