Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Review (AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U, mobile workstation) By Dove Computer Solutions Ltd

Lenovo have launched their newest ThinkPad p-series mobile workstation, the p14s aimed at cad customers based on the same chassis as the ThinkPad t14. The p14s has a choice of intel and AMD variants. Today, we'll be looking at the AMD Ryzen 7 pro 4750u ThinkPad model. Is it a marriage made in heaven, let's find out starting at 1.47 kilograms or 3.24 pounds? The ThinkPad p14s shares the same case as the ThinkPad t14 and t490, which is not a bad thing. The case is made almost completely from fiberglass reinforced plastic and reinforced by magnesium frame in the base unit. The exterior is covered in a smooth rubberized layer, including the palm rest area, giving it an excellent tactile feel when handling it there's little flex on the chassis and keyboard area.

The display lid has a generous amount of protection too. Thanks to military standard 810g, it can stand a few knocks and shocks over time, typical, ThinkPad construction, you know it's going to last. Maintenance can be a little tricky to take. The bottom cover off. Firstly, remove the sim tray at the back of the case, then remove the six Phillips screws on the cover using a plastic pry tool carefully pop open.

The plastic clips attached around the cover tip is to go from the top, where the hinges are first and work down to lift the lid. This review model has eight gigabytes soldered on and eight gigabytes in a single DIMM slot running dual channel mode up to 48, gigabytes of ddr4, 3200 megahertz, one soldered, 16 gigabytes and one sodium 32 gigabytes. For example, the Wi-Fi module is soldered on, but you can't add the w1 card. M.2280 SSD is upgradable, along with the 51-hour battery an internal CMOS battery. The display on this review model is a 14 inch, full HD by 1080 IPS, low power variant.

There's excellent brightness rated at 400 nits plenty for most situations, including outdoor viewing PWM, is kept to a minimum. There is slight backlight bleeding around the edges, but nothing to worry about colors are great on this display, deep blacks and great contrast with it being an IPS panel. The viewing angles are superb: throughout using adobe, photoshop or Lightroom. Is possible on this panel thanks to the 96 RGB rating? Don't touch the 250 nits display panel on offer. There is a touch version with 300 nits, but the color accuracy is not as good and battery life is worse compared to the 400 nits low power display.

The two small still covered hinges are robust and sturdy, allowing the display lid to open up to 180 degrees flat using one hand on the right. We have a Kensington lock, a real tech, gigabit rj45 port, an USB type, a 3.2 gen 1, always on and a smart card reader on the left. We have an USB power in USB type c: 3.2 gen 2, a docking, connector USB type, a 3.2 gen, 1, HDMI 2.0, a headphone microphone, combo jack and a micro SD card reader around the back of the laptop is a sim card slot powered by wan FBO com, l850, GL, 4g LTE card useful. If you travel a lot on the road and don't have Wi-Fi coverage, Wi-Fi is taken care of with the intel Wi-Fi 6 ax-200 2x2, with Bluetooth 5.1 combo card in testing wireless coverage was excellent when connected to a Wi-Fi, 5 or Wi-Fi 6, router or access point. Bluetooth's connections were equally good, with no issues using a mouse or speakers to stream on the keyboard like most think, pads is a delight to type on for touch.

Typers like myself, it's really comfortable to type for long sessions, with excellent tactile feedback and ample travel with each key press. There's two level backlightings available with the press of the function. Key and space bar talking a function. Key Lenovo have this delightful quirk of swapping the control and function keys around? Luckily, you can easily swap it via the Lenovo vantage software app. You can also use the shortcut function, keys, f9 to open the windows, 10 notifications, bar f10 and f11 keys to open skype and teams.

Sorry, it doesn't open zoom, a f12 to open a website or your favorite application. The touchpad is a nice size with integrated buttons, offering a multi-finger gesture with smooth glide action. The buttons are quiet and not too click. The same can't be said for the track point plastic mouse buttons, which feel a little cheaper louder when used, the track point is precise and much more user-friendly than hp versions. I've tested in the past sound from the user-facing speakers with adobe audio presets is quite pleasant and loud without being distorted.

Audio is clear and decent when listening into a lecture or someone talking in a Zoom meeting dual mics, either side of the webcam provide good pickup of your voice. When talking in teams the HD 720p with ThinkPad webcam privacy shutter is a usual average quality affair, okay for a spot of zoom or teams, but if you rely on it for your work or studies grab yourself a better 1080p webcam. Instead, the p14s in this test model has an AMD Ryzen, 7 pro 4750u processor, based on the Lenoir architecture. Eight cores beating inside at the base clock at 1.7 gigahertz all the way up to a potential 4.1 gigahertz TDP is 15 to 25 watts. The pro processors offer a range of business features like hardware security, for example, AMD memory, guard manageability and reliable long activity on this test, laptop with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and 512 gigabytes, PCIE mime gen 3 times 4 m.2 SSD from Samsung the ThinkPad p14s was very responsive and had plenty of performance for all common office tasks. I didn't find any bottlenecks when running multiple things at once.

Benchmark results were great with the AMD CPU cine bench r23 shows a score of 8186 points on multi-core and 1200 points on a single call, rendering more scenes than the i9 9880h with less power. Superposition gives a benchmark result of 2051 points.3D mark results, show a CPU score of 6 000 611 and a graphic score of 980. Pc mark 10 resulted in a score 4998 geek bench 5, produced 1141 in single core and 5953 multicore. The pro 4750u almost comes within a whisker beating the 45 watt, i9 10885h in benchmark scores. Despite the much higher power consumption in the intel CPU, the CPU performance on the AMD is not reduced on battery power fan noise is kept very quiet overall, even when we were running our heavy benchmark tests, the fans hardly picked up, audibly great for silent work or study environments.

Thermals in the p14s are kept to a decent and manageable 45 Celsius under the chassis and only slightly warm to the touch on the keyboard. The temperatures stay very low when idling and under light workloads. The ThinkPad p14s is perfect for highly mobile power users and light cad workloads. The p14s will happily run applications like Autodesk fusion, 360, Linux, mint 20 with supported drivers and nowadays cad in the cloud in the shape of on shape, to name one software as a service provider, bypassing the need and hardware to run your cad workloads. The pro 4750u APU also integrates a radio Rx Vega, 7, integrated graphics card with 7 us and up to 1600 megahertz to get the maximum performance.

You should add a second memory module for the highest possible GPU performance in dual channel mode. So a question, that's always asked: will the ThinkPad p14s play games after you've had a hard day at the office or uni? The answer is yes, but like games only in low settings, we managed to play titles like among us, man of Medan, Minecraft, dungeons and motor gp20, with no issues common titles like Fortnite, lol and CSGO will play in low to medium settings. The p14s has a freestyle 51-hour internal battery that supports rapid charge up to 80 battery life in one hour with a compact, 65 watt, ac adapter, with brightness down to 50 and better battery option general office activities such as browsing, email, music, streaming and word expect around nine hours, plus video playback lasted 11 hours, also and under heavy load and full brightness. The battery life went down to two hours or so. Security features on the p14s include a ThinkPad webcam privacy shutter, a fingerprint reader for website logins, an IR camera for windows, hello, facial recognition, there's also a discrete trusted platform, module 2.0 and finally, a Kensington lock for added security. Three pros and cons before buying the Lenovo, ThinkPad p14s, awesome, AMD great performance and the light and thin laptop used to be unheard of until AMD stepped in with their wen war processors outperforming the intel competition, despite being in a battery efficient form factor delightful display.

The past few months we have seen more 400 nits low power IPS panels on the market with great color gamut to boot. The review model displays no exception, perfect viewing angles and a joy to use for work or study comfortable input devices. One of the main selling points of a ThinkPad is the input device is on offer world-class keyboard, smooth touchpad and the classic track point many have tried to match Lenovo but failed where's, the GPU. If the Lenovo ThinkPad p14s, is aimed as a lightweight mobile workstation, where the dedicated GPU options that the intel version of the p14s has the intel models come with the NVIDIA quarto p520. Surely the AMD model should have similar options, if not the choice of the new NVIDIA quarto t500 GPU, no thunderbolt 3.

, the p14s has no thunderbolt 3 port to take advantage of the faster transfer speeds. At 40, gigabits per second plus the convenience of a single cable connection to a docking station to power, two 4k monitors where's the SD reader for those using digital cameras, especially content creators, will miss a SD card reader to transfer their photos and video clips to a laptop. So if you're, considering the ThinkPad p14s, what the alternatives out there in no particular order, here's a list to consider hp, elite book, 845, g7, Lenovo, ThinkPad, t14, AMD hp, zed, bulk 5 fly, 14 g8 dell, precision 3560 the Lenovo ThinkPad p14s shares similarities to the ThinkPad t14. On one hand, you have a robust lightweight premium, laptop with fantastic performance from the AMD Ryzen 7 pro 4750u battery life will last you more than a complete work day, and it stays cool throughout. The display is outstanding, with accurate, colors and good brightness levels.

If you've typed on a ThinkPad before you know, the keyboard is one of the best, if not class, leading in the business. On the other hand, the Lenovo engineers have forgotten to include a few items in the p14s that would have made this lightweight mobile workstation the one to beat thunderbolt 4 a SD card reader would be ideal, but the cherry on the cake would have been a dedicated GPU like the NVIDIA quarto t500 for entry level, cad work on its own. The ThinkPad p14s is an excellent premium business laptop, but not as a mobile workstation. Otherwise, the p14s is just the ThinkPad t14 AMD in disguise. What do you guys think leave your comments and discuss below? I hope you guys enjoyed the review of the Lenovo ThinkPad p14s laptop.

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Source : Dove Computer Solutions Ltd