Lenovo Thinkpad T480S Intel i7-8650u 1800 MHz 16GB Ram 512Gb SSD UHD Graphics 620 (Renewed)

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Battery: These systems do not support batteries that are not genuine Lenovo-made or authorised. Systems will continue to boot, but may not charge unauthorised batteries. Lenovo has no responsibility for the performance or safety of unauthorised batteries, and provides no warranties for failures or damage arising out of their use. **Battery life is based on the MobileMark® 2014 methodology and is an estimated maximum. Actual battery life may vary based on many factors, including screen brightness, active applications, features, power management settings, battery age and conditioning, and other customer preferences. You should also consider buying just the barebone from Lenovo, which means the CPU and screen that you want, but only with the soldered RAM and the smallest SSD, and then just add more memory and replace the SSD yourselves. On top of that, you should ask yourself if the i7-8650U is worth the premium Lenovo asks for it, or you’d be better off with one of the i5s, with or without vPro. Keep in mind I’m mostly used to shorter and easier to press keys, so given enough time I might adapt to typing on this ThinkPad. With several thousands words in the bag though, I still found the experience somewhat fatiguing and actuating each key required just a tad more physical effort than I’m used to putting in this activity. The cooling solution leaves a sophisticated impression. Short peak load or the installation of applications are usually handled without any fan activity. We did not experience any electronic noises or coil whine, respectively, so the T480s is often a silent system. The cooling solution between the SKUs with the integrated and the dedicated GPU seems to be identical, so the is sufficient headroom for the cooling of the quad-core ULV processor. The default Lenovo driver currently still limits the TDP to 15 W, which is very low. The cooling solution also handles the Core i5 quad-core very well even without the limitation, but this also results in higher temperatures and a louder fan. You can therefore choose between maximum performance or a cooler and quieter device. The performance is sufficient for many daily tasks, even with the 15 W limitation.

In terms of graphics, the ThinkPad's integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics won't play intense games, but on our Dirt 3 benchmark, it ran the title at 57.1 frames per second, falling just under the average (59 fps) and X1 Carbon (64 fps), but higher than the Latitude (56 fps). It would be interesting to see how the MX150 configuration performs in games, given that the same cooling would have to handle both the CPU and the extra 10W of the dedicated GPU, but that’s not something we can answer in this article. You should however definitely look into this matter if you’re interested in this MX150 version of the T480s. Laptop performa untuk kreator, profesional, atau gamer - kami memiliki pembangkit tenaga listrik yang menyaingi apa yang diberikan oleh desktop. There are still some things I wasn’t completely happy with, like the typing experience, the sound quality and the screen’s non-uniform and misaligned panel, but these are fairly small quirks in the grand scheme of things and for most of you they should be compensated by the excellent design and build, the performance, the complete IO or the long battery life. And don’t forget you might not even feel the same about the keyboard, as the typing experience depends on your preferences and what you’re already used to.Overall, the T480s takes over for the T480 and comes with some improvements that make it a little better for the regular home user or gamer over business users. Of course, this means that it is still a great option for businesses, will all that power it has. Lenovo does offer a higher-resolution display option, though I did not get the opportunity to set eyes on it. You can upgrade to a WQHD (2,560-by-1,440-pixel) display, which should deliver a crisper image but one that ' s, perhaps, not any brighter. (The WQHD option, it should be noted, does not include touch-input support.) To my eyes, the FHD resolution suffices for its 14-inch size, and is the right match for that panel measure; images and text look sharp, without any obvious pixelation.

All T480s variants in Germany come with at least 8 GB soldered-on RAM – in some countries 4 GB RAM variants seem to be available. Since the T480s has an additional SODIMM slot, a maximum of 24 GB DDR4-2400 RAM is possible. Like its predecessors, the T480s doesn’t come with a 2.5 inch slot anymore. Instead, the ThinkPad has a single M.2-2280 slot that is compatible with fast PCIe NVMe SSDs as well as SATA III SSDs. The highest capacity Lenovo offers at this time is 1 TB.The ThinkPad T480s uses a three-cell, 57-watt-hour battery and lasted for 13 hours and 22 minutes on PCMag Labs' battery rundown test. That ' ll get you through the longest of workdays, and it looks like an impressive figure until you look at the runtime of its competitors, among them the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the Dell XPS 13, and the MacBook Pro. Its score of 3,455 on PCMark 8 was less than a hundred points (and only a few percentage points) better than the X1 Carbon's showing. The two ThinkPads were also close on multimedia tests, with the X1 Carbon actually ekeing out a win on the Photoshop image-editing trial. The ThinkPad T480s was faster than Apple's 2017 MacBook Pro on the Handbrake video-encoding test, the Cinebench R15 3D-rendering benchmark, and a series of Photoshop editing tasks. W (~7 h 40 min of use) – 4K fullscreen .mkv video in the Movie app, Better Battery Mode, screen at 30%, Wi-Fi ON; This laptop has almost every port that you could want and probably even a few that you’ll never really use. It has two USB 3.0 connectors, an SD card reader, an HDMI-out, and a full Ethernet port.