Battery: These systems do not support batteries that are not genuine Lenovo-made or authorized. Systems will continue to boot, but may not charge unauthorized batteries. Attention: Lenovo has no responsibility for the performance or safety of unauthorized batteries, and provides no warranties for failures or damage arising out of their use. Battery life (and recharge times) will vary based on many factors, including system settings and usage. Also, when it comes to the upgrades, it offers up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, which is insane for this type of device. And when we add the authentication features such as the IR face recognition camera and the fingerprint reader, we get a very respectable “budget” business machine. The case of the Lenovo ThinkPad L14 G2 is made of robust plastic. The build quality is on a high level. There are no gaps or chinks anywhere. The display has an opening angle of 180 degrees. The display lid is quite stiff. Nevertheless, it does have its assets. The anti-glare coating helps alleviate some of the brightness issues and is also available with a touchscreen. Despite the poor colour accuracy, we wouldn’t write this screen off completely. It’s not best-suited for users who spend a lot of time mixing colours in Photoshop or InDesign, but it’s pleasant enough for simple office tasks. Lenovo ThinkPad L14 review: Keyboard and touchpad The 25-watt power limit is reasonable for the AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U. The processor is able to deliver 30 per cent more sustained performance than the Intel Alder Lake CPU in the ThinkPad T16 (limited to 20 watts).

Besides several exciting improvements, the Lenovo ThinkPad L14 G3 AMD also has a few advantages over the ThinkPad T14 G3. In this review, we will discuss whether they are enough to make the L14 the better choice. The L14 G3 features two RAM slots – this is a step-up from the T series, whose AMD models even only come with soldered RAM. Limits: Limit 5 per customer. Offers valid from Lenovo in the US only. Lenovo may increase or decrease these limits, from time to time, for certain offerings.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. Interestingly, the new L14 has around the same CPU performance as its predecessor with an eight-core Ryzen CPU. But our database suggests you will get anapproximately 25% performance gain with eight Cezanne/Barcelo U cores at the same power limits.

On battery, there is no drop in sustained performance. The 32-second initial boost to 30 watts is simply disabled (see power usage log and screenshots). At first glance, the 14in 1080p IPS display seems perfectly acceptable. In fact, it gave the impression of a reasonably bright screen capable of producing vivid colours. However, further inspection and a few tests revealed that colour fidelity is far from ideal. The L14’s screen covered just 59.5% of the sRGB colour gamut, while the maximum brightness is only 243.5 cd/m2. That’s a poor technical showing, and we’d be concerned about using the laptop in bright conditions, or for anything requiring colour accuracy. Actual battery life may vary depending on application usage, settings, features or tasks selected, network configuration, operating temperature and many other factors.Despite being extremely warm throughout the entire test, ThinkPad L14 is actually posting very respectable numbers – both in this test and in benchmarks. Probably you would want to run the Intelligent cooling setup if you have long code compilations, that would take a couple of hours, nonetheless. Comfort during full load Lenovo ThinkPad L14’s display doesn’t rely on PWM to adjust its brightness levels. This makes it comfortable for use during extended work periods, without presenting any harm to your eyes in this aspect. And while it clearly doesn’t have the battery life of the Dell Latitude 14 5410, we were still pretty happy with what we saw – a bit more than 9 hours and 45 minutes of Web browsing and pretty much the same amount of time during watching HD videos.