The original ThinkBook Plus was charming in its strangeness, but some of Lenovo's software and feature choices felt incongruous with the notebook's focus on business. Lenovo says you can expect up to 15 hours of use from the ThinkBook Plus's 53Whr battery, though you can squeeze considerably more life out of this notebook if you only use that E Ink screen - think 24 hours or so. You can kit it out with up to an 11th-gen Intel Core i7 chipset and up to 1TB of storage, while the 16GB of RAM, integrated UHD graphics, WiFi 6, 2W stereo Harman Kardon speakers, and two Thunderbolt 4-compatible USB-C ports are common across all configurations. Meanwhile, the rest of the machine is fairly standard road-warrior stuff. (Since this is a strictly business-oriented machine, we sort of doubt it, but we'll update this story if we hear differently.)īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Curiously, there's no word on Amazon partnerships this year, so while the Gen 2 appears to include an Alexa shortcut, it's unclear if you can read Kindle books on the external display again. There's a more pronounced focus on managing your calendar and incoming messages through dedicated widgets, and even better, the Gen 2 now lets you launch certain productivity apps - seemingly including Microsoft's suite of Office software - without having to open the ThinkBook. ![]() The interface seems to have gotten a pretty significant revamp, too. ![]() ![]() The big draw here is that the second display is, well, bigger: last year's ThinkBook Plus packed a 10.8-inch E Ink screen while this year's model uses a more spacious 12-inch panel that matches the 13.3-inch main screen's 2560x1600 resolution. But that didn't stop Lenovo from taking a hard look at last year's ThinkBook Plus and cooking up a $1,549 Gen 2 i model for 2021. Pop quiz, hotshot: when's the last time you seriously thought about buying a laptop with a standard screen on one side and an E Ink display on the other? If you answered "never," well, fine - that's probably true of most people.
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