Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Laptop Review: Too much performance with too little cooling

[Redaktion]

With the ThinkPad E series, Lenovo targets both the normal office market as well as people who occasionally like to play games – at least when the ThinkPad laptop is configured with an AMD GPU. Bringing these two things together proves more difficult than Lenovo might have thought, however, as the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 struggles with its cooling system.

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[jeremy]

If we follow the saga of the E series, we can see the story of the E480.

It launched with an overly hot chassis, trying to cool an Intel CPU + AMD dGPU.

You called it out as dangerous.

Lenovo would then release a BIOS update that throttled the dGPU down to Intel IGP levels of performance, lowering the temperature.

You'd release a followup review.

Rinse, repeat.

[Paul14]

And what about E15 without dedicated graphic card? I think many people buy thinkpads not for gaming and do not need dgpu. What about temperatures then?

[Lenovo Laptops]

Stay away from Lenovo as they have very poor quality check.

After RMA 2 laptops (same day) as they came with defective parts, e.g. camera not working, got a refund.

[Cavehomme]

After being with Dell for many years, bought one these a couple of weeks ago for pro / SME use, very impressed with the speed and cool running. Battery life very good too.

For me the Fn key is in the wrong place, I'm used to having the CTRL key in the bottom left, so it's awkward and mistakes made. Otherwise the keyboard is nice, especially the feel of it. Love the trackpoint.

Not sure which parts of the laptop are metal, possibly only the lid.

The biggest weakness is the quality of the display, not bright enough and white is not white, unlike Dell displays I'm used to.
Colours are not correct, red is more like orange. Unfortunately cannot find a way to calibrate properly, any suggestions welcome.

Screen flickers slightly from time to time, will need to check that out on the forums when I have spare time.

Marks out of 10:  7 - 8

[Joris]

Have this one now for a few months.
Negative aspects:
1. Can't help but notice there's already keyboard wear, especially on the space bar. I do not use my laptop excessive or even on a daily base.
2. The display is indeed not bright, and the colors are terrible. I compared with my friend's MacBook Pro (2015 retina). The colors are pale and not bright all. If it's possible to fix this (Some sort of calibration software? Does it exist?), that'd be very welcome. Even my 10-year-old $700 Acer Aspire has brighter colors.
3. My screen is (literally) bent at the right side and I have no clue how that happened. I'm always very careful with my laptop. It doesn't affect anything, my screen works fine, but the aluminium housing has some indentation in the middle-right side. I'm considering a warranty-return for this.
Positive aspects:
runs great, fast, good battery... Solid machine if you remove all the Lenovo-pre-installed garbage.

[Jobins George]

Simply Best I bought Lenovo ThinkPad Laptop with Nvme2 SSD from IBSouq.com at affordable prices comparing to other stores in Bahrain. Sales team makes sure to understand my needs and budgets while assisting me to make the best choice while buying. Also, their Delivery and service appreciable received the Laptop same day with in 4hr of order.

Grate laptop and very nice performance