Lenovo ThinkPad L15 G2 im Test: AMD-Laptop für unter 1.000 Euro überzeugt

[Redaktion]

Mit dem Business-ThinkPad L15 liefert Lenovo einen solides Gerät zu einem günstigen Preis. Gewohnte Qualitäten, wie die guten Eingabegeräte, sind dabei genauso vorhanden wie leistungsfähige Hardware von AMD. Was von dieser genau zu erwarten ist, klären wir im Testbericht.

https://www.notebookcheck.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-L15-G2-im-Test-AMD-Laptop-fuer-unter-1-000-Euro-ueberzeugt.549809.0.html

[NikoB]

What's the point in reviews of paper, virtual Zen3 processors in the U series, if you really can't buy them anywhere for almost a year since AMD was released! That being said, Tiger Lake has been available for 2 months and has been on sale for a long time.

In all countries, laptops based on 5400U / 5600U / 5800U are out of stock, even in HP in the G8 series, which can only be found in Google (where Zen2 / Zen3 speed is stifled by 15-16% relative to such reviews)

It turns out that AMD in reality is Intel's gasket from anti-monopoly agents - all its processors both a year ago and 2 years ago (before COVID-19 and Baranovirus) actually came as part of laptops with a delay of 7-12 months, just at the time when they actually release in sale of a new series!

This is a pure shame for AMD! To make paper processors from year to year, not to establish their mass production, and in the most profitable segment - laptops for business and home ...

And this is not just that, but precisely because AMD is Intel's gasket and nothing else. The beneficiaries of both companies are the same persons ....

[NikoB]

Again the infamous screen in 2021 !!

It is impossible to look at pictures from a smartphone in natural colors, or videos on YouTube, not to mention something more serious! And at the same time, the monstrous panel response is more than 30ms! This means that Lenovo, like everything else, lies about the 60Hz panel - in reality, it is not capable of rendering a picture at a frequency higher than 30-35fps! Even a video at 50 / 60fps, she is not able to show without periodic breakdown of V-Sync!

As long as for that kind of money in the business sector they will sell garbage with less than 65% sRGB and such a monstrous response that all text when scrolling in the browser immediately turns into mush (blurred) and eyes get tired.

I have a Lenovo 2008 monitor (60Hz) next to me, when scrolling the text, the blurring is several times less! How so, Lenovo !!! A 13-year-old monitor beats the 2021 laptop screen in all respects!

Why don't you fit 144Hz / 165Hz panels in business and home laptops like the Legion 5 / Pro?

In the business series, 16:10 is the most important thing, but in games in Legion 5 Pro 16:10, and even with non-standard 2560x1600, which cannot be reduced to 1920x1080 without loss of clarity in games - it's just nonsense! Why does a gaming laptop with 2560x1600 - 165Hz need a panel, if even with a GTX3070 it barely produces 60fps in modern games in High / Ultra settings?

What are your marketers and R&D thinkers?

HP just did the smart thing - it supplied Omen with luxurious 4k panels at 120Hz. Thanks to this, they have people working and surfing in 4k. and they play in 1080p without any loss of picture clarity (because 3840x2160, elementary integer is reduced to 1920x1080).

You have a madhouse. In business and home series, they put miserable shameful 16: 9 with shameful 45-46% NTSC, and in gaming - business screens. What do your marketers and developers smoke?

Plug in all Ideapad / L / T - only 120 / 144Hz 4k panels and everything will be fine. People are ready to overpay + $ 100 for such a screen! And stop soldering the memory - this is idiocy, especially at the shameful 3200, not 4266 in the 4k channel!

[0x5F3759DF]

Hi,

Which "Power Mode" has been used for the Benchmarks?

I also own this device for about two weeks. I've got the Ryzen7 5850U Model. With the default Power Mode called "Better Perfomance" the CPU runs with 12W power limit. If the Power Mode is set to "Best Performance", the CPU is able to use 20W with significant performance gain compared to the default setting.

[oh oh lenovo]

@NikoB, good points.

My opinion is that 65% sRGB coverage is an absolute no-go. All the normal images on the internet and movies are in sRGB. Professional work in 10-16 bit, AdobeRGB, Rec2020 and so on is then downsampled to sRGB for normal consumption, so sRGB coverage of like 97-100% is a must.

[Ben12345]

Schade, dass der Test mit dem Ryzen 5 war. Wenn ich mir die Punktzahl aus dem Cinebench r15 Test hochrechnre komme ich für den Ryzen7 (2 Kerne mehr) auf 1265/0,75 = 1687 Punkte. Eigentlch schon beachtlich, dass der 6 Kern Ryzen fast an den 8 Kern Ryzen 7 aus dem vorjahr drankommt. Ich hätte mich auch gefreut, wenn im Test nicht nur auf den vorhandenen Bildschirm eingegangen wird, sondern auch in wie weit das Gerät in der Lage ist, externe Monitore zu Bedienen. Da gibt es von Gerät zu Gerät deutliche unterschiede.
Auf CampusPoint kann man etwa sehen, dass ein Lenovo L15 mit ryzen 5 5600u eine folgende Ausgabeauflösung haben kann:
USB-C: 5120x3200 @60Hz
HDMI: 4096x2160 @60Hz

Zum vergleich kann da ein Lenovo Campus IdeaPad 5 Pro-16ACH, auch unter Betrachtung des Produktbeschreibung in CampusPoint, nur folgende Auflösung liefern (wohlgemerkt mit dedizierter Grafikkarte):

3840×2160p @ 30Hz (HDMI)
2560×1600p @ 60Hz (HDMI)
5120×2880p @ 60Hz (Type-C)

Auch würde ich mir wünschen, dass auf Doking Lösungen der Hersteller mehr eingegangen wird. Fürs Homeoffice ist das eine große erleichterung, wenn man nur ein Kabel für zwei externe Monitore, Maus, Tastatur und USB Stick hat.