"The best T14 we've ever built": Interview on the new Lenovo ThinkPad T14 G7

[Redaktion]

With the new ThinkPad T laptops, the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 and ThinkPad T16 Gen 5, Lenovo has announced a major update to its "bread and butter" models for corporate customers. We were able to talk to the product manager, Christoph Blindenbacher, about the new repairable ThinkPads.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-best-T14-we-ve-ever-built-Interview-on-the-new-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14-G7.1262311.0.html

[cb27]

I wish they would focus on touchpad usability when the machine is used on the lap or even a table.

I'm right handed and I find the touchpad is too far to the left and gets uncomfortable after a while.

[vlado]

What model do you have? I have T14G5, I am using it with both hands (sometimes right, sometimes left) and the trackpad is a tiny bit better located for right hand. Anyway the diff is almost unnoticable.
And trackpoint saves it at the end of the day.

[Def noticeable]

Still not exactly centred for those of us with OCD.

And I doubt they ever will change, been like this for decades.

[Funny, but true]

I wish they would focus on touchpad usability when the machine is used on the lap or even a table.

Don't wish, just get a MacBook Air, they have the best touchpad in the industry.

I am using it with both hands (sometimes right, sometimes left) and the trackpad is a tiny bit better located for right hand. Anyway the diff is almost unnoticable.
And trackpoint saves it at the end of the day.

Don't cope with a trackpoint, just get a MacBook Air, they have the best touchpad in the industry.

Still not exactly centred for those of us with OCD.

And I doubt they ever will change, been like this for decades.

Don't wait for the change, be the change and just get a MacBook Air, they have the best touchpad in the industry and it's centered.

Also:

I know I'm comparing apples and oranges, but the APPLE Air 13 (13.6 inch) is lighter/2.64 lbs, has a better display, a similar keyboard (since LENOVO reduced the key travel), metal chassis and arguably looks better, has a 50% faster single-core CPU performance (4195 vs 2804) and 50% in multi-core, has an over 2x faster iGPU[1], is about 2 times faster in browsing (446 ms vs Air's 238.6 ms), .., and the 16 GB RAM option is also about half the price (32 GB unified memory/RAM available for about the same price, but the Air's RAM is not upgradable and there's no 64 GB RAM option, but the upside is that the Air's memory is running at 9600 MT/s vs 5600 MT/s on this laptop (both connected to a 128-bit memory bus width)[2]).

[1] 3dmark.com/search -- Steel Nomad:
Radeon 860M: Average score: 430
MacBook Air (2026 M5, 8-core GPU, 13"): Average score: 941
MacBook Air (2026 M5, 10-core GPU, 13"): Average score: 1066

[2]
This: 89.6 GB/s = 128-bit * 5600 MT/s / 1000 / 8.
Air: 153.6 GB/s = 128-bit * 9600 MT/s / 1000 / 8.
(the Air has a 71% higher memory bandwidth (this is why e.g. its iGPU is much faster))

[mattelover]

MBA touchpad could be 10/10 but Thinkpad's trackpoint is superior in ergonomics because you don't have to move your hand. This is like day and night.

Anyway the best T14 will come with "we dropped 65% sRGB screens completely" announcement. Big companies  will continue buying in bulk for office needs and employee will participate in lottery: T14 or L14 or E14? Maybe awful screen. Loud fan because the good fan tuning belong to expensive lineups.