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<h1 class="nostalgic gradient_text comicsans">Exactly, it has always been better in the old days.</h1>
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<h2>ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 AMD Review</h2>
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<p class="written">DutchEllie on July 4, 2021 at 10:04 AM</p>
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<p class="lastupdated">Last updated: July 4, 2021 at 10:18 AM</p>
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<p style="font-weight:700;text-align: left;padding-left:20px;">"Fine, I will do it myself then!"</p>
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Right, since apparently none seems to want to review this laptop, I guess I shall have to do it myself in that case.
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The <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/nl/nl/laptops/thinkpad/l-series/L15-AMD-G2/p/22TPL15L5A2" class="reviewlink">ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 AMD</a> (20X7000QMH)
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is a rather new laptop (at the time of writing). It was released in most of the world at around May 2021, according to the Lenovo PSREF service.
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It was announced virtually silently, with almost no publicity at all! The only references to this product that I could find were an entry in a generic
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product database somewhere and a question on the Dutch site Tweakers (<a href="https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/2072248" class="reviewlink">Forum post</a>)
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and that was it, aside from Lenovo's own website of course. This surprised me, but I quickly found that the old model of this same laptop had almost zero publicity as well.
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I honestly wonder why that is. I would expect professional reviewers to pick up on a product launch like this. Even now, two months later there are no reviews for this laptop.
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There is an entry on the <a href="https://laptopmedia.com/series/lenovo-thinkpad-l15-gen-2-amd/" class="reviewlink">Laptopmedia</a> website about it, but no review.
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That's why I will do it myself then. This review will not be a long, detailed review with testing and everything. Rather it will be a simple sum of topics, ending in a verdict.
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Let us start.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">The laptop in general</h4>
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The Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 is finely built. It uses high quality plastic, and it does it well! Rather than trying to imitate Apple (and compromising on using
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actual metal) the ThinkPad series has been using high quality plastic for housing since absolutely forever. I praise this design and would prefer this over
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almost everything. The plastic is high quality everywhere, it is almost soft to the touch and it feels very nice. The design is what one would expect from a ThinkPad.
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The laptop feels sturdy and high-quality. Lenovo clearly has an almost unmatched experience in making laptops like this and it shows. Despite this being an entry
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level laptop, it feels like it should be several hundred euros more expensive.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">The keyboard</h4>
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The keyboard is again, what you would expect from a ThinkPad. It uses basically the same keyboard module as all other ThinkPads. The layout is good, with countless
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reviews for other ThinkPad models praising it. The keys are ever so slightly slanted too, making the typing experience easy and comfortable.
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It has a backlit function too, but it is almost never needed, not even in the dark. My old laptop (some Lenovo Legion)
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has a backlit keyboard as well, but really even in broad daylight needs it backlight to be on all the time. A weird quirk of this keyboard however is its Control and
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Function key are switched on the layout for some reason. The Function key is on the edge, where normally the Control key would reside. This is fixable in software
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fortunately. Lenovo's Vantage software (for Windows only) provides a simple switch to switch the functions of these buttons around.
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Oh and of course it has its signature TouchPoint between the G, H and B keys. It is a joy to use, especially while typing and quickly having to move your cursor around.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">The screen</h4>
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The screen is a place where Lenovo seems to be able to save the money on this laptop, but this is not a bad thing. The screen is easily bright enough in indoor conditions
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and you have the ability to use it outside, just not very well :). I have read the color accuracy on the previous model was not good. I do not know about this myself,
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but I don't do any color sensitive work, so I would not know any way. My model did not come with a touchscreen, but Lenovo's PSREF database makes me believe there are
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models out there that do, I just had no option to get it.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">Performance</h4>
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My model came packed with an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U with Radeon Graphics and 16GB of memory. This is not a dedicated GPU, rather a built-in one.
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It is not very good for gaming. Do not get this laptop if what you plan on playing involves more advanced graphics than Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
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It can game, don't get me wrong. Just don't expect to play anything more than Rimworld or Civ VI.
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The Ryzen 7 Pro is a very capable CPU. It has 8 cores and 16 threads and consumes only about 15 Watts at peak!
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You can easily blaze through every task a normal laptop should be able to do. Browsing, text editing, coding and compiling, it will do it all.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">Battery life</h4>
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This is what drove my decision to buy a new laptop in the first place. I am not exaggerating when I say my old Lenovo Legion would go from 100% to 30% in about 10
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minutes. It speds up too, to the point where you could actually count down with its percentage from around 50%. At 30% it would die. Needless to say, I needed a new
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laptop. The ThinkPad advertised a battery life of an insane 14 hours. It does not make 14 hours, not even with the screen at half brightness. However, it does regularly
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make around 6/7 hours. It is funny to see the difference too in the advertising from Lenovo between the AMD and Intel models of this same laptop. Intel gets a considerably
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lower score, around 7.5 hours. If the real battery life is really 50% of what is advertised, I urge you to not buy the Intel model. No one would do that anyway, since it
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is more expensive too.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">Summary and conclusion</h4>
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The Lenovo ThinkPad L15 Gen 2 AMD is a very well-built laptop. It has a great keyboard that is easy to type on, just like other ThinkPads.
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The screen is good for indoors and a little hard to see outdoors, but be real here, how often do YOU expect to get outside, you hermit.
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When it comes to performance this laptop holds up great in every task that is not gaming. It can game, but it is not made for that.
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Battery life is very good at around 6/7 hours when doing regular work.
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I definitely recommend this laptop. At around 900 euros now, it's fairly priced. I did get a pretty good deal however.
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That model is now gone from the website, but my model came in 140 euros cheaper than the regular option, with the only difference being I would have to install my own OS.
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It did not come with Windows 10 Pro pre-installed.
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Saving 140 euros for the price of spending 10 minutes myself to install and definitely genuinely activate Windows myself, sign me up!
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Sadly this model is gone from the site now. Don't see why they even offered it in the first place then, but I am not complaining!
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On top of this incredible save, I was able to put a gracious student discount as well.
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I paid a total of €730,15 for this machine.
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That, frankly, is ridiculously cheap.
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However, to say this machine is expensive without the model difference and discount would be a lie.
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If you are looking for a good laptop to use for the next 10 years this is your chance.
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<h4 class="reviewsubheader">Random thoughts</h4>
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To expand on the last phrase of the summary and conclusion, I would like to rant a bit. Feel free to not read this, the review is over.
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Too often do I see people who buy a midrange laptop, something like an HP with some Intel i5 and 8GB of memory.
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They buy it for school, or for work, or just as an everyday computer to use at home occasionally.
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The problem is the expectations they have for the money they spend.
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For €500 you can not get a laptop that will last a long time.
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Not now, not ever.
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A family member will come to me with an old laptop and ask me to please speed it up again.
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I had such an encounter recently. They brought the laptop in and it was... an experience.
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If I remember correctly, it had something like 4GB of DDR2 memory, running on an old AMD CPU.
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I reinstalled Windows, a process which took several hours.
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Once it was installed, it was as slow as it was when I started.
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I could not install Linux, but not even that would have saved it.
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In the end I told them to buy an SSD and give it to me, I would install it in the laptop and reinstall Windows on that.
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That worked, but I wonder for how long still.
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It is surprising the laptop is not dead yet.
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Is this really what people are willing to deal with?
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Do people actually accept that is how computers are supposed to run?
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