Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2

The ThinkPad E14 comes with one year limited, complete with customer service and support. Lenovo's Vantage software is the main system management tool here. There is plenty of ventilation on the bottom and around the hinge, which help keep the surfaces you're in contact with below 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Under pressure, the touchpad heats up to 75 degrees, the centre of the keyboard gets up to 84 degrees, and the underside hits 89 degrees.

The Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 is a good office notebook for the price. The Intel version of the ThinkPad has all the features that the AMD model has. It also comes with a Thunderbolt 4 port, which is the first E series ThinkPad with this powerful and versatile port. Some individuals may be quite annoyed by coil whine, which crops up when the laptop is plugged in.

The Lenovo ThinkPad E14 delivers pretty much what you'd expect on the performance front. Its trackpad just isn't as smooth as the models on most other laptops in the $1,000-and-up price range. The battery life and graphics are both letdowns. Its most exemplary feature is its keyboard, but that's offset by a disappointing trackpad.

At 3.5 lbs and 17.9mm thick, it's thicker and heavier than what we're looking for in a laptop we'd need to bring with us to business meetings and work trips. The trackpad is also a little annoying, and not very comfortable to use. Despite our unit only having the mid-range i5 chip, it hasn't shown any signs of massive slowdowns during demanding tasks.