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Review on 15.6" Laptop Lenovo ThinkBook 15 G2ITL 1920x1080, Intel Core i3 1115G4 3GHz, RAM 8GB, SSD 256GB, Intel UHD Graphics, Windows 10 Pro, 20VE0007RU, mineral gray by Mateusz Drabarczyk ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I like everything, the quality is good, the price is reasonable.

20VE00G0RU Lenovo ThinkBook 15 G2 ITL bought in January 2022 for 63tyr. The keyboard is very annoyed. You can buy an external one, but then why this laptop, when youcomuld take a system unit 2 times cheaper. Before that, I used a Lenovo ThinkPad. I understand that I'm used to it and habits are hard to break. But it's over the edge. I'll get used to it someday though. I looked at the price tag of the new ThinkPad and realized that it doesn't really matter which manufacturer. I watched all the models, choosing the parameters - a curtain on the camera, an additional memory slot or from 16GB soldered, keyboard backlight, ethernetcomnnector (now it’s not relevant, because I will use a thunderbolt expander with several usb3, rj45, hdmi and cards - reader), the i3-i5 processor of the latest generations is not BGA (like so that you can change the percentage to i7. Which I’m unlikely to do). I also wanted to insert hdd2.5, but I didn’t find normal models at the request above (although if I removed ethernet, then something wouldcome across) Lenova has a big plus - there is a summary table for models: Choose your region and you can download it to excel and pick it up there by the insides (what kind of memory, how much, is it possible to HDD, which screen) Acer has none of this. A bunch of reviews on how they bought a laptop, and he suddenly did not have a keyboard backlight. Finding out the full specs before buying (yes, at least what matrix and whether it will flicker) is a secret behind 7 seals. Lenova has everything open in this regard.

Pros
  • - specifically, 20VE00G0RU does not have a flickering screen. "Pencil test" 100% passed :) - mechanical shutter of the camera, but with a fly in the ointment in the form of a red eye in the closed mode, very similar in color to the lens flare. Those. the camera is in fact closed, but it glares red and it seems that this is an open lens - the laptop is light, but at the same time a little flimsy and bends a little when you take it from one corner. After the monumentality of the old Lenovo ThinkPad, this one feels like a plastic toy. - the presence of a full-size SD-card reader (but no microSD)
Cons
  • - the minimum screen brightness is too high to work in complete darkness - no possibility to add HDD inside, only SSD - only 2 full-fledged usb-ports. One of which will be occupied either by a mouse wire or a mouse transmitter (you can solve it with a thunderbolt port expander. But why carry extra garlands of wires with you. A laptop is bought for mobility, and not to hang it with external devices). And finding a normal bluetooth mouse (without usb transmitters) is very difficult - The keyboard heats up under load. Summer will be even worse - the keyboard backlight has 2 levels of brightness and they almost do not differ from each other - there are no indicators about the operation of SSD, Wi-Fi. Those. If the computer freezes tightly, it is difficult to understand the reason. Apparently it is assumed that the response time of SSD cannot be long (unlike HDD) The biggest downside is the keyboard. - half buttons up and down - the keyboard backlight has a cold shade, very different from the screen and the power button (seen in the 1st photo) - the keyboard backlight has a hard PWM (flicker), which is annoying when reading from the screen at night (keyboard flicker is noticeable with peripheral vision). This is clearly visible on the 2nd blurred photo - the screen and the power button glow smoothly, and an intermittent loop remains from the keyboard buttons. - function buttons (F1-F12) are not divided into groups. To find, for example, F5 in this line of buttons, you have to peer into the letters and the semi-blind method does not work - a completely superfluous and inadequately functioning numeric keypad on the right. The Home and End buttons are duplicated both on it and on the arrows. Text editors work differently. Then instead of Home, "7" is printed (for End, respectively, "1"), then you need to press Ctrl + Fn + Home to work as it should, then Ctrl + Fn + Left Arrow. Editing and navigating through the text turns into trash. You can't send the Ctrl+Alt+End combination via RDP. You have to block Fn, then turn on / off NumLock. On the old Lenovo ThinkPad, this is no problem.