Lenovo Think. Pad 2. Anniversary Edition Review Rating. The Lenovo Think. Pad 2. 5 Anniversary Edition 1,8. Lenovo Think. Pad T4. Think. Pads past including a non chiclet keyboard, a choice of three Track. Update 24th July 2017 How to track my lost or stolen Android phone or mobile is one of the questions that 80 of the android users have in their. Point caps, and red, green, and blue accents on its logo. This unique laptop celebrates the past 2. Lenovos flagship brand, but with modern components like a seventh generation Intel Core i. Windows 1. 0 Pro, and a Thunderbolt 3 port. Think. Pad Through the Years. Lenovo formerly IBM includes a short book about the history of Think. Pad line in the systems packaging. The Think. Pad 3. IBMs first set of Think. Pad laptops introduced in 1. While the new Think. Pads are thinner and much lighter, the family resemblance continues, from the soft touch black exterior to the red accent from the Track. Point cap in the center of the comfy keyboard. PC Magazine reviewed the Think. Think its time to upgrade your traditional watch by adding some apps and notifications to your wrist Here are the features to look for, along with the toprated. Wifi Wifi Wifi. Download tools to diagnose monitor or repair internet problems. Weve compiled a list of what we consider to be the best Virtual Private Network VPN service providers, grouped by premium, free, and torrentfriendly. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Pad 7. 00c in the December 2. MHz 4. 86. SLC processor, 8. MB of RAM, and a 1. MB hard drive. This was a 1. Weve certainly come a long way since then. Design and Aesthetics. The 2. 5th anniversary edition chassis matches the Think. Pad T4. 70 in both physical dimensions at 0. HWD and weight 3. The retro touches start on the top lid, with multi colored red, blue, and green letters on the Think. Pad logo, and continue when you open the lid and expose the old school non chiclet keyboard with its signature blue Enter key. It looks very similar to the keyboard on the 2. Think. Pad T4. 20s, but the feel of the key strokes and the switches underneath are more modern and as sturdy as todays laptops. Also, the one piece touchpad is wide like the one on the T4. T4. 20s. The keyboard is backlit, fitting current aesthetics better than the screen mounted Think. Light used on Think. Pads from 2. 01. 1 and earlier that simply threw a beam of light on top of the keyboard. A fingerprint reader to the right of the keyboard works with Windows Hello for a one touch login, and the system also features an IR camera for logging in with a glance. A 7. 20p HD webcam is in its usual place above the screen. It is optimized for Skype for Business, and is perfectly suited to web conferences. Likewise, the built in speakers produce excellent speech audio, though audio from movie trailers and action videos was a bit muddled in our testing. The keyboard has the seven row layout common to pre 2. Think. Pads, including an enlarged ESC key, function keys that act as F1 to F1. Prt. Scn key and other auxiliary keys above the function keys instead of in the bottom row, etc. The keycaps are traditionally shaped, that is to say theyre curved, but not as scalloped as modern ones. Id rather type on this keyboard than a laptop with slippery and flat chiclet style keys, like the 1. Samsung Notebook 9 Pro. Again, its a nostalgia trip for 9. While you read about the Think. Pads past, you can relive some of that experience with an included set of three Track. Point caps. Lenovo includes the mushroom shaped Soft Dome cap that comes with every current Think. Pad, but there is also a convex cup shaped one the Soft Rim, and two eraser shaped Classic Dome caps in case you want the tactile experience from the late 1. All three types of caps work well, though we are partial to the Soft Rim cap. Folks raised on touchpads likely wont care, but pointing stick comfort was an important differentiator before touch screens, touchpads, and multitouch support for both became commonplace. The 1. 4 inch touch screen has a full HD resolution and a matte finish. The latter helps quell reflections, especially compared with the glossy screens on the Apple Mac. Book Pro 1. 3 inch and the Dell XPS 1. Touch. However, the downside to the matte finish is that colors appear slightly duller. That said, both text and graphics look sharp on the display. Ova Vmware Workstation more. Excellent Connectivity but No DVD or FloppyThe anniversary edition doesnt go overboard with the nostalgia and include a floppy or optical drive. Instead, its side panels match the Think. Pad T4. 70, which has an excellent set of IO ports. On the left side, theres a USB CThunderbolt 3 port for SSDs or 4k monitors. You can also use the port with a USB C charger or Thunderbolt 3 docking station. Also on the left, there is a traditional USB 3. Think. Pad AC adapter connector. On the right, youll find an Ethernet port, an HDMI jack, a headset jack, a Kensington lock port, an SD card reader, and two more USB 3. This wide selection matches other mainstream laptops like the Dell Latitude 1. This array of ports is a lot more convenient than those on the Mac. Book Pro, which only has USB C connectors that require clunky adapters for USB Type A, HDMI, or Ethernet connectivity. Wi Fi and Bluetooth 4 handle wireless connections. The system comes with a seventh generation Intel Core i. U CPU, 1. 6GB of RAM, and a 5. GB SSD. The CPU choice, memory, and the SSD capacity are all a bit above average, giving you quite a bit of future proofing. Other business PCs like the Apple Mac. Book Pro come with Core i. GB or 2. 56. GB SSDs. The Dell Latitude 7. Core i. 7 processor too, but includes only 8. GB of RAM and a 2. GB SSD for about the same price 1,8. Good Battery Life, Discrete Graphics. Back in the day, many Think. Pads came with discrete graphics. Integrated graphics performance was subpar in the early part of this century, and barely existent in the 1. Most modern Think. Pads and business PCs in general eschew discrete graphics to save money and curtail power usage. However, the Think. Pad anniversary edition comes with Nvidia Ge. Force 9. 40. MX discrete graphics. On our 3. D testing, it was the only business PC able to produce smoothly playable frame rates on the Heaven 3. Valley 4. 8fps tests at medium quality settings. Predictably, frame rates dropped at Ultra quality settings, but they were still tops in this group. The system also topped the 3. DMark Cloud Gate and Fire Strike Extreme tests. You should be able to easily play games like Minecraft and Diablo III during work breaks, but newer games like Destiny 2 will be a bit beyond its means. See How We Test Laptops. Thanks to its Core i. Think. Pad made short work of the PCMark 8 Work Conventional test 3,2. Handbrake 1 5. 7, Cinebench 3. Photoshop 3 4. 0. Its scores lagged the Apple Mac. Book Pro on Handbrake and Cinebench, and the Dell Latitude 7. PCMark 8 and Photoshop, but were competitive with systems like the HP Elite. Book 1. 04. 0 G3, the Think. Pad T4. 70, and the Toshiba Tecra X4. D. Battery life was good, lasting 1. We dont say very good because, though it lasted this long on its included slim removable battery and built in secondary battery, the Think. Pad T4. 70 managed 1. The system lasted 5 hours, 3. Think. Pad the ability to hot swap the removable battery for a fresh one. The Apple Mac. Book Pro lasted longer on its internal battery 1. Think. Pads lasted many hours longer than the HP Elite. Book 1. 03. 0 G3 6 5. A Solid Laptop With a Side of Nostalgia. A quarter century is a long time, and in that span, many PC makers have started up, and countless others have shuttered. But for those 2. 5 years, the Think. Pad brand has remained near the top of the charts, and has influenced the must have features and laptop design. The top PC makers still put pointing stick controllers on their mainstream business laptops to this day because so many businesses bought Think. Pads in the 1. 99. Overall, the Lenovo Think.