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Lenovo - ThinkPad T495s 14" Touch-Screen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 PRO - 16GB Memory - 512GB Solid State Drive - Black
Average customer rating
4.6
(114 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 114 reviews
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Customer Reviews for Lenovo - ThinkPad T495s 14" Touch-Screen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 PRO - 16GB Memory - 512GB Solid State Drive - Black
Posted by: Bryce09
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I purchased a ThinkPad T495s for college, and so far I am extremely pleased with it.
Pros:
Very lightweight.
Battery life easily hits 8-9+ usable hours.
Charges up fast.
Keyboard is extremely responsive and backlighting looks nice.
Trackpad and trackpoint both feel great and natural to use.
Fingerprint reader is very fast and accurate.
Matte finish screen looks great and is very clear with no glare.
VERY FAST regarding bootup, opening programs, web browsing, basically everything. Installing Windows updates is no longer a painfully-long process.
The AMD CPU and GPU combo is more than enough power for general use and a terrific value.
The fan only runs when it needs to, creating a very quiet experience.
Great variety of ports.
Very lightweight.
Battery life easily hits 8-9+ usable hours.
Charges up fast.
Keyboard is extremely responsive and backlighting looks nice.
Trackpad and trackpoint both feel great and natural to use.
Fingerprint reader is very fast and accurate.
Matte finish screen looks great and is very clear with no glare.
VERY FAST regarding bootup, opening programs, web browsing, basically everything. Installing Windows updates is no longer a painfully-long process.
The AMD CPU and GPU combo is more than enough power for general use and a terrific value.
The fan only runs when it needs to, creating a very quiet experience.
Great variety of ports.
Cons:
Advertised with 8 GB of RAM, the usable portion of that RAM is only 5.9 GB. A whole 2.1 GB is considered "Hardware Reserved." I haven't attempted to alter this, but it may be possible to change this in the BIOS, and it may also be shared by the Radeon Vega graphics.
Top bezel is a little thick.
No dedicated media pause/skip/playback keys.
The speakers leave quite a bit to be desired, but I view the vast majority of media with headphones so it isn't an issue.
Lower left CTRL and FN keys are switched, but the included Lenovo Vantage software allows them to be remapped.
Advertised with 8 GB of RAM, the usable portion of that RAM is only 5.9 GB. A whole 2.1 GB is considered "Hardware Reserved." I haven't attempted to alter this, but it may be possible to change this in the BIOS, and it may also be shared by the Radeon Vega graphics.
Top bezel is a little thick.
No dedicated media pause/skip/playback keys.
The speakers leave quite a bit to be desired, but I view the vast majority of media with headphones so it isn't an issue.
Lower left CTRL and FN keys are switched, but the included Lenovo Vantage software allows them to be remapped.
Overall, I am very satisfied. This laptop is a good value and focuses on practicality over gimmicks, a great design philosophy.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Posted by: MinhNguyen
from Los Angeles
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The laptop is light and has decent io output. Some dongles required but I like the ethernet port. No removable battery like previous generations of thinkpads and I don't like that. I immediately got rid of windows and replaced the os with initially ubuntu 18.04. There were issues with the screen brightness and after switching to linux mint then to ubuntu 19.04 was the screen brightness resolved. I wish lenovo would have better linux driver support for their products as the fingerprint pad is so far not useable on ubuntu. The camera has a built in webcam blocker which I appreciate a lot. This is the thinkpad so the keyboard is as good as ever. The Ryzen 5 3500u is powerful enough for graduate school research and battery life is very good once installing tlp.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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