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Lenovo - 15.6" ThinkPad T15g Gen 1 Laptop - 16GB Memory - Intel Core i7 - 512GB Hard Drive
Average customer rating
4.6
(326 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 326 reviews
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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92%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Lenovo - 15.6" ThinkPad T15g Gen 1 Laptop - 16GB Memory - Intel Core i7 - 512GB Hard Drive
Posted by: Jakob Hinman
from Sacramento, CA
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] There is nothing sexy about this absolute monster of a laptop. But what it lacks in sex appeal it dominates in performance. This machine is on or above the level of some desktops I have used and has yet to hesitate or stall on any task I have thrown at it. I have run countless simulations and renders at it that have saturated my desktop for days (i7 7700K, GTX 1060 3GB, 16 GB RAM) and this beast of a machine crunched the same tasks out in hours. The only problem is the very short battery life. I still have some settings to tweak but so far the most I've gotten out of a full charge is about two hours working in a small excel doc.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Da6dspanburg
from Washington, DC
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Great laptop. Replaced an older Lenovo with this one. I do photography, photoshop, and graphic design work and this laptop just hums along not even close to maxing it out.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
4
Awesome little speed demon, with a slight GPU flaw
on August 10, 2021
Posted by: Joe Good
from Dallas, TX
Verified Purchase:Yes
I really like this laptop. It it light and fast. I'm moving up from an Alienware laptop I bought a few years ago, which I thought was pretty fast, and the T15g just smashes that one to pieces.
One issue I have with it is the temperature. All of the marketing materials say that it has a highly optimized cooling system. Considering what they packed in there, I would agree. But this thing still gets insanely hot when playing games. I had it on my lap in bed and it felt like it was going to physically burn me. I then place it onto the bed to continue the game. After 10 minutes of that, my son who is playing on his laptop next to me says he smells something "funny, like smoke". I quickly pick up the T15g and looking for signs that something is burning up, nothing. (Whew) But, I did notice that the blanket the laptop was sitting on was very very hot and felt like it had been on an ironing board. On my desk, it has a stand with some fans, and works like a charm. It is definitely a desk-only computer.
My second issue is with the system detection of the NVidia GPU. This same problem is mirrored by many users in the Lenovo forums so I know it isn't isolated to my unit. The GPU is never detected upon first boot. If I just restart the laptop, it may detect the GPU one out of every 10 starts. In the forums, the other users who deal with this suggested that I go into the BIOS, reset the defaults, and save. This works. GPU shows up. "Yay!", I thought, "Problem solved!" Nope. You have to do this every time you boot. It isn't just a "do it only when you need to play games" type of problem. I use two monitors on my desk and the NVidia chip is used to drive that 2nd monitor, so this is something I deal with daily.
I still love the laptop, though. I had a Lenovo before my Alienware and have also bought laptops for my kids in the last few year and nothing beats a Lenovo in build quality. It just feels solid. Adding a new SSD took only a few minutes. The RAM slots are right there. Since it feels like some software interaction with Windows that happens when shutting Windows down, I hope Lenovo figures this GPU issue and then the machine will be perfect,
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Customer Rating
1
Lenovo...not what it used to be.
on April 11, 2021
Posted by: lenp
from carmel, in
I don't think that it would have been fair to do a review after owning this machine for 1 week, as requested by Lenovo. So, I have held off reviewing my ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 until now - after using it for 1.5 years. If you purchase this POC, despite reading this review... Good Luck, you were warned.
This is my 3rd Thinkpad. The first (2008) was awesome and works to this day (running older software that is not compatible with Windows 7 or 10), the second (Windows 7) was quite good and still works. Then there is this machine...
I chose to buy ThinkPads for personal use, my employer supplies us with Dells. If I had to do it over again, I would have purchased a Dell for the following three reasons...
Lenovo user interface ergonomics are absolute khrap. Somehow every other vendor in the world, including my iPhone and my 13 year old Lenovo laptop have fingerprint readers that work. The ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 fingerprint reader never works. So, memorize your pin/password, because you will need it.
But the most annoying feature of this laptop is Lenovo's latest TrackPad. It is beyond ridiculous. After 18 months or use, it is still difficult, unintuitive, unpredictable - making an external mouse an absolute necessity. Resting your hands anywhere near the track pad, cause unintended movement of the cursor or picks an unintended Excel cell.
With some laptops, usability just flows naturally ... like the last two Lenovo's I have owned or the last two Dell's supplied by my employer. Then there is this latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 that is perpetually awkward and difficult to use. Do yourself a favor, buy a Dell. My workplace Dells have not required compensating for poor laptop ergonimics, they just work. I think Lenovo did a very poor job attempting to copy Apple.
If Lenovo's useless fingerprint reader, and super awkward user interface aren't enough to discourage you from buying this machine...let me tell you about the permanent white spots imprinted on my screen due to some keyboard keys exerting pressure on the screen when closed. Z, CapsLock, Q, C, N, F9 are forever imprinted as white blobs on the screen of my $2k Lenovo due to poor manufacturing tolerances. When the screen is closed, these keys applied enough pressure to imprint permanent white blobs on the screen of this very expensive laptop.
Lenovo no longer produces working fingerprint readers, their user interface is incredibly poor, and their keyboard to screen interference QC is beyond awful.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, April 14, 2021
Lenovo appreciates all feedback and thank you for taking the time to rate and review our product! We apologize for your inconvenience. Please refer to our Technical Support at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/.
Additionally, for touchpad settings, please utilize this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNaIb-HxEw.
Very Respectfully,
Adrian_Lenovo
Additionally, for touchpad settings, please utilize this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNaIb-HxEw.
Very Respectfully,
Adrian_Lenovo
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Posted by: Al Rashid
from Houston TX
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Excellent product. I can run and test lots of app now.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Army business
from Los Angeles, CA
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Love this laptop. Perhaps not worth it over $2000, but under that, definitely worth consideration. I got it because I'm in military and I like that I can add card reader. Performance is good. doesn't throttle too much.
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Posted by: Rather Upset
Verified Purchase:Yes
No numbers keypad
Hard to input into Excel because of that shortfall
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Posted by: Steven F
Verified Purchase:Yes
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Amazingly fast computer. Really good buying experience.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com