Lenovo launches new 14-inch laptop globally with 500-nit display and almost 20% longer battery life than older model
Last month, Lenovo released the ThinkBook 14 G9 Q8Y with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors. Additionally, the company offers AMD Hawk Point, Intel Raptor Lake and Intel Panther Lake architectures under the same Gen 9 series.
Of those, we have reviewed the ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL (curr. $1,314 on Amazon), which impressed us with its good keyboard, great port selection and its upgradeability options. However, we were unimpressed by its middling battery life and its below-average IPS display.
Less than six months later, the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC has arrived to resolve at least one of our shortcomings with the ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL. Specifically, Lenovo claims that the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC lasts up to 17.5% longer than the ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL when configured with a 65 Wh battery.
The new 14-inch laptop will be available with a 50 Wh battery too, which is said to outlast the 48 Wh equivalent in the ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL during the same official tests. For reference, both batteries support up to 65 W charging.
In short, the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC achieves longer battery life than its predecessor by adopting Intel's more power-efficient Wildcat Lake architecture. As with its 16-inch counterpart, the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC will be configurable with up to the Core 7 350, 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM and 1 TB of storage.
According to our benchmarks, this improved power efficiency comes at the cost of lower CPU performance. Still, the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC will be available with up to a 1600p, 500-nit and 120 Hz IPS display, which would surpass the 1200p, 400-nit and 60 Hz IPS equivalent found in our ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL review unit. Please note that the latter is also coming to Lenovo's newer 14-inch ThinkBook.
Lenovo's PSREF website confirms that the ThinkBook 14 G10 IWC will receive a global release. The company has not commented on pricing yet, though. In the meantime, third party retailers have listed the 14-inch laptop for around €1,585 and around $1,400 with a Core 5 320 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD.
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