Is this to bury the good test results of Lenovo's AMD-based ThinkPad and make it look mediocre ?! Here's a 12" ThinkPad with X CPU vs a 15" ThinkPad with the same X CPU (or similar) and here is the extra performance the larger and more expensive product gets you.īut why the heck would you compare a 15" Microsoft Surface 2 with a discrete GPU costing 2300 USD with a 12.5" ThinkPad with just an APU (no discrete GPU) costing half the price ?!?! to show just how much extra performance does a larger chassis bring.
You want to have an expert comparison between similar products from DIFFERENT product lines. The most basic journalistic "rules" for an initial review are to compare products priced similarly and of course, products with comparable specifications.ĭoes anybody care to compare a Lamborghini to a Ford K ? Sure those are both cars, both use petrol and both have 4 wheels. Why the heck are we comparing plums to grapes and apples to pineapples ?!
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IGTrading - Tuesday, Decemlink I find it ridiculous that the reviewers felt the unexplained need of including 15" laptops and notebooks with a discrete video card and compared them with a 12.5" Thin&Light portable without a discrete GPU.With a starting weight of 2.78 lbs, this ThinkPad is well equipped and should be easy to use on the go. On the network side, Lenovo offers an 802.11ac solution, as well as a dongle for a native Ethernet adapter, since laptops are generally too thin now to offer a full-size Ethernet port. For those that need it, you can add-in a Smart Card reader as well. If you need to dock the laptop, Lenovo offers a couple of options including a USB-C dock. There’s HDMI 2.0, and DisplayPort over USB-C. The Thinkpad A285 offers plenty of connectivity for a small device, with two USB-C Gen 2 ports, one Type-A Gen 2 port, and one Type-A Gen 1 port which offers always-on power.
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There’s also a fingerprint reader for Windows Hello, and the new ThinkShutter which can be slid over the webcam, which is a great privacy feature Lenovo has introduced. Unfortunately, the display Lenovo uses in their base model is a 1366x768 TN panel, but they do offer a proper 1920x1080 IPS model as well with touch. Lenovo has been doing ThinkPads a long time, so the rest of the device fits in well with what businesses would be looking for. Optional 1920x1080 IPS anit-glare with multitouch On the GPU side it offers 8 Vega GPU cores (CUs) as well, which is a step below the 10 cores offered on the fastest Ryzen Pro SKU, the Pro 7 2700U. The staunchy Lenovo laptop ships with AMD's Ryzen U APU, which like its non-pro counterpart is a quad-core processor with eight threads, and a base frequency of 2.0 GHz with a boost frequency of 3.6 GHz. Putting theory into practice, we have the subject of today's review: Lenovo's ThinkPad A285. And as a business-class device, it offers management via AMD’s implementation of Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware, or DASH, which offers management tools such as the redirection of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM), remote power-on, and other features for wide-scale device management.
Ryzen Pro also offers DRAM encryption as an option, which is OS and application agnostic, with a low performance impact. Ryzen Pro offers other features as well which will be of interest to the enterprise, such as a minimum of 24 months of planned availability of parts, meaning volume purchases should be able to maintain repairs and image stability. So for those out of the loop on AMD's enterprise-focused parts, what's significant about Ryzen Pro? The Pro in Ryzen Pro is important for IT administrators, where manageability of devices is the key to keeping them secure and up to date. These are the first two Lenovo ThinkPad models to feature AMD's Ryzen APU, and with it the latest generation of their Pro series, offering enhanced security, and manageability, over the normal consumer variants.Īs it so happens, this is also our first time looking at a Ryzen Pro APU. A couple of months back Lenovo released the ThinkPad A285 a 12.5-inch business-class notebook featuring AMD’s Ryzen Pro mobile processor, complementing their 14-inch A485 Ryzen Pro powered model.
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