Open the lid and you’ll find a black palm rest with a red TrackPoint nubbin in the center of the keyboard, along with a subdued ThinkPad logo in the corner. The traditional ThinkPad logo adorns the lid with an LED light behind the dot on the “i,” but otherwise the aesthetic is more in line with the typical laptop. On the outside, it’s a dark silver color with lines that are reminiscent of Dell’s lineup.

Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsĪs mentioned above, the ThinkPad Z16 doesn’t look a lot like a ThinkPad, especially with the lid closed. It’s a reasonably sized chassis that’s surprisingly comfortable to carry around given the large 16-inch 16:10 display. The laptop’s also thin at just 0.62 inches, which beats the XPS 15 by a considerable margin. That’s less than most 15-inch or 16-inch laptops and it’s accomplished without feeling cheap. The ThinkPad Z16 is just as solid as the rest of the ThinkPad line and as well-built as the best, including the Dell XPS 15 and the Apple MacBook Pro 16.ĭespite its all-aluminum chassis, the ThinkPad Z16 is surprisingly light at 3.99 pounds.

That places the device among the leaders in the laptop market, but it doesn’t detract from the machine’s design. That includes 75% post-consumer recycled aluminum in the chassis, 97% recycled plastic in the speaker enclosure and battery, and 90% recycled and/or sustainable materials in the packaging. Lenovo has made a concerted effort to construct the ThinkPad Z16 from sustainable materials. Sustainable materials in a quasi-ThinkPad design Mark Coppock/Digital Trends There will likely be other configurations available, but for now, those are the main selections.

The least expensive machine sports an AMD Ryzen 5 6650H CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, a 16-inch WUXGA IPS display, and an AMD Radeon RX 6500M GPU.Īt the high end, you’ll get an AMD Ryzen 7 6850H, 32GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, a WQUXGA OLED display, and a discrete GPU. The ThinkPad Z16 is a premium laptop, with a few configurations listed on the Lenovo website running from $1,975 up to $2,800.

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