What's going on, guys?
It is Bernardo And you just saw a quick unboxing on Lenovo's
ThinkPad Z16 generation one laptop.
So what comes inside the box?
So you have your smart feature pamphlet.
You have your safety information pamphlet right here.
Awesome.
You have your Windows 11
pro recovery media entitlement.
Awesome.
And you also have your ThinkPad Z
16 generation one setup guide.
This is basically your setup guide letting you know your ports and features.
Cool.
You have your power adapter, which is 135 watts,
and you have your power cable.
Awesome.
All right, so let's put all this stuff to the side.
And last but not least, we have the ThinkPad Z 16 generation
one weighing around 3.8 pounds with a thickness of 0.70 inches.
Now, for ports and features,
if you have the laptop facing you to the point that you are able
to open it up like this on your right hand side, you have your power button,
you have your headphone mike, audio jack and then one type-c usb port.
On your left hand side, you have the SD card slot
two Type-C USB ports.
And then this one
right here is the port that allows you to hook up your power cable.
All right.
So we're going to take the power cable
and the power adapter and I'm going to hook it up real quick.
Awesome.
We're going to take the power cable, which is a type-c connection
and we're going to insert it into our laptop to power it on.
All right.
So our power adapter is hooked up to the Z 16 generation one.
Let's open this guy up.
You can actually open it up with one finger because of the notch.
Look how beautiful.
Is that.
Look at that beautiful display, which we are going to go over pretty soon.
All right.
So for the power button, like I said, it is located on your right hand side.
So we are going to turn that guy on real quick.
Now, one of the things I did notice on the Z 16 generation one laptop
is that the boot time is really slow,
just like the Z 13.
Now for the Z 16
generation one laptop, you are able to log into different ways.
You have the fingerprint scanner, which is located right here
and you are able to log in with Windows Hello.
So I'm going to log in with Windows Hello.
Because it's looking for me so I'm just going to put my face right there.
Boom, it logs in with no problem.
Now let's talk about the trackpad on the Z 16 generation one.
Now, the trackpad was really awesome.
It's a glass haptic touchpad with integrated navigation buttons,
which is great.
I did not find myself using it as much because, you know,
I'm not really used to it.
I took advantage of
using a type-c adapter and just hooking up a usb mouse.
That's how I used this laptop most of the time.
When I did not have my adapter as well as a mouse,
I did take advantage of using the trackpad.
Now the trackpad measurement is around 4.76 inches, which is really large.
Now for the keyboard on the Z 16 generation one laptop, it's great.
Super responsive.
I didn't have any issues using this trackpad at all.
I really enjoyed using it, which is awesome.
Now for the key distance between each key on the Z 16 generation
one measures around 0.12 inches, which is pretty standard.
It is backlit with up two settings and it's pretty bright.
Isn't that bright? But it's good enough for you to use it.
Now this particular trackpad has the signature trackpoint, which again,
this is the signature trackpoint for all thinkpads you are able to use it.
I typically don't find myself using this guy at all,
but it is there for you to use it now for speakers.
The speakers are actually located
right on top of the keyboard on the left, in the right hand side.
These guys are pretty loud.
The loudness that I got on these particular speakers was around
93.0 decibels.
Now for display.
Now the display measures around 16 inches IPS display
with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 and is non-touch, which is awesome.
Now for the brightness level,
this is the highest
that you can go on the brightness and this is the lowest that you can go.
And this is the highest.
Now, if you want to know the nit level on this particular display, it is 400.
Now the display is Windows HDR.
But again, it is Windows enabled and you can only do HDR streaming.
Now at the top of the display, you have your 1080p webcam
which is housed on this notch, which is pretty cool.
And the webcam has a f stop of 2.0.
There is no think shutter.
It has a built in E shutter which you have to actually
use the F9 key to turn it off and on.
That is how you have your privacy.
You do have dual mics systems at the top of the notch
and I do have some raw footage of me using the 1080p webcam
with the F stop 2.0 as well as the dual mics.
So let's take a look at that.
All right.
So this is the raw footage of me capturing video and audio
on the Z 16 generation one the ThinkPad from Lenovo.
I'm using OBS Studio and this is how it looks now.
I have no lights, no big lights, no head lights and fill light
and all that stuff turned on.
And so this is what you're going to get.
It's not that bad, the audio wise.
Probably got a little background noise, but with the two dual
mics at the top of the notch it's not that bad full HD.
What the webcam with the f stop 2.0.
I am going to turn on a head light right now so you guys can see what's
and it's I think it's going to audio kind of auto adjusts itself right now
but it's too bright like crazy ahhh really good
I feel like Lenovo did its
thing with this particular webcam full HD is not that bad
it works well with Teams and zoom it looks a little dark.
I do have a little light coming out this way, but it looks really nice.
Awesome. All right.
So as you can see, this machine, I did have some issues
when I was reviewing it.
It kept on crashing on particular programs.
And I had Camtasia running
to record the screen during my review, and it caused this.
It also crashed when I was rendering
premiere 4K videos when I was using
Puget.
And, you know, using Photoshop and Premiere to do some testing.
And it kept on crashing every single time it was trying to render a 4K RED file
using that particular testing software and right now it's crashing.
I don't know what's going on.
I feel like it's not a laptop thing.
Maybe it's a laptop thing.
Maybe it overheats itself and then it causes this particular problem.
But this is the type of issue that I was having during my review.
I'm going to let this happen and then we're going to go in
and talk about, you know, some of the specs on the Z 16.
All right.
So I had to force reboot the machine because it was stuck in that blue
screen of death. Holy crap.
So all I did was just basically hold the power button until it completely shut
off and then power back on.
We use the windows.
Hello.
And it just picked me up because, you know,
the 1080 is actually like a wide angle lens.
It picks everything up, which is great.
I don't actually have to put my face right into it, but it booted up.
So I'm not going to launch Camtasia to capture
some of the stuff that I'm going to show you guys.
So I'm just going to go straight into it.
All right.
So let's talk about some of the
specifications on this particular Z 16 generation one laptop.
So let's right click on the taskbar and let's
go to task manager.
Awesome.
And we're going to open up the task manager up real quick.
Beautiful.
And we're going to go inside performance.
And within performance I'm going to right
click on the CPU, go to change graph to logical processors.
Now this particular machine is running the AMD Ryzen
7 PRO 6858H processor
with a base speed of 3.20 gigahertz,
one socket, 8 Cores, 16 logical processors.
Now the specifications is there. It's awesome, right?
Why is it crashing? I do not know.
It is probably a Windows 10 problem or because of an overheating problem.
Who knows?
Now, from memory, it has 16 gigs.
It does have a solid state drive, which is around 500 gigs.
And for the graphics processor, it comes with the AMD Radeon graphics card.
Now, like I said before, I did use Puget to do my testing
and I was using Adobe and Premiere was testing all that stuff out.
And the issue that I had on this laptop is that every time
Premiere was rendering a 4K red camera file, it crashed.
And you saw the crash earlier.
That's what I was getting constantly.
So I don't know if it's a overheating issue.
I did notice heating around this area, really high heat
levels of around 105 to 110 degrees.
So it does get extremely hot when you're like really doing
heavy rendering, especially with, you know, Adobe Premiere.
Now for gaming, I did do some gaming and I didn't see a lot of lag.
It all depends on what type of game you're playing on this particular laptop.
Now, the game that I was playing doesn't really need like really high
frames per second, so I didn't really see that lag on this laptop.
All right.
So we just went over some of the specifications on the Lenovo's
ThinkPad Z16 generation one laptop.
So let's close up the task manager and let's open up,
you know, Microsoft Edge
and let's talk about the battery, because I always do battery testing
on all my laptop reviews and I like to use PCMark 10 and I like to run it
with three particular, you know, benchmarks.
The first benchmark is all about the modern office battery life,
and it lasts around 13 hours.
This is one of the things I love about the
Z lineup on the Thinkpads is that the battery life is awesome.
On the Z 13 that I did not too long ago, that review that I did for
you guys, that laptop lasts between 12 to 13 hours.
The battery life on the ThinkPad Z lineup is great.
Now on the second test, I actually ran video until the battery
completely died, and that lasts around 14 hours and 45 minutes.
And then last but not least, the last test was all about gaming,
just playing video games until the battery kind of died out.
That lasts about an hour and 29 minutes.
An average between, I would say 13 hours.
All depends on what you're doing on this laptop.
If you're rendering doing a lot of photo
editing, the battery life is going to reduce really fast.
But if you're surfing the net or watching movies or cartoons or whatever
you like to watch on this beautiful 16 inch display,
you're definitely going to see that the battery will reduce quickly or not.
But I got an average of between 13 hours on this battery.
All right, so let's conclude our review on Lenovo's
ThinkPad Z16 generation one laptop.
So let's talk about the pricing retail price on this particular
laptop starts around 1328, pretty expensive.
And it all depends on what type of display, memory, hard drive
that you want, the price will go a little higher.
Now you are able to hook up external monitors, which I did.
You are able to do native connection using the Type-C connections with no problem.
For me, I actually had to use a Type-C adapter hook up to Type-C adapter
and then take advantage of the HDMI port on that adapter.
Now for experience overall, like I said before, I did have
a couple of crashes on this machine when I was using Premiere and Photoshop.
You know, personally
I didn't see that problem, but I was really editing like small stuff.
The only time that I saw that the machine was crashing was one during this review
when I started Camtasia, it crashed live when I was reviewing it, which sucks.
The second time that I saw it
was when I was using Puget to do some testing with Premiere
and it was rendering constantly bunch of 4K files.
And when it got to the point that it was rendering a red file,
4K red file, it crashed every single time.
No matter what the size is pretty decent.
16 inches, it is pretty big to, you know, move around.
But, you know, weighing around 3.8 pounds it's not that bad for ports.
You know, I love the fact that Lenovo.
Gave me an SD card reader because it allows me to hook up
my SD cards to get my videos and my photos with no problem
but three type-c ports, no USB.
That kind of sucks.
I actually have to travel around with an additional thing,
which would be the Type-C adapter, which allows me to hook up USB things
like my USB thumb drives and an HDMI
and as well as a Ethernet port.
Overall, I did enjoy testing out the Z 16 generation one.
You know, it did crash on me a couple of times.
That is kind of a con for me.
I don't know how I feel about that, but hopefully you guys enjoy
this video and I catch you guys on the next one.
Peace out.