- [Narrator] Have you heard the news?
The ThinkPad is 25 years old.
To celebrate that, Lenovo is releasing the ThinkPad 25.
We're gonna unbox it today to show you what it's all about.
Stay tuned.
(upbeat music)
Okay here it is, the ThinkPad 25.
Now what makes it special, well, I mean
there's a couple of things.
It's not the most exciting laptop in the world
but it is pretty interesting and it's nice little touch
if you're really into Lenovo stuff.
Let's... ooh that makes a funny noise.
Let's unbox it right here.
Look at this, now I don't really recommend buying things
just for the box, but they did do a nice job here
so look at this little cool thing
it raises open and we got the laptop here.
So the ThinkPad 25, to be absolutely clear
is basically the T470 which we also reviewed recently
again, not a consumer laptop at all
this is basically made for people who go on the road a lot
and people who just need to do work without a lot of frills.
It's a really nice laptop, they did do a couple of
commemorative things which we'll touch upon later.
Let's go through the box now
to show some of the other stuff.
Its little protector here and, check this out,
it is the spirit and essence of the ThinkPad design
so people who have ThinkPads are
I don't wanna say a cult,
but they really, really like ThinkPads.
In fact, our own managing editor, Al Sacha,
wrote an article, it was basically an ode to the ThinkPad
when he used it, and he absolutely loves it.
And people just have an attachment to this device
and this series.
And it just goes through the history here,
it kinda talks about its development and everything
which is just a nice touch.
Coming down over here, we do have the nubs
so that is for the trackpoint system.
If you didn't know, the trackpoint has evolved
over the years, and that's what this represents here.
We go from the different ones with the grippy on top
to the soft, more velvet one.
And on this laptop itself, which we'll show
in a few minutes here,
they're using the original knob design
which is kinda cool.
So here it is, the ThinkPad 25.
It weighs 3 and a half pounds or 1.6 kilograms
as I mentioned, it is essentially a T470.
So coming around here to the side,
you get a nice bevy of ports and selections.
So you do have a full SD card reader, super convenient.
A full ethernet RJ45 port which, you don't see a lot
in laptops these days, not this size,
which is about 14 inches.
You do get a USB 3.0 port here,
HDMI 1.4,
another USB 3.0
I believe this one can also, or is it that one
it can do the power as well when the device is off
of course a headphone jack, Kensington lock as well.
Coming around to the left side
you do have the venting system for the CPU and GPU
USB type C with Thunderbolt 3 which is always a nice touch.
So, being a retro designed laptop, it still
gets a modern Thunderbolt 3 port, which is pretty great.
And finally your third USB 3.0 port as well as the
Lenovo proprietary AC charger.
Opening it up we got the display right here on top
a Windows IR camera which is really nice,
that is a new addition,
the T470 actually doesn't have that.
You do have a webcam 720p which works very well in the light
I was pretty impressed with this camera
at the highest resolution but it looks good like I said
when you're in a dimly lit room
now the display itself is really interesting
this is a full HD, so 1080p display
14 inches, it is 16x9
and some people were upset about that
they wanted the more square screened
that was in the original Lenovo laptop
or at least something like a 3x2
what we see in the surface stuff
but it's a nice display, it is matte
Like I said, full HD, but it is also touch,
which is a really cool thing.
I've rarely seen a matte display like this
it's still touch.
It's a nice feature to have.
Now there's no pen support, of course.
But having that touch screen is really nice
especially since it does lay completely flat,
which is weird but business laptops tend to do that.
Now scrolling down to the keyboard is also
where some of the magic happens
with this commemorative laptop.
It is seven rows, something you don't see anymore
on modern laptops.
This layout is reminiscent of the original keyboard.
Now it is not the original keyboard.
They couldn't remake that and still fit it
into this kind of laptop.
So it's got all new modern technology in it,
but the design itself is like the original.
So you get these more domed-capped keys
and a really nice travel,
I mean, it really is a great keyboard.
You also get some dedicated media keys here for
volume up, mute, and the power button,
and a bunch of other stuff, it's kinda cool.
You do also get a blue Enter key.
Now that doesn't obviously change
the functionality of it, but again, reminiscent.
There is the original trackpoint design now.
I don't use trackpoint, I will say though,
this is a really good trackpoint system.
I do find myself wanting to use it a lot more often.
Now you may be wondering, they don't have the light
that used to be on top of the display
it would shine down onto the keyboard
back before the days when they had backlighting for keys
and that used to work by doing a function key and page up
what that does now is it does
the backlighting for the keyboard.
Coming down to the trackpad itself,
it is precision, now Lenovo does funky stuff with precision
it's a combo synaptics and precision.
It works very well, it's very sensitive,
I like the feel of it, it's a little too sensitive,
you can adjust it, but not a big deal.
You also get a fingerprint reader, it is really good.
It is the type that you just press so you don't need
to swipe your finger over it.
To the more modern ones,
it has a little LED light too to come on.
Okay let's talk about internal hardware.
You are running an Intel Core i7 7500u processor
that has a turbo boost up to three and a half gigahertz.
When it comes to the SSD
you only get one configuration option
it's 512GB of PCIE SSD, that's actually a Lenovo branded
type SSD I've never seen before.
It does pretty well, you're talking about
a thousand megabits per second for the read
and around eight hundred for write.
For RAM, you just get 16GB, which is pretty nice.
For graphics is Intel HD Graphics 620, nothing special there
but what is special a threw-in Nvidia Geforce 940MX.
Now 940MX is by no means a gaming GPU,
it gives you a nice little boost though
for things like productivity, photo editing,
browsing the web and doing those kind of things.
It's better to have than not to have,
but it's not going to give you a tremendous amount
of graphics performance.
When it comes to audio, yeah,
two speakers on the bottom,
I won't hedge here, they're not very good speakers at all.
They're kind of...
some of the worst speakers I've actually heard,
but whatever, they are speakers,
they get the audio done.
You can also plug in headphones of course.
Now when it comes to wireless,
you got an Intel AC 8265 chip in there,
very good chip.
There is not, however, LTE, which is a bit of a shame.
The T470 actually has that option.
You can order it with an LTE slot in there
this does not have that.
I would've preferred to have had it, but
it is what it is.
And when it comes to battery life,
what's really cool about this it has one removable battery
and one built in.
So two three cell batteries, you can pop that one off
and still use the laptop and replace it,
which is really cool
you get up to like 17 hours of battery life
if you do that with an extra battery
if however, you're just sticking with a two-three cells
you're talking about eight hours of regular usage per day.
All right so let's wrap it up
the Thinkpad 25, it's a really nice, well, T470.
Now there are some extra bonuses on there
including that really nice keyboard
and a little bit of graphics boost, but this
isn't really a special laptop.
It's really for the hardcore fans out there
who just want to commemorate the 25th Anniversary
of the Thinkpad line.
Now for the prosumers out there, obviously,
this is not an exciting device.
And it's really not for you.
It's for the people who go on the road
and want a reliable, strong laptop
with a lot of ports on it that just gets the job done.
And I have to admit,
there's something fun about this laptop.
I actually really enjoyed using it.
Now I wish the display was a little bit better
it only gets around 63% SRG bead color accuracy,
but it's still a fun display to use and hey,
this is a nice little tribute I think Lenovo did
for this laptop and this series.
They didn't have to do this but they did
and it's up to users that they want to go buy it
I don't necessarily recommend you go buy it
so if it's gonna be your only laptop,
but for the people out there who have some extra cash
and want a little commemorative edition,
it's kind of a cool thing to do.
So there was our quick tour and unboxing.
The new Lenovo ThinkPad 25.
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