What's going on guys it is Bernardo and you just saw a quick unboxing on the Lenovo's ThinkPad P14s
gen two laptop so what comes inside the box. We have our setup guide right here.
Awesome, we have our safety and warranty guide, cool. We have a ThinkPad smart feature which gives
you a rundown on some of the features that this particular laptop has. We have our power cable,
and our power adapter. Now this power adapter is actually 65 watts with a Type C
connection. So I'm actually going to take the power cable and connect it to the power adapter,
awesome, really simple. We're going to put it to the side. Now we have the beautiful ThinkPad P14s
gen two laptop weighing around three point 25 pounds with a thickness of zero point 75 inches.
Now let's take a closer look on the ThinkPad let's look at the ports and features now 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
we have one 3.2 USB port, always on charging, and also a rj 45 port on your left hand side we
have one micro SD slot, your combo audio jack a HDMI port and an additional 3.2 USB port,
as well as your side docking connection now inside that side connection, you have a type C port which
allows you to connect an external type C monitor. And last but not least you have an additional
type C port which allows you to, again, insert an external monitor, or your power supply. Now on the
backside of the P14s gen two laptop you do have the option to configure it with the SIM card slot.
Now this model that I have been reviewing for you guys for the past couple of weeks,
does have that slot so that's pretty cool. Alright so let's open up the P14s
gen two ThinkPad. So let's take our sweet time right here and open this guy up.
Beautiful, look at that. Awesome. Alright, so on the P14s, it does have a fingerprint
scanner right here, and it also allows you to do Windows Hello, which is great,
the Power button is located at the very top right here so we are going to press it to turn it on.
Okay, like I said before there are some options to log into this machine you are able to use Windows
Hello. You can get it configured that way, that's up to you or you can use the fingerprint scanner,
I'm actually going to use the fingerprint scanner right now to log in, boom. How easy
is that alright so let's take a closer look on the P14s So let's talk about the trackpad now the
trackpad just worked I didn't have any issues with it at all, most of my workflow does deal
with using a mouse, but I didn't have any issues, on this particular model and the trackpad I want
to know the measurement of the trackpad if you take one quarter one nickel one penny and two
dimes that's going to measure around three point 97 inches. Now for the keyboard itself. Again,
I love the way that the ThinkPad keyboards feel it just works. I just didn't have any issues at
all. If you want to know the key distance between each key if you take one nickel and one penny is
going to measure around zero point 12 inches, which is pretty standard with the ThinkPads.
Now the keyboard is backlit with only two levels I felt like the keyboard backlit wasn't too bright.
If you press the Function key and the spacebar, this is the first level, this is the second level
and if you click it again, it's going to turn it off. Now for the speakers on the P14s gen two is
actually located at the very top right here. They're pretty loud, the loudest that I got on
these particular speakers is around 95.5 decibels. So let's look at the display now the display
itself was around 14 inches with a resolution of 3840 by 2160. Now there are different flavors that
you are able to purchase at the Lenovo site. I think they do have one with full HD with a
resolution of 1920 by 1080. So it really depends on how you configure it when you're purchasing it.
Now the brightness level on this particular model, I think this is the brightest right now.
And this is the lowest that you could go on this particular model,
and this is the brightest. Now if you want to know about nits it's between 300 to 500, and it
all depends on how you configure it when you're purchasing it. the display does have Windows HD,
HDR enabled refresh rate is around 60 Hertz, and one of the things that bothered me was
the scaling of the display by default it is set to 300%. I felt like 200% was the best
number for this display at the very top of the display, you're going to get your 720 webcam,
and it also has the Privacy Guard right here which I found that the privacy guards sliding it, you
know, to the left and a right was pretty simple. I think some models is a little difficult using it
but for this model, it was really easy just, you know, sliding it to the right
and sliding it to the left. Alright so the P14s gen two is a powerful machine so let's look at
some of the specifications. So if I right click on the task bar. Let's go to task manager within
Task Manager, let's go to performance within performance. I'm going to open it up a little bit.
I'm going to right click on the CPU go to change graph to logical processor. Now, this particular
machine that I have been reviewing for the past couple of weeks for you guys is running 11th gen
intel core i7 processor. This is the 1165G7 model clock speed on this one is actually 2.8 gigahertz,
one socket four cores, eight logical processors, and it's a pretty good machine for
my day to day stuff now for memory. This particular model came with 32 gigs with a
solid state drive of one terabyte. It comes with two graphics cards. It comes with the Intel Iris
Xe graphics, and also an NVIDIA t500, which was pretty awesome when I was doing my video editing
with 4k, I didn't have to create any proxy files when I was editing 4k Everything was pretty smooth
within Adobe Premiere, I was able to do a little bit of coloring correction within DaVinci, as
well as use media encoder to render my videos out for you guys so I didn't have any issues at all,
using this particular machine now for heating I did notice some heating around this area right
here and around the display. The machine does have some vents, it does have one vent on your right
hand side. So if you're using your mouse on this side right here you're going to get all the heat,
hitting your hand. At the bottom of the laptop you do got vents and the bottom to keep it nice
and cool now for gaming, it depends on what type of gaming you're using the NVIDIA T500
allow me to play BlueStacks and state of survival inside of bluestacks, I did have some lag but it
wasn't like a lot of lag, but you are able to do light gaming on this particular machine.
Alright so for every laptop, I like to do battery testing so let's close up the Task Manager,
cool. And let's open up some of the reports now I like to use PC Mark 10 to do my battery tests.
So what PC Mark does is it's constantly running on the machine, different programs until the battery
dies out. Now the first test is modern office battery life, that is basically using like
Excel going online word documents PowerPoints and constantly doing it until the battery dies out.
Now that lasts around three hours and 43 minutes now my second test. I actually ran
video, just straight video is playing video with audio, constantly until the battery dies out and
that lasts around six hours and 20 minutes. And last but not least gaming gaming with this machine
without the power supply plugged in, took around one hour and 35 minutes. I think overall average
depending on how you're using this particular machine, the battery life should last between
five to six hours but it all depends on how you are using it. So let's conclude our review on
the ThinkPad P14s gen two laptops so I do like the fact that you are able to hook up external
type C monitors on this particular monitor. It does have an HDMI port so you go that route.
I did not have a type C monitor in the lab so I actually had to use a Type C to HDMI adapter,
and both ports work with no problem so that's awesome now retails starting price for this
particular machine is around $1275 Okay, so it all depends on how you get it configured.
So if you go to the Lenovo site and you get it configured with the 4k model, more memory,
better hard drive space, the NVIDIA card, it's going to cost a lot more money.
Overall, using it with Adobe Premiere, doing my color correction, rendering out 4k video,
I had a lot of fun with it. Even going online and listening to music and viewing, you know, movies,
and my cartoon shows. I do enjoy having ThinkPad laptops because they just work, and I never had
a lot of issues with any of the ThinkPads that I've done reviews for you guys and the size is
not that bad 14 inches is not that bad, it's a it's a nice, comfortable working machine that
you are able to travel with, and have fun with it and that's it guys hopefully you guys enjoyed this
review on Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen two laptop, and I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace out.