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Technology
Dave Meikleham

The Lenovo ThinkPad E16 is a boring business laptop — but one that boasts unexpected strengths

Lenovo ThinkPad E16 showing desktop on a table. .

There are key moments in my tech-loving life that have got me unreasonably excited. Unboxing my Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU for the first time. Watching my beloved Jurassic Park in 4K on a 3D OLED TV. Obliterating my change purse on an obscenely fast 4TB NVMe SSD. Obviously using the workmanlike Lenovo ThinkPad E16 — which I’ve been going hands-on with for the past several weeks — was never going to get my blood pumping in quite the same manner. 

Yet while it falls unacceptably short in key areas like display, performance and storage, it pulls off several unexpected wins that almost come close to saving this “exciting as celery soup” laptop. Almost. 

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