Best Lenovo Laptops

If you’re not a fan of the red nub, laptop battery life you’ll find a lot to like in the 3.4 x 2.1-inch touchpad. In my tests, I found the pad quite precise and blissfully free of the jumpiness I sometimes experience on buttonless units. It responded quickly and accurately to pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scroll gestures and three- and four-finger clicks to open Cortana or the Windows Action Center. Perhaps because the pad is a bit small, its driver application doesn’t support three-finger or four-finger swipe (for minimizing apps). Three-finger dragging to switch apps worked only sometimes.

Ports and Webcam

The ThinkPad X260 packs in almost all the ports a productivity user needs today, but we wish it had USB Type-C to future-proof it for tomorrow’s peripherals and docks.

The left side houses HDMI out, lenovo thinkpad battery a mini DisplayPort, two USB 3.0 ports and an optional SmartCard reader. The left side contains an Ethernet port, an SD card reader, an audio jack and a third USB 3.0 port.

Its 720p webcam captured acceptable, but unimpressive images. Under the overhead lights of our office, my features were clear but not particularly sharp. When I shot in my nearly pitch-black living room, the camera was able to capture a dark and noisy image, but at least my face was visible. Business users who need to conduct a video call will be satisfied.

Security Features

The ThinkPad X260 has the all the security and manageability features that corporate IT departments require. It comes standard with TPM encryption and, if you configure it with a Core i5-6300U CPU or better, thinkpad battery  it has Intel vPro for remote management. An optional fingerprint reader ($20) allows for biometric logins, but unfortunately, it’s the kind that requires you to swipe your digits rather than using a simple press.

With an Intel Core i5-6300U CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, our review configuration of the ThinkPad X260 was more than powerful enough to handle serious productivity tasks and multitasking. Lenovo’s laptop handled everything we threw at it with aplomb, lenovo battery price not slowing down at all even when I had more than a dozen active Chrome tabs open and a 1080p video playing in another window.

On Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the X260 scored a strong 6,424, which is comfortably ahead of the ultraportable notebook category average, the AMD A8-powered HP EliteBook G3 and Core i5-6200U-powered Toshiba A30t. However, the Dell Latitude E7270, which we tested with a Core i7-6600U processor,laptop battery price scored an even-stronger 7,544.

Lenovo’s laptop had no problem crunching numbers, as it took just 4 minutes and 12 seconds to complete our spreadsheet macro test, in which we match 20,000 names with their addresses. That’s much faster than the category average (7:05), the Toshiba Portege A30t (4:31) and HP EliteBook 745 G3 (6:36). The Dell Latitude E7270 (3:41) was a tad quicker.