Lenovo ThinkPad E14 G5 AMD review: Affordable office laptop with better display

[Redaktion]

Lenovo is updating its inexpensive ThinkPad E14 office notebook with new cases and 16:10 displays. Ryzen 7000 chips from AMD are installed for the processors, which are well-known processors. However, the keyboard has gotten worse.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-E14-G5-AMD-review-Affordable-office-laptop-with-better-display.742234.0.html

[julia_top]

I don't understand why they keep releasing Zen3+ processors when there is ZEN 4 compatible with USB 4.0 and HDMI 2.1
I don't understand how manufacturers don't release 13", 14" 15" laptops with ZEN 4 7040 Phoenix and its RDNA 3, it would be more than enough for many users who demand small, light laptops without dGPU with which to work without overprices.

[Neenyah]

True but tell that to AMD as they are being incapable to produce those in a high enough quantity so OEMs keep using what they have available.

[LL]

Yeah, i wonder what is going on in this industry, now that AMD have competitive product in mobile arena even for office laptops they don't have those laptops with Zen4.
This coupled with manufacturers punishing(?!) Nvidia by only selling 4080 and 4080 with top of line 13900 Intels, so effectivly selling much less top of the line Nvidias.

[Neenyah]

Good question! Perhaps it has something with insane prices for the 4090? Of all 4090 laptops so far (of those I saw) none was really reasonably priced.

At that cost one can just say f it and build a more powerful desktop with better cooling solution and still have a decent amount of money left to get a solid laptop for on the go.

That's what I think at least, that OEMs see no reason to waste time and money for something that probably won't sell at all so they choose the safe route (4080).
 
Edit: I just went to check computeruniverse.net, big and reputable shop here in the EU, filtered out for only 40-series laptops. Numbers are:

• 4050 - 36 laptops
• 4060 - 67 laptops
• 4070 - 62 laptops
• 4080 - 32 laptops
• 4090 - 18 laptops

4090 is in barely over 8% of all 40-series in current offer.
 
All OEMs there with 4090 laptops:

• Razer - 5
• Schenker / XMG - 4
• Asus - 2
• Captiva GmbH - 2
• MSI - 2
• GIGABYTE - 1
• HP - 1
• Lenovo - 1

 
Only i9 is in offer; specifically:

• 13900HX - 8
• 13980HX - 4
• 13950HX - 4
• 13900H - 2

 
Cheapest two are:

• Captiva Ultimate Gaming I74-112 (1440p 240Hz, 13900HX / 64 GB / 2 TB / no OS) for 3.696,41€
• GIGABYTE AORUS 17X AZF-D5DE665SH (1440p 240Hz, 13900HX / 32 GB / 2 TB / Win 11 Home) for 3.897,06€

Most expensive is, naturally, Razer Blade 16 at over 7500€, lol.

[LL]

It is ridiculous. I would be ona market for a sensible 4090 or 4080 since 4070 is a VRAM disaster. But no. 

[kuro68k]

It's a bad time to buy an AMD laptop. When they get Zen 4 out in quantity it will be worth looking at machines with USB4, but for now buying Zen 3 without USB4 is a bad deal.

[Bizarro_NikoB]

I will not buy an AMD without USB4. Fortunately, my T14s gen 3 has that and after swapping out the default IPS panel for an X1 Carbon gen 9 UHD+ 500 IPS display, I couldn't be happier and battery life still holds with the upgraded display.