Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 and the ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 launched with Intel 13th gen and AMD Ryzen 7030 options and new 16:10 displays along with keyboard and touchpad upgrades

[Redaktion]

Lenovo is introducing a refreshed ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 along with a new 16-inch ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 at MWC 2023. The new ThinkPad E Series now offer Intel 13th gen and AMD Ryzen 7030 options along with new 16:10 displays, an improved keyboard, a larger touchpad, and up to a 57 WHr battery.

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[ErikJ]

The title says "improved keyboard", yet the only thing the article says is "new keyboard". What I see is the new keyboard layout, mixing rounded and square keys. For other models, this coincided with reducing the key travel to 1.5mm. How are these 'improvements'?

[NikoB]

The title says "improved keyboard", yet the only thing the article says is "new keyboard". What I see is the new keyboard layout, mixing rounded and square keys. For other models, this coincided with reducing the key travel to 1.5mm. How are these 'improvements'?

Fans of typing on the smartphone screen will love it. Of course, normal people who create content do not, but does anyone care about this now?

Laptops are obsolete even before release. This is a new level of "progress"....

[ErikJ]

It seems the translator took quite some artistic liberty. The German original omits the "keyboard upgrade" from the title, and actually in the text criticises the travel reduction and the move to flat TrackPoint buttons. Then why did the translator feel the need to turn this into something purely positive?

[kuro68k]

Lack of Thunderbolt ports is a massive fail. Completely rules these out for me.

Their daft half soldered half socketed RAM is annoying too.

[FourFire]

Disappointed by the direct misinformation published in this article:

The Ryzen 7030 series are Cezanne (5000 series) refreshes which therefore have the old Vega 8 and down iGPUs which are inferior to the most recent MX dGPUs

680m and 660m will only be found on the 7035 SKUs.

I came here to read one piece of information and find it was wrong, do better!

[annon]

Finally 3xUSB ports and HDMI 2.0 on Thinkpad E series. I know some people will not agree with me, but I this year's E series look amazing. HDMI 1.4 ports in previous models were criminal.

[JackHerm]

No Thunderbolt? But there is one in the screenshots you provided, lightning icon and everything.