Lenovo ThinkPad T560 (Core i5, SSHD) First Impressions

[Redaktion]

Faster, higher, stronger? Thanks to its Skylake platform, Lenovo's new ThinkPad T560 promises more performance and longer battery runtimes. However, it was also sightly refreshed otherwise. We provide you with our first impressions of our review, which will follow soon.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T560-Core-i5-SSHD-First-Impressions.159119.0.html

[ssshjp]

Thanks for the rapid review.

The FHD screen is pretty much entry-level performance except the IPS panel... FHD with 100% sRGB and 3K for Adobe RGB (like XPS 9550) are expected for this price though. 

[Adriano]

I hope the price indication is wrong, because it does not make sense.
An i5, with 4GB of RAM (which is unacceptable in a basic machine, let alone in a professional one), with terrible screen PWM (at 50%!) and no SSD, which costs almost as much as a basic XPS15 with quad core i7, 8GB, better screen, and NVMe SSD? Really?

[LNX_TWRLDS]

si vous ne le souhaitez pas,ne pas acheter.ceci est un ordinateur pour les professionnels

[coein]

Very odd, the HP spectre x360 also reviewed on this site and scores lower in total
It has identical or better hardware, scores better 3D marks, yet, for instance, its gaming performance is less.

I smell a pro-Lenovo bias.

[FrankyDS]

I have the i5 6300U model with the 1080p touch panel.
Measured 242.82 cd/m3 at the center, 59,9% sRGB, 40.8% Adobe RGB with Agryll and Spyder4. Not sure to send it back for the 3K panel.

[FrankyDS]

Monitor name: LEN40BA
Monitor name manuf.: LP156WF7-SPB2

[OliverPwm]

Hello everybody,

question:

with its screen flickering, if it could be bad for eyes, for "some users", for such

price and  pro standard quality, what do you think about rating to be in top 3 ?

Isn't the screen a very important part of a laptop ? if many hours in front of ?

Could you explain me, please ?

Best regards.

[MRT]

I have to say, Colors could be better, but its not bad at all when u calibrated well, brightness could be better for me specially when u working in bright area. but Build quality is amazing, i had DELL XPS, Alienware, Sony in my career, but definitely LENOVO T560 make different, also i have to say that dedicated GPU 940mx doing something, rather than just Intel HD, easily handle Photoshop, Maya 2013, Toomboom and other application i used for graphics and animation. Build quality is massive and battery life so helpful, when u forgot ur charger to work :)
8/10 for me , its not a gaming machine, Its business machine strong and look just nice:)

[MRT]

I have to say, Colors could be better, but its not bad at all when u calibrated well, brightness could be better for me specially when u working in bright area. but Build quality is amazing, i had DELL XPS, Alienware, Sony in my career, but definitely LENOVO T560 make different, also i have to say that dedicated GPU 940mx doing something, rather than just Intel HD, easily handle Photoshop, Maya 2013, Toomboom and other application i used for graphics and animation. Build quality is massive and battery life so helpful, when u forgot ur charger to work :)
8/10 for me , its not a gaming machine, Its business machine strong and look just nice:)

[Diane]

Wish I'd know this before purchase: Unable to attach a second monitor. Well, I can attach it, but the system (the graphics card, I believe) does not detect the second monitor.  The graphics card is a custom version for lenovo, so lenovo needs to provide the fix.  A call to customer support advises that a driver is available to rectify this annoyance, but they will not provide it to me as I did not purchase the upgraded support package.  REALLY?  I find it hard to believe that something as basic as ability to attach a second monitor did not get flagged in the many reviews I read before purchase.
Lenovo will not be the maker of my next computer.   >:(

[Uros]

I hope the price indication is wrong, because it does not make sense.
An i5, with 4GB of RAM (which is unacceptable in a basic machine, let alone in a professional one), with terrible screen PWM (at 50%!) and no SSD, which costs almost as much as a basic XPS15 with quad core i7, 8GB, better screen, and NVMe SSD? Really?

Where i come from, you get a top of the line spec T560 with 3K screen for 1830€, which is about 500 less, than an equivalent DELL xps15, of which i owned the previous version... which was absolutely dreadful, together with their customer service. It had a number of design issues (electric noise/humming emmited from the motherboards, motherboard presumably killing the battery every 4-5 charges, as i had battery replaced no less than 5 times, followed by a motherboard replacement, and the same thing again. Than i simply bought a different computer and said farewell, Dell. It was a common problem on the XPS15  as i later found while checking on the internet how to fix the problems  but Dell were ignorant about it, when it should have been a factory recall. So its not just pure specs and price you know...

[jfosd]

I have to say, Colors could be better, but its not bad at all when u calibrated well, brightness could be better for me specially when u working in bright area. but Build quality is amazing, i had DELL XPS, Alienware, Sony in my career, but definitely LENOVO T560 make different, also i have to say that dedicated GPU 940mx doing something, rather than just Intel HD, easily handle Photoshop, Maya 2013, Toomboom and other application i used for graphics and animation. Build quality is massive and battery life so helpful, when u forgot ur charger to work :)
8/10 for me , its not a gaming machine, Its business machine strong and look just nice:)

no such thing as have to or notx, s/can s anyx nmw and it can all be perfx. no such thing as comfortable level or not, can comforx nmw

[milleman]

For those who might be looking to buy used T560s based on this article.  I bought mine new from Lenovo to my specification (FHD, SSD, 16GB, 92Wh, i5-6200, etc) at a great price and it has been bulletproof for well over three years now.  I got lucky in the Lenovo "display sweepstakes" and I got one of their better display vendors (BOE), and a simple script available online changes PWM from 220 to 1000 Hz.  Best of all, this was the last of the full-size chassis before Lenovo thought it was a good idea to make their flagship business T-models smaller and thinner that compromise everything. 

I had a 30-day trial of the next-gen T570 with a smaller chassis, and the keyboard was terrible compared to this 560.  Its 4K display was better and brighter, but really only marginally so even for photo editing, and its color temperature as-delivered was way off.  That said, I might have otherwise ordered my 560 with the very good optional 3K display.  The 570 had some small improvements here and there, but some major drawbacks mostly due to its shrunken chassis.  And of course the annual Intel processor improvements that year-to-year are mostly for full-throttle benchmark testing.  Just as the 560's Skylake processors improved on the previous year's Broadwell.

One can complain about the 560's SATA3 SSD interface, DDR3 memory, no Thunderbolt, all improved in the 570, but that's specmanship compared to the all-day keyboard, rugged full-size chassis with room inside for upgrading and good heat management, decent display, great battery life with larger swappable internal and external battery packs, superior Synaptics touchpad options, a better webcam and speakers.

Just saying that newer isn't always better, especially when Lenovo sees fit to compromise their historic business-class T-series to follow thin-and-light trends of hipster laptops.