At CES 2020, Lenovo announced a laptop called ThinkBook Plus with a secondary e-ink display. This notebook eventually hit the markets in the first half of last year. Now, at CES 2021, the company has unveiled its successor, ThinkBook Plus Gen 2, with a host of improvements.
The new ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 flaunts a
larger 12-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600 pixels) secondary monochromatic e-ink display
with support for multi-touch and 68% screen-to-body ratio. For those unaware,
the first generation features a 10.8-inch e-ink display with a 48% screen-to-body
ratio. Lenovo also claims to have improved the refresh rate as well as UI of
the e-ink display. Hence, users can now have access to most used information,
including options to run productivity apps without even having to open the lid.
As far as the primary display is
concerned, it is a 13.3-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600 pixels) IPS LCD panel with
touch input, up to 400 nits brightness, Dolby Vision, and TÜV Rheinland Low
Blue Light certification. Talking about the build, the notebook is made of
anodized aluminum, magnesium, and partial glass. It comes with a full-size
backlit keyboard with VoIP hot keys, a one-piece precision touchpad, and a 180°
hinge. As for size and weight, it measures 298 x 209 x 13.9mm in dimensions and
weighs less than 1.30kg.
Further, it is powered by up to 11th Gen
Intel Core i7 processor with integrated Intel UHD graphics on Unified Memory
Architecture (UMA). The chipset is paired with up to 16GB LPDDR4x dual-channel
RAM and 1TB M.2 2 PCIe Gen4 SSD.
