The paragon of business laptops proceeds to the next round and delivers us a device with a Kaby Lake Refresh CPU. A little over a year ago, we reviewed the predecessor T470, which managed to get a pretty high score of 91%. While the T470 saw its case completely redesigned, the T480’s case remains almost completely unchanged. We were able to get our hands on the new ThinkPad T480 through Lenovo’s Campus Program. This device with a GeForce MX150 is intended for students, teachers and scientific workers and has a price tag of just 1399 Euros (~$1725). If you put together all of the components found in this special version in the configurator in Lenovo’s online store, you will find that such a device costs approximately 1700 Euros (~$2096).

Lenovo’s ThinkPad laptop offers a lot of customization when it comes to hardware components. This means that you can customize the business notebook to fit your personal needs. The secondary battery, which can be added to the main internal battery, is a special feature here. We will focus in greater detail on other hardware configurations in other sections of our review.

We will also pay close attention to the differences to the predecessor T470. At the same time, we will also take a look at the similarly new and somewhat more refined T480s, which has two times the RAM and an almost identical hardware configuration. The T480s can be had for 1499 Euros (~$1848) through Lenovo’s Campus Program. Besides the sibling and predecessor models, the new ThinkPad will also have to compete against such devices as the Dell Latitude 5490, the HP EliteBook 840 and the Fujitsu LifeBook U747. For gaming and graphics benchmarks, we also selected the ThinkPad T470p, which comes with a GeForce 940MX and a CPU that is not very often found in business laptops.

