Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 has an even bigger and better E Ink display on the cover

Lenovo continues to try to make the ‘laptop with a Kindle glued to the lid’ aesthetic work at CES 2021, announcing the ThinkBook Plus Gen 2. It increases the stakes over the original ThinkBook Plus with E ink. 12 inch bigger and better panel on the cover, with a faster refresh rate, higher resolution and improved software that makes it easier to launch apps without opening the laptop.

The ThinkBook Plus debuted at CES last year, standing out as a laptop with an E Ink display built into the lid that allowed users to take notes, read eBooks, and view information. such as calendar information.

The new model improves on that, however, with a 12-inch, 2560 x 1600 E Ink panel that supports multitouch and works with the pop-out stylus, creating what should be a more enjoyable E Ink experience. The main display inside replaces E Ink with a standard IPS display, but it also has a resolution of 2560 x 1600 while offering 400 nits of brightness and Dolby Vision support.

The rest of the specs point to a capable laptop as well, with 11th Gen Intel processors, 16GB of LPDDR4x memory, and up to 1TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage. The design has also been improved, with a sleeker look inside. ‘together. These improvements have also resulted in a higher price: it will be available in the first quarter of 2021 starting at $ 1,549.

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In addition to the new ThinkBook equipped with E Ink, Lenovo also announced three other new products in the range. There’s the ThinkBook 13x, which starts at $ 1,199 and claims to be one of the “thinnest 13-inch Intel Evo business laptops.” It’s actually a ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 minus the E Ink screen on top.

Finally, there is a pair of options powered by AMD. First, there’s the ThinkBook 14p Gen 2, which starts at $ 849, offers AMD’s next-gen Ryzen processors (likely the Ryzen 5000 laptop chips that are slated to be announced at CES 2021. ), and offers configurations with up to 32GB of RAM and up to 1TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage. There are also two intriguing display choices: a 14-inch 2.2K IPS panel and a 2.8K OLED 14 inches.

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There’s also the ThinkBook 16p, the 16-inch version of the 14p, which will also feature AMD’s next-gen chips and a larger screen (though there’s no OLED option here). That said, it will offer the option of adding an upcoming next-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX discrete GPU for those who need the extra power. The 16p will start at $ 1,299, and like the other three laptops, it will be available in Q1 2021.