At CES2022, Lenovo announced the new premium notebook "ThinkPad Z" series at 1:00 pm Japan time. There are 13 types and 16 types, both of which feature a new design using recycled materials.
As an option, you can select a touch-compatible 2.8K organic EL for the Z13 and a 4K organic EL for the Z16, both of which are compatible with Dolby Vision and reduce blue light.
A "communication bar" is installed at the top of the display, which has a large sensor, an FHD camera with a built-in electric e-Shutter, an IR sensor, and two microphones. The screen occupancy area is 91.6% for Z13 and 92.3% for Z16.
The speaker supports Dolby Atmos, and the microphone supports Dolby Voice AI noise canceling. The haptic-type touchpad is a large 120 mm wide trackpoint with a new double-tap function that allows you to quickly set the lamella and microphone.
Prices in the US start at $ 1549 for the Z13 and $ 2099 for the Z16, and will be available in March.
Z13 adopts AMD's latest CPU, Ryzen PRO U series, "Ryzen 7 6860 Z" and built-in GPU is equipped with "Radeon 600 M".
The memory is up to 32GB with the directly attached LPDDR5, and the storage is a PCIe Gen4 SSD with 1TB of re-school.
There are three types of displays: WUXGA 400nit, IPS LCD touch and non-touch, WQXGA 400nit, and OLED touch at a 13.3 inch 16:10 ratio.
The interface is USB 4 type C x 2 and audio jack, the wireless function is Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 and 4G LTE are also installed.
The size is 295 x 200 x 13.99 mm and the weight is 1.25 kg. There are three colors: a model that uses black artificial leather and bronze aluminum for the top plate, and gray and black aluminum.
Z16 adopts Ryzen PRO H series. "Radeon RX 6 500M" as dGPU is also installed in "Ryzen 9 6950 H" and built-in "Radeon 600M" graphics.
Memory is up to 32GB with directly attached LPDDR5, and storage is up to 2TB with PCIe Gen 4 SSD.
There are three types of displays: WUXGA 400nit, IPS LCD touch and non-touch, WQUXGA 400nit, and OLED touch at a 16-inch 16:10 ratio.
The interface is USB 4 type C x 3 and audio jack, Kensington lock in the SD card slot, Wi-Fi 6E wireless function, 4G LTE in Bluetooth 5.2.
The size is 355 x 238 x 15.8 mm and the weight is 1.97 kg. Gray aluminum is used for this body.