Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 ( Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U, 16GB, 512GB, 13.3″ WUXGA )

Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 (Ryzen 7 PRO): Overview

Here’s a brief description of the build, chipset, and battery life of the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 (Ryzen 7 PRO).

Design and Build 

ThinkPad Z13 has the build of a premium device. It has an all-body aluminum chassis and a 13.3″ WUXGA display with 100% sRGB coverage.  Alongside that, it also features an LED backlit keyboard, Windows Precision glass touchPad, and a familiar Trackpoint. The machine is very light at just 1.19 kg or about 2.63 pounds. ThinkPad Z13 is 294 mm in width, 200mm deep, and has a height of 14mm.

Performance and Memory

Under the hood, ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 has an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO CPU. It has 8 Cores and 16 Threads. The chip has a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and a max frequency of 4.7 GHz.

On the GPU front, ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 offers Integrated AMD Radeon 680 GPU. Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 comes with 16GB of soldered LPDDR5 RAM, so unfortunately, it cannot be upgraded any further. You get 512GB SSD on purchase, which can be expanded to 1TB via the one M.2 2242 slot(pre-occupied).

Battery and Connectivity

What powers the  Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 is a 51.5 Wh Li-Po battery. It can play local 1080p video for up to 21.3 hours at 150nits of brightness. It performed well on the MobileMark 2018 benchmark as well lasting 18 hours at 200 nits.

As for connectivity, you get 2 USB 4 ports that support data transfer, Power Delivery 3.0, and DisplayPort 1.4a. You get a 3.5mm headphone/microphone jack to meet your audio needs. On the wireless side of things, you get WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.1.