 Thinkpads are well known as reliable enterprise notebooks from portable office machines that put efficiency first to bulky workstations that deliver performance for engineers, architects, and professionals. However, for the 30th anniversary of the Thinkpad brand, Lenovo delivers the Z16 with a total design overhaul, along with performance and efficiency through the roof. The laptop comes with an aluminum chassis that is a total 180 degree turn from regular Thinkpads. It has a slim 15.8mm profile and a weight of 1.81kg. The sides are glossy and a matte finish covers the lid and the base. The lid also has a protrusion, which stores the FHD webcam and the IR face recognition sensor. Durability is spot on with no twists and flexes from both the lid and the body. While the design has seen changes, the keyboard hasn't. We're greeted by the same backlit, spill resistant unit. It doesn't have very long key travel, due to the slim chassis, however, typing is very comfortable thanks to the clicky feedback. The unit is surrounded by two speaker grills, while there is a track point in the middle. The Touchpad doesn't have a clicking mechanism, instead using a haptic motor to mimic a click for both the missing buttons for the red dot and the pad itself. Things are looking way better than they were on the smaller Z13, with the notebook carrying two USB 4 ports, one Type-C 3.2 Gen2 port, an SD card reader, and an audio jack. On the front, we have either an FHD plus IPS panel or a 4K UHD plus OLED option. While modesty isn't a strength of the device, we tested the FHD plus display, which is still perfectly fine, with a peak brightness of 455 nits and high contrast ratio. It's got amazing creator qualities, covering 98% of the sRGB color gamut and reaching great accuracy levels with our design and gaming profile. You'll find a link to it in the description below. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory, thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome! The laptop comes with a 72Wh battery pack which lasts for 20 hours of web browsing, or 18 hours and 31 minutes of video playback. We were genuinely shocked with these results, especially considering the Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H that is powering the laptop, a 45Wh CPU. It is among the three CPU options that are available. Although this is a business laptop, the new RDNA 2i GPU on the inside can game pretty well, with even AAA games running at stable frame rates at low settings, which was unimaginable a few years ago. Keeping the CPU cool is a setup with two heat pipes, two fans, and two heat sinks. In the stress test, the Ryzen 7 maintains stable clock speeds of around 3.4GHz and keeps a high TDP of 53W. Temperatures get toasty at the end, reaching 95°C. Things on the outside weren't looking that good either, as the base reaches 48°C, so it might be uncomfortable for some people. The fans do produce a fair amount of noise, as they do their best efforts in cooling down the chip. Finally, the insides house up to 32GB of soldered LPDDR5 RAM that runs at 6400MHz in quad channel mode. The one thing you can upgrade is the storage, through a single M.2 slot that fits Gen4 drives. For more information about the teardown process, we have a detailed video in the upper right corner. The Z16 is a radical shift from the ThinkPad norm, however, Lenovo has found a way to make it tasteful. These sorts of halo devices that represent the peak of a certain brand won't sell in high numbers, however, they inspire the consumer to look at ThinkPads differently, improving the image and sales of their laptops. If you want to see the rest of the tests and more details about the device, you can check out our in-death review. The link is in the video description below.