 Lenovo has fixed all of its flaws with the ThinkPad L13 Generation 3, making the laptop smaller and giving it a 16 by 10 display. How does that affect the experience? Stay with us to find out. For starters, the ThinkPad brings a plethora of materials for its build, including aluminum alloy for the lid, and a mix of glass fibers and plastic for the base. Metal is metal, so the lid is definitely more rigid. Nevertheless, the laptop has lost some weight, slimming down to 1.25 kilograms, 140 grams less than the Gen 2 product. It's also thinner, measuring at just 17.3 millimeters. More importantly, the lid opens with one hand, showing off a well populated base. The keyboard is island, with a fingerprint reader above it, and a touchpad below it. Typing on it is comfortable, mostly thanks to the clicky feedback. The key travel is shorter than we usually like, but the spill resistance and backlight manage to sway us in its favor. There's a red track point in the middle of it, which works with the physical buttons on top of the touchpad. The pad is covered in mylar, which comes close to mimicking glass in terms of smoothness. Moving to the ports, the left side keeps a USB Type-C 3.2 Generation 2 port and a USB Type-A 3.2 Generation 1 port. The rest is on the right, with an HDMI 2.0 port, as well as one more Type-A and Type-C port. There are some optional ports as well, including a SIM card slot and a smart card reader. Looking at the display, it's surrounded by relatively thin bezels. The top one packs an HD or a full HD webcam with a privacy shutter. You can also configure the thinkpad with an IR sensor for Windows Hello. The full HD plus display is taller than your average panel. It has excellent viewing angles, a peak brightness of 338 nits, and a very high contrast ratio of 1910 to 1, so blacks should be quite deep. However, if you want to use the laptop as a portable editing studio, we'd have to disappoint you, as the display covers only 56% of the sRGB color gamut. On the other hand, this is a business machine first and foremost, so a color accurate panel isn't required. What's more important is the zero PWM usage. Here we have to mention our display profiles, which calibrate the panel to make it better for whatever it is you're doing. For the thinkpad L13, we recommend our office work profile, which makes texts and tables clearer and more legible. But you should get all three of them, they're all useful. We'll have them linked in the description below. Moving on to the audio, the bottom firing speaker setup is surprisingly loud, while all frequencies are free of deviations. 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. What's very important for business machines is the battery life, as you need your laptop to get you through a whole day's worth of use while minimizing the time spent plugged into a wall. With a Ryzen 5 Pro 5675U in a 46 watt hours battery pack, the laptop lasts for 8 hours and 20 minutes of web browsing or 8 hours of video playback, which is good, however, the HP Elitebook 640G9 does generate much higher numbers. The Ryzen 5 Pro 5675U is a 15 watt CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads. You can also go for a Ryzen 7 Pro 5875U, which has 2 extra cores. The Ryzen 5 is far from the best performer, and the Elitebook 640G9 outclasses it again, as its Core i5-1235U is better in both the Cinebench and Photoshop tests. Thankfully, the Ryzen 5 doesn't need a lot, cooling wise, so a single heat pipe with a fan will do. In the stress test, we see the chip go as high as 30 watts in the first few seconds, dropping to 25 watts at the 22nd mark, after which it settles comfortably at 17 watts in long runs, which means 15 minutes or more. This isn't the best showing that we've seen, as while the Ryzen 5 Pro 5675U is considered to be a new CPU, it's awfully close to the Ryzen 5 5600U and the Ryzen 5 5625U. However, raw performance isn't imperative for an office machine, which is why we're okay with these results, especially when it means a quiet machine. After 30 minutes of high load, the keyboard heats up to 42.2 degrees Celsius, which is totally fine. Lastly, we have to take a look inside the device. The ThinkPad L13 Gen 3 offers poor upgradeability, with up to 32GB of soldered DDR4 memory and only one small 42mm M.2 PCIe slot for generation for SSDs. If you want to know how to disassemble the ThinkPad L13 Gen 3, we'll leave a link to our teardown video in the description below. The Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 3 makes some sacrifices, which might be a deal breaker for some people. However, these people aren't the hardcore business audience, which has respect for the ThinkPad brand and will appreciate the security features and the extra portability. On the other hand, the Elite Book 640G9 is looking really good, so if you can do with a larger 14-inch machine, it only comes with games. For a deeper look inside the ThinkPad L13 Gen 3, check our website, where we have a written review with more tests. It's linked down below.