Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 review

ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 — 64GB of RAM in a thin business chassis

The T14s Gen 2 (2020) is the lighter sibling of the standard T14, here in a rare configuration: Core i5-1135G7 and 64GB of RAM, at $390 — about 31% above the $297 business-class median. The measured headline is that memory: 64GB against a 40GB class median, a top-quartile placing. The named weakness is graphics, which scores zero in a class where the median is a modest 3.84 — the 11th-gen Iris Xe iGPU makes no discrete claims.

What it does well

64GB of RAM in a thin-and-light business laptop is specialist territory: in-memory datasets, many VMs, heavy local development stacks. The i5-1135G7 is a solid Tiger Lake quad-core — good single-thread pace, quiet under office load. The "s" chassis at roughly 1.2-1.3 kg keeps it genuinely portable while holding the full T-series keyboard.

The trade-offs, stated plainly

The price is the question: at $390 the machine is premium-priced for its class, and the premium buys memory depth rather than speed or graphics. The performance index sits below the class midpoint on CPU generation grounds, and gaming is off the menu entirely. A buyer paying this money should need the 64GB specifically — otherwise the same chassis at lower RAM counts costs meaningfully less.

Price trajectory

From a $1,300 launch configuration it has settled at $390, declining about 8.9% per year with a projected $323 in two years (17% further). The oversized RAM pool will hold its value better than most specs — memory-poor configurations fall faster.

Against its neighbors

An HP ProBook 840 G8 at $417 and a Lenovo ThinkBook 15 G2 ITL at $436 sit above; an HP ProBook 440 G7 at $345 and a Dell Latitude 9410 at $367 below. The Latitude 9410 at $367 is the premium-brand alternative — similar money, similar tier, standard RAM; the T14s counters with double the memory ceiling.

Bottom line

A memory-specialist business ultralight: pay the premium only if 64GB is the point. For RAM-hungry professional workloads in a carry-everywhere chassis it is one of the few options in band. For general office use it is over-spec'd and over-priced — the standard T14 at $302 does the same job for less.