Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Chromebook Review

Lisa Gade reviews Lenovo’s new business-oriented Chromebook, the ThinkPad 13 Chromebook, which shares much of the same hardware with its Windows 10 sibling, the ThinkPad 13. The ThinkPad 13 Chromebook has a 13.3” non-touch matte display, in your choice of 720p or 1080p resolution. It’s available with unusually powerful CPUs for a Chromebook, with the higher end models having Intel Core i3-6100U and Core i5-6300U dual core processors. The base model ships with the more typical 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron 3855U.
The 3.2 lb. laptop is available with 4 or 8 gigs of DDR3L RAM and 16 or 32 gigs of eMMC storage. It has a 720p webcam, excellent ThinkPad keyboard (not backlit) and dual band Intel 7265N WiFi with Bluetooth 4.0. It meets 12 MIL-STD810 durability tests. The price starts around $385 and our high end model with Core i5, 8 gigs RAM, 32 gigs of storage and a full HD display is $850.