The ThinkPad T460 has the same simple, but classy aesthetic as most other Lenovo business laptops. Its matte black chassis is adorned only by silver ThinkPad logos and red status lights on the lid and deck, along with a red TrackPoint on the keyboard.
Lenovo’s laptop can survive a few scrapes, thanks to its glass-fiber-reinforced plastic chassis. According to the company, the T460 passed several MIL-SPEC 810G durability tests, including those for extreme temperatures, shocks and vibrations.
With Intel??vPro-capable CPU options and a??Trusted Platform Module, the ThinkPad T460 has the security and manageability features that enterprise IT departments require. It also comes standard with a fingerprint reader, but unlike the ThinkPad T460s’ convenient single-touch sensor, this notebook uses an old-school swipe reader.
The ThinkPad T460’s spill-resistant keyboard provides a truly excellent typing experience, with smile-shaped keys that offer plenty of travel. The keys have 2.33 millimeters of vertical travel, which is among the deepest we’ve ever seen on a laptop (1.5 to 2mm is typical). The keyboard requires just 50 grams of force to actuate (or press down), so it doesn’t feel quite as snappy as most other ThinkPads, which require 55 to 60 grams.
Nevertheless, typing felt really comfortable, and I never found myself “bottoming out,” or pressing hard against the base. I reached a higher-than-usual rate of 97 words-per-minute on the 10FastFingers.com typing test with a near-perfect error rate.
Like most ThinkPads, the T460 has a TrackPoint pointing stick between its G and H keys. As usual, the little red nub provided extremely accurate navigation. Whether I was navigating through Windows or highlighting text, and I never had to take my hands off the home row.
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If you’re not open to using a pointing stick, you’ll appreciate the ThinkPad T460’s excellent, 2.9 x 3.9-inch touchpad. In my testing, the navigation device proved smooth and responsive, with little of the jumpiness or stickiness we sometimes encounter on buttonless pads. It also responded quickly and consistently to multitouch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom, two-finger scroll and three-finger swipe.
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The ThinkPad T460’s 14-inch, 1920 x 1080 touch screen outputs sharp images and fairly accurate but not very rich colors. When I watched a trailer for Captain America: Civil War, fine details like the wrinkles on Steve Roger’s forehead and the ridges in his helmet really stood out. The blue in the Captain’s costume and the red in Iron Man’s armor were subdued and a little dark, but not washed out. Images started to fade a bit at when viewed at greater than 45 degrees to the left or right.
Unlike most touch screens, the one on the T460 is matte rather than glossy, which eliminates some glare. To achieve this effect, Lenovo uses “in-cell touch” technology, which builds the touch screen digitizer directly into the LCD panel and eliminates the need for a separate protective layer.
According to our colorimeter, the ThinkPad T460 reproduces only 67 percent of the sRGB color gamut with both touch and non-touch panels, which is about the same as the T460s (66 percent), but a lot fewer shades than the category average (84 percent). The T460 also comes in behind the Latitude E5470 (113.1 percent) and the HP EliteBook 745 G3 (84.1 percent). However, the laptop’s Delta-E error rate is just 0.45 (0 is perfect), which means the colors this screen displays are accurate.
The ThinkPad T460’s display brightness maxes out at 239 nits of brightness with a touch screen and 242 nits with non-touch, which is about on a par with the category average (242) and the ThinkPad T460s (240). However, the Latitude E5470 (278) and the EliteBook 745 G3 (317) were both brighter.??
The bottom-front-mounted speakers on the T460 are good enough for conferencing and watching videos, but we wouldn’t recommend them for music. When I played both AC/DC’s guitar-heavy “Back in Black” and Chic’s bass-laden “Everybody Dance,” the output was loud enough to fill two adjacent rooms, but the drums sounded tinny and the vocals seemed distorted. However, I could clearly hear the separation of sound with different instruments coming from different sides of the system.
The preloaded Dolby Audio software lets you control the equalizer or use presets that are optimized for music, movies, games or voice calls. I found the Dynamic preset, which automatically adjusts the output based on content, to be the best.??
The ThinkPad T460 has all the ports that most people need in 2016, but it lacks the USB Type-C connector that would make it futureproof. On the right side sits a 3.5mm jack, an SD card reader, a SIM card slot (for optional 4G), a USB 3 port, Ethernet, HDMI out and a Kensington lock slot. The left side houses a mini DisplayPort, an optional SmartCard reader and two more USB ports for a total of three.
The 720p webcam took bright, colorful images of my face even in dim areas of my office and kitchen.??
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With its Intel Core i5-6300U CPU, 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD, our review configuration of the ThinkPad T460 was more than capable of intense multitasking and serious productivity work. Even when I had 12 Chrome tabs open and an offline 1080p video playing in another window, the system showed no signs of lag.
The ThinkPad T460 scored a solid 6,708 on Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance. That’s comfortably ahead of the Core i5-6200U-powered Toshiba Tecra A40 (5,846), the AMD Pro A8-powered HP EliteBook 745 G3 (5,494) and the 14-inch laptop average (6,271). The Core i5-6300U-enabled ThinkPad T460s got a very similar score (6,796) to its big sibling, but the Dell Latitude E5470 and its quad-core, Intel Core i5-6440HQ CPU got a much stronger score (9,760)
Lenovo’s laptop took just 4 minutes and 13 seconds to complete our spreadsheet macro test, which matches 20,000 names with their addresses in OpenOffice Calc. The ThinkPad T460’s time is way faster than the category average (5:54), slightly faster than the Toshiba Tecra A40 (4:30) and about equal to the ThinkPad T460s (4:10). The Latitude E5470 was just a bit quicker.
With the larger battery onboard, the ThinkPad T460 lasted a sting 13 hours and 12 minutes.
The ThinkPad T460 and its speedy 256GB SSD took just 29 seconds to finish the Laptop File Transfer Test, which involves copying 4.97GB of mixed media files. That’s a rate of 175.5 MBps, more than the category average (115.1) and the rates from the Latitude E5470, the EliteBook 745 G3 and the ThinkPad T460s.
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Don’t expect to play demanding games or do high-end 3D modeling on the ThinkPad T460, but its integrated Intel HD Graphics 520 GPU is fine for casual games and watching HD video. On 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, a synthetic benchmark that measures graphics prowess, the T460 scored a respectable 65,981, significantly better than the category average (55,432). The ThinkPad T460s did slightly better while the Tecra A40 and the EliteBook 745 G3 trailed by a wide margin. The powerful Latitude E5470 got a much higher score.
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The ThinkPad T460 stayed relatively cool throughout our testing. After the laptop streamed a video for 15 minutes, its touchpad and keyboard measured an imperceptible 82 and 84 degrees Fahrenheit, well below our 95-degree comfort threshold. The bottom was a bit warmer, clocking in at 95 degrees
Unlike the slimmer T460s, the ThinkPad T460 has Lenovo’s extremely helpful PowerBridge technology, which combines an internal 3-cell battery with a removable 3- or 6-cell unit. Because the external battery runs down first, you can hot-swap in a spare unit, without powering down the computer. Even better, you have the option to buy the laptop with low, medium or high-capacity batteries, and the difference in price between small and large
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