Lenovo ThinkPad E590

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Pros:

Matte IPS display, Solid construction, Comfortable keyboard, Keyboard backlight, Excellent trackpad/trackpoint, Quiet operation, NVMe SSD, Free bay for a 2.5" drive, Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2, Displayport via USB-C
Incredible keyboard, Doesn't use PWM to adjust screen brightness (LG LP156WFC-SPDB (LEN40BA)), Supports M.2 PCIe NVMe/SATA SSDs, Simplistic design folowing the well known legacy, Very good battery life, Business-grade security features
Solid chassis, comfortable keyboard, excellent mouse input device, very cool & quiet, expandability (2x RAM, HDD + SSD), better CPU performance than predecessor

Cons:

Cooling system inadequate, GPU only able to work for short bursts at full clock rate, Only 12 months guarantee, Only microSD card slot
Covers only 54% of sRGB (LG LP156WFC-SPDB (LEN40BA)), Doesn't offer anything significant over the last-years model, Radeon RX 550X-equipped model produces excessive heat on the outside

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Last revision on February 3, 2021

Reviewers Liked

Matte IPS display, Solid construction, Comfortable keyboard, Keyboard backlight, Excellent trackpad/trackpoint, Quiet operation, NVMe SSD, Free bay for a 2.5" drive, Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2, Displayport via USB-C
Incredible keyboard, Doesn't use PWM to adjust screen brightness (LG LP156WFC-SPDB (LEN40BA)), Supports M.2 PCIe NVMe/SATA SSDs, Simplistic design folowing the well known legacy, Very good battery life, Business-grade security features
Solid chassis, comfortable keyboard, excellent mouse input device, very cool & quiet, expandability (2x RAM, HDD + SSD), better CPU performance than predecessor

Reviewers Didn't Like

Cooling system inadequate, GPU only able to work for short bursts at full clock rate, Only 12 months guarantee, Only microSD card slot
Covers only 54% of sRGB (LG LP156WFC-SPDB (LEN40BA)), Doesn't offer anything significant over the last-years model, Radeon RX 550X-equipped model produces excessive heat on the outside
Only microSD card-reader, rather bad battery life, LCD: Poor color-gamut coverage & backlight-bleeding, extremely slow PCIe NVMe SSD, only one-year warranty, USB port on the right only supports USB 2.0

Expert reviews and ratings

The primary purpose of the E590 is a refresh of the product line. The build of the laptop is identical to its predecessor and only the internals have been updated. The Whiskey Lake Core i7 processor delivers higher performance, thanks to its increased...

By NotebookCheck on May 23, 2019

Lenovo is usually a very strong contender on the business laptop market. Interestingly enough, they have decided that their new ThinkPad E590 doesn't need any significant improvements over the last years model apart from the Whiskey Lake CPUs. We are...

By laptopmedia.com on April 18, 2019

Lenovo ThinkPad E590 review. Test device courtesy of Lenovo.The Lenovo ThinkPad E590 is one of the more affordable Lenovo business laptops. Compared with the ThinkPad E580, Lenovo did not change many things and like its predecessor, the ThinkPad E590 is...

By NotebookCheck on March 22, 2019

Das ThinkPad E590 bietet euch für den aufgerufenen Preis von derzeit knapp 690 Euro eine Menge Leistung für den Arbeitsalltag. Die verbaute Hardware ist fix und sorgt dafür, dass eure Daten schnell und ohne Verzögerung geladen werden. Dank der vielen...

By blog.notebooksbilliger.de on June 28, 2019

Das Lenovo ThinkPad E590 überzeugt im Test mit vielen guten und sehr guten Eigenschaften. Dass es sich hier um ein Einsteigergerät für den Unternehmensbereich handelt, merkt man dieser Serie so gut wie nicht an. Die Gehäusequalität, die Ausstattung, die...

By notebooks-und-mobiles.de on February 02, 2019