Lenovo V15 15.6" V15 Gen 4 Business Black

A shockingly fast office machine with a screen and battery that belong in 2018. Buy it for the desk, leave it on the charger.

The Ryzen 7 7730U is the star of the show here. With 8 cores and 16 threads, it chews through spreadsheets, dozens of browser tabs, and office apps without breaking a sweat. Our database puts the CPU in solid territory, well above average for this class of machine. The real surprise is the storage, a 1TB NVMe drive that lands in the top 20% of all laptops we track. Boot times are near-instant and you won't be playing storage Tetris anytime soon. The integrated Radeon graphics are fine for streaming and light photo work, but don't expect to game on anything beyond low settings. The 16GB of DDR4 RAM is about average these days, enough for heavy multitasking but not future-proof if you're a tab hoarder.

The V15 sits in a weird spot. It's got the CPU chops to hang with an MSI Prestige or ASUS Zenbook Duo in raw processing, but those machines have vastly better screens, build quality, and battery life. The HP OmniBook X Flip and Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro are in a different universe for portability and display quality. If you're comparing this to an Apple MacBook Pro M5, stop. They're not playing the same sport. The V15 is for someone who wants a cheap, powerful desktop they can occasionally move to another room. The competitors are actual laptops you'd want to use on a plane.

Pricing on this thing is all over the map, with a spread of over $5,600 across vendors. That's absurd. The sweet spot is around $600, and at that price it's a no-brainer for a desktop-bound workstation. If you're seeing it anywhere near the high end of that range, you're getting fleeced. Newegg has the best deal we've seen, so start there. For the spec sheet alone, this is one of the best value propositions in the budget laptop space right now.

The Lenovo V15 Gen 4 is the office workhorse that knows exactly what it is and doesn't pretend otherwise. You're getting a legit 8-core Ryzen 7 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a full 1TB SSD in a no-frills chassis for a price that makes you double-check the spec sheet. The one thing to know? This is a productivity beast trapped in a budget body. The processor punches way above its price class, but the dim screen and tiny battery remind you where Lenovo cut corners. If you need a desktop replacement that mostly stays plugged in on a desk, this is a steal. If you need all-day portability or a screen that won't make you squint near a window, keep scrolling.

If you need all-day battery life or a screen that looks good outdoors, this isn't your machine. Go grab an HP OmniBook X Flip or a Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro instead. They'll cost more but you'll actually be able to use them away from a wall outlet without squinting.

Buy it for the processor and storage, tolerate it for everything else. The Lenovo V15 Gen 4 is a purpose-built machine for people who need serious CPU power on a tight budget and don't care about battery life or screen quality. It's a desktop that happens to fold in half. If that's your use case, you'll love it. If you need a real laptop for travel or coffee shop work, this ain't it.