Lenovo is great for not shipping ThinkPads with a bunch of unwanted software, and the A285 is no exception. The Thinkpad A285 is quiet, but don’t expect it to be a great device to crunch heavy numbers all day long. The temperatures are locked in around 72☌ over a long workload, and CPU power draw is well under the 15-Watt TDP. That’s pretty decent for a thin chassis, but as for heat management, it isn’t great.Īt 100% load, the system quickly peaks and then throttles down fairly significantly, with a long-term all-core load frequency of just 1600 MHz, well under the 2.0 GHz base of this processor. The fan profile is fairly tame though, even in the High Performance Mode, and even at maximum levels the laptop stays very quite at just 42 dB(A) measured 1-inch over the trackpad. Lenovo ships the Thinkpad A285 with software that lets you choose the fan profile for a High Performance Mode, or a Quiet Mode. They don’t get overly loud either, at just 75 dB(A) measured over the trackpad when playing our test track. If you need a laptop for conference calls, the ThinkPad will work fine, but the stereo speakers which are downward facing do not offer much in the way of range, with almost no bass at all. On a positive note, it was at least very stable during testing, with no disconnections or lost Wi-Fi like we do see on some of the competition. There are good wireless adapters available, and Lenovo often uses them, but this Realtek is not one of those. It’s a typical 2x2:2 configuration with 802.11ac, and a maximum connection speed of 867 Mbps. For a wireless solution, Lenovo utilizes the Realtek 8822BE card which is not one we see very often.
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