Currently, Lenovo offers very affordable office notebooks with their E-Series of ThinkPads, as well as more premium devices with their T-Series. The Lenovo ThinkPad L480 is supposed to slot right in between these two, focusing on both educational facilities and public administration, two areas were good pricing is key. With a base price of 559 Euros (~$685) in its base configuration, the ThinkPad L480 is well priced for the fields it is aimed at. It should be noted that said configuration only offers an Intel Celeron 3965U with 4 GB of memory and a 500 GB HDD. Equally, you will have to settle for a TN-Panel at that price point. More reasonable in our opinion is our test device configuration offering an Intel Core i5-8250U, 8 GB of DDR4 memory and a 256 GB SSD. At this configuration, the price increases to 959 Euros (~$1180). The top of the line configuration contains the Intel Core i7-8550U, a CPU that on paper should be slightly faster than the one found in our configuration. It should be noted though that, under certain conditions, an Intel Core i5-8250U can actually beat an Intel Core i7-8550U, so careful comparison of test results is a must. 

The Lenovo ThinkPad L480 will find itself battling predominantly against its own bredren in our comparison testing. All laptops in our comparison are based on the newest Intel architecture Kaby-Lake, leading to great comparability of performance. The oldest model in our line up is the Lenovo ThinkPad L470 which should predominantly serve to illustrate the performance improvement between generations. Following are the specific technical details of every device mentioned during this review.