High quality components, AMD Ryzen 6000 – sounds like a winning combo in the year 2022. A laptop like this is the Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 G1 (available from Amazon, affiliate link), a multimedia laptop with a 16 inch screen, slim exterior, premium materials and powerful AMD Ryzen 6000H series chips. Despite this, the ThinkPad only achieved 87% in our comprehensive review, missing the “Very good” verdict. This was due to an extremely annoying problem: The laptop would just restart itself during use.
Due to this, we were not able to perform our review as normal, and had to request an exchange of the review unit. Our second sample was quite an improvement over the first, but the problem was not completely gone. From time to time, reboots would still occur. Clearly, this was an endemic problem and not a hardware issue with the first unit.
An endemic problem which Lenovo claims to have resolved now. At least, that is what the Readme file for the newest BIOS version 1.24 claims, as the changelog reads “Fixed an issue where the computer might restart unexpectedly.”
Of course, without retesting, we cannot say for certain if the problem is truly solved. So, we ask our readers who own the Z16: Has the newest UEFI-BIOS solved the reboot problem for you?
I was an ardent reader of Notebookcheck’s laptop reviews even back in school. After writing reviews as a hobby, I then joined Notebookcheck in 2016 and have worked on device reviews and news articles ever since. My personal interest lies more with laptops than smartphones, with business laptops being the most interesting category for me. Technology should make our lives and work easier and good laptops are an essential tool for that to happen. This is why laptop reviews are not just my work but are also my passion.
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