Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 4 (Intel)
Fourth-generation 16-inch 16:10 business ThinkPad offered with Intel Wildcat Lake Core or Panther Lake Core Ultra processors; Wildcat Lake keeps one SO-DIMM slot and one M.2 slot, Panther Lake adds a second slot of each and Copilot+ PC NPU performance. Mainstream corporate fleet laptop.
Memory
- Configuration
- Wildcat Lake: one DDR5 SODIMM slot; Panther Lake: two DDR5 SODIMM slots, dual-channel capable
- Max
- Wildcat Lake: up to 32 GB DDR5-5600; Panther Lake: up to 64 GB DDR5-5600 (64 GB configuration for special bid only)
Storage
- Slots
- Wildcat Lake: one M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 x4 slot; Panther Lake: two M.2 slots (one 2242, one 2280, both PCIe 4.0 x4)
- Max
- Wildcat Lake: one drive, up to 1 TB M.2 2242; Panther Lake: two drives, up to 1 TB each
- Offered
- M.2 2242 SSD: 256 GB / 512 GB / 1 TB with Opal 2.0, or 512 GB / 1 TB without SED; Lenovo ships one SSD configuration, second slot (where present) for user self-expansion
- Card reader
- None
Graphics
- Integrated
- Intel Graphics, shared memory, DirectX 12 Ultimate (Wildcat Lake up to 21 TOPS; Panther Lake up to 40 TOPS)
- External displays
- Panther Lake: up to 4 independent displays (native display + 3 external via HDMI and Thunderbolt); HDMI up to 3840×2160@60Hz, Thunderbolt up to 7680×4320@60Hz. Wildcat Lake: up to 3 independent displays (native + 2 external via HDMI and Thunderbolt); HDMI up to 3840×2160@60Hz, Thunderbolt up to 3840×2160@60Hz
Networking
- WLAN
- Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 2×2 + Bluetooth 5.3, or Wi-Fi 7 (Realtek RTL8922AE, Intel BE211 vPro, or Intel BE213) 2×2 + Bluetooth 5.4 (BT 6.0 hardware ready on BE211/BE213), M.2 card
- WWAN
- Not supported
- Ethernet
- Gigabit, Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM (vPro models) or I219-V (non-vPro models), RJ-45, Wake-on-LAN
- NFC
- Not supported
Power
- Adapters
- 65 W USB-C (2-pin, 3-pin, or slim 2-pin wall-mount) or 100 W USB-C slim (3-pin) AC adapter, PD 3.0, 100–240V, 50–60Hz; some configurations ship with no adapter
- Rapid Charge
- 48 Wh battery: Rapid Charge Pro, 50% in 30 min; 64 Wh battery: Rapid Charge, 80% in 1 hour
Ports
- Standard
- USB-A (5 Gbps), USB-A (10 Gbps, Always On), 2 × Thunderbolt 4 (USB PD 15–65 W, DP 2.1), HDMI 2.1 (up to 4K/60Hz), headphone/mic combo jack (3.5mm), Ethernet (RJ-45), Kensington Nano Security Slot
Display
- 16" WUXGA IPS 400 nits non-touch
- 1920×1200, anti-glare, 16:10, 1000:1, 45% NTSC, 60 Hz, 89° viewing angles, AICCP color calibration (select models), TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light (software)
- 16" WUXGA IPS 400 nits touch
- 1920×1200, in-cell multi-touch (10-point), anti-glare, 16:10, 1200:1, 100% sRGB, 120 Hz VRR, 89° viewing angles, TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light (hardware)
- 16" WQXGA IPS 400 nits
- 2560×1600, non-touch, anti-glare, 16:10, 1200:1, 100% sRGB, 120 Hz VRR, 89° viewing angles, Eyesafe Certified 2.0
- Screen-to-body ratio
- 90.7%
Battery
- Options
- 48 Wh (Rapid Charge Pro) or 64 Wh (Rapid Charge) Li-ion
- Rated life
- Up to 16.86 hr MobileMark 30 @250 nits / 32.83 hr local video playback @150 nits (Core Ultra 5 332, 16 GB DDR5-5600, 64 Wh battery, WUXGA non-touch, best power efficiency mode)
Physical
- Dimensions (W×D×H)
- 356 × 249 × 10.1/17.05 mm (front/rear), 21.15 mm max (aluminium top and bottom); or 21.95 mm max (aluminium top, PC-ABS bottom) — 14.01 × 9.80 × 0.40/0.67 in, 0.83–0.86 in max
- Weight
- Panther Lake from 1.65 kg (3.64 lbs); Wildcat Lake from 1.72 kg (3.79 lbs)
- Case
- Black; aluminium top with PC-ABS or aluminium bottom
- Camera
- 5.0 MP, 1080p + IR hybrid, or 720p, all with privacy shutter and temporal noise reduction
- Security
- Discrete TPM 2.0, TCG certified, FIPS 140-3 certified; optional match-on-chip fingerprint reader in power button; Kensington Nano Security Slot
- Durability
- MIL-STD-810H military test passed
Management
- System management
- Intel vPro Enterprise (select models) or non-vPro
- BIOS
- Certificate-based BIOS authentication, FIDO authentication, NVMe / power-on / supervisor / system-management passwords, self-healing BIOS
Operating systems
- Preloads
- Windows 11 Pro, Windows 11 Home, Windows 11 Home Single Language, Fedora Linux (Panther Lake only), Ubuntu Linux (Wildcat Lake only), no preload OS
Processors
- Intel Core 3 304
- Intel Core 5 315
- Intel Core 5 320
- Intel Core 5 330
- Intel Core 7 350
- Intel Core 7 360
- Intel Core Ultra 5 325
- Intel Core Ultra 5 332
- Intel Core Ultra 5 335
- Intel Core Ultra 5 336H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 355
- Intel Core Ultra 7 356H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 365