An outstanding laptop with an "OK" display.

Last year I reviewed the ThinkPad T470 and came away impressed with what was on offer. Here was a laptop with a hot-swappable battery, lots of ports, a great keyboard, and the needed performance to get through a day's work. It also was plagued by a dim display and poor speakers, things that most business-oriented laptops suffer from.

Here now is the refreshed ThinkPad T480, with 8th Gen Intel Core CPUs, more display choices, a discrete GPU option, and a chassis that's nearly identical. Let's take a look at where it has improved over last year and how well it fares in the business market as a whole....