The Lenovo ThinkPad T460s (starting at $980.10; $1,362.60 as tested) is the latest in a long line of Lenovo business laptops. This Windows 10 PC occupies a sweet spot: modern enough to remain relevant for several years, but priced less at than $1,500. It's geared to please the majority of office workers, and can fulfill their need for a laptop that's both new and familiar. It can't match the portability or battery life of our top pick, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, but nevertheless the T460s should be high on your list if you need to purchase a fleet of laptops to satisfy offices from five to 5,000 employees.

Design and Features
Outwardly, the ThinkPad T460s resembles last year's ThinkPad T450s, at least from where the user sits. It has the same keyboard, TrackPoint, and TrackPad layout, along with the wide expanse of palm rest that feels like velvet when compared with the hard aluminum deck of the Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina Display and HP EliteBook Folio G1. The biometric fingerprint reader has been relocated to the palm rest, but if you've used a ThinkPad T series laptop in the past 10 years, this layout will seem quite familiar.

The laptop is constructed of a combination of materials, including carbon fiber in the lid and magnesium alloy in the base. These substances help keep the weight down to 3.09 pounds, but the system is still MIL-STD 810G certified to withstand vibration, dust, altitude, temperature swings, and electrostatic discharges. It will also shrug off a bit of liquid spilled onto the keyboard, as well as the occasional drop to the floor. It measures 0.74 by 13 by 8.9 inches (HWD), so you can easily slip it in between a binder and your spare shirt in your commute bag.

Though it has an antiglare coating on its display, the T460s has a 10-point touch sensor underneath. That's a remarkable contrast to the glass-covered, glossy LCD panels of most touch-enabled laptops, such as the HP EliteBook Folio G1. Plus, reflections won't obscure the screen, even in a brightly lit room. The screen rotates 180 degrees, so you can lay the laptop flat on your work surface. This makes the T460s ideal for showing small presentations, say, in a board meeting.

Entry-level models come with a full HD (1,920-by-1,080 resolution) non-touch screen, but our review unit was equipped with a touch screen at the same resolution. There's a 2,560-by-1,440-resolution non-touch model available, for $95 more than the full HD touch screen. Full HD will fulfill most business needs, since that screen can easily display two Word documents side-by-side. Graphic design workers and spreadsheet jockeys should pick the WQHD screen, as on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.