Lenovo ThinkPad E575 review

A 2016 ThinkPad E575 whose AMD silicon reads at the floor

The Lenovo ThinkPad E575 (2016) runs an AMD A10-9600P at $202 — below the business-class median of about $297, but the discount has a reason attached. The performance index reads 4.04 against a class median of 41.48, a 90% shortfall, and the CPU score of 8.08 against 52.97 sits in the basic band. Bristol Ridge was a weak APU family when new, and a decade has not improved it.

The ThinkPad shell is the asset

What the E575 offers is the E-series chassis: a serviceable keyboard, a business look, and a price below the class median. For a buyer who wants the ThinkPad ergonomics at the lowest possible entry and does light duty — documents, email, video playback — the shell delivers. That is the full extent of the case; the data supports nothing beyond it.

Floor-tier compute, no graphics claims

The verdict names graphics the top weakness — no discrete card on file, score zero against a class median of 3.84, no capability flags surviving — but the deeper issue is overall performance at 4.04, in the low band by a wide margin. Modern web applications will strain this machine. Reliability data for the listing is not the constraint here; the silicon is. Buyers should treat this as one of the slowest business-class machines on the shelf.

A slow, ordinary decline in value

From a $1300 base the E575 has eased to $202, about 7.22% per year, with a projected $174 in two years. The curve is unremarkable; the machine's value story is the entry price, not appreciation of any kind.

Business-class neighbors

Pricier alternatives include the Dell Vostro 15 3559 ($225) and ProBook 445R G6 ($225); cheaper ones include the ProBook 455 G2 ($174) and EliteBook 745 G4 ($172) — both also AMD machines of modest output. The E575 sits between them on price and below most on measured performance.

Bottom line

The E575 at $202 is a ThinkPad-shaped light-duty machine with floor-tier silicon: performance 4.04 against a class median of 41.48, no graphics claims, no capability flags. Buy it only if the chassis and the price matter more than any performance expectation — the data offers no other reason.