Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 hands-on review

Conclusion

The Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 is a very thin and light tablet with very nice display and speakers that makes it ideal for media consumption. The optional keyboard and pen also perform very well but can bump up the cost of the device considerably. The performance from the MediaTek Kompanio chipset is quite good. Lenovo's software experience is also very clean and user-friendly.

The device, however, makes quite a few concessions over its predecessors, which leaves it feeling notably worse. The lack of fingerprint scanner, in particular, is inexcusable in this price range. And the price is by far the biggest offender; while the starting price is $300, that's for the model with 128GB storage and a measly 4GB of memory. Get the properly specced 8GB variant with 256GB storage and you are looking at close to $500, with the keyboard accessory adding even more.

At that point, you may as well just get an iPad, especially if your objective is to have some sort of a laptop experience without actually getting a laptop. iPadOS is far better suited to that task and the quality of third-party applications is in a different league altogether. Meanwhile, on Android, the OS itself feels like it was jerry rigged to run on tablets and the third-party app situation is abysmal. If the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 was an all-round outstanding tablet then maybe there would be some case for it, but it isn't so we would recommend considering the base iPad instead. The Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 makes sense only if your objective is purely media consumption.

Pros

• Thin and light
• Good display quality
• Great set of stereo speakers
• Clean software
• Good performance for productivity and media consumption
• Optional keyboard and pen work well

Cons

• No fingerprint sensor, plastic body, and smaller battery than predecessor
• Display viewing angles could be better
• Android tablet experience is still lackluster
• 4GB RAM on the base model is too low in 2023