Lenovo has determined that IFA is the best time to indicate off its strongest (and most chunky) {hardware}. And simply on the high of that heap is the Thinkpad P16 Gen 3. With a beginning value of $3,339, it’s the costliest and essentially the most highly effective of the lot. It packs the most recent Core Extremely 200HX processors and has choices for Nvidia’s RTX Professional GPUs, as much as 192GB of DDR5 RAM, and as much as 12TB of PCIe Gen5 NVMe storage; there may be additionally an possibility for a 16-inch 3.2K OLED touchscreen. Unsurprisingly, the P16 Gen 3 is a beefy machine, at properly over an inch thick and with a beginning weight of 5.6 kilos, however on the plus aspect, it has a user-replaceable battery and two Thunderbolt 5 ports.
If that’s too cumbersome however you continue to need some critical oomph, there may be the brand new Thinkpad P1 Gen 8. You get Core Extremely 200 H collection processors, and your graphics choices are capped on the barely decrease RTX Professional 2000 tier (versus the 5000 on the P16), plus you continue to get two Thunderbolt 5 ports and may choose for a similar 16-inch OLED panel. The perk is that it’s in a a lot much less boxy chassis that weighs solely 4 kilos and will get right down to 0.8 inches thick, with a barely extra cheap beginning value of $2,819.
Regardless that the P collection is geared toward execs doing 3D rendering, it’s the Legion Professional 7 gaming machine that’s truly the heftiest of the bunch. It’s barely thinner than the P16 at 1.05 inches, however it weighs 6 kilos. It begins at $2,399, however will be configured with as much as an AMD Ryzen 9955HX3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. That’s greater than sufficient to push most AAA titles to the 16-inch 240Hz OLED. If 16 inches isn’t sufficient actual property, Lenovo additionally unveiled a trio of gaming OLEDs: the $699.99 Professional 27Q-10, the $999.99 Professional 27UD-10, and the $1,099.99 Professional 32UD-10.