Lenovo Updates Its Beefiest And Bulkiest Laptops

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Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen 3. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Lenovo

Lenovo has decided that IFA is nan perfect clip to show disconnected its astir powerful (and astir chunky) hardware. And easy astatine nan apical of that heap is nan Thinkpad P16 Gen 3. With a starting value of $3,339, it’s nan astir costly and nan astir powerful of nan lot. It packs nan latest Core Ultra 200HX processors and has options for Nvidia’s RTX Pro GPUs, up to 192GB of DDR5 RAM, and up to 12TB of PCIe Gen5 NVMe storage; location is besides an action for a 16-inch 3.2K OLED touchscreen. Unsurprisingly, nan P16 Gen 3 is simply a beefy machine, astatine good complete an inch heavy and pinch a starting weight of 5.6 pounds, but connected nan positive side, it has a user-replaceable artillery and 2 Thunderbolt 5 ports.

If that’s excessively bulky but you still want immoderate superior oomph, location is nan caller Thinkpad P1 Gen 8. You get Core Ultra 200 H bid processors, and your graphics options are capped astatine nan somewhat little RTX Pro 2000 tier (versus nan 5000 connected nan P16), positive you still get 2 Thunderbolt 5 ports and tin opt for nan aforesaid 16-inch OLED panel. The perk is that it’s successful a overmuch little boxy chassis that weighs only 4 pounds and gets down to 0.8 inches thick, pinch a somewhat much reasonable starting value of $2,819.

Even though nan P bid is aimed astatine pros doing 3D rendering, it’s nan Legion Pro 7 gaming instrumentality that is really nan heftiest of nan bunch. It’s somewhat thinner than nan P16 astatine 1.05 inches, but it weighs 6 pounds. It starts astatine $2,399, but tin beryllium configured pinch up to an AMD Ryzen 9955HX3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. That’s much than capable to push astir AAA titles to nan 16-inch 240Hz OLED. If 16 inches isn’t capable existent estate, Lenovo besides unveiled a trio of gaming OLEDs: nan $699.99 Pro 27Q-10, nan $999.99 Pro 27UD-10, and nan $1,099.99 Pro 32UD-10.

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