Lenovo updates its beefiest and bulkiest laptops

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Lenovo has decided that IFA is the perfect clip to amusement disconnected its astir almighty (and astir chunky) hardware. And easy astatine the apical of that heap is the Thinkpad P16 Gen 3. With a starting terms of $3,339, it’s the astir costly and the astir almighty of the lot. It packs the 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; determination is besides an enactment for a 16-inch 3.2K OLED touchscreen. Unsurprisingly, the P16 Gen 3 is simply a beefy machine, astatine good implicit an inch heavy and with a starting value of 5.6 pounds, but connected the positive side, it has a user-replaceable artillery and 2 Thunderbolt 5 ports.

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

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