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The lowest price we last saw for Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2- 13th Generation Intel Core i7-13700HX Processor - Windows 11 Pro 64- 512 GB SSD Performance TLC Opal was $3,243.02 (last seen 29 Nov 2025). Prices may have changed since.
The all-time low we recorded was $2,813.27 on 25 Mar 2025.
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Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2- 13th Generation Intel Core i7-13700HX Processor - Windows 11 Pro 64- 512 GB SSD Performance TLC Opal
Power-packed mobile workstation & mobile desktop in one Intel vPro with 13th Gen Intel Core HX Series processors Supports NVIDIA RTX discrete graphics Super-fast memory & storage, plus superb WiFi Choice of stunning displays ISV-certified & ThinkShield security Made with recycled component content, plastic-free packaging
Power-packed mobile workstation & mobile desktop in one Intel vPro with 13th Gen Intel Core HX Series processors Supports NVIDIA RTX discrete graphics Super-fast memory & storage, plus superb WiFi Choice of stunning displays ISV-certified & ThinkShield security Made with recycled component content, plastic-free packaging
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After using my T14 Gen1 (AMD) for the past couple years, I decided to finally upgrade to the newest AMD model with a bigger screen and 10-key. The performance on my new P16s is astounding! It eats through everything I've thrown at it other than 3D gaming. Speaking of gaming, this laptop is surprisingly powerful for not having a dedicated GPU. I was able to play a moderate amount of newer games, including Baldur's Gate 3. The 780m is a great iGPU. Also, everything looks stunning on the 16" OLED display. The 16:10 aspect ratio is surprisingly more usable than my old laptop's 16:9 display.A few minor criticisms I have are the price, keyboard, and upgrade options. The price is a little steep for the specs, but it is on par for a business laptop. The keyboard isn't as ... MoreAfter using my T14 Gen1 (AMD) for the past couple years, I decided to finally upgrade to the newest AMD model with a bigger screen and 10-key. The performance on my new P16s is astounding! It eats through everything I've thrown at it other than 3D gaming. Speaking of gaming, this laptop is surprisingly powerful for not having a dedicated GPU. I was able to play a moderate amount of newer games, including Baldur's Gate 3. The 780m is a great iGPU. Also, everything looks stunning on the 16" OLED display. The 16:10 aspect ratio is surprisingly more usable than my old laptop's 16:9 display.A few minor criticisms I have are the price, keyboard, and upgrade options. The price is a little steep for the specs, but it is on par for a business laptop. The keyboard isn't as good as my old T14. My T14 definitely had a noticeably higher amount of travel with each keypress, but I wouldn't say that the P16s keyboard is terrible. It's certainly on the better side of most laptops on the market today. Upgradability takes a hit with the soldered RAM, but as I understand it, soldered RAM gives an edge in performance compared to replaceable modules.I love the "simplicity" of the design and it definitely gets a huge plus for the minimal amount of bloatware included with the Windows installation. Lenovo Commercial Vantage is also a great piece of included software that is unique to ThinkPads. Overall, I'd definitely recommend this laptop to any ThinkPad fan and anybody else that's looking for a robust business-class laptop.
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I needed a system with strong performance to run specific programs, be able to use Hyper-V to test intermediate releases of these programs while travelling, coding and playing the occasional game.The P16s Gen2 with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics fits the bill.With 32GB and a 1TB SSD it will serve as my main machine for the 2 years I typically use laptops. And after the two years it will be added to my ThinkPad collection to run as test machines.The battery life is OK when doing Office activities, web browsing and YouTube. It has lasted 8 hours with that workload.Playing games like for example Farthest Frontier and Surviving Mars, which (lightly) use the GPU, will drain the battery in about 3 hours.For the real work it is always plugged as I ... MoreI needed a system with strong performance to run specific programs, be able to use Hyper-V to test intermediate releases of these programs while travelling, coding and playing the occasional game.The P16s Gen2 with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics fits the bill.With 32GB and a 1TB SSD it will serve as my main machine for the 2 years I typically use laptops. And after the two years it will be added to my ThinkPad collection to run as test machines.The battery life is OK when doing Office activities, web browsing and YouTube. It has lasted 8 hours with that workload.Playing games like for example Farthest Frontier and Surviving Mars, which (lightly) use the GPU, will drain the battery in about 3 hours.For the real work it is always plugged as I need the full performance for that.I choose the 1920x1200 400nits screen as I do not need a higher resolution than this on the road.At my desk it is connected to a Thunderbolt3 4K Lenovo monitor via a Thunderbolt4 hub. So yes, this does work with this USB4 equipped machine!All Thunderbolt and USB-C devices connected to the hub and the monitor were immediately recognized and work with no issues at all.This laptop may be considered "chunky", it was certainly an adjustment for me coming from the X1 Carbon series, but it is still quite easy to carry around and really not that heavy.Lenovo certainly has heavier workstation laptops, P16v and P16 come to mind, which I rejected because they're even chunkier and have a way too short run time on battery.
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Awesome price-value what you get for this P14s. I was looking for a workhorse to do my daily work as an software engineer. Do not need any 2-4k screen. Rather a powerful CPU + lots of RAM, which you can get here for an awesome price packed in a Lenovo Thinkpad, which itself stands for durability and quality.Regarding Linux support; you'll need a distro with a >6.x kernel, as the network card is otherwise not supported. I'm running the Arch based Manjaro distribution on a 6.6.10 kernel and had no driver problem at all by now. Everything is running after the install right away.Opted for the low-power full HD screen, which for my workload is totally sufficient and actually delivers to my surprise better quality than expected. Compared the video quality to a 15" ... MoreAwesome price-value what you get for this P14s. I was looking for a workhorse to do my daily work as an software engineer. Do not need any 2-4k screen. Rather a powerful CPU + lots of RAM, which you can get here for an awesome price packed in a Lenovo Thinkpad, which itself stands for durability and quality.Regarding Linux support; you'll need a distro with a >6.x kernel, as the network card is otherwise not supported. I'm running the Arch based Manjaro distribution on a 6.6.10 kernel and had no driver problem at all by now. Everything is running after the install right away.Opted for the low-power full HD screen, which for my workload is totally sufficient and actually delivers to my surprise better quality than expected. Compared the video quality to a 15" retina mac (ok, from 2015... but still :)) and actually preferred the P14s. Since it's anyway just a 14" screen, you don't really need 2k and more if you don't really plan to do any editing or similar.Be aware of currently still existing complications with fractional scaling when using Linux with Gnome. For example IntelliJ (JAVA based) does not support it, as there are still no Wayland binding in Java. So everything will look unfortunately blurry in IntelliJ if you use fractional scaling.I found a trade-off by using no fractional scaling but increasing the font-size in Gnome. Without it I found it a bit too stressful as everything was too small However, maybe also just a question of time to get used to it. Since I came from a 15" retina which I scaled to 2x it's no surprise. Whatever, that's rather a problem of Gnome and it's lack of support for fractional scaling and not of the laptop itself.All in all, I can only recommend this laptop for Linux and in general!
After using my T14 Gen1 (AMD) for the past couple years, I decided to finally upgrade to the newest AMD model with a bigger screen and 10-key. The performance on my new P16s is astounding! It eats through everything I've thrown at it other than 3D gaming. Speaking of gaming, this laptop is surprisingly powerful for not having a dedicated GPU. I was able to play a moderate amount of newer games, including Baldur's Gate 3. The 780m is a great iGPU. Also, everything looks stunning on the 16" OLED display. The 16:10 aspect ratio is surprisingly more usable than my old laptop's 16:9 display.A few minor criticisms I have are the price, keyboard, and upgrade options. The price is a little steep for the specs, but it is on par for a business laptop. The keyboard isn't as ... MoreAfter using my T14 Gen1 (AMD) for the past couple years, I decided to finally upgrade to the newest AMD model with a bigger screen and 10-key. The performance on my new P16s is astounding! It eats through everything I've thrown at it other than 3D gaming. Speaking of gaming, this laptop is surprisingly powerful for not having a dedicated GPU. I was able to play a moderate amount of newer games, including Baldur's Gate 3. The 780m is a great iGPU. Also, everything looks stunning on the 16" OLED display. The 16:10 aspect ratio is surprisingly more usable than my old laptop's 16:9 display.A few minor criticisms I have are the price, keyboard, and upgrade options. The price is a little steep for the specs, but it is on par for a business laptop. The keyboard isn't as good as my old T14. My T14 definitely had a noticeably higher amount of travel with each keypress, but I wouldn't say that the P16s keyboard is terrible. It's certainly on the better side of most laptops on the market today. Upgradability takes a hit with the soldered RAM, but as I understand it, soldered RAM gives an edge in performance compared to replaceable modules.I love the "simplicity" of the design and it definitely gets a huge plus for the minimal amount of bloatware included with the Windows installation. Lenovo Commercial Vantage is also a great piece of included software that is unique to ThinkPads. Overall, I'd definitely recommend this laptop to any ThinkPad fan and anybody else that's looking for a robust business-class laptop.
I needed a system with strong performance to run specific programs, be able to use Hyper-V to test intermediate releases of these programs while travelling, coding and playing the occasional game.The P16s Gen2 with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics fits the bill.With 32GB and a 1TB SSD it will serve as my main machine for the 2 years I typically use laptops. And after the two years it will be added to my ThinkPad collection to run as test machines.The battery life is OK when doing Office activities, web browsing and YouTube. It has lasted 8 hours with that workload.Playing games like for example Farthest Frontier and Surviving Mars, which (lightly) use the GPU, will drain the battery in about 3 hours.For the real work it is always plugged as I ... MoreI needed a system with strong performance to run specific programs, be able to use Hyper-V to test intermediate releases of these programs while travelling, coding and playing the occasional game.The P16s Gen2 with the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics fits the bill.With 32GB and a 1TB SSD it will serve as my main machine for the 2 years I typically use laptops. And after the two years it will be added to my ThinkPad collection to run as test machines.The battery life is OK when doing Office activities, web browsing and YouTube. It has lasted 8 hours with that workload.Playing games like for example Farthest Frontier and Surviving Mars, which (lightly) use the GPU, will drain the battery in about 3 hours.For the real work it is always plugged as I need the full performance for that.I choose the 1920x1200 400nits screen as I do not need a higher resolution than this on the road.At my desk it is connected to a Thunderbolt3 4K Lenovo monitor via a Thunderbolt4 hub. So yes, this does work with this USB4 equipped machine!All Thunderbolt and USB-C devices connected to the hub and the monitor were immediately recognized and work with no issues at all.This laptop may be considered "chunky", it was certainly an adjustment for me coming from the X1 Carbon series, but it is still quite easy to carry around and really not that heavy.Lenovo certainly has heavier workstation laptops, P16v and P16 come to mind, which I rejected because they're even chunkier and have a way too short run time on battery.
Awesome price-value what you get for this P14s. I was looking for a workhorse to do my daily work as an software engineer. Do not need any 2-4k screen. Rather a powerful CPU + lots of RAM, which you can get here for an awesome price packed in a Lenovo Thinkpad, which itself stands for durability and quality.Regarding Linux support; you'll need a distro with a >6.x kernel, as the network card is otherwise not supported. I'm running the Arch based Manjaro distribution on a 6.6.10 kernel and had no driver problem at all by now. Everything is running after the install right away.Opted for the low-power full HD screen, which for my workload is totally sufficient and actually delivers to my surprise better quality than expected. Compared the video quality to a 15" ... MoreAwesome price-value what you get for this P14s. I was looking for a workhorse to do my daily work as an software engineer. Do not need any 2-4k screen. Rather a powerful CPU + lots of RAM, which you can get here for an awesome price packed in a Lenovo Thinkpad, which itself stands for durability and quality.Regarding Linux support; you'll need a distro with a >6.x kernel, as the network card is otherwise not supported. I'm running the Arch based Manjaro distribution on a 6.6.10 kernel and had no driver problem at all by now. Everything is running after the install right away.Opted for the low-power full HD screen, which for my workload is totally sufficient and actually delivers to my surprise better quality than expected. Compared the video quality to a 15" retina mac (ok, from 2015... but still :)) and actually preferred the P14s. Since it's anyway just a 14" screen, you don't really need 2k and more if you don't really plan to do any editing or similar.Be aware of currently still existing complications with fractional scaling when using Linux with Gnome. For example IntelliJ (JAVA based) does not support it, as there are still no Wayland binding in Java. So everything will look unfortunately blurry in IntelliJ if you use fractional scaling.I found a trade-off by using no fractional scaling but increasing the font-size in Gnome. Without it I found it a bit too stressful as everything was too small However, maybe also just a question of time to get used to it. Since I came from a 15" retina which I scaled to 2x it's no surprise. Whatever, that's rather a problem of Gnome and it's lack of support for fractional scaling and not of the laptop itself.All in all, I can only recommend this laptop for Linux and in general!
I just bought this laptop a month ago, just to separate my gaming pc from work. I wanted a laptop that could handle programming and last many years. I always liked Lenovo, so I went into their shop and saw a lot of discounts, especially in this P16s model.Part Number 21K9001NUS (Top of the line)Screen: Superb OLED 4K 16:10 w/HDR capabilities, one of the best things about this laptop.Battery: While browsing internet in battery it's like an hour by 10% depending on bright, so I think 8hrs which is a lot to me. I'm currently using the smart charge feature to keep it at 80%.Keyboard: I'm into mechanical keyboards so I expected not the very best feeling but it's actually pretty good, I can code with ease, just swapped the crtl and fn keys in lenovo app as ... MoreI just bought this laptop a month ago, just to separate my gaming pc from work. I wanted a laptop that could handle programming and last many years. I always liked Lenovo, so I went into their shop and saw a lot of discounts, especially in this P16s model.Part Number 21K9001NUS (Top of the line)Screen: Superb OLED 4K 16:10 w/HDR capabilities, one of the best things about this laptop.Battery: While browsing internet in battery it's like an hour by 10% depending on bright, so I think 8hrs which is a lot to me. I'm currently using the smart charge feature to keep it at 80%.Keyboard: I'm into mechanical keyboards so I expected not the very best feeling but it's actually pretty good, I can code with ease, just swapped the crtl and fn keys in lenovo app as advertised, I don't use the backlit but it has two bright levels and it's kinda useful in a dark room.Speakers: I don't usually watch series and for work I use a headset, works okay but not great.Portability: At first I thought that a 16" model would not be portable, but it's surprisingly light and very slim.Looks: It's a very opaque laptop haha, it's doesn't shine or looks like a premium laptop, just a plain gray that very much inspires to work, simple and durable. It also catches a lot of fingerprints, not a fan of that.I'm not talking about cpu, ram o graphics, those would depend in model.Pretty happy with this laptop, looks simply but has all my checks, expecting more than 5 years.
This is my first Lenovo laptop since back when IBM owned the brand -- so... I'm old and also it's been a while.I've been working in corporate land and they stick to Dell laptops at the big-3 corporations in the area. I've seen Lenovo desktops, but all the laptops are Dell.I don't want to just trash Dell, the majority of the Dell laptops I've seen are pretty decent. Compared to this ThinkPad P14s, though, every Dell Latitude I've had for the last 20 years felt inferior. Just from a touch viewpoint, the Lenovo 'feels' more quality. I can hold it up at the corner with two fingers and it feels solid - no flex. A lot of Latitude laptops I've had in the past would flex when I do that.It's quiet, even under sustained load in a closed off room with no ambient noise. ... MoreThis is my first Lenovo laptop since back when IBM owned the brand -- so... I'm old and also it's been a while.I've been working in corporate land and they stick to Dell laptops at the big-3 corporations in the area. I've seen Lenovo desktops, but all the laptops are Dell.I don't want to just trash Dell, the majority of the Dell laptops I've seen are pretty decent. Compared to this ThinkPad P14s, though, every Dell Latitude I've had for the last 20 years felt inferior. Just from a touch viewpoint, the Lenovo 'feels' more quality. I can hold it up at the corner with two fingers and it feels solid - no flex. A lot of Latitude laptops I've had in the past would flex when I do that.It's quiet, even under sustained load in a closed off room with no ambient noise. Doesn't get hot in my lap, again even under sustained load. By sustained load I mean all 8 cores in use by a process for 5-10 minutes doing heavy calculations on multi-million row datasets.I love the screen. Love it. I work on computers all day, 10, 12, 14 hours a day - more often 7 days a week than not. My desktop screens are set at 30% brightness to avoid eye fatigue.I did not experience eye fatigue using my Lenovo laptop and I did not have to do any adjusting out of the box. I'm assuming that's the low-blue-light feature of this particular LCD. Maybe I sound a little too excited about the screen, but for me that's a big one.Windows wants to default to 150% zoom on the screen, and with that setting I feel like there's not enough screen real-estate to actually get work done. So adjusting it to 100% (eg no zoom) was a necessity for me. I had no problems reading or working without zoom at the native resolution. No eye strain or squinting so the screen size is a great balance of having a compact laptop and useable screen area.In terms of processing power, this is another new one for me - I have actually never owned an AMD powered laptop or desktop. My first computer was a 286, so I've had quite a few machines in my time. Probably hundreds of machines have passed through my hands. Some got used more and longer than others, but they were all Intel processors.I was very pleased with the CPUs processing power, particularly with how quiet and cool the machine stays even when physically on my lap. I'm not saying it doesn't get warm, but it doesn't get uncomfortably warm. Never noticed the keyboard being hot or anything like that, either.A common benchmark I run, for an internal app, takes ~9 seconds on my i9-14900k desktop with custom liquid cooling, 7800 DDR5, etc -- a very expensive, newest, hottest thing desktop. That same benchmark ran in ~11 seconds on the laptop. Very impressive. The bottleneck on that benchmark is typically IO for the SSD as it involves 4.2k writes and threaded (to all cores) character processing of 384 million characters coming from an SQL server. Not the heaviest load but that's pretty impressive. I run this benchmark as it's the most common resource intensive task in our app. A person using our app with this laptop for office work would be happy with the performance, for sure.Runtime was great, too. Had some sick downtime and watched movies on it for probably 6 hours or so, over wifi, before realizing it wasn't plugged in. No low battery warning, don't recall what % it was at but it wasn't low enough to give a low battery warning. So great battery life, great efficiency.Overall, not sure I can give enough praise of the laptop. Particularly for the price.
OLED touch display, 4TB Drive, 64GB RAM NVIDIA 4070 i9 13 or 14th gen intel chip, all in a stylishly thin laptop. A dream machine for me. This computer had an NVIDIIA 4070 GPU but also still had the intel GPU. The laptop OLED screen was connected to the intel GPU and the NVIDIA has nothing hooked to it. I didn't explore whether the NVIDIA could be routed to the internal monitor but presumably you could connect external monitors or VR headsets to it. It also had an i9 13th generation chip, so this is a powerful machine. Having had some experience with the i9 chip on a couple of desktops I knew how hot the chip gets so I asked a chat person at Lenovo whether there were any problems keeping this computer cool and she said it had a new state of the art cooling ... MoreOLED touch display, 4TB Drive, 64GB RAM NVIDIA 4070 i9 13 or 14th gen intel chip, all in a stylishly thin laptop. A dream machine for me. This computer had an NVIDIIA 4070 GPU but also still had the intel GPU. The laptop OLED screen was connected to the intel GPU and the NVIDIA has nothing hooked to it. I didn't explore whether the NVIDIA could be routed to the internal monitor but presumably you could connect external monitors or VR headsets to it. It also had an i9 13th generation chip, so this is a powerful machine. Having had some experience with the i9 chip on a couple of desktops I knew how hot the chip gets so I asked a chat person at Lenovo whether there were any problems keeping this computer cool and she said it had a new state of the art cooling system.It's a pretty thin case, a great monitor, not a lot of ports but I knew I'd have to add some external box for ports. So, when I got it, I went about doing updates and installing programs and the computer got sooo hot you could fry eggs on it. It was hot just idling but if you gave it anything to do the fan winds up to 100% and just stays there. It's nice and quiet when you first turn it on but within minutes it's the loudest thing in the room and never settles down. Me thinks they tried to put too much power in this little box. So, I returned it for three reasons 1. it seemed silly to pay for 2 GPUs but what do I know, maybe that's always the case when you add an NVIDIA. That alone wouldn't have made me return it. 2. It runs so hot I felt like it would burn itself out in a short amount of time and even if the chip was staying cool 3. the volume of the fan running full blast all the time was too much. This last reason would have made me return the laptop all by itself. I would pay for a much bulkier laptop if it had all these features and stayed quiet.
I like the larger screen and the numeric extension of the normal keyboard - it means I don't have to plug in to my dock to work on boring spreadsheets and can just sit and watch the hockey game. It also is a lot faster than my X1 yoga - it is larger and heavier, but then so am I and the P16s is nowhere close to the inch and a half thick laptops of the old days with much smaller screens. I can still slow it down by making it work hard (piling on hundreds of spreadsheets and pdfs on top of each other and then making the pdfs into spreadsheets and vice versa, and then searching them, and so on) but so far it hasn't put its hand up and said "Whoa, easy there", just moves a little slower. That is probably on me, and by doing something differently it would also be less of ... MoreI like the larger screen and the numeric extension of the normal keyboard - it means I don't have to plug in to my dock to work on boring spreadsheets and can just sit and watch the hockey game. It also is a lot faster than my X1 yoga - it is larger and heavier, but then so am I and the P16s is nowhere close to the inch and a half thick laptops of the old days with much smaller screens. I can still slow it down by making it work hard (piling on hundreds of spreadsheets and pdfs on top of each other and then making the pdfs into spreadsheets and vice versa, and then searching them, and so on) but so far it hasn't put its hand up and said "Whoa, easy there", just moves a little slower. That is probably on me, and by doing something differently it would also be less of a problem, but it is doing what I want it to.It has, on a couple of occasions, decided to shut down and update without my say-so, including just before I finished reviewing a presentation the other night and I had to wait on it. Not a long time, but I needed to set up the laptop, projector, screen, connections, classical guitar, wireless to the amplifier, a chair, and those little foot stools that classical guitar players use. I wouldn't have chosen to do a shut down at that particular time. I am sure there is a way to fix it.However, as I was doing the presentation the larger screen helped as my presenter view was now readable for these old eyes. And no hitches on graphics or animations.Overall, it is doing what I expected and hoped. It still remains to be seen how it handles connecting to my multiple screens (3 other monitors) and other peripherals like scanners, printers, external hard drive, etc. connected through a dock on my work desk with spreadsheets all over the place on the screens. I will get to test the workstation part of the description.
The P16 Gen 2 is my sixth IBM and Lenovo laptop. It is a very well build computer and satisfactory to operate. Hardware wise, the Dock is attached to the laptop by cable that I consider not as satisfactory as the direct plugin arrangement in my old W510 and P50 models. Is Lenovo starting to cut corners in their designs? On every startup X-rite app shows on my external display. I don’t know how to disable it without uninstalling.In the past my transition to Windows 7 and Windows 10 went smoothly and with no problems. The P16 came with Windows 11 and I wish that would have been an option for Windows 10. It is not that in my post-retirement age; with time I will not get used to Windows 11 but personally I have two problems. I deliberately opted for Home version and ... MoreThe P16 Gen 2 is my sixth IBM and Lenovo laptop. It is a very well build computer and satisfactory to operate. Hardware wise, the Dock is attached to the laptop by cable that I consider not as satisfactory as the direct plugin arrangement in my old W510 and P50 models. Is Lenovo starting to cut corners in their designs? On every startup X-rite app shows on my external display. I don’t know how to disable it without uninstalling.In the past my transition to Windows 7 and Windows 10 went smoothly and with no problems. The P16 came with Windows 11 and I wish that would have been an option for Windows 10. It is not that in my post-retirement age; with time I will not get used to Windows 11 but personally I have two problems. I deliberately opted for Home version and the cloud, and other externalities should be options rather than the defaults. Contrary to previous OS, Windows 11 seem to tell you how you have to do it rather that you dictate that. After all it is a PC and I don’t want it to become and IBM 360. The other problem with Windows 11 is that some equipment makers do not update their software. In my case my perfectly good old Epson V700 scanner does not work with the new OS and the manufacturer told me to buy a new scanner.My PC came with Office 2021 installed. My big complain is the New Outlook and I switched to the Classic one but many features available on Windows 10 do not work. I don’t know what MS thinking was but I hope they are not going the “Boeing way”.
I bought this as a replacement for a P73 — a beast of a machine that I was tired of lugging around. Compared to that laptop, the P1 Gen 6 is super lightweight and portable. I was concerned about the keyboard quality and, while it doesn’t have a keypad like the P73, the keyboard still feels really nice. I also really love the touchscreen — this is my first laptop with one and I don’t think I’ll ever buy one again without a touchscreen as it’s super handy.With an RTX 4080 in the system, I’m able to do some generative AI work locally that previously would have been done in the cloud, and play a game every now and then with ray tracing. In short, performance- and utility-wise, this thing has been awesome.However, it’s also extremely expensive. Having to pay nearly ... MoreI bought this as a replacement for a P73 — a beast of a machine that I was tired of lugging around. Compared to that laptop, the P1 Gen 6 is super lightweight and portable. I was concerned about the keyboard quality and, while it doesn’t have a keypad like the P73, the keyboard still feels really nice. I also really love the touchscreen — this is my first laptop with one and I don’t think I’ll ever buy one again without a touchscreen as it’s super handy.With an RTX 4080 in the system, I’m able to do some generative AI work locally that previously would have been done in the cloud, and play a game every now and then with ray tracing. In short, performance- and utility-wise, this thing has been awesome.However, it’s also extremely expensive. Having to pay nearly $6000 is outrageous. Period.This thing also heats up to worrying levels. I can be doing something not all that intensive and the fans will kick into overdrive. Frequently, during these times, I’ll touch the chassis above the keyboard to check and I cannot comfortably keep my fingers there — they begin to burn because the chassis is so hot.Because the air intake fans are located on the bottom, forget using this on your lap. It’s either going to require a table or a laptop cooler. I use an active cooler because it gets so hot so quickly, but that reduces the portability and lightweight aspects of it.Overall, it’s a high-performance machine that meets my needs performance-wise, but the thermals are pretty bad and it’s frustrating to constantly have the thing spinning up very loud fans and feeling like it’s about to melt at any moment.
This laptop is OK. I switched back to a PC from MacBook Pro and I don't regret it but I would be lying if I didn't say that I have already had more issues with this laptop in less than a month of use than I had over at least the last 5 years of use of the 2012 model MBP that I replaced. None of the issues are all that terrible, but still annoying, nonetheless. Here they are in no particular order:1. One day with zero changes to any settings on monitor, dock or computer, my second monitor that I connect via HDMI cable through a ThinkPad Universal Thunderbolt 4 Dock suddenly decides from one day to the next to go to sleep after about a minute or so if I don't happen to move the cursor onto it.2. My wi-fi connected Brother office printer suddenly had formatting ... MoreThis laptop is OK. I switched back to a PC from MacBook Pro and I don't regret it but I would be lying if I didn't say that I have already had more issues with this laptop in less than a month of use than I had over at least the last 5 years of use of the 2012 model MBP that I replaced. None of the issues are all that terrible, but still annoying, nonetheless. Here they are in no particular order:1. One day with zero changes to any settings on monitor, dock or computer, my second monitor that I connect via HDMI cable through a ThinkPad Universal Thunderbolt 4 Dock suddenly decides from one day to the next to go to sleep after about a minute or so if I don't happen to move the cursor onto it.2. My wi-fi connected Brother office printer suddenly had formatting issues when using Microsoft Word - this one was *mostly* solved but even to do that I had to delete the drivers and re-install them.3. From opening one doc to the next, Adobe just stopped being capable of opening pdfs and I'd have to go into the task manager and end all adobe-related tasks every 3rd or 4th pdf I attempted to open in order to get it to be able to open pdfs again-this one went away after a windows update later that night.4. My Logitech Bluetooth mouse jumps down about an inch or two when I move it from my laptop screen to my second monitor.5. the equal key on the number pad of my Logitech Bluetooth keyboard apparently doesn't work with the new Lenovo laptop.6.I'd like to use the Microsoft Edge browser but I don't like how it will not let me change the first page that opens to being the website of my choice. Instead, I get force-fed an MSN page with a ton of rotating article headlines, etc.7. This Lenovo take a few minutes just to startup like an older Windows PC even though it uses a SSD an I have meticulously culled out all of the unnecessary programs running at startup (that I was allowed to cull... Again, Microsoft crams gaming software and a few other bloat items that I don't care about down my throat here as well with no option to remove. Some you can remove, but they magically re-appear with the next Windows update...8. the speakers get really grainy and pop if I have several tabs open in a web browser and there is apparently no way to fix this because it's a limitation of the GPU's bandwidth which seems odd since the laptop has an AMD Pro 7 and 64 gigs of memory. I don't listed to a lot of music but it's pretty awful when you're in a zoom meeting and even to hear it crackle and pop when it's trying to give a notification sound. We're talking like 8 tabs open and this will start to happen, seems like a stupid problem for such a powerful computer.9. the plastic case that the laptop is made of feels thin/weak. It flexes if you pick up the laptop by one side of the base. It feels like a cheaply-3D printed plastic and I have some concerns about how it will hold up even though I don't haul it all over the place or anything-just back and forth to work in a briefcase.10. the number pad being on the laptop's keyboard is nice to have but it would make entering formulas into Excel (which I do a TON) a lot better if the equal sign on that number pad wasn't a row of keys away from the numbers. If it and the number lock key positioning were swapped, it would be way more useable.I know a lot of this is more Windows/Microsoft compatibility and bloat software issues but I was asked for a review and this is what I've experienced that I don't like. Also, for what it's worth, none of these things like the keyboard/mouse/monitor/adobe/etc. ever gave me a single issue from start to finish when I was using them all with that old MBP laptop including not having issues with print formatting while using Microsoft Word for Mac on the MBP which feels ironic. Things I do like: the price was great and the issues that I've encountered were mostly solvable.
