Lenovo has decided that IFA is the ideal time to show off its most powerful (and most chunky) hardware. And easily at the top of that heap is the Thinkpad P16 Gen 3. With a starting price of $3,339, it’s the most expensive and the most powerful 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; there is also an option for a 16-inch 3.2K OLED touchscreen. Unsurprisingly, the P16 Gen 3 is a beefy machine, at well over an inch thick and with a starting weight of 5.6 pounds, but on the plus side, it has a user-replaceable battery and two Thunderbolt 5 ports.
If that’s too bulky but you still want some serious oomph, there is the new Thinkpad P1 Gen 8. You get Core Ultra 200 H series processors, and your graphics options are capped at the slightly lower RTX Pro 2000 tier (versus the 5000 on the P16), plus you still get two Thunderbolt 5 ports and can opt for the same 16-inch OLED panel. The perk is that it’s in a much less boxy chassis that weighs only 4 pounds and gets down to 0.8 inches thick, with a slightly more reasonable starting price of $2,819.
Even though the P series is aimed at pros doing 3D rendering, it’s the Legion Pro 7 gaming machine that is actually the heftiest of the bunch. It’s slightly thinner than the P16 at 1.05 inches, but it weighs 6 pounds. It starts at $2,399, but can be configured with up to an AMD Ryzen 9955HX3D and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. That’s more than enough to push most AAA titles to the 16-inch 240Hz OLED. If 16 inches isn’t enough real estate, Lenovo also 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.
