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Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 Series

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4Z9DVUSProcessor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-11800H, Intel Tiger Lake i7-11850H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 1.842kg, 1.969kg
Price: 2400, 2850 euro
Average Score: 83.17% - good
Average of 9 scores (from 10 reviews)
performance: 92%, features: 72%, display: 92%, mobility: 72%, workmanship: 90%, ergonomy: 92%, emissions: 83%

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y30017GE

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y30017GENotebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y30017GE
Processor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-11800H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 1.842kg
Price: 2400 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Reviews

89.4% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 Laptop - Workstation Version of the X1 Extreme G4 in Review | Notebookcheck
Lenovo introduces a completely new device with the fourth generation of the ThinkPad P1, including a 16-inch display with 16:10 aspect ratio and updated hardware. The P1 G4 also gives a first glance at the upcoming ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4, which uses the same chassis. Update: CPU performance with dual-channel RAM tested

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4S0KS00

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4S0KS00Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4S0KS00
Processor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-11850H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 3840 x 2400 pixels
Weight: 1.969kg
Price: 2850 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Average Score: 80% - good

Average of 6 scores (from 8 reviews)

 

Reviews

89.8% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 laptop review: Success with Vapor-Chamber & GeForce RTX 3070 | Notebookcheck
We have already tested the base model of the ThinkPad P1 G4, and now we have the second test: The workstation offshoot of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme G4 achieves a much better CPU performance with a drilled-out cooling system. At the same time, we test the 16-inch WQUXGA LCD in 16:10 format.
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 review: Near-perfect workstation, but there’s one flaw
Source: Laptop Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 would be perfect if it wasn’t for its unimpressive battery life. However, I’m willing to overlook that glaring flaw because the Lenovo workstation kicked ass on our performance benchmarks, showing off its processing-power prowess, and its blisteringly fast video transcoding and file transfer capabilities. It also has decent graphics performance, a bright, eye-catching 4K display, and fantastic speakers. As long as you plan to keep the ThinkPad P1 stationed on a desk while it remains tethered to an outlet, its battery life isn’t a problem. However, if you have dreams of frolicking with this Lenovo laptop while traveling the world, sorry to dash your hopes, but it will be dead for the majority of the journey. If you can’t get past the 6-hour battery life, consider the ThinkPad P1 Gen 4’s cousin: the ThinkPad P15 Gen 2. It offers nearly 11 hours of battery life. However, you’ll be taking a tiny hit on performance. Plus, you’ll have to stomach slower video transcoding and file-transfer rates.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/19/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 review: Near-perfect workstation, but there’s one flaw
Source: Laptop Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 would be perfect if it wasn’t for its unimpressive battery life. However, I’m willing to overlook that glaring flaw because the Lenovo workstation kicked ass on our performance benchmarks, showing off its processing-power prowess, and its blisteringly fast video transcoding and file transfer capabilities. It also has decent graphics performance, a bright, eye-catching 4K display, and fantastic speakers. As long as you plan to keep the ThinkPad P1 stationed on a desk while it remains tethered to an outlet, its battery life isn’t a problem. However, if you have dreams of frolicking with this Lenovo laptop while traveling the world, sorry to dash your hopes, but it will be dead for the majority of the journey. If you can’t get past the 6-hour battery life, consider the ThinkPad P1 Gen 4’s cousin: the ThinkPad P15 Gen 2. It offers nearly 11 hours of battery life. However, you’ll be taking a tiny hit on performance. Plus, you’ll have to stomach slower video transcoding and file-transfer rates.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/19/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 review: Near-perfect workstation, but there’s one flaw
Source: Laptop Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 would be perfect if it wasn’t for its unimpressive battery life. However, I’m willing to overlook that glaring flaw because the Lenovo workstation kicked ass on our performance benchmarks, showing off its processing-power prowess, and its blisteringly fast video transcoding and file transfer capabilities. It also has decent graphics performance, a bright, eye-catching 4K display, and fantastic speakers. As long as you plan to keep the ThinkPad P1 stationed on a desk while it remains tethered to an outlet, its battery life isn’t a problem. However, if you have dreams of frolicking with this Lenovo laptop while traveling the world, sorry to dash your hopes, but it will be dead for the majority of the journey. If you can’t get past the 6-hour battery life, consider the ThinkPad P1 Gen 4’s cousin: the ThinkPad P15 Gen 2. It offers nearly 11 hours of battery life. However, you’ll be taking a tiny hit on performance. Plus, you’ll have to stomach slower video transcoding and file-transfer rates.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/17/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 review: Near-perfect workstation, but there’s one flaw
Source: Laptop Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 would be perfect if it wasn’t for its unimpressive battery life. However, I’m willing to overlook that glaring flaw because the Lenovo workstation kicked ass on our performance benchmarks, showing off its processing-power prowess, and its blisteringly fast video transcoding and file transfer capabilities. It also has decent graphics performance, a bright, eye-catching 4K display, and fantastic speakers. As long as you plan to keep the ThinkPad P1 stationed on a desk while it remains tethered to an outlet, its battery life isn’t a problem. However, if you have dreams of frolicking with this Lenovo laptop while traveling the world, sorry to dash your hopes, but it will be dead for the majority of the journey. If you can’t get past the 6-hour battery life, consider the ThinkPad P1 Gen 4’s cousin: the ThinkPad P15 Gen 2. It offers nearly 11 hours of battery life. However, you’ll be taking a tiny hit on performance. Plus, you’ll have to stomach slower video transcoding and file-transfer rates.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/17/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 Review
Source: Mobile Tech Review English
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 is almost identical to the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4. It’s a slim & light mobile workstation with Intel Core i7, i9 or Xeon CPUs and up to NVIDIA RTX A5000 / RTX 3080 16GB graphics. Thanks to our video’s sponsor- Trend Micro's Premium Security Suite offers complete device and identity protection for up to 10 devices.With more powerful GPU options, the ThinkPad P1 has vapor chamber cooling, allowing for more performance than average from a 1.8kg / 4 lb. portable PC. It has a 16” 16:10 aspect ratio display in QHD or 4K resolution with wide gamut for content creation. Wi-Fi 6E, a 1080p webcam and a fingerprint scanner are standard. It has 2 RAM slots for upgradability and optional 4G and 5G WWAN on some models.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/16/2022
Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 Review
Source: Mobile Tech Review English
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 is almost identical to the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4. It’s a slim & light mobile workstation with Intel Core i7, i9 or Xeon CPUs and up to NVIDIA RTX A5000 / RTX 3080 16GB graphics. Thanks to our video’s sponsor- Trend Micro's Premium Security Suite offers complete device and identity protection for up to 10 devices.With more powerful GPU options, the ThinkPad P1 has vapor chamber cooling, allowing for more performance than average from a 1.8kg / 4 lb. portable PC. It has a 16” 16:10 aspect ratio display in QHD or 4K resolution with wide gamut for content creation. Wi-Fi 6E, a 1080p webcam and a fingerprint scanner are standard. It has 2 RAM slots for upgradability and optional 4G and 5G WWAN on some models.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/16/2022
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4
Source: PC Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 has the USB-A and HDMI ports that the Dell Precision 5560 restricts to a dongle, and it beats up the Dell and takes its lunch money in most of our performance benchmarks. Unless you crave an OLED rather than IPS display, it's an easy pick as our new Editors' Choice winner among truly portable workstations.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/12/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
80% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4
Source: PC Mag English
The ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 has the USB-A and HDMI ports that the Dell Precision 5560 restricts to a dongle, and it beats up the Dell and takes its lunch money in most of our performance benchmarks. Unless you crave an OLED rather than IPS display, it's an easy pick as our new Editors' Choice winner among truly portable workstations.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/12/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4Z9DVUS

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4Z9DVUSNotebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4-20Y4Z9DVUS
Processor: Intel Tiger Lake i7-11800H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 1.842kg
Price: 2400 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Reviews

89.3% Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 Laptop Review: BIOS update provides more CPU performance | Notebookcheck
In our first review of the ThinkPad P1 G4, there were problems with the performance of the Tiger Lake CPU. However, we now observe a significant performance improvement with the latest BIOS version, and the CPU performance is now on par with that of the vapor chamber models.

 

Comment

Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.

In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.

In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.


With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

NVIDIA T1200 Laptop GPU: Mid range dedicated graphics card for professional laptops based on the consumer GTX 1650 Ti. Therefore it uses the Turing architecture without raytracing and Tensor cores.

These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA104 chip. Available in different versions with a TDP from 80 to 125 Watt.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.


Intel Tiger Lake:

i7-11800H: Tiger Lake (H45 series) based high end octa-core SoC for gaming laptops and workstations. The eight CPU cores run at 2.3 GHz to 4.6 GHz. The integrated UHD Graphics GPU offers 32 EUs at up to 1.45 GHz. The chip is manufactured on the second-gen 10 nm Intel SuperFin process.

i7-11850H: Tiger Lake (H45 series) based high end octa-core SoC for gaming laptops and workstations. The eight CPU cores clock with 2.4 - 4.6 GHz. The integrated UHD Graphics GPU offers 48 cores at up to 1.45 GHz. The chip is manufactured in the 10nm SuperFin (improved 10nm) process. Supports management features like Intel vPro, SIPP and TXT.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


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This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


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83.17%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.

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Stefan Hinum, 2022-06- 1 (Update: 2022-06- 1)