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Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Series

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 21K9000CGEProcessor: AMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040) R7 PRO 7840U, Intel Alder Lake-P i5-1240P, Intel Alder Lake-P i7-1280P
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 780M, NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 1.68kg, 1.841kg
Price: 2000, 2150, 2200 euro
Average Score: 88.6% - very good
Average of 1 scores (from 5 reviews)
performance: 86%, features: 68%, display: 92%, mobility: 77%, workmanship: 86%, ergonomy: 92%, emissions: 91%

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i7-1280P

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i7-1280PNotebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i7-1280P
Processor: Intel Alder Lake-P i7-1280P
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 1.68kg
Price: 2200 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Reviews

How to open Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1 - disassembly and upgrade options
Source: Laptop Media English
Support, online available, Very Short, Date: 04/08/2023

Foreign Reviews

Review Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1 (21BT-006BID): Mobile Workstation Komplit, Kencang, & Terjangkau
Source: Jagat Review ID→EN
Positive: Premium design; slim size; light weight; powerful hardware; comfortable keyboard; good connectivity. Negative: High price; overheats while using.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 01/05/2023

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i5-1240P

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i5-1240PNotebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i5-1240P
Processor: Intel Alder Lake-P i5-1240P
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA T550 Laptop GPU 4096 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 1.68kg
Price: 2000 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Reviews

[REVIEW] Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1 - Definitely NOT a workstation
Source: Laptop Media English
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/09/2023
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1 review – this is NOT a workstation
Source: Laptop Media English
Perhaps this was one of the most non-recommendable laptops we’ve tested. One of the main reasons for this is the performance. It is outperformed by the 14-inch version in some cases, the battery life was not stellar, and it gets pretty loud. You guess what? It is expensive too! Unfortunately, its memory doesn’t support ECC, which is a bummer. Ultimately, this is not a workstation, no matter how hard Lenovo tries to brand it as such. In our opinion, it is a business notebook. In fact, it does pretty well as such. The feature selection is not bad, with an IR face recognition scanner, and a fingerprint reader on the block. Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 1’s IPS panel has a WUXGA resolution, comfortable viewing angles, and a good contrast ratio. It doesn’t use PWM for brightness adjustment, but unfortunately, the color coverage is quite low – 51% of sRGB. We also have to mention how portable this device is. Perhaps this is the greatest internal battle – portability versus performance. In this case, portability has one without giving the latter a chance. After all the laptop weighs less than 2.00 kilos, and has a profile of about 20mm. As we said, it would have been a good business machine. However, it is quite expensive, which makes some other products better overall offers. The Dell Latitude 15 5531 is one such example.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/07/2023

 

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 21K9000CGE

Specifications

Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 21K9000CGENotebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 21K9000CGE
Processor: AMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040) R7 PRO 7840U
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon 780M
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 3840 x 2400 pixels
Weight: 1.841kg
Price: 2150 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Reviews

88.6% Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 AMD review: Power plus OLED inside this workstation laptop | Notebookcheck
Powerful with a gleaming OLED display and an acceptable iGPU. Adding to this is a whole variety of extras, creating a workstation that's true to its name. The ThinkPad workstation's features continue with a robust case, stable keyboard, security functions and remote maintenance. However, the device can't escape all criticism.

 

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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 T550 Laptop GPU: Entry level dedicated graphics card for professional laptops based on the consumer GeForce MX550 with 1024 shaders and a 64 bit memory bus. Therefore it uses the Turing architecture without raytracing and Tensor cores. Sometimes also called Quadro T550.

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

AMD Radeon 780M: Integrated graphics card in the Ryzen 7040 mobile series APUs based on the RDNA3 architecture with 12 CUs (= 768 shaders) and a clock speed of up to 3 GHz.

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


Intel Alder Lake-P:

i7-1280P: The flagship Alder Lake-P CPU featuring 6 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. This i7 is designed for use in ultra-light laptops; its performance cores feature the thread-doubling Hyper-Threading technology for whopping 20 threads in total. The CPU runs at 1.3 GHz to 4.8 GHz and has an "Enterprise" tier vPro feature set. Core i7-1280P has a Base Power of 28 W and the 96 EU Iris Xe iGPU.

i5-1240P: A mid-range 28 W Alder Lake family CPU featuring 4 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. This SoC is designed for use in ultra-light (yet actively cooled) laptops. The i5's performance cores are Hyper-Threading-enabled for a total of 16 threads. Core i5-1240P runs at 1.2 GHz to 4.4 GHz; it has a built-in 80 EU Iris Xe GPU and supports "Essentials" tier vPro features.

AMD Phoenix (Zen 4, Ryzen 7040):

R7 PRO 7840U: High-End mobile 8-core processor based on the Zen 4 architecture. The CPU cores clock at up to 5.1 GHz and execute 16 threads simultaneously. Integrates an XDNA Ai-Engine. The TDP is configurable between 35 and 54 Watt. Compared to the consumer Ryzen 7 7840U, the PRO models offer additional security, manageability, and reliability features designed for professional users and workstation environments.

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


16.00:

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.


No weight comment found (one expected)!


88.6%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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Current Prices
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i5-1240P
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G1, i7-1280P
Stefan Hinum, 2023-05- 7 (Update: 2023-05- 7)