Lenovo releases new 14-inch laptop with Intel Panther Lake, 1,100 nit OLED display and massive battery
A few months have now passed since Lenovo unveiled its latest IdeaPad Pro 5i. Presented in January during CES 2026, the Gen 11 generation swaps Intel's Arrow Lake platform for Panther Lake successors. Incidentally, Lenovo has since released equivalent IdeaPad Pro 5a Gen 11 laptops featuring AMD's Gorgon Point platform.
During CES 2026, Lenovo claimed that the IdeaPad Pro 5i Gen 11 would be configurable with up to the Core Ultra X9 388H and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 laptop GPU. Also, it stated that the range would include 14-inch and 16-inch variants. Unfortunately, none of that is true with Lenovo's initial IdeaPad Pro 5i offering.
Instead, only a 14-inch variant has made its way to the likes of Australia, the Eurozone and the United Kingdom for the time being. Not only that, but Lenovo equips the IdeaPad Pro 5i with a Core Ultra 7 356H processor. While this processor contains the same 4 P-cores, 8 E-cores and 4 LP E-Cores as the Core Ultra X9 388H, these are clocked significantly lower and are limited to Intel's relatively weak 4-core Xe3 iGPU rather than its Arc B390 equivalent.
The IdeaPad Pro 5i only comes with 32 GB LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, 1 TB of M.2 2242 storage and a 92.5 Wh battery, too. Likewise, Lenovo includes a 2.8K OLED non-touch display as the laptop's only display option, which also delivers a 120 Hz refresh rate with 500 nits SDR brightness similar to the panel found in last year's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition that impressed us during our review (curr. $1,849 on Amazon). Lenovo has priced this configuration at AUD 2,829, €1,699 and £1,500 (~$1,666) with deliveries set for March 31.
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