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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways:
- Lenovo announced a fistful of caller additions to its halfway enactment of ThinkPad laptops contiguous astatine IFA successful Berlin.
- The caller devices announced are the ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, ThinkPad P16v Gen 3, and ThinkPad X9 successful a caller Glacier White colorway.
- The ThinkPad X9 made waves earlier this year, breaking with the lineup's aesthetics for a slick signifier origin and caller "engine hub" plan concept.
The X9 successful white
When the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition debuted astatine CES successful aboriginal 2025, it instantly caught my attraction for its stark departure from the ThinkPad plan ethos. No TrackPoint, nary black, utilitarian design, and nary left/right trackpad buttons. Was this adjacent a ThinkPad?
Well, yes, but it's thing wholly new, arsenic well. The X9 is simply a highly functional laptop successful its ain right, with an ultraportable form, decent artillery life, and sleek aesthetic with its ribbed bottommost sheet and motor hub. In fact, it was our prime for champion Windows laptop of 2025 for its operation of show comparative to value, and bold design.
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So what's caller with the X9? It's white. The matte "Glacial White" colorway adds a sleek, future-forward aesthetic to a laptop that was already unafraid of breaking from the mold. It comes successful a 14- and 15-inch signifier origin and includes the aforesaid hardware arsenic the archetypal configuration: an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor.
Notably, however, the achromatic X9 has bumped up section retention to a 1TB SSD successful some the 14- and 15-inch configuration, my biggest criticism of the archetypal metallic exemplary erstwhile I reviewed it, which came successful a 256GB oregon 512GB version.
Additionally, the full "Aura Edition" diagnostic acceptable generated immoderate buzz past twelvemonth astatine IFA for its physical tap-to-share feature, but Lenovo has since decided to modulation distant from that diagnostic toward its ain record sharing app called Lenovo Connect.
Core ThinkPad upgrades
Alongside the ThinkPad X9, Lenovo besides showed disconnected a fewer mobile workstations, with 2 laptops successful peculiar arsenic the astir impactful models. The eighth-generation ThinkPad P1 runs a Series 2 Intel Core Ultra processor and, astir notably, an Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell graphics card.
If you're not familiar, the PRO 2000 Blackwell paper is portion of a new bid of Nvidia GPUs that specialize successful nonrecreational workloads. Think 3D rendering, generative AI, contented creation, and CAD (computer-aided design) drawings. It is said to importantly outperform older RTX 2000 Ada graphics cards.
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The erstwhile procreation ThinkPad P1 runs connected specified a GPU, truthful I expect the show betwixt the older exemplary and this upcoming laptop to beryllium significant.
In presumption of design, the P1 is simply a quintessential ThinkPad (unlike its aforementioned glacial cousin) with the ample way pad, reddish TrackPoint successful the mediate of the keyboard, durable build, and robust larboard selection. It volition beryllium disposable aboriginal this month, starting astatine $2,819.
Lenovo besides announced the third-generation ThinkPad P16v astatine IFA, sharing galore similarities with the ThinkPad P1, but successful a much important 16-inch form. It besides has a Blackwell GPU, but boasts a 16-inch 4K OLED touchscreen and the imaginable to person up to 96GB of RAM. Lenovo cites it arsenic a almighty instrumentality for engineers, designers, oregon animators who privation a instrumentality with earthy powerfulness but are value-oriented.
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In that sense, the P16v's starting terms of $2,249 situates it arsenic an highly almighty laptop for the price, but a much utilitarian frame. It's besides an inch heavy and weighs 4.6 pounds -- bulkier than adjacent Lenovo's caller Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop. I went hands-on with the instrumentality earlier this period and it's decidedly 1 of the chunkiest laptops I've handled successful a while.
Finally, we bash interest astir artillery life. Lenovo's 2 laptops person a 90Whr battery, which is great, but the Blackwell GPUs whitethorn request a ton of energy. Both the caller ThinkPad P1 and P16v volition beryllium released aboriginal this month.
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