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- Lenovo today announced a handful of new additions for its main line of the thinkpad laptop If one in Berlin.
- The new devices declared have Thinkpad P1 General 8, Thinkpad P16 V Gaan 3, and Thinkpad X9 in a new glacier white colorway.
- Thinkpad X9 created waves earlier this year, broke with the aesthetics of the lineup for a sleek form factor and the new “engine hub” design concept.
When the Thinkpad X9 Aura Edition started in CES in early 2025, it immediately attracted my attention to the thinkpad design ethos to its Stark departure. No trackpoint, no black, utilitarian design and no left/right trackpad button. Was it a thinkpad too?
Well, yes, but it is completely new, as well as. The X9 is a highly functional laptop in itself, with an ultraPortable form, decent battery life, and a greasy beauty with your ribbed bottom plate and engine hub. In fact, it was our pick for the best Windows laptop of 2025 for combining the value, and relative performance of bold design.
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So what’s new with X9? Its whiteMatt “Glassial White” color Marg connects a smooth, future aesthetics to a laptop that was already oblivious to breaking of mold. It comes in the 14- and 15-inch form factor and includes the same hardware similar to the original configuration: an Intel Core Ultra 7 258 V processor.
In particular, however, White X9 has competed for local storage for 1TB SSD in both 14– and 15-inch configurations, when I reviewed it, my greatest criticism of the original silver model, which came in the 256GB or 512GB version.
Additionally, the entire “Aura Edition” feature set had some discussion for its physical tap-to-share feature in IFA last year, but Lenovo has since decided to infection his own file-sharing app away from that feature called Lenovo Connect.
Core Thinkpad Upgrade
With Thinkpad X9, Lenovo also showed some mobile workstations, especially as the most impressive model with two laptops. The eighth generation Thinkpad P1 runs a series 2 Intel Core Ultra Processor and mostly, an NVidia RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell graphics cards run.
If you are not familiar, Pro 2000 Blackwell Card is part of one New series of Nvidia GPU It is a specialist in professional charge. Think about 3D rendering, generative AI, content creation and CAD (computer aided design) drawing. It is said that old RTX 2000 ADA graphics cards have been improved much better.
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The previous generation Thinkpad P1 runs on such a GPU, so I hope to perform the performance between the older model and this upcoming laptop.
In terms of design, the P1 is a quintament thinkpad (unlike its above glacier cousin), with large track pads, red trackpoints in the middle of the keyboard, red trackpoints, durable builds and strong port selections. This will be available at the end of this month, which will start at $ 2,819.
Lenovo also announced the third generation Thinkpad P16V in IFA, shared several similarities with Thinkpad P1, but more sufficiently as 16 inches. It also has a blackwell GPU, but is expected to up to 16 -inch 4K OLED touchscreen and up to 96GB of RAM. Lenovo quotes it as a powerful tool for engineers, designers, or animators that want a device with raw power, but valuables are-oriented.
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In that sense, the initial price of $ 2,249 of the P16V located it as an extremely powerful laptop for the price, but a more utility frame. It is also an inch thick and weighs 4.6 pounds – Lenovo’s new legend Pro 7 Bulkier compared to the laptop. I went to hand-hand with the device earlier this month and it is definitely one of the most chinst laptops I have handled in a while.
Finally, we worry about battery life. Lenovo’s two laptops have a 90Whr battery, which is very good, but Blackwell GPU can demand a ton of energy. Both new thechpad P1 and P16V will be released later this month.
