Lenovo unveiles ThinkPad P50, and P70 workstations laptops, and they surely aren’t your run of the mill mobile machines. Lenovo combines Skylake, Intel’s A-class Xeon processors, for the first time in their history, with 64 GB of RAM, 1 TB of SDD storage, and not one, but two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Lenovo notes that their ThinkPad P50, and P70 workstations are the only mobile machines that come with this much RAM.
A first for Intel is the fact that they are incorporating their Xeon processors into a mobile machine. Skylake, which uses the exact same 14 nm processes as its older sibling, the Broadwell product-line, features a much improved architecture, Intel notes.
The ThinkPad P50, and P70 are, simply put, behemoths of the industry, and they come as a refreshing statement that users don’t always look for the slimmest, or the most lightweight laptop. Not everyone wants to chomp on performance, just so the laptop can easily fit in that LV bag.
The 15.6-inch ThinkPad P50 weighs 5.6 pounds, and the 17-inch ThinkPad P70 stands at 7.6 pounds. Both of them clearly outweigh the 2 pound 12-inch MacBook.
They are meatier, they are driven by the fact that users require performance, not shallow machines to showcase in a Starbucks on the weekends. These ThinkPads are aimed to achieve a hardcore productivity status.
The ThinkPad P50 will retail at $1,599, while the ThinkPad P70 will be sold at $1,999. Buyers will have the option of choosing their preferred OS from a list comprised of Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Ubuntu. Customers will also have the option of implementing a touch display, or a 4K display – at additional cost, of course.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad-product line will be available for purchase in Q4 of this year. The ThinkPad P70 will be equipped with a forgotten feature for most desktop users – it will come packed with a DVD-RW drive.
