Lenovo 16-inch ThinkPad claims desktop performance with a 55W Intel processor. 

Lenovo boosts productivity by shrinking the screen size of the ThinkPad P-series workstation. Announced Tuesday, the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 is designed for professionals in need of high-performance mobile devices, with the newly announced 12th generation Intel HX-series mobile processors and taller display.

Desktop level details

This is the first Lenovo product to use the Intel HX series of mobile processors. Announced earlier in May, the chips promise desktop-like performance with a TDP of 55W. We expect the chips to run faster and longer with more power consumption and heat than the next most powerful series in the 12th generation mobile lineup, Intel’s H-series chips with a TDP of 45W.

The P16 will feature an HX-series i9 processor with eight Performance cores that can be overclocked up to 5GHz and eight Efficiency cores that can be overclocked up to 3.6GHz.

For GPU-intensive workloads, the laptop includes an Nvidia RTX A5500 GPU with 16GB of VRAM and a TDP of 115W.

You can also stack the RAM and system storage. It will ship with up to 128GB of DDR5-4800 ECC or non-ECC memory in four DIMM slots and 8TB of NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD in two M.2 slots, along with a 94Wh battery.

You can also stack the RAM and system storage. It will ship with up to 128GB of DDR5-4800 ECC or non-ECC memory in four DIMM slots and 8TB of NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD in two M.2 slots, along with a 94Wh battery.

New screen size

The P16’s 16-inch display brings a new form to the ThinkPad P series, which was dominated by 15- and 17-inch variants. Although it is smaller diagonally than the P17’s 17.3-inch screen, the P16’s 16:10 display is the same height. The P16 screen is the same width as the 15.6″P15 screen. So Lenovo hopes to find a happy medium here.

This new display features a 3840×2400 resolution OLED touchscreen option that claims 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. The OLED screen is limited to a claimed 400 nits, but if you’re planning on using the flip phone in a brightly lit room or outdoors, you might want to consider an IPS option that can supposedly go up to 600 nits.

Updated cooling

The P16 with a 16-inch display measures 14.3 x 10.5 x 1.2 inches and starts at 6.5 pounds. This makes it slightly thicker but lighter than the P17 (16.3×11×0.9″, starting at 8.09 pounds) despite being more powerful.

To pack all that processing power into a lighter design, Lenovo has upgraded the cooling system for the P Series laptops.

There are dedicated evaporators for the CPU and GPU, and the heatpipes running along the south edge of the laptop are larger than before and are complemented by a thermal cover that extends to the GPU if you opt for the A5500.

In addition, the laptop’s two fans are each 0.39 inches (10 mm) larger than the fans in the P15 and P17.

The air intake from the keyboard and bottom of the laptop is also supposed to allow more heat to escape through the vents on the spine.

The ThinkPad P16 will ship with Windows 11 Pro and Home, Windows 10 Pro, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Linux. It will cost $1,979 when it comes out “later this month,”according to Lenovo.