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  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Strange to include both a sealed battery and a secondary replaceable one in the ThinkPad P52s. Why not just use a single, larger battery that's removable?
  • enoch861 - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    They do that to enable battery hot swapping.
  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    I guess that makes sense. It seems like a mistake to seal it inside the system though. Once it wears out its just dead and useless weight. :(
  • notashill - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    It's not "sealed" in the sense of being entirely non-replaceable, it's just a 10 minute job instead of a 10 second job. They've had this kind of setup for years and there are instructions for replacing the internal battery i.e. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd02794... for the T440s.
  • IGTrading - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    When it comes to thin laptops, it makes no sense to invest in anything lower than AMD Ryzen Mobile.

    Sure, for the moment it is not available, but we sure hope that Lenovo will launch powerful ThinkPad models powered by AMD.

    The nVIDIA Quadro is tempting and may be interesting for some, but AMD's own FirePro Graphics is also a very good solution while the integrated GPU has double the performance of whatever Intel can bring.

    We have clients asking about 17" AMD Ryzen Mobile solutions and frankly, they don't exist yet.

    As for the desktop workstation, paying extra for the Intel's NVME, extra for the higher power consumption, getting less RAM capacity, less PCIe links and an almost guaranteed lack of upgrade-ability doesn't really make any sense in front of AMD's EPYC or ever AMD Threadripper.

    A 1S EPYC with the posibility of a 64 core upgrade in 2018 is what we all want for such a workstation.

    The expensive 18core Intel Lenovo with less I/O less RAM and pay extra 300 USD for NVME RAID is clearly the worse option.

    So keep going Lenovo, until you get to AMD Ryzen Mobile and AMD EPYC :)
  • tipoo - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Internal one is so you can swap out the swappable one without powering down.
  • CheerfulMike - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Glad to see they redesigned the side panel latch on the 520's. The 510's were notorious for breaking.
  • weilin - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Hmm, does the P52 have a USB-C port that also supports Thunderbolt 3? If so, those two items should probably be rephrased (and on the same line). Lastly, does that USB-C port support Power Delivery?
  • HStewart - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    I almost thought this was huge news if Lenovo could some how squeeze and 18 Core Xeon-W into laptop with decent power for laptop.

    One think about Lenovo, except for Thinkpad series - I not sure about reliability - I have Think Pad W530 for work and it is extremely reliable. But I also have Y50 gaming notebook and it not very good - only computer I find personally worst is HP - But Dell XPS's are awesome like my 2in1
  • sharath.naik - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Reliable is a iffy statement. I got their thinkpad p50 the screen LCD (not the glass) cracked due to just opening closing the laptop. Then found out that this is common for thinkpad P50 4k screens, from the number of posts with the same complain. I never had a laptop screen break like this.
  • Hrel - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    I'm sure the holiday laptop buyers guide is coming up soon. If you haven't already included it, this Lenovo is the best bang/buck I've found anywhere on the internet. https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/leno...

    Noteworthy is 1080p screen (anything beyond that in less than 140" is pure ego, your eye literally cannot tell the difference), GTX1060 GPU, Thunderbolt, PCI-E SSD all for about 1k? Yeah, nothing else I've found comes anywhere close to that good. Just to get a comparable laptop from Asus, or MSI or Gigabyte you'd need to spend 1400, probably 1500. Razer is just straight out of the bang/buck conversation.
  • lilmoe - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Would someone please help Lenovo source 16:10 tft screens ffs!?
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    Doesn't the largest battery size (32 + 72 = 104Wh) end up slightly over the maximum size allowed when flying (100Wh).

    I suspect any owners are probably safe because the TSA are too stupid to catch something like this; but I can just imagine the scene when they stop someone and tell them they have to throw away their laptop battery if they want to fly today.
  • adityarjun - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    I want to know about this too!
  • davegraham - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    FYI, huge difference between the P51 and P51S. you seem to float between the two models indiscriminately and that's doing a disservice. the "S" stands for Slim. the standard P51 model has 4 SO-DIMM slots and can support up to 64Gb of ECC memory coupled to Xeon Mobile processors and 2 x PCIe M.2 slots + room for a 2.5" SSD as well.
  • Joe Shields - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Thank you... it has been updated to be more discriminate.
  • adityarjun - Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - link

    "Mass storage options include a single 5400 RPM HDD up to 2TB and up to a 1TB NVMe SSD." And or Or? Can I have both an SSD and an HDD?
  • Hurr Durr - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Not likely. It's an ultrabook.
  • Joe Shields - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Thank you... great catch! It is a single drive space.
  • Hurr Durr - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    I'd like to know what kind of software Bentley certifies.
  • zipcube - Friday, November 17, 2017 - link

    Bentley is a software company that makes construction/engineering design software; they are probably best known for Microstation which is for large scale civil engineering.
  • b1gtuna - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Is this their 1st laptop offering with 8th gen Intel processors? I have been holding out for a while to get those extra cores, but this P series is... a little too professional for me ($$).
  • Ruimanalmeida - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    They have already put on the market Yoga 920, with 8th gen Intel processor.
  • tipoo - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    The Thinkstation was used as the comparison point to the iMac Pro, this update dates that even before it launches this December. 2x NVIDIA Quadro P6000, hot damn.
  • CheapSushi - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    I'm going to slap the next time someone says "no one gives a crap about what the inside looks like, especially companies". Clearly, they do. That's a nice black PCB motherboard and nicely laid out interior.
  • Rocket321 - Friday, November 17, 2017 - link

    Description says slim ODD but pics are of full size drives?

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