It is not marketed as a gaming laptop.
ThinkBooks are designed for professionals and small businesses.

I got one for its powerful CPU, its professional look (not quite a ThinkPad, but there's no RGB lighting or Legion branding), and its solid build quality.

Regarding memory, I'm fairly sure that 96 GB should work, but I'm not certain about 128 GB. Since prices are currently very high, the issue is more or less irrelevant for now. We just have to "survive" until prices go down.

As for the screen, for all-day work I clearly prefer an IPS display.
I admit OLED screens offer better colors and contrast, but they aren't really necessary for work unless you use this device to watch videos (so not a professional use case).

Quotevery good IPS display with 240 Hz

Good when it come to the Display P3 Coverage, but with pixel response times of 13.2 ms and 5.8 ms, this really is only a 1/0.0132 = 75 Hz and 1/0.0058 = 172 Hz display.
An OLED screen would be a true 240 Hz display, but there are also 4-5 ms fast IPS ones. If in doubt, just get OLED for gaming as OLED has 0.7-2 ms response times, OLED also has no / requires no overdrive settings.

Since this seems to be a gaming laptop:
1939 Euro for only 8 GB VRAM (and only 32 GB RAM?)? Big AAA games are developed for consoles in mind first, and the current PS5 has 16 GB VRAM. Minus 4 GB for its OS, leaves 12 GB VRAM. This is why many new games have problems with 8 GB VRAM, increasingly even in 1080p. See:
Jun 25, 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=dx4En-2PzOU: "How Much VRAM Do Gamers Need? 8GB, 12GB, 16GB or MORE?"
Apr 9, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=e4GCxObZrZE: "This is what happens when you run out of VRAM... Say NO to 8GB GPUs!"
Aug 22, 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA: "Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ ‪@Hardwareunboxed‬"
This will only get worse.
3 GB per GDDR7 chip, instead of the current 2 GB per chip) exist and are being used in the 5090 Laptops (the same chip is also used in a 5080 desktop, which has 16 GB VRAM), so 12 GB VRAM are possible without changing anything, except using higher density GDDR7 chips (8 GB * 1.5 = 12 GB). I get that it's a balance, but unfortunately the vids show that the balance moves more and more towards the need for at least 12 GB VRAM.

At least the RAM is upgradable up to 64 GB. Since this is not a workstation, up to 64 GB RAM is fine. For workstations and running (MoE) LLMs locally/privately being a thing now, support for at least up to 96 GB RAM, better at least up to 128 GB RAM is kinda required, or offer Laptopname+"AI" variants for LLM users with support for at least 128 GB RAM.

Hopefully the CAMM2 / LPCAMM2 RAM standard comes soon, as it would allow for higher MT/s and still having upgradable RAM. An AI / LLMs run locally would get a tokens per second speed increase by 50% (from 5600 MT/s to, say, 8533 MT/s).

PS: And yes, I saw

QuoteHow the 8 GB VRAM of the 5060 performs in modern games, we have described in a separate article in detail.

but the vids posted above are still a fact. And articles, like: videocardz.com/newz/pcgh-demonstrates-why-8gb-gpus-are-simply-not-good-enough-for-2025 and many, many, more findings by different people.

Thank you for the review.

I'm surprised that you were able to get this laptop with the dedicated NPU, as this component is no longer available and Lenovo has removed it from all configurations on its website, including both the 255HX and 275HX models.

I ordered this laptop at the beginning of November (275HX / 3200p), but I had to reorder it without the dNPU in order to receive it in mid-December. With the dNPU, I would have had to wait until the end of February, with no guarantee of actually receiving it, as the order could have been canceled by then.

In the review, I don't see any mention of the advantages of the dNPU compared to the dGPU (32 TOPS vs. 572 TOPS) or the CPU/iGPU (33 TOPS for the 255HX and 36 TOPS for the 275HX).