Own the gen 5 and love it. Glad to see screen brightness increased to 500nits. And I agree, wish there was a second ssd and easily replaceable keyboard like the T series.
QuotePerformance is up, but efficiency is too, which means the laptops runs cooler, quieter and the battery lasts longer.
No, for the GPU part: The power efficiency of Blackwell GPUs has not increased (same node, same architecture (just with DLSS4 on top)).
QuoteNvidia RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop - 6 GB VRAM
2760 bucks for only 6 GB VRAM, WTH? I see this garbage for the first time. I first thought it was a typo and you meant RTX PRO 5000 with 16 GB VRAM or something. Even for gaming 8 GB VRAM are becoming obsolete: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA ("Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ ‪@Hardwareunboxed‬").
Worse performance (In Kraken and WebXPRT) than my $600 Cheapo Acer 155H from 2+ years ago. "Progress"
That is not what I call a fast drive : the write speed is very low.
And why does LENOVO sells Gen5 Performance disks with GEN 4 motherboard ?! Even on the P1 gen 8 model !!
Quote from: Pascal76 on December 01, 2025, 20:23:16That is not what I call a fast drive : the write speed is very low.
And why does LENOVO sells Gen5 Performance disks with GEN 4 motherboard ?! Even on the P1 gen 8 model !!
Yeah, I really do not understand it. I have this laptop. It actually did not come with a gen5 drive. It has a 2tb samsung 990pro in it vs the samsung pm9e1 gen 5. So for me its just plain ole false advertising. But, my drive does perform better(7200/4500) vs the gen5 they tested in this review.