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.
CPU-Z says it does support PCI 5.0. See the screenshot.
Perhaps the dedicated GPU uses half of the PCI lanes
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 !!
It should be highlighted that the P14s Gen 6 (Intel) only has a PCIe Gen 4 slot, as evident in performance testing of the PCie Gen 5 drive, that fails to impress.
Inaccurate dissapointing review of the storage aspect, also when inaccuracies are pointed out in the comments the review should be updated with the new finding.
And the reviewer should have tried to populate the free 2242 slot with a NVMe drive to confirm that it either works or is blacklisted.
I cannot help but wish that Lenovo offered WWAN on the Intel/nVidia variant of this machine. Save for the keyboard repairability situation, I prefer everything about the P14Si/T14p-CN to the P14Sa/T14 system, and really would've loved to have something a little more powerful than an 890M (and to be free of the Mediatek-on-Linux WiFi disaster). But I'm typing this from a P14S Gen 6 AMD because I cannot live without WWAN... Lenovo always finds some way to get close to perfecting a product but stopping just short.
Here's to hoping that the Gen 7 for both of these machines bring a unified chassis, LPCAMM2, and a move to Gorgon Halo for the AMD system. Strix Halo has been incredibly impressive, and seeing a Thinkpad with the successor would probably convince me to upgrade outside of my usual 3-year cycle.
Couldn't you just use your phone as a personal hotspot? That way you can use your phones 5G SIM to share it's connection with your laptop? To me that would look like the simplest option.
Quote from: RTR on March 08, 2026, 13:16:25Couldn't you just use your phone as a personal hotspot? That way you can use your phones 5G SIM to share it's connection with your laptop? To me that would look like the simplest option.
There's a few reasons I either can't or prefer not to:
1) Not being tethered to my phone means I'm not reliant on it - I can just open my laptop and be online
2) The cell radios and antennas in a PCIE WWAN card and laptop tend to perform considerably better, I've noticed this especially with 5G
3) Running a hotspot on a phone is a great way to drain battery
4) Some carriers do limit hotspot data (I cannot recall if mine does)
Beyond that... I'm unfortunately returning the P14S. I spent a good deal of time trying to chase down issues with both the WLAN and WWAN under Linux. All I can say is that I'm not impressed with Mediatek's awful drivers - random slowdowns specifically on Aruba WiFi 6 APs. The Quectel card was even worse, worked just fine under Windows when I had been evaluating the machine out of the box, but on RHEL 10.1, completely nonfunctional. The card is detected by the OS, but even with a properly manually configured APN, it just won't connect. I'm thoroughly unimpressed with the AMD auxiliary devices experience.