Most powerful AMD 14-inch ThinkPad with Ryzen AI 9 HX: Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 AMD laptop review

[Benjamin Herzig]

As stated in the review, the CPU Power Limit 1 for sustained performance for the P14s Gen 6 AMD is 36 W. 29 W is just the CPU consumption when the iGPU is stressed as well.

[Graon]

As stated in the review, the CPU Power Limit 1 for sustained performance for the P14s Gen 6 AMD is 36 W. 29 W is just the CPU consumption when the iGPU is stressed as well.

I know that but I said the consumption could be easier 36W (thanks to UXTU) with both CPU and GPU load. I managed to deal with 30W on my T14s Gen 6 instead of the (default) 22W limit while using both CPu and GPU intensively. I can prove it easily. The only thing is to "break" the too low pre-programmed STAPM limit by Lenovo. I dit it.

[Most milked brand]

Today's Thinkpads are complete garbage, simple as. Overpriced brand reputation milking mediocre garbage.
Just buy an IdeaPad or Yoga, much better value and similar if not better package or forgo Lenovo entirely.

[moe69230]

Today's Thinkpads are complete garbage, simple as. Overpriced brand reputation milking mediocre garbage.
Just buy an IdeaPad or Yoga, much better value and similar if not better package or forgo Lenovo entirely.

If you don't need to carry your laptop around often, it can do the job.

However, if it's for business use, with transport every morning and evening or even several times a day (for professional meetings for instance), your IdeaPad or Yoga won't last long even with sleeve case + a backpack.

I experienced this when we equipped our team with Yogas for business use at the beginning.
Between motherboards that stopped working, broken hinges, and even screens in some cases, the Yoga and Ideapad series are simply not designed for the same purpose as the ThinkPad line is.
They are just not as robust, as durable (for instance memory not upgradeable), lack of a Kensington lock slot, and don't offer as many connectivity options (ethernet).

In conclusion, you can not compare these different lines of products.
I started to replace failing Yogas by Thinkpads.

About prices, if you do not need the brand new version, there are often discounts.
For instance on P14s AMD gen 5 since November which not more expensive than a Yoga with a 3 years warranty included.

[Most milked brand]

However, if it's for business use, with transport every morning and evening or even several times a day (for professional meetings for instance), your IdeaPad or Yoga won't last long even with sleeve case + a backpack.

Completely false. I have an IdeaPad 5 Pro, use it every day, mobile, I bike to work, travel internationally, even dropped it, zero issues and the build is better than plastic ThinkPads since it's aluminum.
On my ThinkPad the plastic frame cracked, TouchPad failed and screen almost came off.. it's cheap plastic after all.

They are just not as robust, as durable (for instance memory not upgradeable), lack of a Kensington lock slot, and don't offer as many connectivity options (ethernet).

Memory has nothing to do with durability and even cheap IdeaPads / Yogas can be had with 32GB, why would you need more?
Who uses Kensington anymore or ethernet anymore in the office? Nobody but everyone has docking stations or KVM that supports this or simply buy USB-C ethernet if you really occasionally require it.


You simply fell for brand marketing.

[moe69230]

However, if it's for business use, with transport every morning and evening or even several times a day (for professional meetings for instance), your IdeaPad or Yoga won't last long even with sleeve case + a backpack.

Completely false. I have an IdeaPad 5 Pro, use it every day, mobile, I bike to work, travel internationally, even dropped it, zero issues and the build is better than plastic ThinkPads since it's aluminum.
On my ThinkPad the plastic frame cracked, TouchPad failed and screen almost came off.. it's cheap plastic after all.

They are just not as robust, as durable (for instance memory not upgradeable), lack of a Kensington lock slot, and don't offer as many connectivity options (ethernet).

Memory has nothing to do with durability and even cheap IdeaPads / Yogas can be had with 32GB, why would you need more?
Who uses Kensington anymore or ethernet anymore in the office? Nobody but everyone has docking stations or KVM that supports this or simply buy USB-C ethernet if you really occasionally require it.


You simply fell for brand marketing.

For the problems we got, it was really more from expérience than marketing as I explained (based on more than two dozen of laptops).

If your are happy with your IdeaPad 5 pro, I am happy for you. Enjoy it.
On my side, I am happy to equip my team with discounted P14s with 3 years warranty + damage protection included for not more than an IdeaPad 5 pro with my business account.

Your are mentionning problems on one Thinkpad.
Which serie of Thinkpads was it? T/P/L ?

[Most milked brand]

Which serie of Thinkpads was it? T/P/L ?

T Series and it's not only me it's colleagues as well. ThinkPads are not what they once were.

[Dodfr]

Hello,

I am wondering why they use 5600 memory instead 7500 ? they are killing the iGPU performances

[Gabrielle]

why they use 5600 memory instead 7500 ?

I've seen 6400, but which brand uses 7500? i'm just curious. They probably use 5600 for being a "business" laptop i imagine..

[Dodfr]

why they use 5600 memory instead 7500 ?

I've seen 6400, but which brand uses 7500? i'm just curious. They probably use 5600 for being a "business" laptop i imagine..

ThinkPad X13 use 8533
IdeaPad Pro 5 use 8000
Yoga 7 use 7500

For strangely when they put an Intel inside they use

[Dodfr]

For strangely when they put an Intel inside they use

Forget this text I started something and posted without deleting it.

But After asking my friend google it looks like the difference is because of soldered versus socket eletrical effect, looks like SODIMM have some kind of inductance or some other electrical behavior that do not allow much higher bandwith, I also see there are a few thinkpad models (Intel) that can go up to 6400 using CSODIMM instead of SODIMM (never heard of "C"SODIMM), but higher than that they are all soldered.