128GB RAM, 4TB SSD, 4K display: Lenovo ThinkPad P16 with RTX Pro 4000 gets 26% discount

[Redaktion]

Lenovo has discounted another configuration of the powerful ThinkPad P16 Gen 3, which means that the 16-inch workstation laptop can now be ordered for almost $2,000 less relative to the official list price of the RTX Pro 4000-equipped model.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/128GB-RAM-4TB-SSD-4K-display-Lenovo-ThinkPad-P16-with-RTX-Pro-4000-gets-26-discount.1328783.0.html

[M2026]

I'm going to buy a laptop:
2016 = I'll spend 1/2 to my entire paycheck on it
2026 = I'll take out a mortgage on it

[hmm]

You may be partially right, to be fair, this laptop isn't exactly an average one + the RAMageddon. That being said, its 128 GB RAM don't offset running a 27B dense LLM model vs a 122-10A MoE LLM model:

[..] And now the major Strix Halo limitation: Only up to 128 GB RAM/unified memory. This does not offset the switch from a dense LLM to a MoE LLM: Qwen3.5-27B (27 GB at q8 quant) performs slightly better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (122 GB at q8 quant). The 122B runs 27B/10B = 2.7 times faster, fine, but it performs slightly worse than the 27B dense AND the RAM prices have since increased by like 4 times. So, Strix Halo's 128 GB RAM, at 256 GB/s, are neither here, not there. What is really needed is at least a 192 GB Strix Halo, then it could run a quant of the better than 27B dense performing MoE models (at least according to AA), like DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiMo-V2.5 and Minimax-M2.7 and a 256 GB RAM (yes, RAM prices..) config would fit Minimax-M3 and probably some others that are not in this: [..]