Lenovo ThinkPad P1 16 Gen 8 review: Tandem OLED series premiere

[pelican-freeze]

well, I powered up my P1 Gen 8 .. 265H/OLED/64GB RAM/2TB NVMe .. looks like that 5.5 hrs of battery life might be accurate at least on the "Balanced" profile for mixed-use. Haven't tried the one power setting below that "battery efficient". Not sure if the article mentioned which profile they used.

OLED is beautiful, but found latent image retention in darker environments where the brightness is at 25%. "After images" show up on dark grey and remain for minutes after. Possibly a defective panel.

Machine runs extremely cool and quiet. Lenovo has bee aggressive with power limits on the CPU. The one comment on YT with the guy who bough the non-dGPU one which doesn't use LM -- clearly getting a dGPU is the way to go if you want cool and quiet. Will the fans ramp up if you do something intense for extended periods, yes it will, but way better than my P1 Gen 2.

Any more thoughts? Are you happy enough with the P1 Gen 8 to keep it?

[Fortis]

Lenovo made a cardinal sin by putting clickpad without buttons on a ThinkPad. What's the point of doing so if you have already a ThinkBook P version?

[veraverav]

Any more thoughts? Are you happy enough with the P1 Gen 8 to keep it?

I'm asking them to replace it with the 4k IPS version, which they refuse, even though its cheaper. They only want to replace it with an identical machine with the OLED screen. I'm not sure what to do. I love the machine aside from this OLED issue. Am I rolling the dice asking for a replacement?

I ran PCMark10 office battery life test which got 10hrs of battery life.

I'm trying to escalate my issue to see if someone can send me the 4k IPS instead. So far no luck.

I got the TB5 7500 Smart Dock and it works very well with the machine as well.