Hands on with the only Intel Core Ultra X7 laptops with upgradable RAM: Lenovo's singular new ThinkPad T14 G7 and T16 G5

[Redaktion]

Lenovo's ThinkPad T series is known to be the dependable workhorse series, but with the new T14 G7 and T16 G5, Lenovo takes a bold swing: Thanks to LPCAMM2 memory, the T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 are the only laptops thus far that combine the powerful Panther Lake X7 CPUs with Intel ARC B300 graphics and upgradeable RAM.

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[Hegarmin]

This laptop has lots of things going for it: good repairability, pioneering LPCAMM2 in consumer laptops, the ThinkPad brand and so on. However: the battery is smaller on the T16 than last year. Why? The TDP is low. Why? It could come with a 86WHr battery like last year and a TDP of 50W so it can make use of the beefy iGPU. Is it even confirmed that it will come the X7 chip? The card next to the laptop on the picture says Intel Xe graphics. For sure that's not the B390.

[Benjamin Herzig]

We asked Lenovo at about it - yes, it is confirmed that these will come with ARC graphics, with up to 12 Xe units. The "Xe Graphics" is a mistake on the specification card.

As far as the battery goes, according to Lenovo, they wanted to keep the battery compatible between the different models - which means the smaller T14 Gen 7 gets an upgrade to 75 Wh (up from 57 Wh), but the bigger T16 Gen 5 gets a downgrade (down from 86 Wh).

[Hegarmin]

We asked Lenovo at about it - yes, it is confirmed that these will come with ARC graphics, with up to 12 Xe units. The "Xe Graphics" is a mistake on the specification card.

As far as the battery goes, according to Lenovo, they wanted to keep the battery compatible between the different models - which means the smaller T14 Gen 7 gets an upgrade to 75 Wh (up from 57 Wh), but the bigger T16 Gen 5 gets a downgrade (down from 86 Wh).

Appreciate the answer, Benjamin!

Any info regarding the TDP of the 16" model, tho? It would be a shame if such a big chassis would be limited to 30W. Or do both models have only one fan hence why the lower TDP?

[Why no LPCAMM2 in AMD?]

Overall, it is no surprise the T14 Gen 7 and T16 Gen 5 scores 10/10 on the iFixit repairability score.

Then the WLAN and WWAN cards are not soldered?

The up to 64 GB RAM won't allow to fit and run Gpt-Oss-120B. Time for LENOVO to increase the maximum capacity to 96 GB RAM in the T-series. I don't know how it's for INTEL, but AMD APUs support up to 256 GB RAM. Unfortunately, typically 96 GB RAM is the maximum in the P14s / P16s series. Time also for the P14s and P16s series to up the maximum RAM capacity to 128 GB RAM. And (up to) 256 GB RAM for the P16 non-s series (currently up to 192 GB RAM).