With LPCAMM2 memory: Lenovo launches new 14-inch ThinkPad with Intel Panther Lake

[Redaktion]

Lenovo has launched another compact laptop featuring user-upgradeable LPCAMM2 memory. Offered with Intel Panther Lake processors and optional discrete graphics too, the ThinkPad P14s i G7 will be available with a 120 Hz and 3K display too plus a 75 Wh battery.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/With-LPCAMM2-memory-Lenovo-launches-new-14-inch-ThinkPad-with-Intel-Panther-Lake.1251718.0.html

[davidm]

128bit width RAM.

[BWC]

Has there been a national bus width censorship campaign that I've been unaware of? Yes, it is but it's not like it was ever not known or hidden.

Also, you say this like it's a bad thing. Small bus width means better battery life. Until we get to LPDDR6. Apparently, according to phawx it will allow parts of memory to completely power down / off which will do wonders for battery life. Maybe then we will have 256 bit bus x86 with reasonable battery life.

[idk]

128bit width RAM.

Correct, but it's about the memory bandwidth, not memory bus width, tho. Using LPCAMM2 allows for a 52% increase in memory bandwidth (8533 MT/s / 5600 MT/s).

Has there been a national bus width censorship campaign that I've been unaware of? Yes, it is but it's not like it was ever not known or hidden.

Also, you say this like it's a bad thing. Small bus width means better battery life. Until we get to LPDDR6. Apparently, according to phawx it will allow parts of memory to completely power down / off which will do wonders for battery life. Maybe then we will have 256 bit bus x86 with reasonable battery life.

128-bit bus also means smaller and thus cheaper chip.

Apple's M Pro is 256-bit (I think there's a 128-bit, which is still called Pro, tho) and has great battery life.


I'm not an Apple fan and I know I'm comparing apples to oranges here, but check out Apple MacBook Air (also available as Refurbished M3/M4 on Apple's website), but even a new MacBook Air M5 is much cheaper. The Air has a great display (500 nits, 100% DCI-P3), better battery life, no fans and is arguably better looking.

[Enma45]

Price is king here, and rumors suggest it will be around $2,500, which seems absolutely insane for a laptop without a dGPU.
I prefer to wait for AMD Zen 6 and Nova Lake and start saving, because Intel is currently selling its processors at exorbitant prices, which I won't allow.
There's a lot of competition now because there are five manufacturers: Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, and Nvidia.
If they want to sell their products, they'll have to compete on price.

[Detlef]

Is this the first Thinkpad with a 120 Hz display option? Or are there older ones I can look for on the second hand market?

[srsly]

I'm not an Apple fan and I know I'm comparing apples to oranges here

So what's your favourite fruit then? Plum, pears, watermelon, grapes, strawberry, raspberry, cranberry, coconut, Mango, Banana, Passion fruit, apricot, lemon?

Spit it out already, I need to know.

but check out Apple MacBook Air

The average MacBook air user is just browsing and doing web apps. It's true, air probably is a better more well rounded product but from their perspective it's like, why even pay more when the neo is good enough for what they do. I don't like the used argument because in few months time you'll start to see used neo's which will make it even cheaper.

@Enma: You should see gamers Nexus recent video on AMD. It's about how AMD is now part of the very same corruption that Nvidia is and Intel before them. They're just slightly worse at it. That they're no longer the "underdog" they once were and pretty much scamming consumers. This has been known for sometime now. But he actually brings the receipts and quite a bit of evidence / sources. I found it interesting anyway.