Looking for High-End Laptop

[astrohip]

Just pulled the trigger on a Thinkpad P16 Gen 2. Should be here in about two weeks.

 

I appreciate everyone's feedback and help on this!

[1610ftw]

Solid choice - let us know how you like it!

[Bullit]

On 3/4/2025 at 11:06 PM, astrohip said:

I'm also looking at a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen 2. I customized it to:

 

• i9 13950HX
• 64GB DDR5
• (2) 4 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Opal
• 16" WQUXGA OLED touch, etc etc
• Nvidia RTX 2000

The rest is pretty much std.

 

Thoughts? Is this a good laptop? Is there anything else in the Lenovo line I should be looking at?

 

My criticism of this is the CPU and GPU. The CPU is overpower for chassis - i don't think any laptop can exploit the performance of an I-9.

RTX2000 has generally the performance of a RTX3060 with 8GB VRAM instead of 6GB. For your use it seems non justifiable.

[Bullit]

Duplicated.

[astrohip]

20 hours ago, Bullit said:

 

My criticism of this is the CPU and GPU. The CPU is overpower for chassis - i don't think any laptop can exploit the performance of an I-9.

RTX2000 has generally the performance of a RTX3060 with 8GB VRAM instead of 6GB. For your use it seems non justifiable.

 

You're almost certainly correct. In reality, the entire laptop is probably overkill. But I like a really fast machine, with lots of RAM, and blazing hard drive speed (and space) to spare. I don't have many vices in life, but a supersonic laptop is one.