Hands on: I tried out the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 3 (AMD), and found this speedy laptop has supreme battery life

Hands on: I tried out the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 3 (AMD), and found this speedy laptop has supreme battery life

Hands on: I tried out the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 3 (AMD), and found this speedy laptop has supreme battery life

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This review first appeared in issue 342 of PC Pro.

Lenovo’s P series of laptops is designed for speed, with more expensive configurations than this offering discrete workstation-class Nvidia processors to tie in with its ISV certification. The P14s is a slimline version, which means less powerful chips and – in this case at least – integrated graphics. But don’t imagine it’s slow: turn to the graphs and you will see the ThinkPad P14s vying for top position in many tests.

That’s despite the fact it includes a Ryzen 5 processor with six cores compared to the 12 found in the Core i7-1260P, with AMD’s strength due to them all being fast performance cores. Lenovo supports the AMD Ryzen Pro chip with 16GB of high-bandwidth LPDDR5 memory, although this is soldered to the board; if you want more, upgrade to 32GB at the time of ordering for an extra £90. You can replace the 512GB SSD yourself, with a handful of crosshead screws in your way, but doing so will void the generous three-year warranty.

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