Thinkpad Goes Ryzen! Lenovo Adds Ryzen Pro To The Main Thinkpad Lineup

[iamdarkyoshi]

As has been pointed out in page 2, Ryzen thonkpads have already existed, but they had their own weird lineup, separate from the T and X series.

 

The ones discussed here are in the same lineup as the T and X series intel ones.

 

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/lenovo-adds-amd-ryzen-pro-powered-laptops-to-its-thinkpad-family/

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/thinkpad-reliability-amd-ryzen-pro-mobile-processors/

 

 

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Lenovo is adding more choices to its beloved and iconic ThinkPad lineup this year: the new T495, T495s, and X395 laptops are all powered by AMD's Ryzen 7 Pro processors with integrated Vega graphics. With the same design and MIL-spec level of durability, these new ThinkPads will give customers the option to go with AMD without sacrificing what they love about the premium ThinkPad lineup.

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The 14-inch displays on the T495 and T459s and the 13-inch display on the X395 will be FHD 1920×1080 panels with touch and non-touch options. They will also have AMD's FreeSync technology for improved refresh rates and pixel quality.

 

A ThinkPad with a Ryzen CPU, Vega iGPU, and a Freesync screen? Sign me up!

 

Its awesome to see that Lenovo recognizes Ryzen as a viable option for their beloved ThinkPad lineup, I'd love to see ryzen in more laptops now. My brother's budget ryzen 2 in 1 from dell had me blown away from how powerful the AMD CPU/Vega GPU was.

 

The price is pretty high at around 1K though. But when time is money, having a laptop that will last and can be more easily fixed really does make a difference.

 

Will you be buying one?

Edited May 9, 2019 by iamdarkyoshi

[bcredeur97]

still waiting for Dell to do this for the Latitude series. We usually only get Dells at work and with the recent Intel delays it would be nice to have another option so it doesn't take 3 freaking months for them to ship us 150 computers

[Chunchunmaru_]

3 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

still waiting for Dell to do this. We usually only get Dells at work and with the recent Intel delays it would be nice to have another option so it doesn't take 3 freaking months for them to ship us 150 computers

This, I want an high end XPS with a Ryzen!

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Chunchunmaru_ said:

grrrr react , the trackpad (or whatever it's called, the red thing ) is the best thing in the world

Trackpoint

 

[thorhammerz]

37 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

The price is pretty high at around 1K though. But when time is money, having a laptop that will last and can be more easily fixed really does make a difference.

 

Will you be buying one?

Current-gen Thinkpads (or anything Lenovo, really) without a sale are typically among the more expensive pieces of hardware you can burn money on; if you need to pay out-of-pocket for one, good idea to wait half a year to a year for more tolerable sales pricing.

 

Otherwise, the XPS lineup will typically pack similar tier internal hardware with similar build quality and at a lower price point.

31 minutes ago, Chunchunmaru_ said:

This, I want an high end XPS with a Ryzen!

Definitely! Maybe we won't even need to do hardware mods to stop the damn things from VRM-throttling to 800Mhz all he time .

[PlayStation 2]

Took them long enough.

ALSO DON'T CAPITALIZE LITERALLY EVERY FIRST LETTER IN THE TITLE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[The Benjamins]

These would be perfect laptops to replace the engineering departments loaner laptops for meetings, they will be lighter and have decent graphics.

[Sauron]

16 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Will you be buying one?

I've been eyeing a T490, my x220 is great but the low res screen is showing its age a bit - I'll have to decide if I want a new laptop or a desktop upgrade this year after Ryzen 3000 launches. If I go for the laptop I'll definitely consider this though, the price is high but if the performance is there... it will just be hard to beat the pretty decked out T490 you can get for about 1.6k (and hopefully a bit less later this year).

15 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

This is cool. Remove the tack pad and I'm sold.

And put the old keyboard back!

[GoldenLag]

21 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

 

A ThinkPad with a Ryzen CPU, Vega iGPU, and a Freesync screen? Sign me up!

Holy, what? Is there actual adaptive refresh when nothing is happening?

 

Still rather nice.

[dizmo]

Interesting. I wonder how they'll perform battery life wise compared to their Intel counterparts. Always been the weak point for AMD mobile. 

 

No 15" version though, so unfortunately it doesn't meet my needs for a new machine. 

[Nocte]

16 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

This is cool. Remove the tack pad and I'm sold.

You can (could at least) disable it in BIOS. I always did that with my ThinkPads.

[DrMacintosh]

Needs Vega 16 and Vega 20 options. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

12 minutes ago, Sauron said:

I've been eyeing a T490, my x220 is great but the low res screen is showing its age a bit - I'll have to decide if I want a new laptop or a desktop upgrade this year after Ryzen 3000 launches. If I go for the laptop I'll definitely consider this though, the price is high but if the performance is there... it will just be hard to beat the pretty decked out T490 you can get for about 1.6k (and hopefully a bit less later this year).

And put the old keyboard back!

The older thonkpads can have awesome screens retrofitted into them, and in the case of the xx30 machines, you can put the old keyboard in them

 

 

My T430 is rocking a T420 keyboard and a 1080p IPS screen. You can get 1440p screens into them too. I got my advice from the @thinkpadgeneral chat on telegram. Pretty sure 1440p IPS in an X220 is possible

[iamdarkyoshi]

5 minutes ago, Mr. horse said:

Yes need a real keyboard.

I love seeing people complain about the new keyboard when most other people will be using this thing:

 

Yeah, the sandy bridge and below thinkpad keyboards were better, but the new one's really not that bad. I'd sure rather use it than a macbook

[GoldenLag]

20 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Needs Vega 16 and Vega 20 options. 

Open the wallet and AMD will deliver anything you want

[MoonSpot]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I love seeing people complain about the new keyboard when most other people will be using this thing:

 

 

 

 

No NumPad, no deal.  Not ever.  Bad enough that many laptop Numpads aren't standard.

[Sauron]

25 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Pretty sure 1440p IPS in an X220 is possible

I know for a fact it's not (sadly) but 1080p definitely is. I'm just not sure it's worth the investment - it would cost me about as much as buying another x220 and require ordering the mod from China, hoping it doesn't take 8 months to arrive (assuming it does arrive), solder it to the board hoping nothing breaks in the process and at the end of it all the brightness controls would require a kernel patch to work - which means I'd have to build the kernel every time I want to update it (yes, I know, it's easier on gentoo - still time consuming and a pain in the butt). All this for a laptop that is pretty fast for what it is but still inexorably aging (the CPU is soldered so no quad core options :/).

 

Luckily mine has the IPS panel so at least it's tolerable. Maybe if I end up upgrading my desktop I'll just get a used x250 with the 1080p screen, it wouldn't be much more expensive than the mod and keyboard aside it would be about the same as the x220.

29 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Yeah, the sandy bridge and below thinkpad keyboards were better, but the new one's really not that bad. I'd sure rather use it than a macbook

True, which is why I would still prefer a new Thinkpad compared to most other options.

[Sauron]

29 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

No NumPad, no deal.  Not ever.  Bad enough that many laptop Numpads aren't standard.

You can't fit a numpad on a 14" laptop without compromising the usability of the rest of the keyboard. Also I loathe off center trackpads (and trackpads in general but that's another discussion entirely).

[Silentprototipe]

Not bad 

[DrMacintosh]

41 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

No NumPad, no deal.  Not ever.  Bad enough that many laptop Numpads aren't standard.

NumPads are terrible for ergonomics. It offsets the keyboard so much to the left. Massive lunar deviation hazard. 

[maartendc]

Somehow Lenovo succeeds in making a high end laptop that still looks like it is from 1998. Impressive.

 

 

[Drak3]

3 minutes ago, maartendc said:

Somehow Lenovo succeeds in making a high end laptop that still looks like it is from 1998. Impressive.

 

 

Leagues better than "silver" anodized aluminum.

[Crunchy Dragon]

That's pretty nice, I might go back to wanting a ThinkPad for my next laptop.

[Bouzoo]

Insert obligatory Lenovo designer joke. 

[suicidalfranco]

give me a way to plug in an eGPU or/and a dGPU equipped model and a 15 or 17 inch option and you got yourself a deal