Are you into video editing by chance? I was looking at this some time ago as a low cost editing machine for Adobe Premiere since it has dedicated graphics…what are the specs?
This one I got for 600EUR used from Austria. Features a P1000 with 4GB VRAM (equiv. to a 1050 I think, I can run Sea of Thieves on medium settings at 40-50FPS), an i7-8850H vPRO (vPRO means something for security, could be important in like government jobs), 32GB RAM, a 512GB NVME SSD and a FP sensor.
The laptop has (I think) 4 RAM slots, 2 M.2 slots and a standard 2.5" HDD bay. It also has 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports (you can hook up an eGPU if needed), both of which have DisplayPort functionality. It also features a separate miniDP and HDMI port.
Battery is 90Wh new, standby usage is about 9W so it can idle for about 10 hours. When playing SoT, it can draw up to 50-60W.
Don’t expect much from it’s speakers, though. They’re quite weak.
That’s lovely! If I could squeeze a bit more money I could get P52, but I can only afford P52s for like USD 550 in my country :3 The P52 was about USD 200 more. It’s got the i7-8650u, Quadro P500, 16 GB RAM.
But so far the P52s is the most high-end machine I ever had, and it’s been great for a lot of stuff except Unreal Engine. Dealing with UE4 made me realize that 16 GB ram is not enough, and the 2 GB VRAM of the P500 is not very enough. Megascans 4K & 8K textures are killing me, lol. But I can still deal with textures less than 512px size. But I play game nicely with this.
And I agree about the speakers, a lot of people ThinkPad speakers are pretty basic. I cannot hear any bass at all from this machine. At least listening from a headphone sounds good enough. Although some says that apparently the newer X1 got a good speaker.
Seems like the P52s also has a thunderbolt 3 port, so if you can’t quite afford an entire new laptop or PC, you can get a TB3 eGPU enclosure and GPU combo.
Edit: Should mention that I got my one used, a new P52 costs about 1000USD, which is ~35% cheaper when 600EUR is converted to USD.
Not sure why the picture is sideways, when I uploaded it it was vertical
Those mobile workstations are beasts. I was using a P71 as a proxmox node for a while since it had so much expandability. Recently sold that one but needed $$$ more than the compute.
Nice! Did you get the UHD or 1080 screen?
P52/P53 are peak P-series.