New Lenovo P Series Workstation

Engineers, architects, professional animators and other demanding professionals will soon have a powerful new option for taking their work on the road. Today, Lenovo announced its new ThinkPad P Series line of workstation-class CAD laptops, which come with a variety of high-end options, including Intel's new mobile Xeon processors and 4K displays. Replacing the company's ThinkPad W line, the 15-inch P50 will start at $1,599 and the 17-inch P70 will start at $1,999 when the systems go on sale this fall. The P series notebooks will also include a new fingerprint reader that you activate with a touch instead of a swipe.

CAD Workstation with New Skylake Xeon Server Processors

The new ThinkPad P series has two models: the 15-inch ThinkPad 50 and the 17-inch ThinkPad P70. Designed for the most demanding applications, both notebooks come with a choice of either an Intel Xeon E3-1500M processor or a Sixth Generation Core Series (Core i5 or Core i7) CPU. The P50 and P70 will be among the first notebooks to offer Intel Xeon CPUs, the chipmaker's line of workstation and server class processors, which have only been available in desktops up until now.

Better workstation navigation when working with intensive graphics

Catering to the CAD users and 3D animators who make up much of the P series intended market, Lenovo has replaced the buttonless clickpad on the prior-gen W541 / W550s with a 3-button touchpad. In our experience, dedicated touchpad buttons provide a more accurate navigation experience on any CAD notebook, because the pad cannot confuse a swipe with a click. Even better, in many graphics programs, the middle button enables pan or zoom functionality. Intel announced that it was coming out with mobile Xeon processors, but the company has yet to offer any specs or expected performance numbers. However, if the mobile Xeon is like its desktop cousins, it will offer better stability than Core i5 / i7 by supporting ECC error-correcting RAM and speedier overall performance, thanks partly to a large L3 cache.




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