So a few weeks ago i did a fantastic review on the lenovo X1 Extreme.
This was a laptop I always wanted from Lenovo, the thinkpad that was a little bit bigger,
had a dedicated GPU and a more powerful processor, while maintaining that amazing keyboard, security
and of course ruggedness.
But if you are looking at this laptop you might have noticed another one called the
thinkpad P1.
It looks exactly the same but has a few key differences inside that make it very unique.
Now in terms of build quality, you can't really tell the difference, they look exactly the
same.
In fact, the only way to notice the difference is by looking at the top lid of the extreme.
With the extreme you get the X1 logo, whereas on the P1 it's completely clean.
Now im not going to go through all the ports with you, if you want to see the port set
up they are basically exactly the same, you can check out my X1 extreme review in the
description down below.
The other difference is what's inside.
With the P1 you get a slightly faster hard drive.
The X1 Extreme is using a Samsung P981, whatever version of that drive they are using in the
P1 is actually a little bit faster.
You get two slots on both laptops so you could put two terabytes NVME SSD storage, you have
a nice big 5080 Mah battery which should get you about 4-5 hours of use before needing
to charge, but the big difference is actually the CPU.
With the P1 you are getting a Xeon processor, so you are getting slightly faster clock speeds
and a workstation processor for more demanding tasks.
Whereas on the X1 Extreme you are using the very fast I7-8750H.
Now the difference in performance is not huge, but it's more than enough for certain applications
that you want to lean towards the P1 for specifically that reason.
The other thing is the GPU, on this one you are getting the 1050 TI max Q whereas on the
P1 you are getting the P2000 max Q. now this all comes down to the type of work you are
doing, for someone like me to edits video, who likes to game every once in a while, the
X1 makes a lot of sense.
You are getting great frame rates, you are getting good performance, you could game between
medium and high settings and for video work it's actually better to use the consumer version
of nvidia GPUs than it is to the quadro variance.
Now if you are someone who is doing solidworks, maybe you are doing autocad, or any application
that requires ISV certification, you are not going to find that on the extreme.
If something goes wrong with your workstation laptop lets say between the hardware and the
software that you are using, because its certified when you call support you are actually going
to get taken seriously.
If you are going to call support using solidworks with your 1050 TI GPU they probably aren’t
going to take you as seriously and you are most likely going to have to hunt for your
own answers.
The other thing, the RAM inside both of these computers, they are both very fast but the
big difference is again on the P1, you are getting a memory with ECC.
Now ECC is basically a type of memory that monitors the soft and hard errors that come
in while information is being transferred.
It looks for those errors and if it's not in parody it will try to correct them.
This is super important if you are a financial institution because any downtime or any errors
is a big issue.
And finally the last major reason why you choose the workstation over the laptop is
because you get the p2000 quadro card.
This is the only card, at least from invidia or in the series of cards that will allow
you to edit 10bit footage.
You cannot edit 10 bit footage with a gTX Geforce card, you have to buy a quadro card
or buy a laptop that use an amd GPU.
So besides that everything else is pretty much the same.
Two speakers on the bottom, not the best but they are good enough for most situations.They
both have fingerprint scanners so you can log into your device using windows hello,
or if you don't want to use that they both have the infrared cameras on top where you
can use facial recognition.
Actually, nipples.
Are they the same?
Let's find out.
Same quality nipples, besides that you get 4K displays on both models But the difference
is that you are getting a 10 bit panel on the P1 or you are going to use 8 bit on the
X1.
Noise, fan noise exactly the same, and also heat management is pretty much on par.
So here are my closing thoughts, the power on both of these laptops are in different
ways.
This has a better CPU, you are going to get slightly faster speeds, so whatever applications
you are using that are more CPU intensive, you are going to get better results with the
P1.
However, when it comes to GPU, and this is even for people who use autocad and solidworks,
the list goes on.
You actually might get better performance from the 1050 TI maxQ.
It has more cuda cores, it has faster clock speeds and it performs a little bit better.
However, if that's not good enough for you and you need that ISV certification and all
the support you can get, then you are better off going with the quadro card.
Because if you call in one day to let's say Adobe or autodesk and you have an issue with
the software, they will talk to you and help you fix it with the P1, whereas with the X1
Extreme they might not take you as seriously.
It really comes down to your personal preferences in the industry that you are currently in.
Financial institutions, you are probably going to get the P1, for everyone else the X1 Extreme
offers a lot more value for a lower price tag.
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