Lenovo's new ThinkPad P52 is a mobile VR-ready behemoth

Lenovo today is dropping the curtain on its latest mobile workstation PC, the ThinkPad P52. And for professionals looking for a mobile PC that can handle heavy workloads like VR or 3D content creation, the P52 may be worth a gander.

Lenovo is billing the ThinkPad P52 equally its first 15-inch VR-ready workstation, and information technology'due south backing that up with enough of power. On the inside, the P52 tin be configured with Intel'southward 8th Gen Xeon and Cadre CPUs, along with up to NVIDIA Quadro P3200 to handle heavy graphics loads. Impressively, the system can also exist configured with up to 128GB of DDR4 memory, which can come in handy when working with things like large models and visual effects. And for storing everything, you tin equip the ThinkPad P52 with upwards to 6TB of storage.

Elsewhere, the P52 packs an IR camera and a fingerprint reader for actress security, along with TPM 2.0 and a webcam embrace. There are plenty of ports to cull from here as well, with three USB-A three.1 ports, two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, and one HDMI ii.0 port, as are SD and Smart Card readers. A dedicated ethernet port is besides on lath, forth with a Kensington lock slot.

As for the screen, Lenovo has a couple of fifteen.6-inch options available. The beginning is a 1080p console with 300 nits of brightness and a 72 percent color gamut. You lot tin also step things up to a 4K touch on panel with 400 nits of effulgence and 100 percent Adobe color gamut coverage.

All of that ability does come at a toll, however. Diving into its dimensions, the ThinkPad P52 comes in at 14.86 x 9.93 x 0.96 inches (377.iv x 252.3 x 24.5mm). The workstation is hefty as well, starting out at 5.four pounds (2.45kg).

Pricing and availability

Lenovo isn't talking pricing merely yet, but it says that the ThinkPad P52 should be available starting in late June. However, going off of current ThinkPad prices, information technology'southward resonable to expect the P52 to first off a fair amount above the $ane,000 mark.

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