Lenovo's New White Thinkpad X9 Is The Coolest Laptop Announced At Ifa

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Lenovo ThinkPad X9 successful Glacier White

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Lenovo announced a fistful of caller additions to its halfway statement of ThinkPad laptops coming astatine IFA successful Berlin.
The caller devices announced are nan ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, ThinkPad P16v Gen 3, and ThinkPad X9 successful a caller Glacier White colorway.
The ThinkPad X9 made waves earlier this year, breaking pinch nan lineup's aesthetics for a slick shape facet and caller "engine hub" creation concept.

The X9 successful white

When nan ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition debuted astatine CES successful early 2025, it instantly caught my attraction for its stark departure from nan ThinkPad creation ethos. No TrackPoint, nary black, utilitarian design, and nary left/right trackpad buttons. Was this moreover a ThinkPad?

Well, yes, but it's thing wholly new, arsenic well. The X9 is simply a highly functional laptop successful its ain right, pinch an ultraportable form, decent artillery life, and sleek artistic pinch its ribbed bottommost sheet and motor hub. In fact, it was our prime for champion Windows laptop of 2025 for its operation of capacity comparative to value, and bold design.

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So what's caller pinch nan X9? It's white. The matte "Glacial White" colorway adds a sleek, future-forward artistic to a laptop that was already unafraid of breaking from nan mold. It comes successful a 14- and 15-inch shape facet and includes nan aforesaid hardware arsenic nan original configuration: an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor.

Notably, however, nan achromatic X9 has bumped up section retention to a 1TB SSD successful some nan 14- and 15-inch configuration, my biggest criticism of nan original metallic exemplary erstwhile I reviewed it, which came successful a 256GB aliases 512GB version.

Additionally, nan full "Aura Edition" characteristic group generated immoderate buzz past twelvemonth astatine IFA for its physical tap-to-share feature, but Lenovo has since decided to modulation distant from that characteristic toward its ain record sharing app called Lenovo Connect.

Core ThinkPad upgrades

Alongside nan ThinkPad X9, Lenovo besides showed disconnected a fewer mobile workstations, pinch 2 laptops successful peculiar arsenic nan astir impactful models. The eighth-generation ThinkPad P1 runs a Series 2 Intel Core Ultra processor and, astir notably, an Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell graphics card.

If you're not familiar, nan PRO 2000 Blackwell paper is portion of a new bid of Nvidia GPUs that specialize successful master workloads. Think 3D rendering, generative AI, contented creation, and CAD (computer-aided design) drawings. It is said to importantly outperform older RTX 2000 Ada graphics cards.

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The erstwhile procreation ThinkPad P1 runs connected specified a GPU, truthful I expect nan capacity betwixt nan older exemplary and this upcoming laptop to beryllium significant.

In position of design, nan P1 is simply a quintessential ThinkPad (unlike its aforementioned glacial cousin) pinch nan ample way pad, reddish TrackPoint successful nan mediate of nan keyboard, durable build, and robust larboard selection. It will beryllium disposable later this month, starting astatine $2,819.

Lenovo besides announced nan third-generation ThinkPad P16v astatine IFA, sharing galore similarities pinch nan ThinkPad P1, but successful a much important 16-inch form. It besides has a Blackwell GPU, but boasts a 16-inch 4K OLED touchscreen and nan imaginable to person up to 96GB of RAM. Lenovo cites it arsenic a powerful instrumentality for engineers, designers, aliases animators who want a instrumentality pinch earthy powerfulness but are value-oriented.

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In that sense, nan P16v's starting value of $2,249 situates it arsenic an highly powerful laptop for nan price, but a much utilitarian frame. It's besides an inch heavy and weighs 4.6 pounds -- bulkier than moreover Lenovo's caller Legion Pro 7 gaming laptop. I went hands-on pinch nan instrumentality earlier this period and it's decidedly 1 of nan chunkiest laptops I've handled successful a while.

Finally, we do interest astir artillery life. Lenovo's 2 laptops person a 90Whr battery, which is great, but nan Blackwell GPUs whitethorn request a ton of energy. Both nan caller ThinkPad P1 and P16v will beryllium released later this month.