ThinkPad P16

Part of it is they're pretty much made by a completely different company. Most ThinkPads (T, X1, X, P, L, Z and probably also the X9 to get their intrusive thoughts out) are designed and engineered by Yamato Design in Japan, a design firm that has existed since the IBM days. They also make a lot of

I was considering the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3, but it's difficult for me to justify spending nearly €4,000 on a laptop that appears to be mostly plastic. It's not what the outside looks like, it's what the chassis is constructed from. Typically a magnesium alloy for Thinkpad frames.

Kingston uses different controllers on their products so that opens more compatibility issues, some mobos/laptops don't like them as a booting drive. If a laptop maker used a Kingston SSD they likely ran more certifications than others. I know for a fact some ASUS Expertbook and ProArt models can't/

You have a P series, the P17 is Lenovo's answer to the proven and tested decade old Dell Precision and ZBook (previously Elitebook W) lineups, which always have had extreme repairability down to the GPU, repairability that can't be fit into any laptop. It's not because Thinkpad, it's because without