ThinkPad P16s Gen 4

its becoming more of a problem now as more and more of them switch to soldered wireless. Last laptop I had I just switched to intel ax200. But my current P16s gen2a frigging came with soldered wireless. not OP - but also qualcomm victim here. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/QCNF

It’s a bit interesting to me how Lenovo seems to have backtracked on limiting repairability. My AMD P16s gen 4 has a replaceable keyboard and socketed RAM. Annoyingly, it has that stupid whitelist on the second NVMe

Lenovo Thinkpad, if you have the budget, go p16 Gen 3 - it's a chunker but it has a dedicated graphics card, full size keyboard, upgradeable ram, dual SSD bays For a little less the p16S gen 4 is also great, similar uogradeability but a little more mobile Built like tanks

While not "bad", the base display on the P1 is adequate but otherwise nothing outstanding. The 4k IPS or tandem OLED (which has its own issues, but is overall nice) would bring some parity, but the MBP display is the better one as configured Yeah that's a $500 add on option! 😣 I don't mind the exist

Notebookcheck article: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P16s-Gen-4-and-ThinkPad-P14s-Gen-6-unveiled-with-new-AMD-Ryzen-Pro-CPUs.1003324.0.html PSREF from Lenovo: https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P14s_Gen_6_AMD?tab=spec This is a candidate for my next machine from P14s G1 A

Based on the pricing, I'm guessing you're in Canada? The Lenovo Perkopolis portal (https://www.lenovo.com/ca/vipmembers/perkopolisgold/en/pc/ with password PerksGoldCA26!) currently has a great deal on the ThinkPad P14s and P16s and they're very customizable, starting at roughly $1200. Play around w

The ideapad and inspiron are consumer grade systems and should not be considered. The E series is a budget grade business (E for economy), while not a bad system, there are better built systems, so if you're getting this one for a great price, go for it, but I would see what it would take to step in

To answer your larger question, no you don't need a P series to edit videos. If it's just 1080p then most modern machines will do it just fine. As long as you don't have the efficiency oriented chips (from either Intel or AMD), with modern iGPUs being powerful enough you don't even actually need a d

I would suggest to wait for November discounts and take p16s with OLED display for your budget, it could be Intel gen3/4, or AMD gen 4. Or even watch for lenovo outlet deals if available in your country. Don't see any sense to take Gen 2. There where deals for AMD gen 4 for 1360$ with good config, s

16" Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 in highest configuration your budget allows.