The ThinkBook 16p Gen 3 is fast enough, but it lacks polish, and its display won't please creators. It's nothing special and a bit too much pricewise.
Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 3 review: nice, but not enough MSRP $2,359.00 Score Details “For a laptop of this price, the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 3 still lacks the standout features it needs.” Pros Cons When you have an incredibly wide lineup of laptops, like Lenovo, you need to segment them somehow.
A fresh design that sort of works The ThinkBook 16p Gen 3 enjoys what’s become an identifiable ThinkBook aesthetic, particularly on the is two-toned lid that has a bold ThinkBook logo. That differentiates it from the rest of Lenovo’s lineup and gives the laptop a bit of panache. Otherwise, the look is a typical business laptop with a dark grey colorway and a standard Lenovo chassis.
The webcam is 1080p and provides a quality image that will please business users who need videoconferencing to get their work done. An infrared camera provides Windows 11 Hello passwordless login support, and there’s a fingerprint reader embedded in the offset power button for those who prefer that method for logging in.
My review unit packed in an eight-core/16-thread 45-watt AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU. That’s top-of-the-line until AMD’s 7000 series comes out, and it’s a fast CPU for sure. Even so, it fell behind our comparison group in Geekbench 5, including machines running Intel’s 45-watt 12th-gen CPUs. As usual, AMD’s single-core scores lagged the most. The ThinkPad 16 was fast in Cinebench R23 multi-core, though, and it did well in our Handbrake test that encodes a 420MB video as H.265.
You’ll find gaming laptops that are faster, but for a non-gaming machine, the results were pretty impressive. Stick with 1080p gaming, and you’ll get 60+ frames per second in many modern titles with graphics turned up, and you won’t have to turn them down much to play at 1440p.
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