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Lenovo ThinkPad P-series P50

5owners with an opinion
60%of verdicts positive
1/0positive/negative since 2024
5 yrslongest happy owner
1happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance and reliability.

What owners wrote

Recommends itOwned 5 yearsStill going
I got a fully loaded P50 back in 2017 and it's been amazing to use for 5 years. Runs everything, very VM friendly. Very repairable. Yeah, I had to repair its screen, but that took no time. I reseated the heatsink around the CPU/GPU combo, that was really easy too. It's butt-ugly and fat and heavy but I much prefer it to the work macbook, works faster, runs quieter, has better battery life, and is much more pleasant to type on. Also in the house, X1 carbon and 2 X380 Yogas, all great machines too.
Recommends it
The Lenovo P-series are amazing. I used to use my P50 as a portable ESX server. The P16 is out now, I would love the larger screen but the newest hardware doesn't work perfectly on Linux yet. I tried a P5x S model for a while, which is supposed to be a slimmer, lighter 'workstation', but the performance was severely lacking. They are only as powerful as the T series machines they are based on. I no longer needed such a machine so I switched back to the X1 which is as close to a Mac as I think you can get. From time to time I am issued various Dell or HP laptops from work, and frankly they aren't really comparable. The keyboards and trackpads are horrible, they're buggy... However, I will say this about the Dell Latitude that is my currrent take home from the office: it will sit in the 90 degree weather, in the sun, and operate without any issues - unlike my iPhone. I'm sure it clocks down (I can hear the fan going), but it works without a hitch. The screen is a bit hard to read in the bright outdoors, but after changing profiles in my terminal/editor and bumping the font up 2 sizes it's not terrible.
Doesn’t like it
I use the Nvidia card on my P50 with Linux (Mint) and the results are... OK. The biggest problem is that when it resumes from suspend, about 50% of the time it forgets that there are external monitors connected. Sometimes it forgets both (falling back to the laptop panel), sometimes it forgets one or the other. Sometimes it enables both, but forgets to apply the rotation, so the positioning is all weird. I have to re-enable and re-position both external monitors, and then move all my windows around to where they're supposed to be.
Doesn’t like it
I think this is the sleeper laptop in this thread. I scoured and scoured for a laptop with a 15" footprint, nice large matte screen, and not 4k (for reasons obvious when considering running Linux painlessly still - and the fact that I really didn't want a 4k screen from a battery life consideration). I started down the path of Lenovo since I've had decent success in the past. I literally ordered a P50 the day you could order them. Ended up getting rid of it (long story in itself) because I found the Linux support of it was just downright bad. The laptop is a dream on paper (I had an i7 with 64GB of RAM) but running Linux on it in a workspace that includes multiple monitors was just a ridiculous challenge day after day. For one - multi-monitor support is very broken in the firmware when running on the Intel GPU. This may have been addressed by now, but it was a royal PitA trying to get to a working setup that was frictionless in my work cycle. The TL;DR of it was I wanted the NVidia there for a few things I'd use a few times a month - but 99% of my workflow would be done with Intel GPU. Also I've found that the newer Lenovo units have quality control issues. While the P50 was decent, it felt cheap (in my personal opinion) for a workstation class laptop. The plastic (even though Mil grade) is long in the tooth, especially when compared to a lot of the premium chassis experience you get with a lot of other laptops. If you look here: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555