P1 comes to mind

I actually did something similar: business logic and most things written in Go, but the menu bar or tray icon done in native APIs like Win32 and Gtk. It was surprisingly very good experience overall. I have tried so many ways around it before settling for that.

Very interesting! How would the Electron and Go processes communicate in this case? Did you expose a Unix socket or TCP port perhaps?

Ohh, my apologies for the confusion. I was just using Go as a menubar/tray icon application (with some OS-specific bindings) and meant to say that its performance was excellent. No electron involved

Lenovo officially announced a new generation (3rd) of their most powerful ThinkPad P16. Some of the important changes:

- CPU up to Core Ultra 9 285HX

- GPU up to RTX PRO 5000 (Blackwell)

- 3.2K 120Hz Tandem OLED display option

- 3x 4TB SSD option

- RJ45 port is back

- A bit lighter than previous gen (starts at 2.4 Kgs)

- Thunderbolt 5 port

- Up to 196GB memory

The probable downgrade could be the switch from the proprietary charger to USB-C PD (which is limited to 180W)

> The probable downgrade could be the switch from the proprietary charger to USB-C PD

Guess that might be due to EU, where mandatory USB-C charging[1] is extended to encompass laptops in February 2026.

Probably not the space for both?

[1]: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-common-c...

You're probably right. But the issue here is that they are providing a 180W USB-C PD rather than 240W.

Yeah, that's a solid step down, and a bit weird given USB-PD supports 240W[1].

[1]: https://www.usb.org/usb-charger-pd

Framework introduced Framework 16, a 16 inch laptop featuring Ryzen AI 300 series CPUs and NVIDIA RTX 5070 dGPU. The most interesting thing is that the dGPU is upgradable separately.

Yes, I can confirm. But i thought that was by design

I just recently watched it. Although the visuals may not match The Matrix, it was written very well. Found it pleasant.

Around the holiday season they usually drop to around $1k

- Time your purchase

- get coupons

- get a corporate discount if you can

to get them at a sane price

Hmm the Thinkpad T14 might drop to $1000 but I've literally never seen a current generation X1 Carbon go that low.

You can even build a P1 with a whopping 8 TB of SSD storage.

There are also plenty of other P-series thinkpads that you can get with 2 TB or more storage: P14s, P16, P16v

I think there are good ThinkPads out there.

P1, P16s, T16, P14s

Most of which support:

- Up to 96 GB RAM

- 8 TB SSD (Dual slots)

- Upgradable memory and storage

- 4K OLED displays

- Excellent build quality

What more is needed?

My laptop before getting my M2 MPB was a top of line ThinkPad P series with all the best on paper specs. As long as I was running benchmarks on it while it was plugged in and I didn't care about fan noise, performance was fine. Once you tried to use it like an actual laptop it was terrible in just about every way. Performance when on battery was either so throttled as to be barely usable, or would kill the battery in 45 minutes. The noise and heat it spit out when doing anything even moderately taxing was extreme. Despite having the most expensive graphics card they offered at the time, interactive 3D and games was still always stuttering and rarely ran smooth. Sleep was hit and miss, so if I just closed the lid and chucked in my bag, there was good chance it would be both hot and dead when I pulled it out an hour later.

There is a lot more to a good laptop than specs, and so far only Apple seems to really get that.

I own couple of ThinkPads myself: an old L-series one, a T490 and lately a P16s. They all are fine. 45 mins on battery on best performance mode is very bad.

I am currently using a P16s with an Intel's meteor lake CPU and an RTX 500 Ada dGPU. I would say it is not that bad. Linux Mint worked OOB perfectly. I get 5-6 hrs of battery life which is fine for me (considering it has a 4K OLED display). The dGPU is mostly idle and the machine is mostly silent unless I am gaming.

The only times I hear the fans going are when using it on my lap or playing games. I do run Windows VM for a big .NET Framework project (coding on JetBrains Rider) and at the same time some coding on Linux. The CPU handles those fine.

These are my personal experiences though. The only issue I can pick is sometimes Chrome shows some artifacts (I think, related the iGPU driver)

I bet you had an Intel CPU. Intel is almost always the worse option since the first Ryzens were released in 2017 or so.

(Intel has to have some sketchy deals with manufacturers, otherwise why design a product like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon line only to put these Intel energy hogs in there?)

In my country at least, these are priced at par or higher than Macbooks

Makes zero sense to get a P series when you could get a Macbook

I know, right?

In the US at least, they usually go on sale. If you can manage to get a corporate discount, you can get them at a sane price.

At December, for example, I got a latest P14s at around $1,100 which is OK price for the machine you get.

Yes

The "true black" OLED displays have their part of the display off where there are black pixels, if I am not wrong. So, wouldn't dark mode suit well for those types of displays?

GP is arguing that exactly because there is no backlight, the contrast between on/off is uncomfortably high on modern screens compared to the CRTs where Windows 2/3 was running.

I agree. Most websites with a dark color scheme use a dark grey background and even off-white text.

OLEDs are per-pixel backlighting, so they can go full black on a single pixel.