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Home » Is Lenovo’s New ThinkPad P Line-Up the World’s Most Powerful Mobile Workstations?

Is Lenovo’s New ThinkPad P Line-Up the World’s Most Powerful Mobile Workstations?

In London, Lenovo has just launched the next generation of its ThinkPad P Series with the release of five new ThinkPads, including the ThinkPad P73, ThinkPad P53, ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and ThinkPad P53s and P43s. The new portfolio is designed to meet the ever-changing power and portability needs of modern professionals across industries – both in the office and beyond without sacrificing our legendary engineering know-how, reliability and security. 2

Innovation can now happen anywhere – accomplished on movie sets, in the field and on the plot of land where the latest architecture masterpiece comes to life. The need for on-location power also requires real mobility – from the meeting room, to the office, to the presentation and back. Because of this, industry professionals are seeking similar power and performance they have come to expect from desktop workstations in their mobile workstations — and our new ThinkPad mobile workstations are meeting this demand.

Power Like Never Before

Breaking the barriers of performance for mobile workstations, our ThinkPad P53 is the most powerful 15-inch mobile workstation (1), packing the power of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 GPU with RT and Tensor cores. This allows it to offer real-time ray tracing and AI acceleration.

Using a Lenovo P53 for VR production

With its impeccable framework and groundbreaking design, the ThinkPad P53 serves as the multitool of workstations suited for a versatile mobile option; allowing users to access workflows previously reserved for those willing to carry a 17-inch mobile workstation. The addition of the fastest Intel Xeon and 9th Gen Core class CPUs with up to eight cores, including the Core i9, up to 128GB of memory and 6TB of storage gives engineers, architects and designers a powerhouse product now all in the portability of a 15-inch chassis.

This mobile workstation also boasts a new OLED Touch display with Dolby Vision HDR for superb color and some of the deepest black levels ever. Building on the innovation behind the ThinkPad P1 power supply, Lenovo is also maximizing the portability of this powerful workstation with a new, 35 percent smaller power supply.

The ThinkPad P53 offers the right blend of professional components and breakthrough technology and features to enable users to go further than ever before on a mobile solution; equipped to handle everything from augmented reality and VR content creation to the deployment of mobile AI or demanding ISV workflows. The ThinkPad P53 will be available in July, starting at $1799.

The Power You Need with the Look You Want

At 3.74 pounds and 17.2mm thin, Lenovo’s thinnest and lightest 15-inch workstation – the ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 – has also debuted, offering the perfect combination of ultra-premium design and trusted workstation know-how.

Lenovo’s ThinkPad P1 Gen 2

The ThinkPad P1 brings all new levels of power, including the latest NVIDIA Quadro Turing T1000 and T2000 GPUs. The ThinkPad P1 also boasts new features, such as blazing fast eight-core Intel 9th Gen Xeon and Core CPUs, and an OLED Touch display with Dolby Vision HDR allowing users to experience true-to-life images and video with expanded contrast and stunning detail.

Now with a carbon fiber finish offered on a 4K UHD panel, the ThinkPad P1 is the workstation solution for professionals, across industries, looking for a sleek machine that delivers the power they need, from running the most demanding CAD applications to providing optimal storage for data-caching and real-time playback. The ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 will be available at the end of June, starting at $1949.

Big Power, Big Performance

Along with thinner and lighter, we’re also launching the bigger and better ThinkPad P73. This 17-inch workhorse offers our mobile users maximum workspace with its 17.3-inch Dolby Vision 4K UHD screen and mobility with a 35-percent smaller power adaptor. Like the ThinkPad P53, this 17-inch chassis is packed with the latest Intel Xeon and Core processors and the most powerful NVIDIA Quadro RTX graphics, giving users in industries like finance and healthcare exceptional performance and expansive screen space for all their unique needs. The ThinkPad P73 will be available in August, starting at $1849.

Power on the Move

Our portfolio is complete with the ThinkPad P53s and ThinkPad P43s; combining performance, mobility and a comfortable price point. The ThinkPad P53s combines the latest NVIDIA Quadro graphics and Intel Core processors – all in a thin and light chassis, designed to move with its users and keep up with them when running AutoCAD, Revit, SOLIDWORKS and more.

A new addition and an even more compact option, the ThinkPad P43s is our most mobile workstation all while retaining the power of its larger counterpart. As the only 14-inch chassis in our portfolio, the ThinkPad P43s is a powerful and lightweight Ultrabook™ mobile workstation, designed to meet the needs of highly mobile entry-professionals, educators and students alike. The ThinkPad P53s and ThinkPad P43s will be available in June and July, respectively, starting at $1499.

ThinkPad Innovations

For the first time, Lenovo is adding new X-Rite Pantone Factory Color Calibration to the ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, ThinkPad P53 and ThinkPad P73; ideal for those working in video content creation, photography, oil and gas and other industries that require the most precise colors for a seamless workflow. Even better, the unique factory color calibration profile is stored in the cloud to ensure more accurate recalibration. This unique profile allows for dynamic switching between color spaces including sRGB, Adobe RGB and DCI-P3 to ensure accurate ISV application performance.

The entire ThinkPad portfolio is also equipped with advanced ThinkShield security features – from ThinkShutter to privacy screens to self-healing BIOS that recover when attacked or corrupted – to help protect users from every angle and give them the freedom to innovate fearlessly.

At Lenovo, our goal is for our industry-leading workstations to power your workflow anytime, anywhere. With the new ThinkPad P Series portfolio, we’re giving our customers access to the next generation of mobile workstation power, wherever their work takes them.

With global support in over 170 countries, the ThinkPad P Series portfolio will be available across the summer. To learn more about this powerful new lineup, visit and stay tuned for more on the portfolio at NXT BLD.

www.lenovo.com/thinkworkstations

  1. Based on research conducted by Lenovo in May 2019 of laptops sold by major PC manufacturers shipping > 1 million units worldwide annually.
  2. Based on a 2019 TBR Study; full report here.

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Community & Partner Links

How Sony’s New Virtual Sound Technology Can Change How We Hear Films

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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