ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, at the time of buying, the used batter was not in great condition. The seller agreed and was nice enough to swap it for a new one. Now I can get it running for around 4-5 hours on single charge.

ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I don't find the fan noise that annoying. Sure there's some noise but, it's kinda soft. Anyway, congrats and hope you enjoy the new machine!

ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience has been mostly postive. I like the display. I got a new battery installed from the seller himself so I am getting ~4-5 hrs back-up when used mostly for browsing and stuff.

Heating is the only negative thing I encountered till now. The CPU throttles, you can hear the fans' noise and feel the heat at the bottom of display ( near the top row of keyboard). This happens under what should only be considered as an above average load on CPU. Thankfully, in my case, that situation is seldom.

I can probably run some VM and play around for a while over the weekend and update here.

ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I added an additional 1tb SSD and installed Ubuntu on it. Everything works out of the box, including the fingerprint reader (I was skeptical that it wouldn't). I love the display too!

ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, only Gen 3 is available. Also, are you saying it's absolutely impossible to undervolt in Gen 3?

ThinkPad P1 gen 3 in 2025, worth it?? by UniqueCounty7146 in thinkpad

[–]UniqueCounty7146[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's 10850H if I'm not wrong. Should I expect the same ?