Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 Refreshed With Comet Lake-H vPro CPUs And GTX 1650 Ti

by Brandon Hill — Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 09:00 AM EDT

Back in December, we took a deep dive with Lenovo's second-generation ThinkPad X1 Extreme. We came away impressed with the machine which was packing a 9^th generation Coffee Lake-H processor, GeForce GTX 1650 graphics and a 15.6-inch 4K display.

Lenovo is a company that is always iterating, and now the company is launching the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3, and it's embracing Intel's latest 10^th generation Comet Lake-H processors, up to a Core i9 with vPro. Like its predecessor, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 sports a 15.6-inch display, which is available in Full HD or 4K resolutions. For those that have the money to splurge, the high-end option is a 4K OLED touch panel that is HDR 500 compliant. Driving the display is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti discrete GPU.

Lenovo will let you configure the system with up to 64GB DDR4-2933 memory, and up to a whopping 4TB of internal storage (which is accomplished using up to two 2TB PCIe SSDs). Despite its 15.6-inch frame, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 isn't exactly a heavyweight machine, as it weighs in at just 3.76 pounds in its base configuration. And with its 80 WHr battery, the notebook can last up to 14 hours per charge, and supports Rapid Charge via its 135W power adapter.

When it comes to wired connectivity, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 features two Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB 3.1 Type-A ports, HDMI 2.0, and an SD card reader. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0, while an optional Cat16 4G LTE WWAN card is available (although you'll lose the SD reader if you go this route).

Lenovo says that the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 will launch next month priced from $1,749.

Tags: Intel, Lenovo, thinkpad x1 extreme, comet lake-h

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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