[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I purchased a ThinkPad P1 Gen 5 with the i7-12800, 64GB RAM, a 2GB SSD, and an A4500 graphics card (16GB RAM), running Windows 11. I got the 4K 600 nit screen, which is beautiful and really bright. The machine swiftly handles every workload I throw at it and is slim. I have it connected via a ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock to two external 4K monitors. The only downside is heat - under the least bit of CPU load, I feel a lot of warmth through the keyboard, something I hadn't expected with Intel's 12th generation chip. In retrospect, I might have gone with the P16 for better heat management.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This laptop has served me well so far. I bought it for college, and it was plenty of power, graphics and speed. Overall good quality.
I use this docking station with my ThinkPad X1 Carbon and I have had nothing but problems with it, I have had it replaced TWICE with the same issues. My right screen never comes on when I first plug in the laptop to the docking station, I have to unplug the power and plug it back in. On top of that, the sound rarely works either with USB or the headphone jack AND randomly, my peripherals will wig out, for example, my mouse stops tracking or a letter is repeated several times as if I'm holding a button down in the middle of my typing, which makes it hard to get work done. Shameful for a product that bears the ThinkPad logo.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, July 15, 2022
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[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Long time Lenovo fan. As always, the process is easy and the device came as promised and as requested.
After using this dock for 2 weeks I sent it back and went back to using my Thunderbolt 3 Workstation Dock (Gen 2) because I had too many problems with my external monitor going black while working.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, July 7, 2022
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Never worked well. Constantly have to unplug and replug or restart computer since I've owned it (6 months). otherwise, monitors randomly (and constantly) black out or go fuzzy.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, July 6, 2022
Lenovo appreciates all feedback and thank you for taking the time to rate and review our product! We apologize for your inconvenience. Please refer to our Technical Support at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/.