oh. so T495 can have 16 onboard + 16gb slot = 32gb in total?

Yup more useful, optional for X395, if you prefer lighter weight.

Well you save so much from thinkpads, better give Lenovo profit a bit sometimes 😁

Actually just check the Lenovo site on and off, you will find good deals.

But if you want the Citibank 45% off, you must wait last 3 days of August or Sept 2019. (But as noted, you can still get good discounts even now on their site).

I also wonder why they only offer 16GB with the Ryzen 5 Pro instead of Ryzen 7 Pro.

Maybe due to thermal throttling. Few people complained the Ryzen 7 Pro heats and slows down the performance..

Ryzen 5 Pro seems to be no such issue.

If you get x395 and max out the ram, it'll be dual channel ram (8gbx2 = 16gb ram), but both are soldered.

If you get the t495, just max the soldered ram slot to 16gb ram, and later on you can buy another ram stick and install it yourself at the second slot which is swappable.

Reason I'm telling you this is because an 8gb upgrade to 16gb on Lenovo site is quite cheap (only add between rm100-200).

for me Ram very important, just now I removed 32gb x 2 from P1 Gen 2 and plugin 16GB just bought today, the startup time and launching software are slower to compare with 64GB RAM.. seriously P1 Gen 2 comes with samsung 32GB DDR 4 2666mhz.

Ahh I don’t hv Citibank cc

You can get the same price I bought today. Just go check out my previous post and then configure the specs accordingly and you will see the discount actually not time limited (the current discounts as good as the Citibank discount). Lenovo plays with the laptop pricing.

This post has been edited by kuci_mayong: Aug 17 2019, 06:46 PM

P1 Gen 2 comes with 2 removable slots?

Also, I just assume you were testing the speeds, so did you replace back the 64gb ram back into the P1 after that again?

Yup, after test and put all back and running with my software.

I'm planning to get crucial ram if and when I decide to upgrade the 2nd ram slot.

I found 2 amd laptop with upgraded ram one each from shopee / lazada

I would suggest you get 3500U if you're aiming for R5, 2500U is older architecture and the GPU performance is about 10-20% lesser (from what I can see in some game benchmarks).
The prices aren't too much of a difference.
And you need to test the notebooks to see if you like the keyboard and build quality before buying.
But I'd suggest you check out Lenovo's offering.
Even without Citibank promo, you can get a good price on their devices.

Don't compare consumer line with business line laptop.
Even comparing between business line Hp probook/elitebook, Dell latitude and Lenovo thinkpads, thinkpad seem to be in a different league in its own.

People pay double for business line laptop and its worth every penny.

if that is the case, then no point waiting for the citi deals. wtf.

There is depending what is the specs do you want.
For mine X395 after customised to max specs and get the 45% discount = 3.1k, if without huge discount the price is over 4k.

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