This Lenovo laptop is the best 16-inch M3 MacBook Pro alternative to date this Black Friday — and you can save a staggering $4,500 on its top configuration
If you want to go extra large on configurations, Lenovo’s ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 is a stunner of a Black Friday deal
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Applelaunched the16-inch MacBook Pro (late 2023)with the new M3 Max processor early November 2023. I wrote thatno Windows laptop could rival with the 14-inch modelbut it is a very different landscape for the bigger model launched at the same time.
Lenovosells theThinkPad P16 Gen 2, its most powerfulmobile workstationever (and one of the most powerful Windows laptops ever), fully loaded for just over $5,500 at the time of writing, that’s $2,700 less than the equivalent 2023 MacBook Pro 16-inch this Black Friday.
Apple’s newest workstation lacks a number of business-oriented features as well. You not only getIntel’s fastest mobile CPU, 128GB RAM and 8GBSSDin RAID-0, the laptop also features a 4K+ touch display and a dedicated Nvidia mobileGPU, the most powerful ever, theRTX 5000 Ada Generationwith 16GB GDDR6 memory. There’s also a 4G modem, NFC and more ports than Apple’s flagship laptop.
Add Premier Support Plus for an extra $400 and you can get up to five year support with next business day repair, accidental and extended battery warranty. Not something Apple can match - but where it does have the upper hand is when it comes to finesse, weight and battery life.
As we noted inour review, “the MacBook Pro 16-inch (M3) is the latest and greatest version of Apple’s powerful prosumer laptop. With a choice of the new M3 Pro or M3 Max chips, and support for up to 128GB unified memory, this is an incredibly powerful laptop that’s ideal for heavy workloads, especially graphically intensive ones.”
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