End of an era: the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 doesn’t have a Magnesium structure frame
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The ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 was the last of its kind. With the newest model, the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3, Lenovo finally lets go of one of the most defining designs ever created under the ThinkPad name: The dedicated Magnesium structure frame, which was introduced with the ThinkPad T60 back in 2006.
jaksystems@reddit
Doesn't have a separate magnesium structure frame.
They've moved to the same magnesium skeleton frame fused to an aluminum/composite skin that HP, Dell and Lenovo themselves used on other models.
HamCheezeSliderz@reddit
Asking for a friend but in theory if the battery pack in these became spicy and popped, would the magnesium frame accelerate the destruction of the laptop that would have become destroyed from a regular fire?
crazy_goat@reddit
It's an alloy - not thermite
jaksystems@reddit
No, it's not pure magnesium.
blackbalt89@reddit
My university gave each student a T60 when we enrolled, you should have seen the condition some of these things were in.
Never once had an issue with them though.
Pemut@reddit
Didn't the Z60 have one in 05?
braaaaaaainworms@reddit
it did, i have a few of those
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