Lenovo's new ThinkPads combine Intel's Skylake with Thunderbolt 3 and 64GB of RAM

Intel is bringing its professional-class Xeon processors to notebook PCs for the first time ever, with Lenovo incorporating the new chips into a pair of hefty machines. The Lenovo ThinkPad P50 and P70 are designed for people who need large amounts of computing power on the go, offering up to 64GB of RAM (the most memory on any mobile workstation, says Lenovo), up to 1TB of SSD storage, and two USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports for super-fast data transfer.

The Xeon processors powering both machines are based on Intel's Skylake architecture — a "tock" update in the company's tick-tock strategy of improving chips, meaning that it's built with the same 14nm process as its Broadwell predecessor, but is architecturally improved. Essentially, these...

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