Lenovo has announced the IdeaPad 5 Pro, a powerful but slim laptop based on the IdeaPad series and featuring AMD's latest mobile processor at its heart

The Ryzen CPU-powered model, which will be available in the US, ditches the standard IdeaPad laptop's 15-inch display in favor of a 16-inch screen instead Not surprisingly, the IdeaPad Pro 5 seems to have taken its cue from the success of the MacBook Pro 16-inch

There are many Windows 10 laptops that try to capture the essence of the design that makes the MacBook Pro so special, but few have truly mastered the blend of industrial design and ease of use The IdeaPad 5 Pro, however, may be a candidate

The 16-inch IdeaPad 5 Pro starts at $1,149, a price that puts it on par with other premium laptops such as the Surface Laptop 3, Dell XPS 15, and MacBook Pro with M1 Therefore, it will take a solid high-end laptop experience to divert attention away from the aforementioned PCs

The IdeaPad 5 Pro will be released in May, but Lenovo has not narrowed down the date any further The IdeaPad 5 Pro could face stiff competition, as Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 is expected to arrive around the same time

The Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro looks like a child between the MacBook Pro 16" and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 It is an Apple machine with rounded corners, narrow display bezels, a clean keyboard deck and lid, and a Lenovo laptop with a reasonably generous selection of ports and keyboard design And the bottom half of the IdeaPad 5 Pro has a more trapezoidal bottom than the MacBook Pro

The trackpad, which seems relatively large, is located below the keyboard, slightly off-center It also features a single seamless pad, rather than clickable buttons at the top, as on some Lenovo notebooks

Post-selection comes in the form of two USB Type-A ports, a full-sized SD card reader, USB-C with Thunderbolt 4 support, and an HDMI connection For those who do not have wireless headphones, a 35mm audio jack is also available

Clad in an all-metal casing, the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 is available in Cloud Gray and Storm Gray Overall, the laptop appears to be a slightly sleeker, more premium take on the standard IdeaPad 5

As mentioned, the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro has a 16-inch IPS display This screen delivers 25K resolution with a 16:10 aspect ratio, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 350 nits of brightness

This aspect ratio, 90% screen-to-body ratio, and fast refresh rate should make the display quite comfortable for watching movies and jumping between different apps Lenovo claims that the IdeaPad 5 Pro covers 100% of the sRGB color gamut, which may be suitable for some video and photo editing, but we would need to see how well it covers the Adobe RGB color gamut to recommend it for professional-grade photography work

There is also an IR camera on the bezel above the display to facilitate facial recognition login with Windows Hello

Lenovo has not mentioned which AMD Ryzen processor the IdeaPad 5 Pro will be powered by However, AMD is expected to announce a new Ryzen 5000 laptop CPU, which is expected to be included in the IdeaPad 5 Pro Expect a chip with eight cores and blazing core speeds, crunching through demanding tasks and handling multitasking with ease

Up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM will be available, with an optional Nvidia GeForce RTX dedicated GPU Graphics options are worth noting as they may include laptop versions of Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 3000 series

Thus, the IdeaPad 5 Pro should have more than enough power to handle your daily professional computing tasks and light gaming when work is winding down Up to 1TB of PCIe M2 SSD space should provide plenty of fast storage for accessing files and launching applications quickly

Although we did not find any indications on battery life, the IdeaPad 5 Pro is powered by a 75 WHr battery pack that supports Lenovo's Rapid Charge Express This means that a 15-minute charge in standby mode will provide battery capacity for up to 3 hours of continuous 1080p video playback, depending on the brightness of the display

The Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro does not stand out in terms of innovation And arguably, it could be called a basic MacBook Pro 16-inch-inspired laptop However, if it is set to powerful specifications and the keyboard and trackpad are fine, it could compete with the MacBook Pro on Windows 10

To make a proper judgment, the IdeaPad 5 Pro needs to be tested in person As it stands, however, Lenovo's new machine could be a fairly strong premium laptop to compete with top-of-the-line offerings from Apple, Dell, Asus, and Microsoft