On Friday, Intel quietly announced a new line of processors: "workstation-class" mobile Xeon processors using the new Skylake core. Today, Lenovo has announced the first laptops to use the new processors, the P70 and P50. They're monsters.

The P70 is a 17-inch device starting at 7.6 lbs. Along with its Xeon E3-1500M v5 processor (exact speeds haven't been unveiled just yet) and NVIDIA Quadro graphics, it supports up to 64GB ECC DDR4 RAM and up to four storage devices—a 2TB spinning hard disk, a 1TB PCIe SSD, and a DVD-RW that can be replaced with a 1 TB hard disk and/or a 512GB SSD. As well as the usual USB3, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, and gigabit Ethernet ports, the system also includes two Thunderbolt 3 ports for high-speed connectivity, an ExpressCard slot, and an optional Smart Card reader. The P70 also embeds an X-Rite Pantone color sensor below the keyboard for color calibration on the go. Screen options are 1920×1080 with optional touch screen or a 3840×2160 non-touch screen.

The P50 is the P70's smaller brother. The screen size is cut to 15.6 inches and the weight to 5.6 lbs, the optical drive option is removed, and the number of Thunderbolt 3 ports is cut to one. Beyond that, however, it's essentially identical to the 17-inch version, just slightly more portable.

Pricing starts at $1,599 for the P50 and $1,999 for the P70. These mobile workstations won't be for everyone, though the prospect of sticking large amounts of memory in a laptop—with ECC to boot—is sure to appeal to a wide range of users who need portability but want to pair it with gobs of memory for virtual machines, heavyweight video production, complex data visualization, or architecture and engineering software.