The World’s Newest Foldable – Is A Laptop? [Into The Fold Episode 5]

Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The World’s Newest Foldable – Is A Laptop? [Into The Fold Episode 5]”.
A portion of this video is sponsored by MediaTek. For four episodes of this series for far we’ve tackled the question: how does a folding display change the way you use your smartphone? Well, almost two years ago, Lenovo put the same question to laptops. And today we finally get to start answering it. ( upbeat music ). I got my first preview of the ThinkPad X1 Fold before it even had a proper name back in May of 2019.. But if you missed that and the hands on from CES back in January, let me give you a quick refresher.. While you might be tempted to thing of this as a tablet, Lenovo calls it a foldable PC.

And that’s really how I’d encourage you to think of it, too. At 2.2 pounds or about one kilogram. It’S beastly for a tablet and it’s not built on the kind of mobile architecture. We’Ve come to expect from tablets either. Under the hood. The X1 Fold is a full own personal computer from its Home Edition.

Build of Windows 10 to the fan cooled Intel Core i5. It runs on. So get the whole. Should I buy this or buy an iPad question out of your head..

This is really just a different kind of ultra portable laptop. I’ll cover how well the X1 Fold delivers on that promise. In my full review. Today, I wan na focus on the foldable aspect.

And the best way to do that is to the answer the question that people have been peppering me with, since I teased this video on Twitter., Why? Why would I want a folding screen on a laptop, It’s a good question and to answer it. Let’S take a look at a conventional laptop of about the same size., The Lenovo Flex 5G. I reviewed this past summer. For all its tricks.

This will always have the footprint of a 14 inch notebook. Open, closed, open and closed it’ll always be at least this big.. Now compare that with the X1 Fold.

When I open it to its full 13.3 inches. I get almost as much screen real estate as the Flex 5G.. It supports itself in landscape mode using a built in kick stand, so I can move the wireless keyboard anywhere relative to the display.. I can use a mouse or I can interact directly on the touch screen.. I can even prop it up in portrait mode.

If I want with a stand. When I have the space to spread out, this is even more versatile than a standard laptop., But what I don’t have the space to spread out. Well, that’s where the foldable display starts to pay for itself..

I bend the X1 Fold into a laptop shape and click the keyboard into its magnetic landing zone.. Just like that, the screen shrinks to half size. I ditch my mouse for the track pad and I’m netbooking, like it’s 2009. In a former life, this would’ve been heaven.

For airplane, train tray tables.. Oh that’s clever.! In 2020, it mainly comes in handy at Brooklyn coffee shops with their manhole sized outdoor tables. And when it comes time to pack up and go, not only does the X1 Folk collapse into a more petite package than a laptop.

It does so with a dazzling display of engineering alacrity., So you don’t have to carry the keyboard separately.. It stays right in the middle of that OLED sandwich where it also charges wirelessly.. It also includes a loop for the Lenovo Mod Pen. So that that’s not rattling around in your bag. A bag that can now be much smaller, because the machine’s closed footprint is about the size of a hardback novel. One bound in real leather by the way.. Now, if that pen perked your ears up, don’t worry we’ll come back to it. And, of course, no discussion of foldables is complete without tackling the durability, question. And I’ll have surprises for you in both categories.

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And in a world where Galaxy Fold fans are waiting for Samsung to develop a folding screen. Rugged enough to hold up to an S. Pen Lenovo has already done it. For the past two days.

I’Ve been using the X1 Fold’s Mod Pen to navigate a tenor face on and off and in my one extended session using it as a tablet. I spent about a half hour, scribbling a little planet scene in Paint 3D.. Despite all that, there’s not a scratch to be seen on this screen yet.. Now I realize that some of this may have sounded like a love letter to the X1 Fold or perhaps a sponsored video, but it is neither.

In the full review. I will expound upon the several ways. This device falls short of its roughly $ 3,000 price, tag. Spoiler alert, a lot of it has to do with Windows., But “ Into the Fold” is about how flexible displays change the way we use our technology.

With this device. Lenovo brings the portability advantages of folding phones to the world of PCs.. It’S adding functionality to that world through its very clever accessory design, and so far at least it’s proving that we don’t have to settle for durability, compromises along the way.. So, yes, it’s very expensive.

There’S a lot of issues with Windows which again I’ll get to in that full review, but if you’re closing out 2020 still thinking, foldables won’t be a big part of our mobile future. Well, based on the hardware alone, devices like the X1 Fold should make you think. Twice. This video was produced after three days with a ThinkPad X1 Fold, retail device purchased by Mr.

Mobile’s publisher.. While there are some great sponsored showcases out there, I’d encourage you to check out this. Isn’T one of them.

Lenovo did not provide compensation for this coverage. Nor was it given copy approval rights or an early preview.. The opinions contained here in are mine and mine.

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