Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is There A New Best Laptop 2019?”.
All right, so I talked a lot in the past about my laptop of choice. You may have even seen the previous video in which i showcased this laptop here is the x1 carbon from lenovo then light, but really the reason I choose this over other laptops for the day-to-day is because of the keyboard, I’m a huge fan of the keyboard, and I really feel like keyboards on laptops have been going downhill over the past couple of years past few years. That’S what opened the gates for me to test out some various pcs and move over to Windows, but the ThinkPad line is not gon na be for everyone. I mean it’s a utilitarian. Look to it.
You see it’s got this like matte black finish, but that’s not gon na be for everyone. A lot of people are gon na. Look around this and, while my thing to be a little bit, flashy err possibly a little bit more modern-looking. This one is called the s 940.
It has an i7 1.8 gigahertz, eight gigs ram 256 storage, a 14-inch! U HD IPS panel! Well, what’s the retail cost on this one 1800 bucks USD, but the s 940 starts at $ 1400 for a lower spec. I found this particular laptop to be exciting. You have a kind of really polished, looking laptops, but with some of the attributes from the ThinkPad that I like it’s a 14 inch laughter, that’s a tiny little box. By the way, it’s pretty tiny! That’S a 65 watt USB type-c connector.
I found this charger, which is like this tiny little brick capable of charging these laptops via USB C and that’s my travel. That’S my go-to travel charger of choice. Now, here’s the laptop this is the box, that’s wild! That is super tiny Wow.
So it’s 2.6 pounds in the x1 carbons, 2 and a half. So it’s about the same. Maybe it’s just the metal playing tricks with me here. So it’s a bit darker than Space Gray. I think I actually left it more.
To be honest, it’s kind of into charcoal territory look at the form factor. That’S why that’s a 15-inch MacBook Pro – and this is the s 940. The carbon is a bit taller because the aspect ratio on the screen is different in this case, and this guy is gon na, be a bit wider. If I place it on top, oh it’s.
Actually it’s almost exactly the same. It is okay, so most of our gains, then in the display Department display size department are the shrinking bezels. The bezels are tiny on this smartphone esque.
They even went so far as moving the front-facing camera above it’s kind of notched out into the top part of the display. If I hold my hand behind there, you can see it actually jumps up a little bit now. The other nice thing.
This is a single handed lift. This is pretty nice guys, the keyboard, the keyboard is not is not ThinkPad level, there’s just not as much travel in the keys. These ones are more like a traditional keyboard.
This is more like a like a chiclet style that you would be used to on a more modern keyboard deck alright. So I also see the dolby atmos speaker system, logo here and it looks like the speaker. Grilles are here so that could be an improvement either way.
I like the fact that they carried through a similar a similar scale with each key and curvature to thunderbolts on this side over here lots of potential expandability there and speed over. On the other side, you got your power connector in the form of a USB type-c connector and a headphone jack you’re losing lacking a little bit in diversity of ports when compared to the ThinkPad lineup, which is gon na. Give you quite a few connectors on here.
An hdmi port on this guy, the display is wild, there’s almost no bezel around it. It is crazy slender, on each side, including the top with the expanding front-facing camera. Now the reason they did this you’ve seen other manufacturers that want to have a really slim bezel.
On their laptops, you’ve seen them put cameras in all kinds of crazy places, including down below here. Huawei has done that in the past, but then you get this weird front-facing camera for video conferencing. That like looks up people’s noses.
So you got to appreciate the engineering on that front. You’Ll see how crazy different it is when compared to the ThinkPad. I mean this baby triple the size of a chin.
Maybe now this display, the UHD display on here is definitely better, obviously than the FHD one. That I have on that x1 carbon over there I mean the range from the black to the white they’re deep blacks over here too. It’S just a better display and of course it’s got more resolution as well.
That’S a no contest in the display zone. I mean this looks look at this. This looks great, I mean that’s like all display, that’s pretty wild. This is the main advantage. This is, if you spot this thing at a coffee shop you’re like wow. I want one of those, and this is probably the reason why everybody wants portability, but they don’t want to give up visibility. You don’t want to give up the multimedia component and immersion and productivity that comes with having a larger display. I can’t say that the keyboard is competing in any way with the ThinkPad keyboard, so you got to decide like what what is more important to you and why so, let’s go ahead and turn up the volume have Apple and iPhones. That’S all they need it’s all.
They want they’re set for life, there’s definitely a customer base that believes that and then also yeah. The speakers are much better than my finish. It’S it’s a nice thing to hold in one hand, sorry clear.
I honestly do not even need to play the speakers off to act upon carbon to you. Yeah, I’m happy with the speakers anyway. So if you’re wondering why it’s important to have the camera, the webcam up at the top and why they had to design that in there I mean that would have taken tremendous effort to get that to fit in up there.
This is the purpose. This is the reason I’m looking directly into it. If I happen to be on skype, if I happen to be doing a video conference Kirk, you just did a video conference. In fact, if the camera was popping up from the bottom, then it’s gon na be more like this Jack.
Can you see this? Can you get there? It’S more like this now you’re, looking up my nose now, it’s not the greatest camera me. It’S like a little 720p webcam up there. So keep that in mind, but still to cram it in up top. This is where we’re at on smartphones. It’S the same story.
Where do you put the front-facing camera? It seems to be the one characteristic that informs so much of the design and now you’re, seeing the same thing in laptops, where they’re trying to figure out where to put into trying to figure out how to minimize bezels. So the trackpad, I’m probably gon na, say that it’s maybe it’s even a little bit nicer to use then on the ThinkPad. It’S it’s responsive, it’s acceptable.
So it’s not a substitute for me. I wouldn’t say I wouldn’t even say it’s particularly special. I would say it’s a pretty typical keyboard, but as a package deal, I think it’s a pretty slick laptop. To be honest, it’s got almost no bezel. They found a way to fit the front-facing camera in the right spot. The keyboard is usable, the trackpad is nice.
It’S got enough IO for most people with the double thunderbolt and a headphone jack, so there’s advantages and disadvantages. The overall look. I mean, I think this thing probably crushes for most people, it’s a very slick and slender design, a lot of times or the reason you end up liking. A particular laptop has to do with your own personal preference, around form, factor or economics.
It’S a bit more difficult to put your finger on why you like one better than the other, so really in this case, I’m gon na use this a bit more extensively and see where I land but something’s, telling me I’m just a think pad guy. I don’t. If I can get away from it now the keyboard it’s been so rewarding me, it’s a place I like to live. I mean I just can’t wait to like respond to emails and I hate email.
So that’s got to tell you something about what lenovo has been able to package up in the x1 carbon. It’S a that’s a crazy, popular laptop and for good reason, but this thing’s slick, it’s more modern. It looks more futuristic. I think it’s gon na be appealing to some people. .