Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is This Laptop Too “Extreme”?”.
Man, I’ve been interested in laptops recently, you could probably tell I’ve been using Mac books for years and recently you know bumping into some problems, keyboard issue that keeps on flaring up, but in the meantime I’ve been experimenting, a lot more with Windows and the wide variety Of choices that you have look at that all the way down to there Kirk was telling me he’s at yoga the other day. What poses that sleeping dog? It’S a sleeping dog! You see. I know my yoga. It’S just a little bit more exciting. To be honest, because there’s more choice did a video on this guy here this is the x1 carbon Lenovo ThinkPad two and a half pounds.
It’S got an anti-glare display as well, which I’ve actually grown to really like using near a window prior to that the surface laptop 2 that I have here is mostly aluminum, with, of course, in the Alcantara interior. As much as I wanted to love this one, the keyboard was just a little bit too flimsy. Maybe I’m hammering a bit hard when you put them in a showdown between the x1 carbon and this one, the keys themselves. Yeah I mean they’re nicer, they’re nicer on the laptop by a touch I just gravitate towards that one. You have tablets and iPads and smartphones in so many different devices competing for your attention and when you reach for one of these, you want to have a nice keyboard experience. A nice display experience. The speaker. Experience haven’t been super happy with on x1 carbon saloon.
2 speakers on this are not as nice as pretty much any MacBook that I’ve used so anyhow that brings us to today the x1 extreme. This is the Lenovo equivalent to the MacBook Pro. This is the workstation. This is the gtx 1050.
This one has a core i7 in it. This is configurable up to 64 gigabytes of ram. In fact, if you buy this laptop in a form of the p1, then you could be looking at intel, xeon processors in a laptop, it’s got 2 slots for SSDs, but the craziest part about this is it still comes in incredibly light right at four pounds. So think MacBook Pro think thin and light okay.
Here we go. This one has a 4k display on it, that’s a ton of pixels for a laptop, but it does come at the expense of being a bit heavier compared to the x1 carbon. I mean you’re gon na notice the difference more screen real estate on this side. It actually supports quick charging 135 watt power, brick, which isn’t even not huge, think of quick charge for your smartphone, but for your laptop and it’s about time that took place.
They’Ve gone with a proprietary connector here, I think it’s worth it in exchange for quick charge on your laptop. It’S got the soft touch to it. It’S all business, but that’s alright. It just says I want to get the job done.
Nothing extra! You have an SD card slot, a couple of USB ports over here, there’s a Kensington lock to Thunderbolt three USB type-c, connectors, HDMI out Ethernet, breakout and also a headphone jack much different than the Apple approach on the MacBook. The rapid charge will bring this laptop up to 80 percent of its total battery capacity in a 1 hour charge. Ok cool this one, there’s a little bit more room on the deck. The trackpad looks a little bit larger than the x1 carbon.
Let’S take a quick peek at that yeah, it’s a bit taller and the fingerprint scanner moved this one they say is anti reflective, but it has glass over top, so it’s gon na be more reflective than the one that I’m currently using on the carbon. This is the best whoo look at this like. Why don’t more laptops do that? Let me go flat if I have to that is crazy. So, if you’re all about contrast and vibrance and so on, this is probably the display that you’re going to select. If you go with this particular system, having 4k resolution in something that’s 15 inches, I mean that’s a ton, that’s some serious pixel density going on there. Let me do a little bit of typing on his keyboard. I’M curious, quick brown fox jumped over that Lee. Easy dog, I love these keyboards man.
I didn’t realize how deprived I had been for so many years, butterfly key switches when we’ve, even when they worked like you, just feel like getting after it. It’S like the carbon with some added stability. If typing is of utmost importance to you, apparently the audio performance is better here than it is on the sixth-generation carbon. That’S a hundred, I feel like.
I hope that I’ve uncovered some value. It does sound better than the x1 carbon. It’S still not macbook pro level. Sound the fans are jumping on a little bit again, we got we got hot or hardware, I mean that’s the bottom line and the screen I’m seeing a lot more color and saturation in the video when compared to the 1080p display, like that’s a really good-looking image.
Right there in the 4k display is so nice to look at, but it’s gon na increase your power consumption. Obviously you could go in and and create some some very customized versions of that product. You can spec this unit with an i5 and i7. Like I said, you go to the workstation version, where you can go all the way up to a Xeon, and it’s not even over once you own the thing, because you can pop this bottom off right here and you can actually upgrade it yourself.
You can throw another SSD in there. It’S actually pretty easy to do and they don’t mind you doing it. You’Re not like voiding a warranty or anything like that is the extra horsepower worth the added weight scale, size and so on when compared to the x1 carbon which I’ve been liking.
Look at the way I handle that with one hand I’ve been liking. This so much it might be for me and my day-to-day tasks that this is a bit more convenient. I don’t really know yet, but I’m real interested in what Lenovo is doing with the ThinkPad line. It’S got me fired back up if you’re like me and you’ve been on a macbook for a really long time. It might be the time to take a glance back.
It’S the extreme version. It’S the desktop replacement sort of workstation little bit of gaming. It’S like the power ThinkPad if you’re looking for something smaller lighter. This is 2.5 pounds.
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