Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Other Type Of ThinkPad…”.
So, as guys know, I’m a bit of an aficionado in the Lenovo laptop department. Cuz I’ve been analyzing inspecting all of them, the latest ones, the older ones. I’Ve been kind of sticking to one category, which is the x1 carbon. I mean I just Iza. It was what I wanted then light, but alongside that, this one launched as well – and I was like – maybe this could be interesting as well – maybe even more interesting – I’m not really sure.
So this is the yoga version and it’s the 4th generation. It essentially takes everything you like about the x1 carbon and then gives you a rotating display, so it sort of becomes a tablet because it has to house that extra capability in there it’s a bit heavier. So this is like 3 pounds that one’s like 2 and a half. I think that trade-off might be worthwhile to a number of people.
The other thing that happens here the construction materials are different again to support that slightly different behavior. Let’S check it out for ourselves. What’S an aside uh, not much one thing I appreciate: is they they continued to kind of zero? In on these, like slight improvements that people find a like these series of laptops, they just go in and mod them as much as they need to. Oh, they got the adapter cables as well.
In your power, brick looks exactly the same. Yes, 65 watt, there’s a pen included. So, like I said, that’s your preferred input, method or maybe even just from time to time actually closer to typical pen category than it may look at first glance, drawing sketching productivity documents, circling HDMI to VGA. What I like about this is this color, this kind of dark grey, a lot of people, sort of think that aluminium and laptops corresponds with quality. I don’t disagree to some that don’t know exactly what they’re touching the carbon weave and so on. It could feel like plastic there’s, no mistaking this construction, it’s cool to the touch you know, you’re dealing with metal. I can tell right away. It is a bit heavier though, as a consequence of that immediately, you can tell the hinges are different.
That’S because it can fold all the way back. The power switch is moved over to this side. You have a USB, a port there’s a lockdown section over here. This is where the pen goes.
I might as well. Oh that’s too easy. Okay, nice little spot for for the pen, so to pop it out.
What do you do you just? That’S it simple this it’s out of the way, but it’s there when you want it. So that’s kind of a nice implementation, headphone jack, a full-sized, HDMI port, another USB a port, and then you have to type C for its supporting Thunderbolt, 3, pretty cool. So far I don’t know.
Am I converting it’s quite possible? Can I open it up without the thing tilting back? That’S what the old laptops did. Hopefully, this one doesn’t ooh jack. It almost does it it’s so close. It’S a two-handed operation. You got a hold here: okay, open it up, let’s be clear, hi and look at that you’re bending you can’t bend like that Jack. You see, you see, you got no flexibility, I’m converting to this one.
Now I’m converting laptops too frequently laptops are turning their smartphones. For me, the meme factory is out here producing. We have a speaker grille along the top right in this location. Here I hope it sounds good.
It does have the Dolby Atmos badge, it’s my favorite thing about the newest version of the carbon version of this laptop is it sounds so much better. I think one of the benefits of having a slightly heavier laptop using aluminum here is this baby feels planted, and I’m telling you right now. The quick brown fox never felt so good, because I feel like this construction might actually take this keyboard to another level. It feels very high quality, and you know I’m just gon na say something right now.
I feel like this trackpad material might be a bit different cuz. This is very smooth. Look at this ready goes all the way boom. Alright, now that’s what you’re paying for you see that right there, I’m not even joking me.
If you’re tight for space, you, your watching the video you’re trying to eat your breakfast cereal Jack, you see you put that there. You got nothing in front. It is the 4k display. Mr. Willie, do that’s 417, it’s! So it’s a slight toggle back on the Nick counter from the car, because that was 500 nits right, but still touchscreen, pretty responsive there touch scroll. It’S the pen is so much better. Obviously, for touchscreen I’m kind of a fan of it, it’s the wobble might get to you, though. It’S quite this.
Quite a wobble pen input is probably gon na happen more like this, and I’m gon na have it I’m gon na. Have it flipped around like this and I’m gon na, be, you know, tapping like this, in which case wobble is gone. I believe this used to be called inking once upon a time so like. If I did on box box.
I think a lot of people can be cross shopping. This versus the regular x1 carbon. As you would write, your like specs are the same. The same chipset you’re.
Looking at the same options for RAM for storage, now you’re gon na notice, it’s got a chin on it. You see like right here. You’Ve got a fairly significant chin on it. Oh wow, you can block the you, can block the front-facing camera with this little tiny.
Barely there switch here, we go full volume. We’Re so aware of it now sort of started the knotch trend, or at least was was there at the forefront, popularized it. I would say it’s body, pretty terrible. I don’t know it’s usable, it’s not blowing me away. Maybe I think, I think, part of the reason I had such a reaction on the regular x1 carbon was because of how bad the 6th generation and before that were from a sound perspective. This is in your typical region in the right range for this sound. You would expect out of a laptop I’ve heard louder.
What can I say about this device? What’S already great about the laptop I’ve been using for a while, now the standard x1 carbon, it adds to it a slightly nicer trackpad, in my opinion, different materials. You go. The aluminum route you get the flipping screen, you get the pen input. Maybe you can’t see yourself using that very much, but you want to have it. You want to have the option the potential to go that direction.
This one gives it to you. The displays for me are comparable. The sound is comparable. Performance is gon na, be comparable. I’M gon na see I’m gon na.
Try I’m gon na see, but right now I’m feeling like this particular model could displace even as much as I liked the current carbon. It’S my first experience with the yoga. I am gon na switch it out.
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