The Other Type Of ThinkPad...

So as you guys know, I'm a bit of an aficionado in the Lenovo laptop department because I've been yzing, 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, I zeroed in on it. It was what I wanted. Thin, 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 fourth 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 three pounds. That one's like two 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 does it say on the side? Uh, not much

One thing I appreciate is they continue to kind of zero in on these slight improvements

If people find they 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 here. Power brick looks exactly the same. Yeah, 65 watts

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 gray A lot of people sort of think that aluminum in laptops corresponds with quality I don disagree To some that don know exactly what they 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 has 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. That's what we're going to do. Oh, that's too easy

Okay. Nice little spot for the pen. So to pop it out, what do you do

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-size HDMI port, another USB-A port

And then you have two Type-C ports 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 gotta hold here, okay

To open it up. Let's be clear. Alright. 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 into smartphones for me

the meme factory is out here producing. We have a speaker grill 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 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 gonna say something right now. I feel like this

trackpad material might be a bit different because this is very smooth. Look at this. Ready

goes all the way boom all right now that's what you're paying for you see that right there i'm not

even joking man if you're tight for space you you're watching a 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 willy do that's 470 nits so it's a slight toggle back on the knit counter from the car

because that was 500 nits, right? But still touch screen, pretty responsive there

Touch, scroll, it's, the pen is so much better, obviously, for touch screen

I'm kind of a fan of it. The wobble might get to you though

It's quite, there's quite a wobble. Pen input is probably gonna happen more like this

And I'm gonna have it flipped around like this, and I'm gonna be 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 unbox. Unbox. I think a lot of people are gonna be cross shopping

this versus the regular X1 Carbon, as you would, right? You like specs are the same The same chipset you looking at the same options for RAM for storage now you gonna notice it got a chin on it you see like right here you got a fairly significant chin on

it oh wow you can block the uh 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 notch

trend or at least was was there at the forefront popularized it i would say it's body ratio

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 sixth generation and before

that were from a sound perspective this is in your typical region in the right range for the 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 going to be comparable. I'm going to see. I'm going to try. I'm going to see. But

Right now, I'm feeling like this particular model could displace, even as much as I like, the current carbon

It's my first experience with the yoga. I think I'm going to switch it out