Over the past couple of months, we have seen a lot of ThinkPad notebooks. The guests visited the flagship and the X1 the Carbon , and relatively non-standard for business-line Yoga 460 today to talk about a hybrid of these models -. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review. The company calls it the thinnest business laptop “4-in-1” with a screen diagonal of 14 inches. Let’s sort out what he’s good.
DESIGN, ERGONOMICS, STYLUS
Any ThinkPad – is primarily a working tool that can be seen on the box. Despite the fact that the device is well beyond $ 1,000, no one is trying to flirt with the buyer. The notebook comes in a simple cardboard box with a modest content: laptop power supply connector with an Ethernet connector and VGA, documentation.
Do not be lying if I say that all ThinkPad design is virtually identical, including the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review. Before us is a laptop in the classic matte black design, with small red accents on the keyboard and touchpad, as well as a variety of indicators.
The latter here quite a lot and they are all the way: on the corporate logo on the lid of the fingerprint scanner on the function keys mute the sound and Esc / FnLk plus one near the power supply connector.
All glow green or orange depending on whether or not the notebook charged on or off the sound. Too much attention is not attracted but will help you quickly get the right information.
The model is interesting for its size – 14-inch laptop, but thanks to the side frames average width it is perceived quite compact, and the weight of 1.39 kg allows you to easily carry it in a bag or backpack. It turns a handy tool, because the screen size is visually much more than the classic 12- and 13-inch devices and using there is no sense of a small laptop.
Yoga hinge allows it to fold in different ways that can be useful, for example, on the road when you need to work or watch TV series on the plane. Transformable allows more comfortable to install the device on a small table.
Connector Set a good, but not perfect. There are three USB 3.0 (one is always active), the video outputs Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, composite Mini-Jack for the headset, and a rear flap hides a slot for SIM-card and MicroSD.
Yes, there is no standard slots for SD memory cards, but a place for him, if desired, be found.
The slot on the right side is hiding an active stylus, a little further there is the small volume on and keys.
Another interesting engineering solution – retractable frame above the keyboard when you are using a laptop in the stand mode or tablet. The frame protects the keyboard and area from unnecessary scuffs. In general, in many ways the model repeats a little more affordable ThinkPad Yoga 460, only made in a thin shell of a composite alloy according to MIL standard, offers a range of hardware configurations.
In terms of ease of use to a minimum Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga reviews comments. Here is one of the most convenient backlit keyboard, the touchpad is a medium-sized with good sensitivity, trackpoint with additional keys.
Keyboard and Touchpad do not require getting used to – with them to work comfortably from the very first minutes.
DISPLAY
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review – one of the first laptops that are available in versions with an OLED display. We got a simple version with IPS matrix of 2560 x 1440 resolution points. The manufacturer claims about the presence of anti-reflective coating and brightness of 300 units.
According to our measurements, the brightness varies from 3 to 273 cd / m², there is the Auto Brightness Sensor. The measured contrast ratio – 1 to 1128. As for the business laptop, X1 Yoga boasts high accuracy and natural colors.
IPS-matrix differs from standard viewing angles, and the presence of anti-reflective layer significantly in practice. If behind a window, it is not necessary to increase the brightness to the limit, for comfortable work it will be enough just to increase it slightly and remain at least spurious reflections and visible fingerprints.
Since this is a convertible, all Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review equipped with touch screens with good sensitivity.
AUTONOMY
The company offers including modification with IPS panel Full HD resolution. The latter can be very handy because the higher resolution display notebooks are bad for the time off work.
This is also true for the test laptop. The company claims that the built-in battery is 52 Wh model will work up to 11 hours. In practice, these results can be achieved except by working only in a text editor. In normal office mode with Chrome, Skype, editing documents get five or six hours, but the configuration with Full HD displays will work as promised.
It should be noted with respect to the compact power of 45 watts. Unfortunately, it comes standard with a thick power cord, so the entire structure turns out not so small as it could.
HARDWARE PLATFORM, NOISE, HEAT, SOUND
Test the laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review is equipped with a 14 nanometer Intel Core i7-6600U processor, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM and SSD standard disk Samsung 512 GB. This is one of the maximum configurations.
Also the available version with simpler chips Intel Core family of drives and PCIe NVMe. There TPM-module and convenient fingerprint reader, which you just need to put your finger (like smartphones).
With the rest of the “iron” is also no problem – there are dual-band Wi-Fi with support for 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.1 and a built-in 3G-modem.
For office tasks, such equipment is more than enough, and in all other cases, especially when you need graphics performance, the performance will be limited capabilities integrated video core.
The operation of the cooling system is in most cases lost or virtually invisible in the background noise. Even under load remains barely warm laptop Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review.
About built-in speakers do not say anything special – they are just normal. There have clean, and the volume is enough for watching videos or listening to the background music.
PROS: a classic design; comfortable keyboard and touchpad; excellent IPS screen, the availability configurations with OLED-displays; housing made of composite materials according to MIL specifications and features compact size; modem and a fingerprint scanner
CONS: very high price; time WQHD display configurations; No SD-card reader; Ethernet and VGA are connected via the supplied adapter
CONS: very high price; time WQHD display configurations; No SD-card reader; Ethernet and VGA are connected via the supplied adapter
CONCLUSION
The company “crossed” the classic Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga review with popular in the consumer segment Lenovo Yoga. The result is a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga – a good business laptop is a top-class form-factor transformer. Like all such devices it boasts ergonomics and good equipment. In Europe, for the model will be asked to $ 2,000, which greatly reduces the potential audience for the device, but the real consumers of laptops that will not stop.
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