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if you've watched basically any video featuring me in the last couple years you're probably aware that i absolutely

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love the surface laptop and think it's nearly the perfect then in light

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but this right here the thinkpad x390 is

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stirring some unfaithful thoughts in me

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the build quality of the thinkpad x390 is some of the best that i've seen in a

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thin and light laptop chassis is made entirely of magnesium which means it's

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not only stiff but also light with just 2.8 pounds of heft the overall look is

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simple and to the point which might leave some of you craving a bit more

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flare in which case the xps 13 or surface laptop will greet you with open

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arms but at the end of the day it just comes down to your preference

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the i o here is considerably more well-rounded than the competition sporting a couple usb-a ports type c

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full-size HDMI and Thunderbolt the pulse double duty has a thinkpad connect board

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to help please your it guy also according to the spec sheet there

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is an sd card reader but i don't see it

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here or here

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because it's actually behind the screen right

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there now one thing i will complain about is lenovo still offers a 768p

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display as an option guys it's 2019 300 laptops come with 1080p

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ips displays now this should not be an option on a laptop with a starting price

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of over a grand especially since the lower price will tempt a lot of

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corporate buyers to the detriment of their employees

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anyway you should shell out the extra 180 for the 1080p touch display although

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it isn't the brightest or most shockingly colorful display i've ever

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used it has a nice matte finish that effectively removes overhead lights is

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color accurate enough to do some light photo editing and generally just got out

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of my way when i needed to do work and speaking of accomplishing work this

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keyboard gets it done it's really got it all loads of key travel good tactility

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and solid key stabilization i personally don't like laptop keyboards

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that require quite this much force to actuate but even then it still gets a

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solid a and for those of you that like hammering keys it's probably more an a

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plus except for one problem when trying to hit g h or b i sometimes hit this

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annoying red skin tag that hasn't been useful for years

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i know there are people out there that swear by the track point who are

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furiously typing no alex with the track point i can keep

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all my fingers on the keyboard while using the mouse well dear mouse nipple

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warriors i have a trick that's about to blow your frigging mind

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put your fingers on the home row and while keeping your left thumb on the

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spacebar move your right thumb down to the trackpad

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now this is a bit more difficult on the thinkpad because the top of the trackpad

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is taken up with the stupid trackpoint buttons but using this method i can effectively

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mouse around a word document without my fingers ever leaving the keyboard lenovo

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i know you guys are too stuck in your ways to remove the trackpoint people

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will complain but they're probably just a vocal minority and you should have the

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balls to just put on a larger proper

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trackpad and i say proper trackpad because this one is just okay

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the feel is pretty good although the plastic top doesn't feel quite as nice

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as the glass ones found on most other ultrabooks the x360 does use Windows

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precision drivers but no matter what i tried there was still

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some funky mouse acceleration leading to the cursor just cruising right past the

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destination and leaving me confused this was bad enough that i first assumed the

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display had some serious response time issues but

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after testing the x390 is within two milliseconds of the surface laptop 2 and

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xps 13 well within the era of our test so i guess it's just down to bad driver

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support or something where the x390 can claw back some points

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though is an upgradeability just five screws gives you access to the insides

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where the storage can be upgraded and that's about it the RAM is soldered

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but at least you can replace the 48 watt hour battery if it starts giving you

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less than the eight or so hours of battery life we got in our testing also

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the whole keyboard assembly is replaceable which is

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cool and if you want to be cool be like me and replace your shirt

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with this one from lttstore.com anyway

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our machine here is equipped with an i7 85 65 view four core processor that's

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rapid and lighter tasks and capable and more demanding ones like

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video editing or like cad although not so much that i'd recommend

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it if someone solely plans on doing that if i was expecting this for myself i

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might save the 185 dollars and get the i5 model there's absolutely no way i

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shell out the 224 dollars for the i7 86

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65u all you get is an extra 200 megahertz

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turbo now as for pricing this is where lenovo's shenanigans become very

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annoying once again the base price of this machine as configured

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is a bit over twenty three hundred dollars and for that just don't buy it

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the thing is laptops on lenovo website are almost constantly on sale meaning

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our x390 can currently be had for fourteen hundred dollars making it a

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compelling option compared to the surface laptop two and dell xps 13 which

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brings us nicely back to the original question is the thinkpad x390 good

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enough to take place of my daily driver laptop

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if given the choice between the xps 13 and x390 i'd take the x390 the better i

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o is part of the decision but there's just something about the xps 13 that

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doesn't light a fire in me when i use it so then the surface laptop too this is

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where things get a bit trickier the thinkpad is a bit faster has way

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more i o better serviceability and might

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even have an edge in build quality but it loses in two key areas

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screen and touchpad the 4x3 1504p display on the surface

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laptop 2 offers a lot more screen real estate while not significantly

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increasing the overall size of the device the glasstop trackpad doesn't

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make it feel like i'm drunk while trying to click on icons this leads to what i

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consider an overall much more enjoyable laptop experience on the surface laptop

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too which is why i'll remain my daily driver

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at least until the new dell xps 13 two

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in one arrives in our studio it also has a taller screen and looks mighty

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