companies sometimes do strange things when trying to appeal to Millennials
like this right here because do you know what I really want on my laptop
leather wow who would have ever thought
this is a something that HP tried a little while ago and uh
oh God damn it Lenovo you it up already ah so here's the problem
lenovo's new ThinkPad z13 fold has
leather on the back but it's actually leather that's made out of plastic
bottles hp's leather laptop had real cow
on it and it smelled fantastic you took that thing out of the package and it was
like you had an old baseball glove just sitting on your desk you're like oh wow
hmm it smells really good unfortunately no
cows died for this Lenovo what are you doing okay but in all seriousness though
this is a very good feeling laptop and
also you don't have to get leather on the back this has an option where it's
just you know normal laptop materials around the edge we have diamond cut
edges these look fantastic very fancy
but in like a nice way also uh IO is a
bit lacking so we have a USBC on this
side and USBC on that side and we also
have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that's it that's all you get for Io both
Thunderbolt 4 so that's actually not too bad I don't really mind dongling around
I just Chuck something in my backpack and call it a day but at the same time
it would be really nice to have just like anything else one more i o option
but how much power will it draw
apparently 65 Watts from this little
type c charger and props to Lenovo you
do have charging options on either side of the laptop
oh yeah here we go this is an incredibly
well-built machine like you can see some sort of flexing right here if I really
push on it but this is the sort of like macro chassis flexing that is much more
okay where like I'm pressing here the entire thing is yielding as opposed to
like there being soft spots so I am guessing that is going to be very good
for the keyboard we also have a nice large track pad and
very little space up here I really like to see that oh it's pretty borderline
pretty borderline my hand barely fits on this and I want to really look at this
fortunately a little while ago I made a spreadsheet so that I could tell Dell
that their XPS 13 just didn't fit anyone's hands and they were dumb okay
so I just measured it the Palm rest length on this is 128 millimeter which
is between the Specter X360 and the XPS
13. this basically means that if you have larger hands you're gonna have a
little bit of problem basically only 30
percent of males and uh 47 of females
are going to be comfortable typing on this because otherwise your hand's gonna
fall off the back buy this if you have small hands
that's it if you have big hands don't buy it
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means that this right here is the IPS touch screen this is not the best
display that is available on this they do have a Quad HD OLED Touch model that
I'm sure is just absolute eye candy and maybe it makes your spreadsheets look
kind of weird so you probably want this one but until I've actually seen it all
that in person I can't say for sure what I can say for sure though is that the
most tuning out of the box on this thing is atrocious okay let's test this out I
think we're good I lowered the sensitivity a little bit and turned off
Windows enhanced pointer Precision stupid most acceleration crap
seems pretty good now okay okay I can get behind this so what's nice about
this trackpad is you can change how much force is required to click it how they
do the clicks is instead of it like you know clicking a switch it measures the
force of your finger and so I was able to go in here change the click Force to
low and I much prefer that to medium because right now
it just feels correct anyway what are the specs of this machine for the
processor we have an AMD ryzen 7 6850u
so that's 8 cores 16 threads you also
get 16 gigabytes of oh 6400 megahertz
memory that is some fast RAM that also means there's absolutely no way that we
can replace it because currently sodium tops out at 4 800 Mega transfers per
second anyway moving on to the SSD we have a 500 Gigabyte model from Micron
Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E that's probably pretty good and of course AMD Radeon graphics
everybody always talks about how to absolutely incredible ThinkPad keyboards
are they definitely were lately depending on the model it can have a
little bit of variance on okay this is not what I was expecting at
all from this keyboard I normally think of ThinkPad keyboards as like the really
long travel it sort of feels like a big membrane keyboard but like somehow in a
good way this right here is different this has not very much travel but like a
really nice kind of soft feeling snap also in the keyboard we have the very
famous track point right here now in the past I have been a huge fan of these not
because of the track pointness of it but I haven't liked them because of what
they did to the size of the trackpad itself so instead of having the two
massive buttons up here that just take up all of your trackpad space we instead
have just a couple little Marks here so it's super easy to know when you're in
the right spot have a little click and you can track Point around without
sacrificing all of the usable space of
your trackpad I really appreciate how they've done it this way it's a really
good sort of trade-off between having a good
track pad and having a good track point something that I don't think I've seen
before Lenovo made a big deal about their webcam and I say that because they
actually laser engraved on the back they have a full HD F 1.2 and a digital mic
array how is it in practice hello hello this is me talking into the ThinkPad z13
while also recording video at the same time this looks pretty pretty darn good
we do have some sort of weird graininess and blockiness but it really is not all
that bad especially given how challenging the scene is it is exposing
for my face very well and at the same time like you can sort of see some
detail in our sound editing up here the blinds look like blinds instead of like
either blown out or underexposed now of
course we need to Benchmark this against the XPS 15. so you can really appreciate
just how good of a job Lenovo has done here oh we just have to wait a second my
uh XPS 15 has to come out of hibernation do you know why Windows modern standby
it's complete Lenovo you should really go and talk to Microsoft and tell them
that it is unacceptable and they are losing customers to Apple because it is
so ass I have been complaining about it for so long it was it's been what like
three years something like that I'm gonna just get a Macbook it okay so
they're both doing not too bad of a job but the Lenovo is just clearly a better
camera than the one on the Dell Dell is more blown out and more underexposed at
the same time uh yeah good job Lenovo you did it this is me
testing the sound on the Lenovo ThinkPad z13 versus the Dell XPS 13. if Lenovo
does not win this one I will be very sad yep easy Lenovo wins cool good job
Lenovo claims that they have really good speakers on the z13 they have a Dolby
Atmos certification let's see how that does
okay immediately this is very clear
sound if you're doing like voice calls video calls this is going to be very
good it doesn't have the base though
not bad not bad that is very respectable
moving over
God damn it Dell stupid waves Max audio
keeps on turning itself on and it just makes the whole thing sound like poo poo
there we go
so unsurprisingly the XPS 15 does have
the better speakers once you've disabled their stupid waves audio crap but that
is not unsurprising at all this right here is a 15 inch laptop with big old
speakers here and this right here is where the heck even are they they have
some down firing ones right there oh I wonder if it sounds better without the mouse
that didn't really help but that said for a laptop of this size that doesn't
even have a facing speakers this has impressive sound I would be totally
happy with this
what restart required
for this mouse that was just at yes
Windows I'm sure I'm gonna do that okay okay it looks like we're all good now
that I have the Logitech mouse I was really concerned there for a second that
like some of these business laptops will have brutal input latency on the display
and it'll make gaming just a jelloy mess
and the menu at 1200p I'm getting a
30-ish FPS so I think we need to knock that down a bit
oh wow the keyboard's getting hot kind of fast and above the keyboard is
legitimately going to burn you so here we are at 1200p and we're getting about
40 FPS which is not great this is low
settings uh it looks like ours but at
the same time it's doing it I'm gonna just knock down the resolution bring up
the graphics a bit I think we can okay yeah you can't even run medium settings
at 720p or I guess this is 800 P because
it's 16 by 10 display so instead we're just going to run a full resolution at
low this keyboard is getting hot fast
like really really fast so yeah it looks
like our best bet is like 1200p we're getting 40 FPS on low if we
lower the resolution up to settings it's about the same but just a blurry mess
okay so the tops back 6860 Zed also has
a 12 GPU count so the performance is
going to be about the same I was hoping that they have a stronger Apu model not
a thing so if you are a gamer probably sit this one out but also the
performance isn't even what would make me sit this one out I'm just going to leave this here for a second I'll be
back so we've been playing this for a while like three minutes maybe and already
around the keyboard we're seeing what like up to 50 degrees like up here we're
at like 45 or so the only thing that
should be keeping you nice and hot is this beanie from lttstore.com your
laptop should not be at 51 degrees especially after just three minutes not
great this is one of those things that Apple has done very well with their M1
and M2 chips is just keep your hands from getting literally burnt I was
really hoping that they'd have some sort of a good mode so we have intelligent
cooling which sure okay so I've turned
off intelligent cooling or in best performance mode
yeah we're still at 50 degrees I really
wish that they had like a cool mode so for instance on the XPS here I always
just leave it in cool mode because if I sit down with it on my lap I want to
like be able to have children in the future I am really disappointed that they don't have like better cooling
settings HP and Dell both have really good like do you want it quiet do you
want it cool do you want a high performance there are trade-offs between all of those but I like having the
option to like pick which one I want okay getting in there was super easy so
we just have a five Phillips head screws all of them are captive so you can't
even put them back in the wrong way and it just popped right off so they have
their like Vapor chamber here it goes
all the way down here but this like isn't even really touching anything all
right here it also says caution hot surface do not touch uh they should have
that on the other side as well the only thing I would expect you to be able to
upgrade on this is your Wi-Fi card and your SSD
aha there we go so this is a strange SSD
so it's a 2450 so that's the 50
millimeter version which is not very standard I think 80 is the standard or
like if you have a small one it's 30 as for the rest we have two fans here with
incredibly high fin density and a nice big old Vapor chamber for Apu right
there we also get what is this a 51.5
watt hour battery so Lenovo claims that this will last for 18.3 hours I think 18
and a half hours is pretty optimistic but at the same time these AMD CPUs are
very good at being power efficient so you can probably get over 10 or so also
one thing that they have is fast charging for the battery so you can get 80 percent an hour which is great the
last thing for this is the price I don't know it yet but I'm guessing it is
rather high for one we have this beautiful chassis that's made out of
aluminum we have the leather although who cares about that but also we have
one Nova's business-centric features the biggest one for me is their BIOS what do
they call it smart BIOS BIOS flashback something something either way your BIOS
corrupts you don't have to worry about it it's going to be just backed up on
here and you'll be all good to go all right Jake hit me how bad is it over two
grand starts at 13.55 starts at 13.55 not bad
does that have a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 3. so that has a ryzen 5. okay ryzen 5 for
1500 that that's not too bad that's not too bad what's this one aspect is
1705 dollars one thousand seven hundred five dollars
aspect okay that's like pretty in line with I guess like an XPS 13 or a specter
X360 like that makes sense it is definitely a
laptop where you're paying for like this very beautiful finish around the edges
and the incredibly well put together just everything about it oh wait is
there expandability look at this right there you can put another SSD that is
fantastic really good job Lenovo actually if you can just upgrade the
storage that's something that you don't see on a lot of 13-inch devices so the
Lenovo z13 it uh doesn't smell as good as the competition in the leather laptop
space but also no cows died for it so that's a plus I guess if you're looking
for a small 13-inch laptop that like you
don't really care about performance like it has eight cores it's gonna do
spreadsheets and just fine it's fantastically built keyboard trackpad
trackpoint screen all incredible so if
you want like a 13 inch laptop that looks pretty cool in my opinion I think
it's a good buy oh and if you don't care that 1700 bucks you can get something
that's very similar for much less but that always applies you know it also
always applies have a good day see ya