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this is a laptop actually it's kind of more like two

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laptops sure you can use it basically like a surface pro but give it a fold

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and suddenly you have two displays in one you can use it on the go you can

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draw on it and you can multitask with it

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maybe but is this foldy boy really all

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that it's cracked up to be well there's a lot to unfold there

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first off this display is awesome the x1 fold is a 13 inch 4x3 OLED display with

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deep blacks vibrant colors and a max brightness of 300 nits

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being a folding device you might expect an ugly awful scene

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samsung but in reality it's virtually

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non-existent sure the the seam itself is there and if the display is off the

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light distortion is fairly apparent but when it's on it's barely noticeable even

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to touch

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the hinge does take two hands to open and close but it's smooth and there are

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no creaking noises to be heard in addition the bezels surrounding the

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display are raised and made out of a soft rubber material that prevents the

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display from folding onto itself so there isn't any worry of it being

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damaged while folding it now with a display this cool the rest of the device

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should be too right well on the surface it is it has a real

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leather folio cover on the back that gives it a sleek professional look

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ooh plus this little bit folds out to function as a kickstand with the

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optional fold keyboard you've gone from an 8 inch folded device to a 13 inch

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tabletop computer there's an optional stylus for the x1 fold called the lenovo

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pen pro which has a hexagonal design reminiscent of those things called

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pencils people used in the before times it feels good to draw and take notes

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with on the x1 folds OLED display and while it's 4090 levels of pressure

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sensitivity doesn't compare to a dedicated drawing tablet and stylus from

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say huion it's more than adequate for the average user however in creda it

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seemed to randomly panic and become misaligned on the canvas which we

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weren't able to fix but it works fine in photoshop in one

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note i mean this is a first gen device

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which is super apparent given the way the pen pro charges because uh

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yeah it charges via USB-C cord in a

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market that has become largely saturated with inductively charged styluses or

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entirely battery-free ones but hey uh first-gen first-gen device it folds can

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you that's pretty cool let's talk about the keyboard despite being just four

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millimeters thick it feels like what you'd expect from a device with think

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pad branding there's a distinct tactile bump and decent key travel for a

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keyboard so thin i'd go as far to say this is the best small form factor ultra

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thin keyboard i've ever used i think back to the fold though coming

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in at 999 grams for the base model with no additional hardware it is lighter

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than basically every laptop on the market sure it is 36 heavier than the

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12.9 inch ipad pro but that is a smaller device and once again can't ful it can't

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do this i can't think of any backpack or briefcase that this wouldn't fit into

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comfortably i mean it would even look good on a bookshelf

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wait no no alex no now looking good is one thing being a

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good laptop well that's something else entirely

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right away this thing gets points for the nano sim slot which is awesome if

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you need a private internet connection while on the go and that's the only

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positive thing that i have to say aside from that you get two usb type-c ports

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that are good for charging but unfortunately they don't have

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Thunderbolt but even if it did have Thunderbolt they

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don't have a headphone jack what makes this even worse is that if

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you use this device in unfolded mode aka like you know when you might want to be

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charging and have peripherals connect at the same time one half of your ports is

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underneath it now given it's half a chunker you might

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think that there's some powerful hardware in here but you thought wrong

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in here we get an Intel core i5 with Intel hybrid technology aka lakefield

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and as we discussed multiple times on this channel lake field sucks it sucks

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so hard that while you're making this video it was discontinued it's like a

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year old CPU lakefield was essentially Intel's first attempt at a big little

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style CPU with a single large core handling powerful and demanding tasks

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with four smaller low power cores able to take care of normal program and

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background tasks in theory this is supposed to get you

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more power without sacrificing battery life and incredible standby times but

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it it doesn't lenovo advertises 10 hours

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of video playback on this thing with a 50 watt hour battery which

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sounds fine until you look at basically anything else this is the hp dragonfly

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max which has a super powerful tiger lake i7 with xc graphics and it gets 17

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hours of battery life from a 56 watt hour battery

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and things just get worse from there for our poor lakefield CPU

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compared to even the i7 1165 g7 in our

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spectre x360 uh although not cheap much

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cheaper laptop the CPU isn't even half as fast

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opening multiple general use applications can become super sluggish

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like what is this 2005

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these days you can expect a thin and light device to be okay for video

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editing light gaming and even cad i would not do any of those things on

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the lenovo fold the biggest kick in the nuts though

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you're getting this atom level performance and a device that costs

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2500 500 starting

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for the privilege of folding it in half

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the keyboard and stylus another 250

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to be fair to lenovo this isn't really their fault and they aren't marketing

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this as a device for gamers or creators honestly i don't really know who they're

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marketing for c-suite hipsters i guess i mean like fair enough it does look

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pretty cool but you definitely don't look cool if you

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record yourself on the built-in webcam all right that's enough jeez louise

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okay fine look the fold may not be a compelling value

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or a high performance device but what it does have

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is cool factor the folding display tech here is only

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going to get cheaper and better over time imagine a device like this but one

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as thin as a proper ultrabook without the giant bezels

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look think of it this way at a glance this seems like either a tablet that

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folds down to become more portable or a tiny dual-screened netbook but i

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would argue that this is in fact a laptop that can simultaneously exist in

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multiple form factors it can either be a 7-inch netbook a dual screen laptop a

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13-inch tablet for drawing or a 13-inch

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laptop with a bluetooth keyboard all of which folds down into a small

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easy-to-carry book-like form factor and that's what makes this so cool i

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mean why wouldn't you want this form factor over a regular laptop this is an

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actual real product that fits a lot of different use cases simultaneously

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sure it is hard to recommend this until the internals improve and the price

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drops but it isn't hard to get excited i can't wait to see what lenovo comes out

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device with a folding display we did which was probably the galaxy z fold 2

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