this is a laptop actually it's kind of more like two
laptops sure you can use it basically like a surface pro but give it a fold
and suddenly you have two displays in one you can use it on the go you can
draw on it and you can multitask with it
maybe but is this foldy boy really all
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
deep blacks vibrant colors and a max brightness of 300 nits
being a folding device you might expect an ugly awful scene
samsung but in reality it's virtually
non-existent sure the the seam itself is there and if the display is off the
light distortion is fairly apparent but when it's on it's barely noticeable even
to touch
the hinge does take two hands to open and close but it's smooth and there are
no creaking noises to be heard in addition the bezels surrounding the
display are raised and made out of a soft rubber material that prevents the
display from folding onto itself so there isn't any worry of it being
damaged while folding it now with a display this cool the rest of the device
should be too right well on the surface it is it has a real
leather folio cover on the back that gives it a sleek professional look
ooh plus this little bit folds out to function as a kickstand with the
optional fold keyboard you've gone from an 8 inch folded device to a 13 inch
tabletop computer there's an optional stylus for the x1 fold called the lenovo
pen pro which has a hexagonal design reminiscent of those things called
pencils people used in the before times it feels good to draw and take notes
with on the x1 folds OLED display and while it's 4090 levels of pressure
sensitivity doesn't compare to a dedicated drawing tablet and stylus from
say huion it's more than adequate for the average user however in creda it
seemed to randomly panic and become misaligned on the canvas which we
weren't able to fix but it works fine in photoshop in one
note i mean this is a first gen device
which is super apparent given the way the pen pro charges because uh
yeah it charges via USB-C cord in a
market that has become largely saturated with inductively charged styluses or
entirely battery-free ones but hey uh first-gen first-gen device it folds can
you that's pretty cool let's talk about the keyboard despite being just four
millimeters thick it feels like what you'd expect from a device with think
pad branding there's a distinct tactile bump and decent key travel for a
keyboard so thin i'd go as far to say this is the best small form factor ultra
thin keyboard i've ever used i think back to the fold though coming
in at 999 grams for the base model with no additional hardware it is lighter
than basically every laptop on the market sure it is 36 heavier than the
12.9 inch ipad pro but that is a smaller device and once again can't ful it can't
do this i can't think of any backpack or briefcase that this wouldn't fit into
comfortably i mean it would even look good on a bookshelf
wait no no alex no now looking good is one thing being a
good laptop well that's something else entirely
right away this thing gets points for the nano sim slot which is awesome if
you need a private internet connection while on the go and that's the only
positive thing that i have to say aside from that you get two usb type-c ports
that are good for charging but unfortunately they don't have
Thunderbolt but even if it did have Thunderbolt they
don't have a headphone jack what makes this even worse is that if
you use this device in unfolded mode aka like you know when you might want to be
charging and have peripherals connect at the same time one half of your ports is
underneath it now given it's half a chunker you might
think that there's some powerful hardware in here but you thought wrong
in here we get an Intel core i5 with Intel hybrid technology aka lakefield
and as we discussed multiple times on this channel lake field sucks it sucks
so hard that while you're making this video it was discontinued it's like a
year old CPU lakefield was essentially Intel's first attempt at a big little
style CPU with a single large core handling powerful and demanding tasks
with four smaller low power cores able to take care of normal program and
background tasks in theory this is supposed to get you
more power without sacrificing battery life and incredible standby times but
it it doesn't lenovo advertises 10 hours
of video playback on this thing with a 50 watt hour battery which
sounds fine until you look at basically anything else this is the hp dragonfly
max which has a super powerful tiger lake i7 with xc graphics and it gets 17
hours of battery life from a 56 watt hour battery
and things just get worse from there for our poor lakefield CPU
compared to even the i7 1165 g7 in our
spectre x360 uh although not cheap much
cheaper laptop the CPU isn't even half as fast
opening multiple general use applications can become super sluggish
like what is this 2005
these days you can expect a thin and light device to be okay for video
editing light gaming and even cad i would not do any of those things on
the lenovo fold the biggest kick in the nuts though
you're getting this atom level performance and a device that costs
2500 500 starting
for the privilege of folding it in half
the keyboard and stylus another 250
bucks that money could definitely be better spent on our merch at
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to be fair to lenovo this isn't really their fault and they aren't marketing
this as a device for gamers or creators honestly i don't really know who they're
marketing for c-suite hipsters i guess i mean like fair enough it does look
pretty cool but you definitely don't look cool if you
record yourself on the built-in webcam all right that's enough jeez louise
okay fine look the fold may not be a compelling value
or a high performance device but what it does have
is cool factor the folding display tech here is only
going to get cheaper and better over time imagine a device like this but one
as thin as a proper ultrabook without the giant bezels
look think of it this way at a glance this seems like either a tablet that
folds down to become more portable or a tiny dual-screened netbook but i
would argue that this is in fact a laptop that can simultaneously exist in
multiple form factors it can either be a 7-inch netbook a dual screen laptop a
13-inch tablet for drawing or a 13-inch
laptop with a bluetooth keyboard all of which folds down into a small
easy-to-carry book-like form factor and that's what makes this so cool i
mean why wouldn't you want this form factor over a regular laptop this is an
actual real product that fits a lot of different use cases simultaneously
sure it is hard to recommend this until the internals improve and the price
drops but it isn't hard to get excited i can't wait to see what lenovo comes out
with next because we may be living in that folding future very soon
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hey thanks for watching guys if you're looking for something else to watch maybe check out the last video about uh
device with a folding display we did which was probably the galaxy z fold 2
and i don't remember what Linus had to say about that
he liked it so it's a good sign