Lenovo Think. Pad X1 Yoga review tomorrows display in yesterdays laptop. I havent used a Lenovo laptop as my main computer for years. In fact, the last time I touched a Lenovo laptop for more than a few hours was when I used to manage a fleet of them in a corporate environment before joining The Verge. Lenovo Think. Pads are the de facto laptops of the corporate world, and since I now work in a business where I can choose my equipment, I havent been compelled to try one as a result. Lenovo surprised me at CES this year, though, with its latest X1 Carbon ultrabook. The surprise its actually an X1 Yoga with a touchscreen, stylus, and 3. Its about as far from a staid, corporate feature set as a Think. Pad has ever had. However, all of that is a distraction from the main addition a 1. OLED display. Over the past few years, Ive witnessed laptop manufacturers experiment with crazy designs, touchscreens, and the latest advancements in tech to try and get ahead of Apples Mac. Book line with varying degrees of success. As notebook designs once again settle into a comfortable and familiar lull, laptop makers have been switching their attention to displays. Companies like HP are pushing 4. K screens in tiny laptops, Dell wants to sell you an edge to edge display, Microsoft wants you to remove its display, and now Lenovo is placing the latest OLED panels into a 1. Unfortunately for Lenovo, this beautiful OLED display is like cramming a stunning new TV into an outdated house. The moment I picked up Lenovos Think. Pad X1 Yoga I had to check it wasnt just a regular Yoga or an old Think. Pad. Though it has many modern capabilities and features, the X1s design gives me flashbacks to Think. Lenovo has updated its ThinkPad X1 Yoga with seventhgeneration Intel Core processors, USB TypeC, and a new hidden keyboard mechanism, and retained the high price. Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' title='Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' />Pads from 1. Far from pushing the boundaries, Lenovo has played it safe for its business customers. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, but this notebook is dated and simply boring looking, and an OLED display deserves more. That OLED display is without a doubt the star of the show here. Its probably the main reason youd buy the X1 Yoga, and its by far the best laptop screen Ive ever used. Its Lenovos big change, and a bet on the future of laptop displays. Youll pay a price premium for it, though, as X1 Yoga OLED models start at 1,8. The ThinkPad X Series is a line of notebook computers and convertible tablets originally produced by IBM and now marketed by Lenovo. IBM announced the ThinkPad X. Lets say you have an IBM ThinkPad laptop and when you turn it on all you get is a black screen with Fan error message. What could be wrong A few weeks ago, the fan. Question Sometimes when my ThinkPad Yoga gets into sleep mode it becomes unresponsive pressing the power button doesnt reactivate it, even. The Lenovo ThinkPad T60 series is the first ThinkPad to be released with the new Intel Core Duo processor. The ThinkPad Tseries can be thought of as the flagship of. The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 is an update and evolution of the ThinkPad X61 12. TTwiulbVdU/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' title='Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' />Lenovos ThinkPad laptops are commonly used in business because of their rugged design and longevity. Adding to their appeal to business users is the fact that these. A great choice for business travelers, the ThinkPad X260 pairs a fantastic keyboard and lightweight body with over 17 hours of battery life. Lenovo ThinkPad X260 from. Storefront/Company/msintl/images/English/en-US_Lenovo_ThinkPad_Tablet_2_Slim_Case_Black_DAF-00162/en-US_L_Lenovo_ThinkPad_Tablet_2_Slim_Case_Black_DAF-00162_RM1_mnco.jpg' alt='Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' title='Lenovo Thinkpad Fan Control' />The blacks are so black that I kept moving the cursor up to the very edge of the bezels thinking that it was part of the dark Windows 1. OLED is the only star of the show. At a resolution of 2. K than 4. K, but Im constantly stunned by how good the colors look on this display. If you work with digital images or videos then color accuracy and reproduction is key, and the X1 display doesnt disappoint here. Ive fallen in love with it, and it really makes Windows 1. The Verge homepage looks more orange than ever before, and Ive seen colors in apps that I didnt even realize were slightly different shades. I actually preferred watching some Netflix episodes on the X1 instead of my TV because they just looked so good. The only thing that would make this display better would be pairing it with smaller bezels. Im still a big fan of Dells XPS 1. I could only imagine how stunning a laptop would be if you could have both. Lenovo also set the DPI level to 2. Windows 1. 0 UI a little too big, and I found it much more comfortable to use at 1. Either way, this display is the future of laptops, and I cant wait for every notebook to have an OLED screen. Lenovo has stuck to its black matte finish with a mix of carbon fiber thats been the hallmark of the Think. Pad line for a few years. I personally like this type of finish on a laptop as it feels smooth to rest your hands on and keeps unsightly fingerprint marks to a minimum. At 2. 8 pounds and 1. Mac. Book Air. Lenovo has kept its familiar red Track. Point nub in the middle of the keyboard, and the mouse buttons above a reasonably sized trackpad. Unsurprisingly, typing on the X1 is great. Lenovos chiclet keyboard feels natural and comfortable, and the only complaint I have is key placement. I dislike the function key stuck in the lower left corner, and a lack of media control function keys. Likewise, the trackpad feels really solid, although it does make a clicky noise as it travels. Its a little smaller than it should be because Lenovo has decided to stick unnecessary buttons above it, but it was accurate during my testing. Those extra buttons were largely decoration for me, as the gestures in Windows 1. Its time to bring the Think. Pad into the 2. 1st century. Both the eraser nub and trackpad buttons feel like theyre still here for legacy reasons to keep Think. Pad customers comfortable, and frankly, I wish Lenovo would just kill them. Trackpads used to be terrible on Windows laptops, but theyve caught up and the nub just gets in the way now. At a time when Apple is trying to redefine the trackpad with Force Touch, it doesnt feel like Lenovo is being daring enough here. Its time for Lenovo to move on and bring the Think. Pad into the 2. 1st century, both in design and features. 12 80S Love. Design aside, the X1 Yoga has most of the ports Id expect to find on a Windows laptop. Theres HDMI and mini Display. Port for your monitors, three USB ports for accessories, and even a SIM slot and micro. SD storage. The one big omission is no full sized SD card slot. Instead, Lenovo has decided to bundle its proprietary One. Link port for connecting to its docks. Thats a bit of a miss if you were hoping to use this with a digital camera, and the micro. SD slot is hidden underneath the display so its not easily accessible. Lenovo has also added a fingerprint reader that supports Windows Hello. I would have preferred to log in with just my face, but the fingerprint reader never failed me and was always fast to use. As this is a Yoga, you can flip the display over to twist it into a tablet. The keys retract slightly into the body when you use it in tablet mode, but I literally used this mode once during my entire time with the X1 Yoga. It works best as a regular laptop, and at times, Id even forgotten you could actually turn it into a tablet. I almost forgot that the X1 has a stylus, too. Its a tiny little thing that slots in underneath to charge automatically. As its so small and thin it feels a little awkward using it as a pen, and its tucked away underneath the laptop so most people wouldnt even notice it was there. Naturally, such a beautiful display has some drawbacks on battery life. While Lenovo claims up to 1. I never got close to that. Most days Id hit around five hours and have to reach for the charger, but on rare occasions, Id get as many as seven hours and I suspect the OLED display influenced that. When I was watching a movie the battery life seemed closer to seven hours, but using multiple apps and doing regular work knocked some life out of it. Unlike HPs Elite. Book Folio I tested recently, Lenovos Think. Pad X1 Yoga showed no signs of performance issues during my usage. I tested a model with an Intel Core i. GB of RAM, and 5. GB of storage. It breezed through all of my daily tasks, and handled multiple apps well. Youre not going to be able to run the latest games on here, but as a work machine its more than capable. A beautiful window into the future of laptop displays. As I sum up my thoughts on Lenovos Think. Pad X1 Yoga, it reminds me that I still havent really found a perfect Windows laptop. I want a laptop thats a laptop first and foremost, with a bezelless design, great trackpad keyboard, awesome battery life, and an OLED display.