ThinkPad laptops are known for their excellent typing comfort. If you have never tested one of these keyboard, you are in for a treat. Since this is a personal preference, we would recommend you to test the keyboard if you can do so at a retail location. Many people complain about shallow keyboards, while some don’t mind or even love them. The priority has been given to comfort and durability over good looks. This, and the retractable keys, partly explains why the X1 Yoga is thicker than its Lenovo Yoga 920 counterpart by ~3mm for example. Depending on your habits, long key-travel is often associated with extra typing comfort. ![]() The keyboard has comfortable ~ 225 square mm keys and a long key-travel of 1.8mm. "THINKPAD LAPTOPS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR EXCELLENT TYPING COMFORT" This makes the laptop more stable, and removes unwanted pressure on the keys, further reducing the odds of damage. When folding the laptop past 180 degrees, the keys retract to be flush with the chassis’ surface. Drinks and coffee are never far from keyboards, and this design allows the water to flow away without damaging the electronics. The spill-resistant keyboard is another thing that makes the Lenovo X1 Yoga more sturdy than other 14” laptop computers. Learn more: What is MIL-STD-810G? Keyboard and Trackpad For professionals who do want to reduce possible downtime to the maximum, these are very desirable features that are often worth a premium, given how much it costs to have a high-skilled worker idle because of a problematic computer. The X1 laptops are among the rare, if not the only, laptop in this category to pass 12 U.S Military STD-810G durability tests and have some degree of water survivability. The X1 Yoga was initially introduced as being the multimode (tablet-convertible) version in the X1 line, and it is still the case. Instead, this X1 Yoga design is focused on being extremely sturdy, carefree, but performant and relatively thin at the same time. Yet, these laptops will serve as competition because the X1 Yoga has very unique and specific features that set it apart. If you want such a ~14” laptop, the Lenovo Yoga 920, the Zenbook 3 Deluxe or the Huawei MateBook X Pro are good options to look at. The X1 Yoga has not been designed to compete in the ultra-thin / ultra-light space ( The X1 Carbon is…). The 2017 edition is ~2.1% bigger and ~2.4% lighter than the unit we are reviewing today. Over the years, Lenovo has modernized the design, but from last year’s model, the size of the laptop has not changed much. Storage: 256, 512 or 1TB of SSD (PCIe-NVMe OPAL2.0 M.2) What’s New?Īmong the changes made for the 2018 edition of the X1 Yoga, we think that the Dolby Vision HDR screen option and the new Gen 8 Intel CPUs will have the most impact, especially for users who do image-based work, or simply enjoy HDR videos.Īt first glance, the industrial design of the X1 Yoga 2018 uses the same design language as the prior editions. The second one (+$170 from base) adds Dolby Vision HDR + 2560×1440.The first upgrade (+$96) increases the resolution to 2560×1440.Otherwise, it’s 8GB of RAM.ĭisplays: Three different 13.9” (aka 14” in common language) screens can be chosen with very distinct advantages as you upgrade. Memory: core i5-8350U and core i7-8650U can get a 16GB RAM option. We will come back to this in the Performance section, but price-wise, there is a gap of $265 from the most affordable to the most expensive CPU option. Intel does a good to job scale performance and price as the numbers go up in the naming scheme. 512 GB SSD Samsung MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7 ( Samsung PM981)ĬPU: the Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 3 has four CPU options which are.There are many more options to choose from, and we will cover the primary differences for differences choices you may have. Let’s take a closer look at this 2018 (aka Gen 3) model of the X1 Yoga. We had a unit in the office for some time now, and it’s Review time! As usual, the X1 Yoga is aimed at a business-oriented user base that wants a care-free, robust 2-in-1 convertible laptop that is dependable under heavy travel or “in the field” conditions. In its 3rd generation, the Lenovo X1 Yoga has been announced at CES 2018, and we had an early peek at it, including in the video below.
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