Yep, I have the first gen of these, quite good!

Is the X1 Yoga good for coding

How's your battery life?

@@mikhailbabushkinum any thinkpad will be great for coding imo. very robust and i think one of them even has ubuntu preinstalled.

I definitely have one on mine next to the sim card slot

gen 2 had one

I believe the last one with a microSD reader was Gen 3, which is why I'm dearly holding on to mine

If your use case is for that, getting gnarbox or other external SSD with SD card reader is just a better workflow

Yeah I've been on the Gen2 for about 5 years now, too. I had to order a replacement panel directly from China and install it myself. I've only had to do it once, though, and I have another backup just in case.

For those tasks I don't see a great performance benefit in upgrading.

I am wondering the same

Sounds like you wouldn't want to go Intel

​​​@@GregMirzaAvakyan you Mean by this that intel doesn't provide good battery life?? Because I was planning to buy this laptop

Miss me with that g** s*** intel laptops

Exactly, better than HP's, not quite as good as the latest Surface pen tech like the Slim Pen 2. I think it would be more than good enough for note taking, but artists might want for a little more (though it gets by for art).

Pen is the exact same AES tech they've been using for the past 7 years, if anything it's long overdue for an update. This was actually the only deal breaker for me for X1 Yoga. The fact that Lenovo hasn't updated their flagships to MPP 3.0 (Surface tech) or EMR (Galaxy Book) is ridiculous.

@@blue4059 Well, they did upgrade from AES 1.0 to 2.0 along the way.

@@mobiletechreview yes they did in 2017!

I think the idea is to save battery power, their likely not going to upgrade to EMR.. Maybe?

Are you able to boot from disk? Can run on nearly anything w 4gb ram. Checkout a modded ISO like tiny11 if you wanna try on a small partition before expanding it wiping current system.

You can't "dock" like the old ones. The docking stations just connect with a cable to the usb-c port; it's basically one huge dongle that connects with a cable to the side of the laptop.

Viewers on KZfaq, this looks like a scam?

All unsolicited prize comments on videos that have nothing to do with prizes are guaranteed a scam

I have an HP Spectre. The keyboard does not retract and I've never had an issue with it getting damaged. Ever. I never use it in tablet mode.

When you flip the yoga, do any key presses trigger or is there something preventing presses?

what other options which has full suite of ports and 4G/5G wwan built in?

@@daft009 Samsung 360 pro may have 5g in some countries, HP x360 doesn't have 4g but it's much cheaper like samsung. in France the samsung is around 1600€ while the x1 yoga runs around 2500 or even 3000€ with equivalent configuration (except wwan). in addition with a Samsung phone the Samsung pc is very interesting with the fast copy options etc..

@@sylv06690 Lenovo not that expensive down under luckily

@@sylv06690 yep, but the lenovo still has IP53 ingress protection rating, and MIL810G STD durability rating. Those other two don't, whether its worth a big price increase for durability and build quality is debatable, but it still has its uses.

Several reasons; Ultrabooks do not really need upgradeable RAM as they are mainly bought by people that know what they need, eg Enterprise and business. Also, 16GB is the most people need for these machines as they are not meant for hardcore workflows. Another reason is latency, soldered to the motherboard rather than using another connector. Then these Ultrabooks are thin and light and saving space where you can (and weight) all helps these packages. Having removable RAM in gaming machines, prosumer laptops and desktops still exists for many as they may indeed need upgrades and weight and size not an issue. Obviously as we move to ARM then even then we will have less options for upgradeable RAM, due to the nature of the architecture.

There is no socketed LPDDR5 (or LPDDR4), and LPDDR is much faster than the regular DDR. It is also more power efficient.

Space for Intel and AMD Ultrabooks (so they can be thinner). For M1 Macs, it's because the RAM is in a unified architecture with the CPU for improved speed.

@@mobiletechreview Lisa I think that there is someone that is pretending to be you when they reply to comments. I received a response from someone that had your picture but a different handle telling me that I won a free Lenovo i5.

Luckily I can assure that separate of all the aspects thought of as gimmicks, they're very solid machines

XPS 9520

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lol

lenovo changed twice my keyboard in my gen5 x1.. i miss my stolen gen2

Pretty sure you can buy or build a desktop...

More pixels more power unfortunately

OLED isnt more efficient on any device. if at lower brightness, it does use a little less than LCD, but at higher brightness it uses a lot more than LCD, balancing out to OLED using more power. its chose for picture quality and size of the packaging (oled is way smaller than LCD because of all of the layers to LCD)

OLED is probably not going to be a big seller in this lineup as this is mainly an Enterprise ultrabook and businesses are unlikely to stump up the extra for an OLED especially with the many cons. I suspect Lenovo did not sell many and ditched OLED for a hike but this year they will probably have a small line producing them for the few takers. On white background OLED is less efficient than LCD. Also, as you increase brightness on an OLED it is not linear like LCD, so the higher brightness = increased higher wattage compared to LCD. Also, OLED tend to have higher resolution due to the pixel arrangement where the matrix has gaps in, meaning a 1080p OLED looks less sharp than an LCD. So a 2.5-2.8K or even preferably a 4K will mean a much higher draw on power. So generally OLED is not the best choice on business laptops used on the go. For a lucky student that can afford it and will never be far from a socket then the OLED is an option especially a it will be better for media when not studying.

OLED is very efficient when displaying blacks and dark colors. It is however much less power efficient when displaying whites and light colors-- like the average web page or office document. On PCs, we tend to look at white (ish) screens a lot, so power consumption is higher with OLED. Using a dark theme helps with this. Also the OLED is 4k, so the big resolution bump also uses more power.

Yeah, Lenovo laptops are best bought second hand after at least 6 months.

Even thicker gaming laptops don't have those

Wow. You really must’ve been born in 1955. Haven’t seen a laptop with a disk drive in 15 years or more.

You get a bigger battery instead, people don't want drives. Now even windows laptops get 6-12 hours of battery life, it's not a MacBook thing anymore, those get 20 hours or more thought but it's all cost on better cooling and no redundant cd drives.

How old are you? Laptops don't come with DVD players anymore and they haven't for ages. You must still be racking an old Toshiba running windows 7.

What exactly does my age have to do with it? But just for you I'll tell you that I have Windows 10. I'm up to date on electronics. I'm allowed to say what I like. It should be an option. It's just another way for v computer companies to charge the same but give you less.

Find out? Which distribution did you use?

Lenovo's website has them.

No

Been using this intro for a while (at least a year).

@@mobiletechreview ahh...ive been rewatching your old reviews too much. !!

The USB port will last longer than the life of the laptop 😂 but it's nice to see

Gotta save space somehow! Might need a multi adapter or micro/SD to USB

Gen 6 was not even available 1.5 years ago. It came on sale March 2021 worldwide.

@@ubermod5564 Yes it was, if not 1 yr is appropriate because I got it when it came out.

@@AliB19 That's unlucky, I guess there's always a percentage of duds that's can occur, although I do believe the ThinkPads quality control is reduced in recent years.