everyone this is Dom from Tech Advisor and I'm here at Lenovo stand at CES 2020
with the ThinkPad x1 Fold and if the name doesn't give it away this is the
first proper real foldable PC actually hitting the market in 2020 let's take a
proper look okay right yeah so this is the ThinkPad x1 fold it's not totally
new Lenovo basically teased this in 2019 they revealed they were working on a
folding device but this is the first time they're revealing more concrete
specs details and a price and actually even a release window so release window
we don't have a date but it's gonna hit the market in mid 2020 it's gonna cost two
and a half thousand dollars we don't have pricing for other markets but you can
probably guess based on that it's not cheap
but it was never going to be it's a foldable and it's hella cool it's a
thinkpad so in case you don't know that basically Lenovo's business line this
isn't being pushed to consumers under the yoga brand this is really more
looking at a business audience that actually makes sense for a few reasons
one is that thinkpads are pretty well known for their durability foldable
devices are not not naming any names but some foldables have hit the market and
not really worked super well and Lenovo really came to make sure that whatever
they put out people could trust that it was going to last it was going to work
and it wasn't gonna break and that you could kind of throw it around a little
bit so they figured going with the think by branding and then the ThinkPad team
build it would basically mean that would work better so there's sort of
carbon-fiber inlaid into the body there's like four
different layers beneath the screen that make it all work no way that's sturdy
that means you can sort of push down on it you can like push in on the hinge as
you close it and sort of do that without really worrying too much you can throw
it around a little bit basically let's talk about the hinge so
lenovo also owns motorola motorola obviously the razr phone coming out at
some point later this year that has a really really really clever hinge design
which basically pushes the screen itself down so it gets a really like deep
ground fold rather than a sharp fold so you don't get the crease in the middle
of the screen like some other foldables do you can't really see very easily on
this because the whole hinge is covered up which again there's a nice drawer
you think it blocks anything getting in but essentially the same process is
going on it's not the exact same finish design but the same kind of thinking is
there as you do that the screen is actually being sort of pushed in so it
will go right down into the body and get a much deeper Bend so you won't get a
crease when it's straight out you you've pretty hard push to actually notice any
sort of crease in the middle while the tablet is like this which is really
really great but there's other little touches that
make sense for it like the foldable form factor so you'll notice there's this
sort of nice real leather cover that built in to the tablet you can't take
that off you'll see it's got this like nice space here whether it's the sort of
you can see the main body light inflected if I then fold it out there we
go you'll see that actually moves across
which is really nice you get this or touches it then moves to cover the whole
thing as you move it to the fold of all obviously that's also then part of
what's protecting the hinge as you open and close it but it's also like a nice
space for you to take your your pen which slots in there so now while I've
got it in tablet mode the pen's in a nice convenient point to use little touches
like that that just makes sense there's also a little hinge flap here so you can
sort of rest the tablet down in a nice easy way either portrait or landscape
does it work for landscape? yeah there we go I just didn't trust it
enough so that works portrait or landscape and there's a nice little red
accent again it's a thinkpad you're gonna get all these little like
red touches dotted around I don't you can see it's a red flexible OLED label
there and half the X there and then so one of the other little like nice
convenient touch that they've got is still keyboard which comes with it when
you buy all of this is included it's just like a full set that you get this
can sort of attach magnetically to the body and one really nice thing is that
you can fold it in which a means now you might see that there's no gap anymore
when you fold it up the keyboard is perfectly designed to just sit in that
nice space and the keyboard is actually charging that so the keyboard is
wirelessly charging from the main computer now it's in the close case so
the keyboard won't run out of battery which is another little smart touch to
make this really feel like you don't have to think about the new form factor
too much it will just work it'll just do what you want everything will stay
charged everything will function just like you wanted to that's there in
software to again this is a ThinkPad so it's for the business line so this is
actually running Windows 10 Pro which means there's a lot of extra listed
functionality stuff very useful for productivity tools there's some little
customizations like if we tap that you get this sort of pain option which
basically lets you sort of pick between having screen apps fill the whole screen
or automatically snap to the two sides if you then turn it portrait they'll
snap to the top and bottom which is really simple and easy and again just
trying to make the most of the form factor and yet and then the final thing
is just the standard server laughter worry which is ports connectivity things
like that is this gonna skimp on that and basically no you're not going to get
an HDMI for or anything like that but there's two separate USB C ports
one there and one there so whichever way you have it there'll be one on the top
and one on the side and they use for charging as well
there's also 4G as standard and a 5g option as well no doubt that will cost a
little bit more but yeah it's another way this will basically become the idea
is this will be the one device you carry around it will be your computer it will
be your tablet because of the connectivity it can replace some of the
stuff you use your phone for all that kind of thing just this one thing folds
up into a nice and grippy form factor and looks really cool
yeah I mean mobile PCs are gonna be a big thing in the next few years that's a
given it's really reassuring that the first
one to hit the market looks this good looks this sturdy look this safe it
looks like it's going to work and lasts and that's not something you can say
about every foldable around right now yes this is mostly targeted at
businesses but consumers will be able to buy and I think quite a few are going to
want to when it comes out later in the year stay tuned to tech advisor channel
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