- We're here at CS 2023
and this year, Lenovo is bringing weird.
Like how weird?
Oh well, this is just like a normal laptop
with an OLED display, it's fantastic.
Looks great, right?
Doo, doo, doo, doo.
What?
On one side, they have a very normal OLED display.
This is actually just a fantastic display to look at,
if it works.
Ah... oh, there we go.
Okay, geez, that was scary. Um...
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- But the big problem with OLED displays
is the amount of battery that they consume.
It's so bad that I just don't even want an OLED display
on my laptop because
well, even though it looks fantastic,
your battery dies almost instantly.
Well instead, if you just want to do like Word documents,
reading things or so on,
you can flip over to this E Ink display.
Now, it's not the best looking display I've ever seen.
It runs at a rapid 12 Hertz.
Yeah, that's on-two, not like 120,
but that's actually very fast for an E Ink display.
And also, (laughs) okay,
it is pretty funny.
That's uh... you are not going to be playing
CS:GO on this thing
but for E Ink display, this is so cool.
Also, as you've probably noticed, it's color!
E Ink displays are almost always only black and white,
but they've somehow managed to make this a color display.
So you can just go through your emails, read something.
I actually like it.
One thing that's interesting
is you can see the whole thing refresh itself,
so I just kind of do this for a little while.
There's going to be mouse trails over everything.
That flash there though, resets the E Ink display
so that you don't have mouse trails over everything.
This is very cool.
If you're not using the E Ink,
this is a very standard, but very high-end, laptop.
So the OLED panel is 2880 by 1800, so that's 16 by 10.
This thing's a hundred percent DCI-P3
and color calibrated from the factory
and also, for processor, you get an i7 13 6500U.
Now that's only two performance cores and eight efficiencies
but at the same time, it's this big and has ten cores in it.
It's pretty hard to complain about that.
What I will complain about though is the IO.
You get a Thunderbolt and a Thunderbolt,
and in fairness to them, you also get a headphone jack.
Dell, what the (beep)?
(laughter)
They did it on this.
They have an E Ink display and they still managed
to fit a headphone jack on there.
Fix your 13, come on.
There are several ways to use this.
Mostly, you know, like this.
But then you can also just fold it down
and it's basically just a book.
Hello? Hello?
There we go.
It is super cool that you can just use it like this,
like a book, and E Ink is fantastic for eye strain.
This is the sort of thing
where you could actually read a novel
and not just have a searing headache at the end
like you would on a normal laptop.
But, the weirdness is not over.
Oh, not even close.
Up next, is the Thinkpad 16p Gen 4,
and this has much more weirdness.
Now here we have an IR, full HD camera
that honestly is pretty good.
But if you look on the back here,
there's a bunch of pogo pins, which means, oh yeah,
there's a 4K webcam.
We can just attach it right here like that.
There we go.
And it just works.
It's not quite tuned yet.
The software isn't quite there,
so if you look...
Andy, which one of these do you think is the 4K one?
- [Andy] I'm pretty sure it's that one?
- Yeah, I shouldn't have asked a cameraman.
- [Andy] Yeah.
- This one is clearly a lot sharper,
but the iSO is terrible.
The way that they expose is not done yet, at all.
Everything here, it looks interesting to say the least.
Now I'm sure what you're thinking right now is
if it's struggling for exposure,
that means we just need a little bit more light.
And earlier today in Acer's booth, we actually saw a combo,
a pogo pin on-off webcam-like combo.
With Lenovo, instead you can get a second 16p attached...
(laughs) it's a separate attachment.
So we can, we can go like this.
Now by very simply having two laptops at the same time,
you can have a light and a webcam simultaneously,
or you could just use the light and the full HD webcam
that's also pretty good.
In addition, they also have a 4G connectivity adapter thing.
On my laptop, you have 5G and it goes in right here,
but instead...
Anyway, (laughs)
Up next on our tour of interesting products
that I'm not totally sure why it's here,
we have the X1 Fold 16.
So it - as I'm sure you have guessed by the name -
it folds, and it folds way better than last one too.
Apparently, this is rated for 25,000 folds
before you'll see any problem.
And they've also fixed the problem where, in the past,
you stored the keyboard inside of the fold
because they couldn't get it to go quite all the way.
Now there's a couple of problems with that.
The biggest is that you get dirt and grime
all over your keyboard, which then you put in the middle,
gets on your display, scratches that up, damages everything.
(blows raspberry) Bad time.
Now instead, it just folds all the way like this
to create a really nice, convenient and quite small package
for something that has a 16-inch display.
And you can just take the keyboard and slap it on like that
and you have the whole thing just ready to go.
It's actually pretty cool.
Now there's many different ways
that you can use the X1 Fold.
So you can have it in landscape mode, like so,
or you can flip her over,
use it in portrait mode
or you can place it onto the table, use it like this.
Touch right there, get your keyboard.
Or if you don't like that keyboard, you can attach this one
and boom!
Now you have a 12-inch laptop.
Given what it is, this keyboard is all right
but it is kind of hard to use and a little bit small.
Now there were quite a few sacrifices to get this to fold.
So the IO is pretty bad.
There's a thunderbolt there
and another thunderbolt right there. That's it.
I know what you're thinking though.
I don't want a screen that folds.
That's just way too anxiety inducing.
Even if they say that it's going to last for 25,000 cycles.
What I want, is two displays.
Yes, the weird train keeps on going.
Look at this. This is the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i
and we have two OLED displays.
Look at that!
Now through the magic of origami,
we can take the little folio for the keyboard,
move it like this,
and we have an absolute battle station on the go.
Look at this thing.
I actually kind of love it.
So you can use it either like this, with two displays
or if you take five fingers and go brr.
Now it's one very large display.
The way that it interacts
is actually really well thought through.
My favorite thing is probably...
let's say we wanna look at the gaming laptop awards up here.
I wanna send that as a note.
Brrr.
Now I can circle that, insert in Note,
and now I have that just in my Notes
what I just circled right there.
I could see this being so useful for so many people.
I actually really appreciate that.
It's like Sniping Tool on steroids
and Sniping Tool is my absolute favorite thing.
Maybe instead though,
you don't want it in battle station mode,
you can have it in dual-portrait mode.
I don't know, you can very easily have
let's say, your notes over here
and your script on this side.
You can type it all out and, sure,
you don't have a track pad but you have two screens,
but maybe you do want a track pad.
Well, we can take it, move it like this,
take the keyboard off there
and put it right on top like that
and now this screen's a track pad.
It actually all works shockingly well.
Like, it's all tuned
in a way that I wasn't expecting it to be,
that like final production ready.
I guess this is final production, right?
It is final production,
but normally these things feel like engineering lab stuff.
This one actually works really well.
You know, of all the really weird stuff that we saw today,
this one's actually kind of interesting.
Wait, no, there's a fatal flaw. Fatal flaw.
IO.
We have two Thunderbolt ports on this side.
Thunderbolt port on that side, but guess what?
There isn't... no headphone jack.
(beep)
I thought you did a good job.
What are you? Dell? (beep)
So let's talk about the X1 Carbon for a second.
Not a whole lot has changed,
but that's kind of a good thing
'cause this is just a fantastic laptop.
You get actual IO, so HDMI, full-size type-A,
Thunderbolt and another Thunderbolt right behind it.
And around on the other side, we have another type-A
and a headphone jack.
Thank you for keeping that, Lenovo.
For this latest generation,
Lenovo have upped the TDP of the X1 Carbon by heaps.
It has gone from 20, all the way to 21.
But in all seriousness though,
this is an excellent laptop.
It's 2.5 pounds.
It feels awesome.
I'm sure that this keyboard is excellent.
Yeah, easy A-plus, absolutely love it.
Is it touch?
It's not touch - that's too bad.
As expected, this chassis is incredibly well built.
It is 100% magnesium and 90% of that magnesium
is all recycled.
Also, you don't have to feel bad about getting a laptop
because it comes in this bamboo and sugarcane package.
This right here, you can just hucker in your garden.
It's just gonna biodegrade.
Excellent, thank you.
Also, if you want a laptop that folds
in a way that makes sense,
we have the X1 Carbon Yoga.
Again, not much has changed but they really didn't need to
'cause it's a fantastic laptop.
In all seriousness though, Lenovo,
thank you for not screwing up the X1.
I feel like the motto over there might be just
"If it's not broke, go do weird (beep) somewhere else".
Good job.
Speaking of not breaking things that work really well,
Lenovo's Legion laptops.
Here we have the 7i
and this right here gets basically just a spec bump
but it's a pretty serious one at that.
In here, they have transferred RTX 4090
with a 170W TGP.
Also, we get the Intel Core i9-13900HX
and the ram in this is the fastest I have seen in a laptop
that you can remove.
This one, overclocked, gets 6,000 Mega-transfers per second
unlike DDR5,
how the heck did they do that?
[?Jadek] doesn't want you going that fast
but they managed to do it.
Aside from that, you get a 99 Watt-hour battery
that will probably last you 1.5 hours.
They said it's eight,
but that's optimistic to say the least.
Also, this Legion 5i,
which gets a slightly smaller battery
and not quite the same TDP,
but at least it only starts at $1,449
instead of the $2,000 for the 7i.
One very important thing though,
this is apparently, and I quote,
"The world's most powerful AI-tuned gaming laptop".
Lenovo was very proud of the AI stuff that they put in here
as if Gigabyte hasn't been doing it for what,
three, four years, something like that.
Maybe theirs works better, maybe it doesn't.
I don't know.
We'll need to get this in the lab to do a test.
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