- Companies sometimes do strange things
when trying to appeal to millennials
like this right here
cause do you know what I really want on my laptop?
(grunting)
(metal clanking)
Leather!
Wow.
Who would've ever thought.
This is something that HP tried a little while ago and.
(inhales deeply)
God dammit, Lenovo, you (beep) it up already.
Ah, so here's the problem,
Lenovo's, new ThinkPad Z13 fold
has leather on the back
but it's actually leather
that's made out of plastic bottles.
HP's leather laptop had real cow on it.
(cow moos)
And it smelled fantastic.
You took that thing out of the package
and it was like you had an old baseball glove
just sitting on your desk.
You're like, oh wow mm,
it smells really good.
Unfortunately no cows died for this.
Lenovo, what are you doing?
(chuckles)
Okay, but in all seriousness though
this is a very good feeling laptop
and also you don't have to get leather on the back.
This has an option where it's just, you know
normal laptop materials.
Around the edge we have diamond cut edges,
these look fantastic.
Very fancy but in like a nice way.
Also, IO is a bit lacking.
So we have a USB-C on the side
and USB-C on that side
and we also have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.
That's it.
That's all you get for IO, both thunderbolt four.
So that's actually not too bad.
I don't really mind dongling around.
I just chuck something in my backpack and call it a day
but at the same time
it would be really nice to have just like anything else,
one more IO option,
but how much power will it draw?
Apparently 65 watts
from this little type-C charger and props to Lenovo.
You do have charging options on either side of the laptop.
Oh yeah, here we go.
This is an incredibly well-built machine.
Like you can see some sort of flexing rate here
if I really push on it.
But this is the sort of like macro chassis flexing
that is much more okay
where like I'm pressing here the entire thing is yielding
as opposed to like there being soft spots.
So I am guessing that is
going to be very good for the keyboard.
We also have a nice large track pad
and very little space up here.
I really like to see that.
Oh it's pretty borderline, pretty borderline.
My hand barely fits on this and I wanna really look at this.
Fortunately a little while ago I made a spreadsheet
so I could tell Dell that their XPS 13
just didn't fit anyone's hands and they were dumb.
Okay, so I just measured it.
The palm rest length on this is 128 millimeters,
which is between the Specter X360 and the XPS 13.
This basically means that if you have larger hands
you're gonna have a little bit of problem.
Basically only 30% of males and 47% of females
are going to be comfortable typing on this
because otherwise your hand's gonna fall off the the back.
Buy this if you have small hands.
(laughing)
- [Bell] That's it.
- That's it.
If got big hands, don't buy it.
(laughing)
Do you think that was worth it?
- [Bell] No.
- You know what Jake?
I don't care.
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Yeah, so 1920 by 1200p.
So that means that this right here is the IPS touch screen.
This is not the best display that is available on this.
They do have a quad HD OLED touch model
that I'm sure is just absolute eye candy
and maybe it makes your spreadsheets look kind of weird
so you probably want this one
but until I've actually seen the OLED in person.
I can't say for sure.
What I can say for sure though
is that the most tuning out of the box on this thing
is atrocious.
Okay, let's test this out.
I think we're good.
I lowered the sensitivity a little bit
and turned off Windows enhanced pointer precision,
stupid most acceleration crap.
It seems pretty good now.
Okay, okay I can get behind this.
So what's nice about this track pad
is you can change how much force is required to click it.
How they do the clicks is instead of it like, you know
clicking a switch, it measures the force of your finger
and so I was able to go in here
change the click force to low
and I much prefer that to medium
cause right now it just feels correct.
Anyway, what are the specs of this machine?
For the processor we have an AMD Ryzen 7 6850U,
so that's eight cores, 16 threads.
You also get 16 gigabytes.
Oh 6,400 megahertz memory.
That is some fast RAM.
That also means there's absolutely no way
that we can replace it because currently Sodimm
tops out at 4,800 mega transfers per second.
Anyway, moving on to the SSD.
We have a 500 gigabyte model from Micron,
Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E, that's probably pretty good
and of course AMD Radeon graphics.
Everybody always talks about how to absolutely incredible
ThinkPad keyboards are,
they definitely were.
Lately, depending on the model
it can have a little bit of variance.
(clicking)
Okay, this is not what I was expecting at all
from this keyboard.
I normally think of ThinkPad keyboards as like
the really long travel.
It sort of feels like a big membrane keyboard
but like somehow in a good way.
This right here is different.
This has not very much travel
but like a really nice kind of soft feeling snap.
Also in the keyboard we have the very famous track point
right here.
(cameras clicking)
Now in the past I have been a huge fan of these
not because of the track pointness of it
but I haven't liked them because of what they did
to the size of the track pad itself.
So instead of having the two massive buttons up here
that just take up all of your track pad space,
we instead have just a couple little marks here.
So it's super easy to know when you're in the right spot
have a little click
and you can track point around without sacrificing
all of the usable space of your track pad.
I really appreciate how they've done it this way.
It's a really good sort of trade off
between having a good track pad
and having a good track point.
Something that I don't think I've seen before.
Lenovo made a big deal about their webcam
and I say that because they actually laser engraved
on the back.
They have a full HD F1.2 and a digital mic array.
How is it in practice?
Hello, hello.
This is me talking into the ThinkPad Z13
while also recording video at the same time.
This looks pretty darn good.
We do have some sort of weird graininess
and blockiness but it really is not all that bad
especially given how challenging this scene is.
It is exposing for my face very well and at the same time
like you can sort of see some detail
in our sound editing up here.
The blinds look like blinds
instead of like either blown out or underexposed.
Now of course we need to benchmark this against the XPS 15.
So you can really appreciate
just how good of a job Lenovo has done here.
We just have to wait a second.
My XPS 15 has to come out of hibernation
and do you know why?
Windows modern standby.
It's complete (beep).
Lenovo, you should really go and talk to Microsoft
and tell them that it is unacceptable
and they're losing customers to Apple because it is so ass.
I have been complaining about it for so long.
It's been what, like three years?
Something like that.
I'm gonna just get a MacBook, (beep) it.
Okay so they're both doing not too bad of a job
but the Lenovo is just clearly a better camera
than the one on the Dell.
Dell is more blown out
and more underexposed at the same time.
Yeah, good job Lenovo, you did it.
This is me testing the sound on the Lenovo ThinkPad Z13
versus the Dell XPS 13.
If Lenovo does not win this one, I will be very sad.
Yep, easy Lenovo wins.
Cool, good job.
Lenovo claims that they have really good speakers
on the Z13.
They have a Dolby Atmos certification.
Let's see how that does.
(upbeat techno music)
Okay, immediately this is very clear sound.
If you're doing like voice calls, video calls
this is going to be very good.
Doesn't have the bass though.
(upbeat techno music continues)
Not bad, not bad.
That is very respectable.
Moving over.
(upbeat techno music continues)
Oh,
God dammit, Dell.
Stupid Waves max audio keeps on turning itself on
and it just makes the whole thing sound like poo poo.
(upbeat techno music)
There we go.
(upbeat techno music continues)
So unsurprisingly the XPS 15 does have the better speakers
once you disable the stupid Waves audio crap.
But that is not unsurprising at all.
This right here is the 15 inch laptop
with big old speakers here
and this right here is-
Where the heck even are they?
We have some down firing ones right there.
Oh, I wonder if it sounds better without the mouse pad.
Lets see.
(wind whirling)
(upbeat techno music)
Ah, it didn't really help
but that said, for a laptop of this size
that doesn't even have up facing speakers.
This has impressive sound.
I would be totally happy with this.
(computer bell)
What?
Restart required
for this mouse that was just at-
Yes windows, I'm sure I'm gonna do that.
Okay, okay, it looks like we're all good now
to have Logitech mouse.
I was really concerned there for a second
that like some of these business laptops will have
brutal input latency on the display
and it'll make gaming just a jelloey mess.
Valheim!
And the menu at 1200p I'm getting
30ish fps so I think we need to knock that down a bit.
Oh wow.
The keyboard's getting hot kind of fast
and above the keyboard is legitimately going to burn you.
So here we are at 1200p
and we're getting about 40 fps, which is not great.
This is low settings.
It looks like ours but at the same time, it's doing it.
I'm gonna just knock down the resolution,
bring up the graphics a bit.
I think we can.
Okay, yeah, you can't even run medium settings at 720p
or I guess this is 800p because it's 16 by 10 display.
So instead we're just gonna run a full resolution at low.
This keyboard is getting hot fast, like really, really fast.
So yeah, it looks like our best bet is like 1200p,
we're getting 40 fps on low.
If we lower the resolution up the settings
it's about the same but just a blurry mess.
Oh okay.
So the top spec 6860 Zed also has a 12 GPU count.
So the performance is going to be about the same.
I was hoping that they have a stronger APU model,
not a thing.
So if you are a gamer, probably sit this one out
but also the performance
isn't even what would make me sit this one out.
I'm just gonna leave this here for a second.
I'll be back.
So we've been playing this for what?
Like three minutes maybe
and already around the keyboard
we're seeing what like up to 50 degrees
like up here we're at like 45 or so.
The only thing that should be keeping you nice and hot
is this beanie from lttstore.com.
Your laptop should not be at 51 degrees
especially after just three minutes.
Not great.
This is one of those things that Apple has done very well
with their M1 and M2 chips is just
keep your hands from getting literally burnt.
I was really hoping that they'd have some sort of
a good mode.
So we have intelligent cooling
which sure, okay so I've turned off intelligent cooling,
we're in best performance mode.
Yeah, we're still at 50 degrees.
I really wish that they had like a cool mode.
So for instance on the XPS here,
I always just leave it in cool mode
because if I sit down with it on my lap
I want to like be able to have children in the future.
I am really disappointed
that they don't have like better cooling settings.
HP and Dell both have really good like,
do you want it quiet?
Do you want it cool, do you want a high performance?
There are trade offs between all of those
but I like having the option to like pick which one I want.
(plastic snapping)
Okay, getting in there was super easy.
So we just have a five Phillips head screws.
All of them are captive
so you can't even put them back in the wrong way
and it just popped right off.
So they have their like vapor chamber here
and it goes all the way down here.
But this like isn't even really touching anything.
All right here it also says caution hot surface
do not touch.
They should have that on the other side as well.
The only thing I would expect you to be able to upgrade
on this is your wifi card and your SSD.
Ah ha, there we go.
So this is a strange SSD, so it's a 2450
so that's the 50 millimeter version
which is not very standard.
I think 80 is the standard
or like if you have a small one it's 30.
As for the rest, we have two fans here
with incredibly high fin density
and a nice big old vapor chamber for APU rate there.
We also get, what is this?
A 51.5 watt hour battery.
So Lenovo claims that this will last for 18.3 hours
but I think 18 and a half hours is pretty optimistic.
But at the same time these AMD CPUs
are very good at being power efficient.
So you can probably get over 10 or so.
Also, one thing that they have is fast charging
for the battery
so you can get 80% an hour, which is great.
Now the last thing for this, is the price.
I don't know it yet, but I'm guessing it is rather high.
For one, we have this beautiful chassis
that's made out of aluminum.
We have the leather,
(cow moos)
Although who cares about that.
But also we have Lenovo's business centric features.
The biggest one for me is their BIOS.
What do they call it?
Smart BIOS.
BIOS flashback, something something.
Either way, your BIOS corrupts,
you don't have to worry about it,
it's gonna be just backed up on here
and you'll be all good to go.
All right, Jake hit me.
How bad is it?
Over two grand?
- [Bell] Starts at $1,355.
- Starts at $1,355.
Not bad.
Does that have a Ryzen five or a Ryzen three?
- [Bell] So that has a Ryzen five.
- Okay, Ryzen five for $1,300.
That's not too bad, that's not too bad.
What's this one?
- [Bell] As specced, it is $1,705
- $1,705 as specced.
Okay, that's like pretty in line with I guess
like an XPS 13 or a Specter X360.
Like that makes sense.
It is definitely a laptop where you're paying
for like this very beautiful finish around the edges
and the incredibly well put together
just everything about it.
Oh wait, is there expandability?
Look at this right there.
You can put in another SSD.
That is fantastic.
Really good job, Lenovo.
Actually, if you can just upgrade the storage
that's something that you don't see
on a lot of 13 inch devices.
So the Lenovo Z13, it doesn't smell as good
as the competition in the leather laptop space
but also no cows died for it,
so that's a plus I guess.
If you're looking for a small 13 inch laptop
that like you don't really care about performance,
like it has eight cores
it's gonna do spreadsheets and (beep) just fine.
It's fantastically built.
Keyboard, track pad, track point, screen, all incredible.
So if you want like a 13 inch laptop
that looks pretty cool in my opinion.
I think it's a good buy.
Oh and if you don't care that it's 1700 bucks,
you can get something that's very similar for much less,
but that always applies.
Do you know what it also always applies?
Have a good day.
See ya.