LENOVO THINKPAD X1 YOGA (2018) 14" FHD IPS INTEL CORE I5-8250U 1.6GHZ / 8GB RAM / 512GB SSD

AdjustIT

25.02.2019

I wonder why an explicitely pen-orientated laptop does not receive a suitable review and comparison of the pen.

aff

02.02.2019

wrr, no such thing as protects nerve or not, any sound is ok

sticky

28.11.2018

With an extra Type-A port and a full SD card reader the I/O would have been great. Don't understand why Lenovo had to take away a USB port that existed before. Now I can't plug in a keyboard and mouse simultaneously and have to use a dongle for all the SD cards. No physical volume and brightness rockers on the side is also a major inconvenience. Other 2-in-1s have them and if I'm not mistaken at some point Lenovo had them as well on their various Yoga devices. 54Wh battery is too small for a laptop this expensive, I'm get around 6 hours on i5, WQHD, brightness set to 20%. Which didn't improve with a series of BIOS updates. Yoga 910 lasted 11 hours on a big 78Wh battery as did my MacBook Pro. This thing is near twice as expensive as Yoga with only half the battery life. Again, 6 hours, in 2018, for $2k. Other than that, speakers, microphone and camera are abysmal and downright unusable. Might as well drop them clean. Palm rejection is not even appalling as it's just absent. This is the most critical downside of using this PC as a tablet as it was supposedly advertised. Speaking of, what is the point of having facial recognition webcam and LTE on paper if you can't configure them at all during checkout. Also forcing vPro onto 16GB memory is inexcusable. This is one of the better laptops I've used but parts of Lenovo's decision making are enormously frustrating and ridiculous.

Lookasso

16.07.2018

Nobody?

Lookasso

07.07.2018

Quote from: Lasso on July 07, 2018, 04:58:48 Quote from: Lasso on July 07, 2018, 04:58:48 I don't see anywhere else a mention to 2x8gb, and in the pictures and videos I've only seen one ram module. Lenovo says it's one module. Where do you get the info about 2x8? Btw I don't understand why the dual channel thing is not anymore so common. Years ago it was a must. I can understand when it's not soldered, they may want to put one module of 8 instead of 2 of 4, so it's easier to upgrade, but when it's soldered and you cannot upgrade, why on Earth don't they put 2 modules in dual channel? Is the advantage of dual channel now considered myth?

Lasso

07.07.2018

@Lookasso: 1. The ram runs on dual channel. 2. More ram sips more power but not enough to notice less battery life. 3. On laptops i5 and i7 U-series CPUs show no difference in battery life whereas with H-series i5 is a bit more efficient than i7. 4. vPro can be disabled however frankly it is too much of a hassle.

Lookasso

06.07.2018

Thank you for the review! You write that the ram is 2 x 8gb (I suppose that in dual channel?). A Lenovo representative told me it's 1 x 16gb. Do you have any way to check the truth? Btw, would 16gb (either in one slot or in 2x8) consume more battery than the 8gb configuration? Would I have noticeably more battery life with the i5 over the i7? The problem would be that in Australia to have 16gb i need configure it with i5-8350 or i7-8550. The former having vPro, which I consider not only useless but potentially dangerous. Can I effectively disable vPro without any chance of an hacker to reactivate it somehow?

ac

02.06.2018

Could use a display size comparison tool with x380, x1 yoga and the new x1 tablet (3000x2000). Some of my latest thoughts on what's not seen yet: You could have a very light system like the x1 tablet. Then it would have a combo wired+wireless keyboard (the current one is not wireless, and just wireless is too unreliable to me). Then buy a 17-24" AIO and use TB3 pcie mode to passthrough the keyboard and the SSD from the tablet to the AIO. This way you could have your full system C: drive always with you and when you connect it to the AIO, it gets backed up to the AIO. The key objective is that you could only install legacy win32 apps once and yet use them in two form factors, without the applications only seeing a difference in cpu performance and different size display (though if the tablet has same res as the larger AIO, they could not even have to see a display change). Isolate the Win32 apps enough from the hardware so that they can't tie their license management to hardware (because the idea is that user is still using only 1 license at a time, either on the tablet or the tablet+AIO). This is not technical problem because the C: drive of the 17-24" AIO is in the tablet (since it's connected with the TB3 cable). The only problem is that if CPU and port resources are availed from the AIO, they may need to go to disabled state while the AIO is not connected, otherwise the software license managers and dongles may be able to detect hardware has changed significantly. Not a problem as long as the license managers are ran while AIO is connected thru TB3. The only catch is that it maybe the CPUID and such needs to be virtualized so the apps can't see the CPU changing when TB3 is connected.

Dmitry

18.05.2018

The screen alone surpasses Retina at certain parameters, at least on paper. Battery could've been better thought. I mean, there is plenty of room in there if you open it, just make the notebook little more flat, without those sharp angles on the edges. I can live with square notebook. Apple has it and nobody complains. Seriously, you've managed to put 70 Wh battery in your Yoga 920 with almost the same dimensions. And two fans, by the way. Some cooling, huh? And yet, those little flaws don't diminish it's value. It's a great and classy machine. Awesome keyboard, display, build quality and touch screen (hello, illustrators who need god-like keyboard, ports and LTE). Damn, I'm getting myself one.