Apple Silicon M1 MBP vs Thinkpad X1 Nano - an in-depth review By Mash IT

Hi this is David at macho tea. Now, having recently reviewed the ThinkPad x1 NATO had an awful lot of comments regarding the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air m1 Apple Silicon edition. I've had so many comments between the two of these laptops with how the MacBook would actually destroy the ThinkPad that we thought well, let's put a video put the two together and see how they perform, so we're going to do just that today, there's going to be timestamps down below, because it's going to be quite a long video to compare all the aspects of these two laptops. So if you want to feel free to just jump ahead to the parts that you wish and let's pick a step between looking at these two now, you can see them both side by side. Here, try to put them side by side, so you can see the difference in height just to start off. You can see these are both 13 inch 16 by 10-inch laptops, so they are very similar in size.

The x1 NATO is actually slightly taller than the MacBook Pro, but the MacBook Pro has a slightly bigger footprint. So, let's take a look around both these laptops and see what they both offer in comparison to each other. Now straight away, you can see they're, both quite plain when they're closed, you've got just the embossed Apple logo, on the MacBook Pro on the ThinkPad x1 NATO you have little x1 logo and the ThinkPad has the little red light that lights up to show you that it's in sleep mode, that's quite a nice little touch and something I've always loved about the think pads, because you know that it's sleeping where that little red light's flashing on the front of the laptops, both very plain you've got a nice cut out for the MacBook Pro or the MacBook Air, whichever you're looking at in comparison, the ThinkPad x1 has nothing, but you can still feel the lid quite easily. So there's a little. You know a bit of a difference between the actual base and the lids, which makes it easy to lift still.

We will compare one hand opening just in a little while now we're going to take a look on the left side and have a look at the ports. Now both these machines are particularly short on ports. Um. A lot of the comments from the ThinkPad users are about how this isn't a proper ThinkPad, because it doesn't have the regular ports, but you've got to bear in mind that this is an ultra slim, ultra light laptop and it sort of is sort of competing for this sort of space, with the pros and the airs and other Ultrabooks, not your typical ThinkPad t490s or bigger chunkier machines with lots of uh ports. So you can see.

Obviously this is the two port model, because uh the other one is the intel. So you've got two USB 4 ports on the mac on this side, and that is it on the x1 NATO again. We've got two usb4 ports, and we've also got a headset jack. I'm going to spin it around now on the right side, the MacBook Pro we've got a headset jack, that's it on the x1 NATO we've got the vents as it pumps out the air on the right side. Now I did think this could be a problem, because I've had others before that you get scorched hands by having this, but this doesn't run particularly hot.

So this hasn't been an issue for me. It's only warm air coming out of here so far and then just the other side of the vent. We've got the power button, and you can see again that's flashing, because it's telling you that it's in sleep this is another nice little touch, so you can look at the side, or you can look at the top, and you can see that the actual think pads in sleep in regard to the mac. You have to turn it on and see. Now, if you look at the back of the actual laptops, you'll see it's just a nice slab of aluminum for the mac, it's nice and clean just the hinge, which is a nice one-piece hinge and on the x1.

You can see that obviously the two hinges here and over in the middle you've got a sim tray. Now this is something that's quite nice on the actual x1 NATO is the fact that you can actually put a LTE card in here and actually have cellular on these, and this is one of the reasons that I actually decided to get this one in. I have actually got that card and this, which is why this model is quite expensive in comparison to some other x1 Janos that you can buy out there. So now, we've looked around the machines. Let's see what they weigh.

Firstly, we're going to look at the x1 NATO, so the x1 NATO is 950 grams or 2.15 pounds. That's incredibly light uh. It feels almost like you're holding an iPad when you're lifting this laptop around you'd think it would be flimsy considering how light it is, but it's been remarkably sort of solid during my everyday usage for the last week using this laptop now, let's look at the mapper pro and that's 1.37 kilograms or 3.03 pounds, so quite a big difference in the way you can really feel it. This feels quite hefty when you're lifting it, whereas when you're picking up and say the explanatory honestly, you're picking up, you think well, there's something wrong with so light, but it's an it's still very solid. It's just a very light machine to port around, which is quite nice.

So you can see both of these machines are very light still so for carrying around for everyday use. Let's have a look at what the power adapters are like. So here is the power adapter for the x1 NATO you can see. We've got an UK plug on the end of it, which plugs into the adapter as a 65 watt USB. It's quite nice in that it's particularly long because obviously, you've got your one piece there for the plug, and you've also got the piece for your uh to plug into your laptop, the USB, the actual brick part of it is really nice and small and compact, and you can just wrap the cables around, but I do find having the two cables on this does make it a bit of a mess a bit of a business going on in your bag and in comparison we have the MacBook Pro 61 watts, USB c charger.

This will plug straight into your wall socket, so you've only seen obviously got less of a reach to your laptop, but it does mean that obviously it's a bit tighter when you're throwing this in your bag. So it's pros and cons to both. Now, obviously, you can take the head off, and you can buy an adapter which will then plug it into a lead to your wall, adapter, but again apple used to supply the free, but Apple being apple. You have to buy that as a value add-on. Just compare the size of both of those.

You can see that the Lenovo is actually a more compact charger. It's actually a better shape to throw in your bag as well right. So now that we've looked around the laptops, let's open them, both up they're, both just currently sleeping, so we're going to do one hand, lift and see if they can both easily lift with just one finger, and then we're going to see how fast that they resume from sleep as well. Now I'm going to do the mac first, I've always been impressed about a how easy it is to open it and b. How quickly is to resume with this m1 system.

So you can see it's instantaneous, it's almost like having a phone, you lift it up, and it's on, and it's there I'm going to do the same to the x1. So not quite as easy, because it's very light, the actual bass is lifting there, but you can also see how quickly that resume from sleep as well. This is one of the things apparently they've improved with the tiger lakes, with this Eve platform is that the resuming from sleep is much quicker, and it does feel pretty instant, although it doesn't feel as fast as this max this new m1 mac. So now we're at the login stage the options that we've got to log into these machines with the mac. You have an option of the fingerprint reader and if you have an Apple Watch, you can log in with that as well, but obviously that's something you have to buy separately, so we're just going to log in with the fingerprint reader one touch you're in it's very simple: it's very reliable, and I use it all the time- and it's been great in regard to the NATO you've got windows, hello.

Now, I'm going to just angle that at my face, rather than me, stand in front of the camera and there we go this logs me in now of the two I have to be honest, I prefer the windows' hello, because normally, if I'm sitting in front of the laptop, I lift it up- and it's logged me straight in no hassle no fuss, it's absolutely brilliant. Now, with this x1 NATO, not only have you got the windows, hello, but you do have a fingerprint reader as well, so you've got two options so in regard to actually logging in the know, the windows, when, in regard to logging in, I have to give it one up there to the x1 NATO we're having the two options and also the windows. Hello is a better way. Logging in, in my personal opinion right. So, let's start from the decks and work our way up and look at these machines.

You can see straight away from looking at the machines that obviously the x19 is slightly more compact. They'll also translate to the touchpads as well. This MacBook Pro m1 has a massive touchpad for the size laptop it is you see how dominating this touchpad is on the actual chassis of this laptop, but it is such an amazing touchpad. This has got to be the best touchpad of any brand of laptop apple's, haptic feedback touchpad. It's just amazing.

It feels like you've got a click anywhere you press on the touchpad, it's responsive, you can change the force of the click, and it glides nicely and your gestures work. Every time I mean if you've never used a map before this is probably one of the selling features of a mac, the actual touchpad they are absolutely brilliant. Now, in regard to the windows and the x1, NATO we've got a much, much smaller touchpad, it's responsive, but this is obviously the diving board mechanism where you've got a hinge at the top and as you press it, the actual trackpad clicks down and what you'll find is the higher up. You click the less responsive. It is, and you can't click right at the top, but as trackpads go it's responsive.

I wish it was a bit bigger. It is quite small, so obviously, you've got much bigger area to work with on the MacBook Pro the Lenovo, the x1 NATO you've got quite a small area, but it does glide nicely, so you can easily move from side to side on the laptop when you're, using just the touchpad now regards to the materials on the decks. Obviously, this is a one-piece aluminum sort of milled deck everywhere, everything's sort of pristine puppet. It is obviously quite cold to the touch it's aluminum, and it is quite sharp edges because it's aluminum I've always liked it's a classy looking design, but it's not the most comfortable if you're typing in you rest your arms on top of the deck, you will certainly feel that on your wrists, it's something I know it annoys a lot of people now. The x1 NATO, on the other hand, is using a soft touch finish on the decks.

It feels lovely when you put your hands on this, because it's just it's just a really nice tactile sort of feeling a nice texture to it. Now. The good part of that is, it's always nice and warm it's comfortable. When you're resting your hands on it, you know your wrist on it. It's not going to cut into you, it's nice and smooth.

The downside of that is it does pick up finger oils, so it will start looking grubby when you start using it for a little while you could be forever cleaning it. So you know, choose your poison really! Personally, I much prefer this soft touch finish if it's something that you're using every day, and I'd rather clean it and have a more comfortable laptop now, if we move up to the keyboards, where obviously the MacBook Pro absolutely dominates in the trackpad, the keyboard, I would say, is average to just above average. They've, obviously changed it in this generation, and we've got the new magic keyboards, and it is a good keyboard. I've been typing on this a lot over the years and I hated the butterfly keys. I was in the camera, absolutely hated it moving to this if you're, just using butterfly's move to this.

It's a breath of fresh air, it's lovely to type on, but if you go over to the actual x1 NATO, and you use this ThinkPad keyboard, it's in a different league. Now, a lot of die-hard ThinkPad users are moaning because they've taken the travel down to 1.35 millimeters on this keyboard, but it's still a great keyboard. Now, if you're used to you know an old x1 carbon, or you know, t series with deep travel about 1.8 millimeters, I think it was then. Yes, this is a bit of a downgrade for you, but you've got to bear in mind. It's a very compact Ultrabook, with a very thin chassis that they had to make some sacrifices.1.35 millimeters is still a comfortable amount of travel when you're typing on this keyboard and comparing the two. This keyboard is massively better than the MacBook.

I like the actual shape of the key caps they're comfortable. It's tactile, it's just a great typing experience and if I'm going to be typing a lot, I would pick up the ThinkPad every day of the week. Both keyboards are backlit. The backlighting is a lot better on the MacBook Pro because it's uh it can auto adjust, and you can adjust it in a lot of different stages, whereas a ThinkPad you've just got two levels of backlighting. Well, actually, you've got three you've got off low and high, and that's it, and you see, there's quite a lot of leakage around the keys, but you know what it works, and it lights the keys up.

So what more? Can you say now in the middle of the keyboard on the ThinkPad? We have the think points, there's a little nub here and then that's what these buttons are for. So you can move around with your think point, and you can click these buttons like dedicated mouse buttons. For the actual think points you can also use the touchpad and use those buttons as well as if you wish, but this is something I've never really used, but it is nice that it is there now moving up to the top of the keyboard on the MacBook Pro I've got to mention this. Obviously, we've got the MacBook Pro here. This has the touch bar.

This is like mar mite, you either love it or hate it, and I'm afraid I'm not in the love it camp. I can't find a good use for this at all, and I know some people do. I just can't say personally, I prefer the MacBook Air in this m1 series to the map of pro, but unfortunately I don't have it to hand. Gary's got it at the moment, I'm using the pro. So it is what it is.

Obviously, with the touch bar, it's customizable, it's a little OLED screen, and you can change all of those characters. F keys functions, whatever you want for the application you're in, so it does have some benefits. I would just rather have dedicated function keys, but it is there if you like that now on the ThinkPad. Obviously we've just got your standard multimedia function. Row keys there.

Now, if we're looking above, you can see, we've got some speaker grilles on the x1 NATO. There is no nothing on the top on this one, but the speaker, grilles, are the downsides of the laptop here with a NATO. They have massively improved the speakers over previous Lenovo ThinkPads I've used, and we're going to do a quick test of the actual audio. Now right. So we've got our royalty-free music up on YouTube.

I'm going to play one after the other and put my microphone in the middle of the two laptops. Now both these laptops are set to 50 percent, so we're going to start with MacBook Pro, and we're going to move over to the x1 NATO. Here we go. That's the mapper pro I'm going to put the volume up a little, so I put up to about 70 percent on both mapper pro the next one NATO. So there we go.

You can hear straight away that the extra NATO is a lot louder than the MacBook Pro, and it actually sounds perfect. I've been incredibly surprised with the actual speakers in this x1 NATO now I know this is the base mapper pro I'm sure when they bring the 16-inch out and the hopefully a 14-inch out. Those will have better speakers with this, and I do find that these are they're great speakers, but they're quite quiet. As I say, I've had the six-inch marker pro before this one and that blew this away. So I'm hoping obviously the new 14 inches will improve the speakers but of the two.

I prefer the speakers on the x1 now, and I didn't think I'd be saying that okay, so now moving up to the screens. Although these both 13-inch 16x10 laptops, the mapper pro, is actually 13.3 inch, and it has a 2560 by 1600 resolution for this retina display. Now the x1 NATO is actually only a 13 inch, so you can see it is very slightly smaller, there's not much in it, but you can just see it's a little smaller and that has a resolution of 2160 by 1350, so slightly lower resolution, but also slightly smaller screen. Both of them are absolutely pin sharp and great from a standard viewing angle. I've been using, obviously the mac for quite a while now, since this has been released, and I've had a good week using this x1 NATO now- and I have to be honest- I love them both.

I love how bright the MacBook Pro gets. Furthermore, I love the glossy display the images look great they're sharp. Obviously you can't see any pixels on it and that's amazing. On the other hand, this is a matte screen on the x1 NATO. I love the fact that you get less glare on it.

You can take it outside easier. It still gets bright, 450 nits, but it's not as bright as the MacBook Pro, but it is also equally crisp. You never see any pixels, it's a lovely screen to actually work on day to day so screen wise I'd, say it's a bit of a tire. I love them both they're, both great screens. If I had to choose one or the other and just using the screen, I would probably choose the x1 Janos purely because it's matte and if you're working outside or working in a bright room that is definitely beneficial having a matte screen for actual day-to-day work.

Moving above the screens webcams, both very mediocre webcams, both very mediocre mics. Obviously, this MacBook Pro is the base model. It doesn't have the studio mics like the MacBook Pro 16 has, and the mics in this are okay, they're, nothing special, probably better than the x1 Janos mics. Those are quite poor. I found, and the camera is also very poor in the x1 NATO one lovely thing about the actual camera system on the x190 is the think.

Shutter though, and that's just this little button up here to turn your webcam off now. The mapper pro has a little light that comes on when your camera comes on, and that's quite handy. So you know that the camera's engaged, but with this one, if you lock this off, you have a little red dot over the actual camera area, and you can see that nobody can use that camera. So you know straight away: no one's gonna, actually log on and take over your camera. Also.

This is very easy to use now in regard to the internals on both of these machines. Apple makes it very easy. If you buy the MacBook Pro, you can either choose the m1 mapper pro or the intel MacBook Pro of the 13-inch variety and that's it, so you can then configure the ram or the SSD, which does obviously bump the cost up significantly, but once you've bought the laptop, nothing is upgradable on it. So you have to make sure you buy the specs you want when you buy this machine, otherwise you'll obviously be plugging in external hard drives, and the like keep yourself going on the x1 NATO. Now we have got a very expensive top-end model here.

You don't have to spend this much. We spent 2000 pounds on this model. That was what was available in the UK when we bought it. There are more appearing now, but with this model you can either get the i5 and i7 8 gigabytes of ram 16 gigabytes of ram, and you've also got an m.2 SSD in here, which is upgradable. Now, that's quite nice because, obviously you can buy it then, with the cheapest 256 gigabytes, 128 gigabytes that they offer and then pop in a terabyte yourself.

Now it's only a 42 millimeter SSD, so you have to be aware of that, but it's still much cheaper to buy and install that yourself than it is to actually uh have them do it for you also, I have created a video of the internals and how easy it is to get inside this machine. So you know that will be in the description down below. If you do want to see that also on the ThinkPad x1 NATO, we have the one card slot. Now I have this populated as well and because I've got a LTE card, I wanted to use. So that's nice that you have that option.

It's an expensive option, but it's a nice option with this machine which you don't have on the macs, something I wish apple would actually provide an option for so now that we've talked about the internals I've. Just in case you haven't seen the review. This is the i7 model that I've bought with 16 gigabytes of ram and a 512 SSD. This MacBook Pro is eight gigabytes of ram and a 512 SSD. So obviously this does have more ram, but the mac is more efficient with ram usage on these new Apple Silicon m1.

So it's still quite comparable. Okay, so we're going to briefly look at the performance section of these two laptops. We know that the intel m1 is going to win. That's pretty much a foregone conclusion, but we're going to have a quick look at how much and what sort of wattage it can be pulling. Whilst it's doing these tests so mac on the left, x1 on the right- and you can see, we've got two watt meters behind obviously the left hand.

One is for the mac the right hand. One is for the x1 NATO I'm going to start we're going to run cine bench r23, which is a 10-minute benchmark test for the CPU. This really hammers the CPU for these 10 minutes. So this will give us a good indication of throttling and performance. Now we're also going to take a look at the wattage as well.

Now, unfortunately, this mac is just topping up, so we're not as low as we should be, so we're at 16 watts, it's normally about eight or nine watts, but you know for the sake of it, I'm not going to wait another half an hour to run this test, we're going to just make a start. So I'm going to do the CPU multicore on both of these, which does take 10 minutes. So here we go and we're off. Now I just want to point out as well that um the wattage was on idle lower on the exponent, because the battery pretty much finished now straight away with this firing up we're now taking 53 watts on the x1 NATO, whereas the mac was about 16 watts, it hadn't quite finished the topping up the battery, and we're now at 38 watts. So we can see straight away.

There's uh, 16 watts difference between these two on full load, and this is running faster, so performance per watt is incredible on these uh m1 MacBook pros. Okay, so we're coming up to a minute in to this cine bench. The fans are just starting to spin up on the NATO. It's still obviously maintaining about 50 watts, currently on the NATO and about 38 39 watts on the MacBook Pro, so they're still using less the mapper pro is still absolutely silent. The fans aren't even spinning up, yet there's also absolutely no heat on the keyboards there's a little of warmth on the NATO keyboard, but it's still comfortable to use- and I say the fans, although they are splitting up they're, really, really quiet.

You can't even notice it, and can see now that we've dropped our turbo on the x1 NATO we're down to now, 47 watts, so I'll, just open up task manager, yeah, you can see. We've dropped to 3.3 gigahertz now on the i7 tiger lake processor. In here, so it has started, dropping its turbo down, it's 3.6 gigahertz on all cores, so we're a minute and a half in now, and the fans are spinning up a little louder on the NATO, still no fan noise on the mac, but this is still very quiet, only just audible. So after about three minutes, the x1 NATO has dropped to about three gigahertz on all cores. So again, it's throttled a little more.

The fans are still spinning, but it's certainly not loud. I'm saying it's about.35 decibels tops hardly noticeable. The mac, I think, has just started to spin up with fans. Again, it's drowned out by the NATO and the NATO is quiet, and if we look at the watt meters now as well, you can see we're actually drawing both of them about the same wattage, about 39 watts, each okay. So we're coming up to the end of the test.

You can see we dropped to 33 watts on the NATO now, so it's throttled a little more uh we're running at 2.6 gigahertz. It's only just at the end of the test done that. So you can see that, obviously it's very quiet, it's still running pretty cool, but it is throttling the CPU to do that so long term. Obviously, you're going to get more throttling on the NATO and this doesn't throttle at all. Now the m1 mac has actually finished.

We've got a multi score of 7750, which is a phenomenal score, and the NATO is still going and just want to wait for this to finish. Point out that this is still cool as a cucumber, which is one of the things I love and the fans that was inaudible the whole time of this test against the x1 NATO and the x1 NATO is quiet on low for a windows' laptop, don't get me wrong. We deal with a lot of gaming laptops or content creation, laptops, and they're quite noisy when you put them through these tests. This isn't noisy, but it's still enough that I can't hear the mac over it. So here we go we're finishing off now on the x1 NATO and the NATO scored 4831 points.

Now again for this you know u-series chip, and it's a low-powered u-series chip as well. That's actually not a bad score with this tiger lake CPU, I'm not. You know unimpressed with that. It's just, unfortunately, Apple have come out with the m1 Apple Silicon chip. That's just destroying everything away, especially per watts.

You can see this was pulling 38 watts all the way through it destroys this x1 NATO which was pulling. You know, 4850 watts initially so 7758 4831, that's a 10 minute, cine bench r23 run. We also completed some geek bench tests, so the geek bench 5 CPU scores MacBook Pro single core score of 1736 in comparison to the tiger 8 in the x1 NATO which was 1 257. So a massive win to the max there and the multi-core score on the m1 mac is 7646 and the x1 NATO is 4505 points, so you see again still a massive difference in performance between these two laptops. This is an UV intel chip, and it's tiger lake, and this is pretty good in comparison to other intel chips.

But in comparison to this new Apple Silicon, it is getting destroyed in a performance basis. Now, if we move on to the OpenCL score for both of these chips, the MacBook Pro scored, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-five with the apple silicons, eight core GPU and the intel target, Xe graphics, scored, 12, 782, so again a massive difference between these, especially per watt as well. This is just incredible performance from the mac from a similar sort of appropriate UV processor. On both of these, I can't wait for the 60-inch version of the MacBook Pro, because I think that is going to crush a lot of the actual desktop machines, because this low-powered, you know this- is the entry-level m1 mac, and it's scoring well above anything that currently intel have got on the laptop market. Okay, so just to finish off the performance section of this video we're going to do a one of our usual videos rendered out through da Vinci resolve now, we've used da Vinci resolve because a Gary usually uses it to edit.

Our videos and b is cross-platform, so we've got the same version running, but obviously the Windows version and the mac version. Now one thing I will say is it does run smoother on the mac in day to day use so using this on the m1 mac is much more smooth than it is on the x1 NATO that isn't because the x190 cannot keep up with it. It's exactly the same as the desktop as well. It's just naturally better optimized on the mac, but I would like to say that this is completely usable on both of these machines playing around with it on the esprit NATO and once you everything's loaded in or your approach loaded in it was working perfectly. So let's render this out and see how long it takes on both machines.

Let's set the Microsoft. At the same time, three two one go so straight away. You can see we're pulling 27 watts on the m1 mac and 53 watts, 54 watts on the x1 NATO, but if you're looking at the actual jobs, this is absolutely flying through on there MacBook Pro it's quite slow, the x1 NATO. I don't think it's going to be a fair fight at all, so the MacBook Pro m1 has finished one minute.44 seconds flew through no fan, noise, completely cool, and you can see over on the right. The x1 NATO is probably done about nearly a third.

The power consumption has dropped to 36 watts now from about 50 yards. So you can see it's throttled back. So we're going to speed this up now runway through to the end of this and see how long it takes so. Finally, the x1 NATO is finished now coming at the end of that test. It throttled right down to about 1.8 gigahertz as well uh, which is obviously you know really going to hit performance. It completed the job in nine minutes and 50 seconds on the x1 NATO, so that's 9 minutes and 50 seconds versus 1 minute and 44 seconds.

I mean it, it's not even comparable. Really. This was a 10 minute, video that we've rendered as well. So this is quite a light video for us, and this is done in 1, minute 44 and that's nearly 10 minutes. It's just not even comparable.

At the moment. Apple have come out with this m1 processor and for general heavy work. This just annihilates anything intel has to offer. I think if we were putting this expo, NATO against the intel mac you'd be quite impressed with this x y NATO because it is a good machine, but when you're putting against the same one mac, you can see the advancements that apple have made with Campos silicon. So a very impressive performance show there from the apple Apple Silicon m1.

I would like to say for the x1 NATO though it doesn't get loud, it doesn't get hot. You can see it does throttle on the extended loads, but it is you know it's a nice machine to use. I think, if you're, not using this machine and hitting it 100. So if you're just doing office, tasks or other light use, this would be an absolutely lovely machine to use, but for video, editing or 3d, rendering or anything that's heavily utilized in the CPU or the intel Xe graphics cards. It's not the best, and you know the m1 just absolutely destroys it.

So I think that'll do for the performance section. If you do have any requests or anything you want to know between this two drop. The comments in down below, and I'll do my best to answer your questions, but now we're going to move on to battery life and conclusion. Okay, so now that we've done the performance section, what about battery life for these two machines? Now from our review this x1 NATO, we streamed YouTube music at 50, brightness and 50 volume over Wi-Fi, and it lasted about nine and a half hours, so not a bad showing for a windows' laptop. But in comparison the assembled mapper pro did the same test, and it was over 19 hours.

We got out of this machine you're talking well over double, and I've been using this machine a lot over the last six seven weeks that we've had it, and I just I rarely charge it. I feel like I'm charging every other day rather than every single day. It's absolutely incredible. The battery life you're getting at this machine- and I mean I'm not talking about just listening to music- I'm talking about day-to-day work now. Obviously, if you are video editing, you can eat the batch up a little faster, but it still lasts incredibly well on this machine.

If you're video editing on the go on the Lenovo you're, probably looking at about three hours, tops, so battery life wise, it's again, absolutely no contest, it's destroyed by the m1 Apple Silicon MacBook. That takes us neatly on to the conclusion. Obviously you're. Looking at both of these laptops, price-wise, the mapper pro would win straight away. This is only the base model with the two ports.

It doesn't have any upgradability, but you're getting a good value product. I would personally probably buy the air over the MacBook Pro, because I don't think the pro gives you enough extra features over the air, but if you like the pro, it's still a lot cheaper than a similarly priced ThinkPad x1 NATO now with the x1 NATO you can configure it with an i5, a lower SSD uh. You can choose a one card or not one card, so you can adjust it more to suit yourself, but it is still going to come in more than the map of pro. So you've got to ask yourself: what are you really getting for the extra money with the NATO? Well you're? Not getting battery life you're, not getting performance, you are getting a max screen, and you're, getting a wonderful keyboard, and you're getting perfect speakers. You can upgrade your own SSD, and it is a very nice spout package.

It's light you can see. It's got a very small screen, bezel in comparison to the MacBook Pro, but in all honesty I can't wholeheartedly recommend buying the x1 NATO over a mac at the moment. Unless, of course, you absolutely have to have windows. That would be the only reason I'd say: yeah all right buy the x1 NATO for everything else. The map just does it better? I think intel have really got to up their game over the next year or so and bring out something that is going to compete because at the moment they are getting absolutely destroyed on a per watt basis with this mac, and we haven't even seen the 16-inch.

Yet I don't know what that's going to do to the industry. I do love this ThinkPad. I love the x1. Now I love ThinkPads in general, I love the keyboard. I think it's a lovely light usable package.

I just can't justify the cost of it and I think, for the cost of it, you'd be much better off buying a MacBook, air or MacBook Pro. Furthermore, I hope you've enjoyed this video, please let me know what you think pop your comments down below, and I will do my best to get back to every one of you please also like and subscribe if you like, our content, and you'd like to see more because we do regularly release videos, and we'd like you to be notified of that, and lastly, thank you for watching.

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