Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and this is the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 titanium yoga, not just the regular yoga, but the titanium one which, thanks to the titaniumness of it, gets to be even lighter. Now that the x1 yoga was what you would call a heavy, but this is about a half a pound lighter. It also has a different aspect: ratio display three by two aspect: ratio like Microsoft, surface products which is pretty popular with folks and yes, because it's a yogurt, it has a touch screen and a magnetically attachable pen which may be included in the box with some configurations or otherwise sold separately for around 59 or so inside. We have intel 11th generation, ice lake, lower power, CPUs versus the usual Ultrabook CPU, something we've seen with the ThinkPad x1 NATO, for example, and the x12 tablet. We look at it now, so this isn't the first time we've seen titanium in a laptop. If you remember years ago now there was the MacBook Pro with titanium.

It was called the ti book back in the day. So on this one, the lid is a mix of titanium and carbon fiber and the bottom is aluminum and magnesium. So the entire thing is not titanium. It has a kind of characteristic what we think of is kind of a titanium color, which is a warm silvery color a little of hint of yellow on it. And it's quite a textured finish.

The 3x2 aspect ratio makes it a little deeper than the average laptop and a little deeper than the 16x10 aspect ratio, regular x1 yoga from Lenovo. Obviously it's a ThinkPad, so it's primarily a business laptop, and this is for folks who want to have an even thinner and lighter yoga, because it's trendy, it's chic, it's incredibly skinny, it's 11.5 millimeters, which is as thick as today's slim smartphones, and also because it's actually functioning a little easier to use in tablet mode, not just because it weighs a half a pound less, but also that three by two aspect ratios is better suited to note-taking and to drawing and if you're interested in a business. Laptop chances are you're interested in data, because data and data analysis is everywhere these days just about regardless of what profession you're in you're going to have to analyze data, and that's when our sponsor data camp comes in to help you learn. Data camp has more than 300 courses and interactive experiences. That'll get you there to learning data and data analysis faster and all learning happens in the browser.

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Invest in yourself use my link in the description to get the first chapter of any course free and now back to our video and now back to the physical aspects of the laptop it's fairly rigid. One thing you will have here is dongle life. You lose the USB a port that the regular x1 yoga has. So we have two thunderbolt 4 with USB c style, connectors on board and the headphone jack, and that is it. It has some of the usual features that we've seen lately and think pads the higher end thing pads anyway, and by the way, this one's about a hundred dollars more than the regular x1 yoga.

We have the human presence detection option, which is to drive us bench markers crazy, because it detects the presence of humans in front of the screen and keeps the screen on and keeps it unlocked because, god forbid, your cat actually starts playing with your keyboard right: human presence detection. Anyway, you can disable this if you want to- or you can leave it on and also knows when you walk up to, and it can use the facial recognition windows, hello, IR camera, to unlock it automatically and that part actually is pretty cool and there is a thing shutter on there for privacy. So if you don't want the webcam available, it's physically blocked by the think, shutter there's also a fingerprint scanner on board too. So in terms of the thinness and what that takes away from the laptop for the first thing is it has a haptic trackpad, which is kind of weird sure. Apple has done this sort of thing with some of their trackpads, but I can't say that I really like it mostly because if you're doing things like click dragging where you're keeping your thumb down and where the mouse button area is at the lower track bit, it often doesn't want to move, and it catches on too late, but it'll catch on in the middle of the trackpad, where you don't do a click drag from it's a little disappointing to me.

The keyboard also takes a bit of a hit 1.35 millimeters of key travel, and, while the keys do feel crisp and positive when you're typing on it, it's a little again like a MacBook Pro keyboard kind of feel, instead of the usual nice deep cushy thing pad experience. So for those who want a traditional ThinkPad kind of keyboard, this one's shorter travel a little more abrupt, but not as jarring as saying XPS 13, where you really feel like your finger. Joints might get sore because you're really bottoming out on the keys, it's backlit in white, as always FN plus space bar, with think pads to activate your back lighting in terms of network connectivity. We have intel Wi-Fi six on board as the x201 card, and you've got Bluetooth, 5.1 and as well there's an option for 5g which has fallback to LTE. We have two watt stereo speakers on board, and they're.

Okay, I mean this is a very thin laptop there's, not much room for big drivers. Much as think pads sometimes impress us with their sound. This one is just okay, of course this is a convertible, so you can use this in tablet mode in presentation mode in you name it. You know all the usual versatility of the yoga 360 degree hinges and the hinges are reasonably stiff and there's some bouncing. If you shake the laptop and say you were riding on a bus or something like that, pen experience is Wacom eyes 2.0, with 4096 pressure levels on board, and it's a pretty decent solution. It's what Lenovo has been using with think pads for years now, basically, and a little diagonal line, jitter sure for artists, you would care about that, maybe but for hand, handwriting notes, it's lovely and even for casual artwork.

It does the job just fine. This has a HD resolution display again three by two aspect: ratio sips and Lenovo claims it's 450 nits of brightness we actually measured even higher, which is always nice experimentally. You open it up. You boot it up. Furthermore, you said that's a nice looking display as good contrast, good colors, full RGB.

It's not ultra-wide gamma 100 p3 display, but still it looks good. Since it's a touch screen, it is a glossy display, as reflectivity goes versus hp and dell. It's actually not that bad though, so I would just say the display is one of the strong points of this laptop, and it's nice having that bump up in resolution, without going all the way to 4k, which is probably overkill for most people, with a 13.5 inch display in terms of performance. We have the lower power CPUs from intel's 11th generation line, the ones that can do 7 watts to 15 watts versus the 15 watts. Plus you see with your usual Ultrabook CPUs now Lenovo did that with the ThinkPad x1 NATO and with the x12 tablet that we recently reviewed and performance was still pretty good on those honestly, not so different from your standard Ultrabook, because you can push that power to 15 watts.

But in this case the cooling solution has a bit less room. It seems, and while performance is not terrible on this, it's not as strong as the x1 NATO, which is also a compelling ultraportable. That Lenovo offers a pretty cool one, and you'll notice for longer term tasks like if you're encoding, a video or doing anything, CPU intensive calculations, as they run on past five minute mark or something like that. You'll see the clock, speeds drop a bit on it again. It doesn't become a useless door, stop in terms of speed, but it just doesn't hold the clock speeds as well as the x1 NATO does.

Ram is soldered on board, we'll take a look at the internals and discuss all that stuff soon. Battery life on this is pretty good. We have a 44.5 watt hour battery, which is a reasonably good size battery for a very thin and light laptop, and it comes with Lenovo 65 watt, fast charger. So, given the fact that we have a lower power CPU here and intel BC integrated iris graphics, I's going going to depend on what you do, but for our usual test of lightweight productivity work a little streaming, video editing two photos in photoshop with the brightness set to 200 nits, we were seeing about nine hours, eight to nine hours of battery life. That is that's not bad, and if you run into lower brightness or if you're doing lower workloads on this thing, you could probably push it even farther, so it does well in the battery department.

So, if you're thinking about this versus the regular x1 yoga, I think the obvious thing is you're going to get a little more horsepower and performance out of the standard x1 yoga. It will be heavier by half a pound though, and a little thicker. I don't think that that's really what people care about that, much between really skinny and super, super skinny, also there's the 16 by 10 aspect ratio, which is really popular right now in the regular yoga versus the three by two aspects: ratio which Microsoft Surface lovers tend to really enjoy. If you find that more useful, if you're not consuming a lot of video, for example, because with a three by two aspect ratios. This way you are going to see big black bars top and bottom, the keyboard on the regular x1 yoga a bit more comfortable, and it has normal trackpads.

So those will be the selling points to save 100 and go with the not titanium version to take off the bottom cover just Phillips head screws, six of them and once you unscrew the captive screws, just pull up from the back a little and the cover comes off. No vicious plastic clips to fight with, and here's the underside of that- and here are our internals with the interesting l-shaped battery. Here the haptic trackpad right. There again done to get the laptop as thin as they could. That's why we have that haptic trackpad.

Here's your fan for cooling- and you know not a lot else. Ram is soldered on board here and if you're wondering where the SSD is its underneath this cover right here and as you can see, there's only room for a shorty here, not for the usual 2280 length, SSD, and if you did go for that 5g 4g card, it would go over here. We don't even have the connector soldered on for this model, though Wi-Fi is also soldered on board here. So typical of Ultrabooks, especially skinny ones, not a lot of upgradeable going on. So that's the Lenovo ThinkPad x1, titanium yoga, the super crazy, thin and light laptop, that is, for yoga lovers, who want to see their yoga on a diet.

If there is a person out there that meets those criteria, it is such an easy carry, and it has a big three by two aspect: ratio display the selling points, those obviously uh a little less horsepower here compared to your standard, x1 Jagger, even compared to the x1 NATO at times, and that weirdo trackpad and the less key travel would be what is against it. I'm Lisa from mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech videos and then hit the notification bell. So you know about them.

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