The Power and Portability of a 1.99 Pound Laptop

As I hold this ultra-lightweight laptop in my hands, I am struck by its incredible weight. At just over 1.99 pounds, it's astonishing to think that this device can pack so much power and versatility into such a compact package. Despite its small size, this laptop is not only lightweight but also stiff and strong, making it perfect for everyday use.

One of the standout features of this laptop is its Thunderbolt 4 port. This technology offers tremendous throughput and expandability, allowing users to get creative with their computing experience. With Thunderbolt 4, I can envision a future where I can do everything from EGPU stuff to capture work with ease. The flexibility it provides is unparalleled, and I'm excited to explore its capabilities.

As someone who spends most of their day using email, Slack, YouTube, and other web-based applications, this laptop meets all my needs perfectly. It's ultra portable, relatively durable, and offers a nice screen that's perfect for reading and browsing. However, there are those who will be cross-shopping against the MacBook Air, which weighs in at a whopping pound heavier. The MacBook Air is a 13-inch laptop with an aluminum body, but it just can't compete with this one when it comes to weight.

But what really takes the cake is how these laptops compare to other options on the market. Take, for example, the iPad Pro with keyboard attachment and pen support. On its own, the iPad Pro weighs in at 1.4 pounds, but add the keyboard and pen, and we're talking about a device that's over half a pound heavier than this one. And if you want to take it to the next level by attaching the magic keyboard to the MacBook Air, we're looking at a combined weight of over 13 pounds – a staggering difference that highlights just how much this laptop has packed into its compact frame.

The thought of carrying around a device that's not only portable but also offers so many features and capabilities is truly staggering. The idea that I can take this laptop with me wherever I go, without feeling weighed down or burdened by its size, is almost too good to be true. And yet, here it is – a 1.99-pound laptop that feels like a tank in my hands.

The weight of these laptops is truly mind-boggling, and the difference between them is striking. The Padbook X1 Nano weighs in at just 2.6 pounds, but even that can't compare to the sheer power and versatility of this device. And as I look around at these comparables, I'm reminded just how much we've come to expect from our laptops – a lightweight design that doesn't compromise on performance or features.

As I continue to explore this laptop's capabilities, one thing becomes clear: this is not your typical laptop experience. It's an experience that's tailored to the needs of a specific user base – someone who values portability, versatility, and raw power above all else. And if you're that person, then this laptop is truly the ultimate computing device for you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthat is what you are going to live life today is an exciting day you know that i'm interested in finding the optimal the ultimate laptop for myself it has changed so much over the years at some point i kind of zeroed in i targeted my focus on think pad products because i like a nice and substantial keyboard but i don't want a super heavy fat laptop that would typically be what would include a nice keyboard i had the x1 carbon many generations the x1 extreme today i have in front of me the latest innovation in the thinkpad lineup this is the lightest thinkpad they have ever done it is 1.99 pounds it's a type of thinkpad it's the type of laptop that's going to encourage you to move it around just because it is so light they've also used materials here to give it a certain amount of durability there's carbon in here i'm hoping the keyboard feels as good as the previous ones have it's also got thunderbolt on it which you guys know how i feel about thunderbolt specifically thunderbolt 4 the latest generation intel chips are inside of it depending on how you configure it and supposedly it's got over 17 hours of battery life it is the x1 nano lots of exciting things i don't know what it says on the box it doesn't even it's so new so recently launched this could very well be my next laptop my next go-to let me pull it out oh that is tiny this is a oh my even with the foam on it holy wow what it feels like nothing it feels like i'm holding an ipad but i'm holding a whole entire windows laptop that is incredible all right i don't want to give it all away i'm going to just look at the other items in the box i'm going to lay that down for a quick moment it's pretty bare bones so as mentioned it's a 65 watt power brick you can use the type c power brick from lenovo that's included in the box but it's a usbc chargeable laptop so if you have one of those fast charge power bricks that maybe you use with your phone one of those gan chargers you could use that as well and get something even tinier than this although the included charger is pretty tiny as well in here let's look around the device over here on the side you see those two thunderbolt 4 ports that i mentioned and a headphone jack that's actually all you're going to get as far as the interfacing is concerned bit of a drawback compared to the other models but a consequence of getting that almost impossible size here at 1.9 let me put this in perspective for you 1.99 pounds the regular x1 carbon which is already ultra portable is 2.4 pounds the competing product from dell is around 2.6 pounds it's almost a half pound lighter than everything it's competing with it's obviously lighter than the macbook equivalent it's just it's pretty crazy it's pretty wild you can tell that i'm pumped up apparently they worked on the audio as well which is a big consideration for me i i can't stand the tinny audio on certain laptops let me open this up wow just like all the other think pads an incredible range on the hinge which you look at that it can basically fold flat you have of course a little cover for the front-facing camera which is nice from a privacy perspective more speaker grills up here a large precision track pad fingerprint unlock plus the mechanical buttons which are a nice little extra to have i usually map them to just be extra buttons as opposed to necessarily having them left right center button and of course you gotta have the little you gotta what is the name of this nub you gotta have your nub all right because it's a thinkpad after all that is that's like a cutting board it's so thin and light my goodness let me tickle these keys just a touch and yes the quick brown fox is alive and well the way they shape the keys now this one's a little bit smaller than what i'm used to on x1 carbon but barely you are going to live life with this keyboard and no moment in time would you be sitting there saying i gotta get my full-size keyboard out because this it really tricks your brain you're still getting key travel which is so unusual on laptops in 2020 you just feel right at home when you use a keyboard like this one of course you also have this really stealth like design matte black finish which is almost has like a rubberized feel to it plus some call features in the quick settings up along top that's because you can configure this model with 5g as well and be completely off the grid or away from wi-fi but still connected let me go ahead and power this up the power switch is over on the side wow that was nintendo like on the startup 11th generation up to core i7 processors windows 10 pro obviously intel iris graphics so integrated graphics you can configure the display for touch or non-touch they're both dolby vision whether you go with the touch screen or the non-touch screen and 450 nits of brightness which i track this stuff i like to use a laptop next to the window so i care about the brightness level 450 is on the higher end of the spectrum certainly especially for such a thin display with such a tiny little bezel you can get up to 16 gigs of memory on here up to one terabyte of pcie ssd storage has mentioned up to 17.3 hours of battery life that's very specific lenovo 17.3 very interested in the dolby atmos speaker system can they deliver on a package that's so thin and light can you really fit speakers in there if they're half decent i'll be okay with it in exchange for the portability wi-fi six is built in and as mentioned 5g as well uh for connection via sim card i suppose maybe it has an e sim because i don't see a sim tray over there all right so we are booted up it is a matte finish on the display let me get those knits going sometimes with a matte display you don't really fully appreciate how bright it is because it doesn't have that extra punch that some gloss gives you however what you do get is a sort of more uniform experience because you have less reflections i'm a fan of a matte display i'll take a matte display no problem on the top lid here there are four separate microphones they took the video conferencing potential very seriously obviously they're targeting a work clientele and another nice little touch on the thinkpad logo over here we have the red light indicating that it's turned on above the eye inside of the logo now what's unique about this laptop is that even though it's a 13-inch laptop because they went with a 16 by 10 display top of the screen is actually the same height as a 16 by 9 14 inch laptop so you're only losing some width now for productivity tasks that's not really a big deal that audience tends to like a slightly taller display because of the type of content that you view like say websites for example which are typically a little taller than video content that is the most aggravating sound in the world and it always like crackles the speaker a little bit because they didn't tune it correctly full resolution 4k playing will do has his very own colorway of later case for a later case this laptop is so light i can hold it out here i can't tell you for days quantities that are left because so many of them you have uh four separate speakers so you have speakers here which are going to give you uh sort of more detail for dialogue firing into your left and right ear and then for a little extra bass these two guys are going to hit the table and honestly for a 1.99 pound laptop i'm going to take that sound i'm going to say it right now this sounds better than some laptops i've tested that are quite a bit bigger so they did think about sound and i appreciate that because for a while lenovo wasn't all that interested in delivering too much sound to you because they thought okay this is a work device take it easy you don't have to be watching these videos very loud but that feature mattered to me so i believe they have kind of rectified the situation on that front with this laptop windows hello tons of options for unlock i typically will have a couple different ones enabled so the fingerprint scanner is one but so is the face unlock in windows hello that one is super quick if i ever switch back to a mac laptop i often miss that i'm gonna go ahead and try the fingerprint on this one here we go now lenovo has put the fingerprint scanner in this position for a while and it's looking for the scan and you're in my favorite setup for these is a is a dynamic one where i have multiple options for unlock and then just whichever one kicks in first i'll just go if i hit enter and it happens to see my face okay perfect if i'm kind of off angle or something and i use the fingerprint perfect i just like having more than one option for unlock i use it on a regular basis i'm curious about the front-facing camera because video conferencing has become such a huge part of our lives in 2020 and this four microphone array so i'm gonna go ahead and launch a front camera recording so here we are this is just the camera app within windows oh it's got some sort of a noise cancelling thing going on i can tell it's dipping the ambient noise in between words one of the reasons you have these multi microphone arrays is often for a sort of noise cancellation functionality in order to determine what frequency the background noise is and to kind of attempt to get rid of it we're going to be testing out the microphones on the laptop as well as the front-facing camera for video conferencing purposes regardless of which conferencing app you choose to use you might be curious about how you're going to come through on this laptop if you happen to pick it up so it's not the most tremendous resolution i don't know what they list it as it must be maybe 720p they don't even list it on here oh it's an hd camera with ir as well and think shutter that's the thing that allows you to cover it up with an actual mechanical switch and cover uh it looks like 720p to me so don't get your expectations too high but it should work for your various video conferencing and it's a it's a good location you know some super thin and light laptops i've had to move the location of the front camera but this is where it should be up on the top of the display the quick brown fox the quick one of the things about a laptop keyboard is it's not just the travel in the keys but it's also whether or not the whole thing flexes as those keys travel downwards and often when you're dealing with something so lightweight it's tough for them to figure out a way in which to deter the chassis from bending down one of the ways that lenovo does it with the thinkpad lineup is they use some exotic materials like carbon and magnesium and a variety of high-end materials that are super lightweight but also stiff and strong and so as you can see even though this thing is not even two pounds as i quick brown fox it there's no i'm not completely i mean there's a little bit of flex in there but it's nothing substantial now you also know that i'm a huge fan of thunderbolt seeing as how with a thin and light laptop sometimes it's not going to be the most overpowering thing from a graphics performance perspective but when you have thunderbolt 4 my goodness you got a lot of potential expandability with tremendous throughput you could get crazy and do some egpu stuff if you wanted you could get crazy and do some capture stuff if you wanted so there's flexibility once you have that port and believe it or not it's kind of a tough port to find every time on every laptop you might happen to be looking at this is way heavier all right i grabbed some comparables because i this is just it's so interesting to me sort of what the ultimate computing device is gonna be just in my life and it's gonna be different for everyone depending on what you do on the day-to-day for me the day-to-day there's email there's of course i gotta get into slack and see what everybody's talking about there's some youtube there's a lot of tagging different things and uploading things i'm just interacting with a keyboard a lot i need a nice screen and i want something ultra portable and relatively durable so now you know why i'm such a fan of these things but for some people that are in this market they're going to cross shop it against something like this which is a macbook air but funny enough the macbook air actually feels heavy next to this it's a whole pound heavier how crazy is that it's a 13 inch laptop it's a whole pound heavier now granted it's different materials this is using an aluminum body so it kind of has a its very own luxurious feel to it and there's a much bigger bezel around the display it's a glossy display the keyboard is a totally different type of setup as well bigger track pad they're targeted maybe at different individuals but i could imagine that cross shop and in that case if you're looking for an ultra portable i have to imagine you're looking at that weight if it's going to go in a backpack if it's going to move around with you an extra pound it's uh you know this is two-thirds the weight of this it's quite substantial and then the other crazy thing is once you get into an ipad setup this is a 12.9 inch ipad pro with the keyboard attachment and obviously this is a more versatile device because i can pull this off put it back on and have the magic keyboard attachment to do my typing and touch screen and i could have a pen with it as well but it's kind of amazing how heavy this all gets when you put it all together so the ipad on its own is 1.4 pound this is 1.4 pounds this is 1.99 pounds so the difference between this and the macbook air is a pound the difference between these two items is about half a pound point six pounds put that in perspective because you can't feel this that's insane imagine it's slightly heavier than a 12.9 inch ipad pro with an entire keyboard and then if you want to attach the ipad pro to the keyboard and have a all-in-one solution for when you need to do some typing let me see how much the magic keyboard ways macbook air is 1290 grams and this combined weight is 13.51 so this package is more than a pound heavier than this one and you end up with a 13-inch display a keyboard in this case you can also get a touch display i realize they're very different targeted differently this is like sort of a mobile os with the potential for pen input and so on so it's going to depend on what type of work you do but for me that's just staggering what they were able to pack in here at this weight and i'm very excited to use this more extensively you're going to see it on my desk downstairs on the loo later set and i'm going to be going back and forth with this this will be the daily and i'm gonna hardly notice that i'm carrying it and also last thing i just noticed there's the sim card tray so yeah crazy 1.99 pound thinkpad x1 nano look at this look a few of these two this thing feels like a tank oh that's ridiculous oh my god i know i'm throwing this thing i know it's crazy yeah that's nuts yeah you really feel like you want to get up and move go to a different spot go to the kitchen go to the especially with that little charger you could do anything you go anywhere you can do anythingthat is what you are going to live life today is an exciting day you know that i'm interested in finding the optimal the ultimate laptop for myself it has changed so much over the years at some point i kind of zeroed in i targeted my focus on think pad products because i like a nice and substantial keyboard but i don't want a super heavy fat laptop that would typically be what would include a nice keyboard i had the x1 carbon many generations the x1 extreme today i have in front of me the latest innovation in the thinkpad lineup this is the lightest thinkpad they have ever done it is 1.99 pounds it's a type of thinkpad it's the type of laptop that's going to encourage you to move it around just because it is so light they've also used materials here to give it a certain amount of durability there's carbon in here i'm hoping the keyboard feels as good as the previous ones have it's also got thunderbolt on it which you guys know how i feel about thunderbolt specifically thunderbolt 4 the latest generation intel chips are inside of it depending on how you configure it and supposedly it's got over 17 hours of battery life it is the x1 nano lots of exciting things i don't know what it says on the box it doesn't even it's so new so recently launched this could very well be my next laptop my next go-to let me pull it out oh that is tiny this is a oh my even with the foam on it holy wow what it feels like nothing it feels like i'm holding an ipad but i'm holding a whole entire windows laptop that is incredible all right i don't want to give it all away i'm going to just look at the other items in the box i'm going to lay that down for a quick moment it's pretty bare bones so as mentioned it's a 65 watt power brick you can use the type c power brick from lenovo that's included in the box but it's a usbc chargeable laptop so if you have one of those fast charge power bricks that maybe you use with your phone one of those gan chargers you could use that as well and get something even tinier than this although the included charger is pretty tiny as well in here let's look around the device over here on the side you see those two thunderbolt 4 ports that i mentioned and a headphone jack that's actually all you're going to get as far as the interfacing is concerned bit of a drawback compared to the other models but a consequence of getting that almost impossible size here at 1.9 let me put this in perspective for you 1.99 pounds the regular x1 carbon which is already ultra portable is 2.4 pounds the competing product from dell is around 2.6 pounds it's almost a half pound lighter than everything it's competing with it's obviously lighter than the macbook equivalent it's just it's pretty crazy it's pretty wild you can tell that i'm pumped up apparently they worked on the audio as well which is a big consideration for me i i can't stand the tinny audio on certain laptops let me open this up wow just like all the other think pads an incredible range on the hinge which you look at that it can basically fold flat you have of course a little cover for the front-facing camera which is nice from a privacy perspective more speaker grills up here a large precision track pad fingerprint unlock plus the mechanical buttons which are a nice little extra to have i usually map them to just be extra buttons as opposed to necessarily having them left right center button and of course you gotta have the little you gotta what is the name of this nub you gotta have your nub all right because it's a thinkpad after all that is that's like a cutting board it's so thin and light my goodness let me tickle these keys just a touch and yes the quick brown fox is alive and well the way they shape the keys now this one's a little bit smaller than what i'm used to on x1 carbon but barely you are going to live life with this keyboard and no moment in time would you be sitting there saying i gotta get my full-size keyboard out because this it really tricks your brain you're still getting key travel which is so unusual on laptops in 2020 you just feel right at home when you use a keyboard like this one of course you also have this really stealth like design matte black finish which is almost has like a rubberized feel to it plus some call features in the quick settings up along top that's because you can configure this model with 5g as well and be completely off the grid or away from wi-fi but still connected let me go ahead and power this up the power switch is over on the side wow that was nintendo like on the startup 11th generation up to core i7 processors windows 10 pro obviously intel iris graphics so integrated graphics you can configure the display for touch or non-touch they're both dolby vision whether you go with the touch screen or the non-touch screen and 450 nits of brightness which i track this stuff i like to use a laptop next to the window so i care about the brightness level 450 is on the higher end of the spectrum certainly especially for such a thin display with such a tiny little bezel you can get up to 16 gigs of memory on here up to one terabyte of pcie ssd storage has mentioned up to 17.3 hours of battery life that's very specific lenovo 17.3 very interested in the dolby atmos speaker system can they deliver on a package that's so thin and light can you really fit speakers in there if they're half decent i'll be okay with it in exchange for the portability wi-fi six is built in and as mentioned 5g as well uh for connection via sim card i suppose maybe it has an e sim because i don't see a sim tray over there all right so we are booted up it is a matte finish on the display let me get those knits going sometimes with a matte display you don't really fully appreciate how bright it is because it doesn't have that extra punch that some gloss gives you however what you do get is a sort of more uniform experience because you have less reflections i'm a fan of a matte display i'll take a matte display no problem on the top lid here there are four separate microphones they took the video conferencing potential very seriously obviously they're targeting a work clientele and another nice little touch on the thinkpad logo over here we have the red light indicating that it's turned on above the eye inside of the logo now what's unique about this laptop is that even though it's a 13-inch laptop because they went with a 16 by 10 display top of the screen is actually the same height as a 16 by 9 14 inch laptop so you're only losing some width now for productivity tasks that's not really a big deal that audience tends to like a slightly taller display because of the type of content that you view like say websites for example which are typically a little taller than video content that is the most aggravating sound in the world and it always like crackles the speaker a little bit because they didn't tune it correctly full resolution 4k playing will do has his very own colorway of later case for a later case this laptop is so light i can hold it out here i can't tell you for days quantities that are left because so many of them you have uh four separate speakers so you have speakers here which are going to give you uh sort of more detail for dialogue firing into your left and right ear and then for a little extra bass these two guys are going to hit the table and honestly for a 1.99 pound laptop i'm going to take that sound i'm going to say it right now this sounds better than some laptops i've tested that are quite a bit bigger so they did think about sound and i appreciate that because for a while lenovo wasn't all that interested in delivering too much sound to you because they thought okay this is a work device take it easy you don't have to be watching these videos very loud but that feature mattered to me so i believe they have kind of rectified the situation on that front with this laptop windows hello tons of options for unlock i typically will have a couple different ones enabled so the fingerprint scanner is one but so is the face unlock in windows hello that one is super quick if i ever switch back to a mac laptop i often miss that i'm gonna go ahead and try the fingerprint on this one here we go now lenovo has put the fingerprint scanner in this position for a while and it's looking for the scan and you're in my favorite setup for these is a is a dynamic one where i have multiple options for unlock and then just whichever one kicks in first i'll just go if i hit enter and it happens to see my face okay perfect if i'm kind of off angle or something and i use the fingerprint perfect i just like having more than one option for unlock i use it on a regular basis i'm curious about the front-facing camera because video conferencing has become such a huge part of our lives in 2020 and this four microphone array so i'm gonna go ahead and launch a front camera recording so here we are this is just the camera app within windows oh it's got some sort of a noise cancelling thing going on i can tell it's dipping the ambient noise in between words one of the reasons you have these multi microphone arrays is often for a sort of noise cancellation functionality in order to determine what frequency the background noise is and to kind of attempt to get rid of it we're going to be testing out the microphones on the laptop as well as the front-facing camera for video conferencing purposes regardless of which conferencing app you choose to use you might be curious about how you're going to come through on this laptop if you happen to pick it up so it's not the most tremendous resolution i don't know what they list it as it must be maybe 720p they don't even list it on here oh it's an hd camera with ir as well and think shutter that's the thing that allows you to cover it up with an actual mechanical switch and cover uh it looks like 720p to me so don't get your expectations too high but it should work for your various video conferencing and it's a it's a good location you know some super thin and light laptops i've had to move the location of the front camera but this is where it should be up on the top of the display the quick brown fox the quick one of the things about a laptop keyboard is it's not just the travel in the keys but it's also whether or not the whole thing flexes as those keys travel downwards and often when you're dealing with something so lightweight it's tough for them to figure out a way in which to deter the chassis from bending down one of the ways that lenovo does it with the thinkpad lineup is they use some exotic materials like carbon and magnesium and a variety of high-end materials that are super lightweight but also stiff and strong and so as you can see even though this thing is not even two pounds as i quick brown fox it there's no i'm not completely i mean there's a little bit of flex in there but it's nothing substantial now you also know that i'm a huge fan of thunderbolt seeing as how with a thin and light laptop sometimes it's not going to be the most overpowering thing from a graphics performance perspective but when you have thunderbolt 4 my goodness you got a lot of potential expandability with tremendous throughput you could get crazy and do some egpu stuff if you wanted you could get crazy and do some capture stuff if you wanted so there's flexibility once you have that port and believe it or not it's kind of a tough port to find every time on every laptop you might happen to be looking at this is way heavier all right i grabbed some comparables because i this is just it's so interesting to me sort of what the ultimate computing device is gonna be just in my life and it's gonna be different for everyone depending on what you do on the day-to-day for me the day-to-day there's email there's of course i gotta get into slack and see what everybody's talking about there's some youtube there's a lot of tagging different things and uploading things i'm just interacting with a keyboard a lot i need a nice screen and i want something ultra portable and relatively durable so now you know why i'm such a fan of these things but for some people that are in this market they're going to cross shop it against something like this which is a macbook air but funny enough the macbook air actually feels heavy next to this it's a whole pound heavier how crazy is that it's a 13 inch laptop it's a whole pound heavier now granted it's different materials this is using an aluminum body so it kind of has a its very own luxurious feel to it and there's a much bigger bezel around the display it's a glossy display the keyboard is a totally different type of setup as well bigger track pad they're targeted maybe at different individuals but i could imagine that cross shop and in that case if you're looking for an ultra portable i have to imagine you're looking at that weight if it's going to go in a backpack if it's going to move around with you an extra pound it's uh you know this is two-thirds the weight of this it's quite substantial and then the other crazy thing is once you get into an ipad setup this is a 12.9 inch ipad pro with the keyboard attachment and obviously this is a more versatile device because i can pull this off put it back on and have the magic keyboard attachment to do my typing and touch screen and i could have a pen with it as well but it's kind of amazing how heavy this all gets when you put it all together so the ipad on its own is 1.4 pound this is 1.4 pounds this is 1.99 pounds so the difference between this and the macbook air is a pound the difference between these two items is about half a pound point six pounds put that in perspective because you can't feel this that's insane imagine it's slightly heavier than a 12.9 inch ipad pro with an entire keyboard and then if you want to attach the ipad pro to the keyboard and have a all-in-one solution for when you need to do some typing let me see how much the magic keyboard ways macbook air is 1290 grams and this combined weight is 13.51 so this package is more than a pound heavier than this one and you end up with a 13-inch display a keyboard in this case you can also get a touch display i realize they're very different targeted differently this is like sort of a mobile os with the potential for pen input and so on so it's going to depend on what type of work you do but for me that's just staggering what they were able to pack in here at this weight and i'm very excited to use this more extensively you're going to see it on my desk downstairs on the loo later set and i'm going to be going back and forth with this this will be the daily and i'm gonna hardly notice that i'm carrying it and also last thing i just noticed there's the sim card tray so yeah crazy 1.99 pound thinkpad x1 nano look at this look a few of these two this thing feels like a tank oh that's ridiculous oh my god i know i'm throwing this thing i know it's crazy yeah that's nuts yeah you really feel like you want to get up and move go to a different spot go to the kitchen go to the especially with that little charger you could do anything you go anywhere you can do anythingthat is what you are going to live life today is an exciting day you know that i'm interested in finding the optimal the ultimate laptop for myself it has changed so much over the years at some point i kind of zeroed in i targeted my focus on think pad products because i like a nice and substantial keyboard but i don't want a super heavy fat laptop that would typically be what would include a nice keyboard i had the x1 carbon many generations the x1 extreme today i have in front of me the latest innovation in the thinkpad lineup this is the lightest thinkpad they have ever done it is 1.99 pounds it's a type of thinkpad it's the type of laptop that's going to encourage you to move it around just because it is so light they've also used materials here to give it a certain amount of durability there's carbon in here i'm hoping the keyboard feels as good as the previous ones have it's also got thunderbolt on it which you guys know how i feel about thunderbolt specifically thunderbolt 4 the latest generation intel chips are inside of it depending on how you configure it and supposedly it's got over 17 hours of battery life it is the x1 nano lots of exciting things i don't know what it says on the box it doesn't even it's so new so recently launched this could very well be my next laptop my next go-to let me pull it out oh that is tiny this is a oh my even with the foam on it holy wow what it feels like nothing it feels like i'm holding an ipad but i'm holding a whole entire windows laptop that is incredible all right i don't want to give it all away i'm going to just look at the other items in the box i'm going to lay that down for a quick moment it's pretty bare bones so as mentioned it's a 65 watt power brick you can use the type c power brick from lenovo that's included in the box but it's a usbc chargeable laptop so if you have one of those fast charge power bricks that maybe you use with your phone one of those gan chargers you could use that as well and get something even tinier than this although the included charger is pretty tiny as well in here let's look around the device over here on the side you see those two thunderbolt 4 ports that i mentioned and a headphone jack that's actually all you're going to get as far as the interfacing is concerned bit of a drawback compared to the other models but a consequence of getting that almost impossible size here at 1.9 let me put this in perspective for you 1.99 pounds the regular x1 carbon which is already ultra portable is 2.4 pounds the competing product from dell is around 2.6 pounds it's almost a half pound lighter than everything it's competing with it's obviously lighter than the macbook equivalent it's just it's pretty crazy it's pretty wild you can tell that i'm pumped up apparently they worked on the audio as well which is a big consideration for me i i can't stand the tinny audio on certain laptops let me open this up wow just like all the other think pads an incredible range on the hinge which you look at that it can basically fold flat you have of course a little cover for the front-facing camera which is nice from a privacy perspective more speaker grills up here a large precision track pad fingerprint unlock plus the mechanical buttons which are a nice little extra to have i usually map them to just be extra buttons as opposed to necessarily having them left right center button and of course you gotta have the little you gotta what is the name of this nub you gotta have your nub all right because it's a thinkpad after all that is that's like a cutting board it's so thin and light my goodness let me tickle these keys just a touch and yes the quick brown fox is alive and well the way they shape the keys now this one's a little bit smaller than what i'm used to on x1 carbon but barely you are going to live life with this keyboard and no moment in time would you be sitting there saying i gotta get my full-size keyboard out because this it really tricks your brain you're still getting key travel which is so unusual on laptops in 2020 you just feel right at home when you use a keyboard like this one of course you also have this really stealth like design matte black finish which is almost has like a rubberized feel to it plus some call features in the quick settings up along top that's because you can configure this model with 5g as well and be completely off the grid or away from wi-fi but still connected let me go ahead and power this up the power switch is over on the side wow that was nintendo like on the startup 11th generation up to core i7 processors windows 10 pro obviously intel iris graphics so integrated graphics you can configure the display for touch or non-touch they're both dolby vision whether you go with the touch screen or the non-touch screen and 450 nits of brightness which i track this stuff i like to use a laptop next to the window so i care about the brightness level 450 is on the higher end of the spectrum certainly especially for such a thin display with such a tiny little bezel you can get up to 16 gigs of memory on here up to one terabyte of pcie ssd storage has mentioned up to 17.3 hours of battery life that's very specific lenovo 17.3 very interested in the dolby atmos speaker system can they deliver on a package that's so thin and light can you really fit speakers in there if they're half decent i'll be okay with it in exchange for the portability wi-fi six is built in and as mentioned 5g as well uh for connection via sim card i suppose maybe it has an e sim because i don't see a sim tray over there all right so we are booted up it is a matte finish on the display let me get those knits going sometimes with a matte display you don't really fully appreciate how bright it is because it doesn't have that extra punch that some gloss gives you however what you do get is a sort of more uniform experience because you have less reflections i'm a fan of a matte display i'll take a matte display no problem on the top lid here there are four separate microphones they took the video conferencing potential very seriously obviously they're targeting a work clientele and another nice little touch on the thinkpad logo over here we have the red light indicating that it's turned on above the eye inside of the logo now what's unique about this laptop is that even though it's a 13-inch laptop because they went with a 16 by 10 display top of the screen is actually the same height as a 16 by 9 14 inch laptop so you're only losing some width now for productivity tasks that's not really a big deal that audience tends to like a slightly taller display because of the type of content that you view like say websites for example which are typically a little taller than video content that is the most aggravating sound in the world and it always like crackles the speaker a little bit because they didn't tune it correctly full resolution 4k playing will do has his very own colorway of later case for a later case this laptop is so light i can hold it out here i can't tell you for days quantities that are left because so many of them you have uh four separate speakers so you have speakers here which are going to give you uh sort of more detail for dialogue firing into your left and right ear and then for a little extra bass these two guys are going to hit the table and honestly for a 1.99 pound laptop i'm going to take that sound i'm going to say it right now this sounds better than some laptops i've tested that are quite a bit bigger so they did think about sound and i appreciate that because for a while lenovo wasn't all that interested in delivering too much sound to you because they thought okay this is a work device take it easy you don't have to be watching these videos very loud but that feature mattered to me so i believe they have kind of rectified the situation on that front with this laptop windows hello tons of options for unlock i typically will have a couple different ones enabled so the fingerprint scanner is one but so is the face unlock in windows hello that one is super quick if i ever switch back to a mac laptop i often miss that i'm gonna go ahead and try the fingerprint on this one here we go now lenovo has put the fingerprint scanner in this position for a while and it's looking for the scan and you're in my favorite setup for these is a is a dynamic one where i have multiple options for unlock and then just whichever one kicks in first i'll just go if i hit enter and it happens to see my face okay perfect if i'm kind of off angle or something and i use the fingerprint perfect i just like having more than one option for unlock i use it on a regular basis i'm curious about the front-facing camera because video conferencing has become such a huge part of our lives in 2020 and this four microphone array so i'm gonna go ahead and launch a front camera recording so here we are this is just the camera app within windows oh it's got some sort of a noise cancelling thing going on i can tell it's dipping the ambient noise in between words one of the reasons you have these multi microphone arrays is often for a sort of noise cancellation functionality in order to determine what frequency the background noise is and to kind of attempt to get rid of it we're going to be testing out the microphones on the laptop as well as the front-facing camera for video conferencing purposes regardless of which conferencing app you choose to use you might be curious about how you're going to come through on this laptop if you happen to pick it up so it's not the most tremendous resolution i don't know what they list it as it must be maybe 720p they don't even list it on here oh it's an hd camera with ir as well and think shutter that's the thing that allows you to cover it up with an actual mechanical switch and cover uh it looks like 720p to me so don't get your expectations too high but it should work for your various video conferencing and it's a it's a good location you know some super thin and light laptops i've had to move the location of the front camera but this is where it should be up on the top of the display the quick brown fox the quick one of the things about a laptop keyboard is it's not just the travel in the keys but it's also whether or not the whole thing flexes as those keys travel downwards and often when you're dealing with something so lightweight it's tough for them to figure out a way in which to deter the chassis from bending down one of the ways that lenovo does it with the thinkpad lineup is they use some exotic materials like carbon and magnesium and a variety of high-end materials that are super lightweight but also stiff and strong and so as you can see even though this thing is not even two pounds as i quick brown fox it there's no i'm not completely i mean there's a little bit of flex in there but it's nothing substantial now you also know that i'm a huge fan of thunderbolt seeing as how with a thin and light laptop sometimes it's not going to be the most overpowering thing from a graphics performance perspective but when you have thunderbolt 4 my goodness you got a lot of potential expandability with tremendous throughput you could get crazy and do some egpu stuff if you wanted you could get crazy and do some capture stuff if you wanted so there's flexibility once you have that port and believe it or not it's kind of a tough port to find every time on every laptop you might happen to be looking at this is way heavier all right i grabbed some comparables because i this is just it's so interesting to me sort of what the ultimate computing device is gonna be just in my life and it's gonna be different for everyone depending on what you do on the day-to-day for me the day-to-day there's email there's of course i gotta get into slack and see what everybody's talking about there's some youtube there's a lot of tagging different things and uploading things i'm just interacting with a keyboard a lot i need a nice screen and i want something ultra portable and relatively durable so now you know why i'm such a fan of these things but for some people that are in this market they're going to cross shop it against something like this which is a macbook air but funny enough the macbook air actually feels heavy next to this it's a whole pound heavier how crazy is that it's a 13 inch laptop it's a whole pound heavier now granted it's different materials this is using an aluminum body so it kind of has a its very own luxurious feel to it and there's a much bigger bezel around the display it's a glossy display the keyboard is a totally different type of setup as well bigger track pad they're targeted maybe at different individuals but i could imagine that cross shop and in that case if you're looking for an ultra portable i have to imagine you're looking at that weight if it's going to go in a backpack if it's going to move around with you an extra pound it's uh you know this is two-thirds the weight of this it's quite substantial and then the other crazy thing is once you get into an ipad setup this is a 12.9 inch ipad pro with the keyboard attachment and obviously this is a more versatile device because i can pull this off put it back on and have the magic keyboard attachment to do my typing and touch screen and i could have a pen with it as well but it's kind of amazing how heavy this all gets when you put it all together so the ipad on its own is 1.4 pound this is 1.4 pounds this is 1.99 pounds so the difference between this and the macbook air is a pound the difference between these two items is about half a pound point six pounds put that in perspective because you can't feel this that's insane imagine it's slightly heavier than a 12.9 inch ipad pro with an entire keyboard and then if you want to attach the ipad pro to the keyboard and have a all-in-one solution for when you need to do some typing let me see how much the magic keyboard ways macbook air is 1290 grams and this combined weight is 13.51 so this package is more than a pound heavier than this one and you end up with a 13-inch display a keyboard in this case you can also get a touch display i realize they're very different targeted differently this is like sort of a mobile os with the potential for pen input and so on so it's going to depend on what type of work you do but for me that's just staggering what they were able to pack in here at this weight and i'm very excited to use this more extensively you're going to see it on my desk downstairs on the loo later set and i'm going to be going back and forth with this this will be the daily and i'm gonna hardly notice that i'm carrying it and also last thing i just noticed there's the sim card tray so yeah crazy 1.99 pound thinkpad x1 nano look at this look a few of these two this thing feels like a tank oh that's ridiculous oh my god i know i'm throwing this thing i know it's crazy yeah that's nuts yeah you really feel like you want to get up and move go to a different spot go to the kitchen go to the especially with that little charger you could do anything you go anywhere you can do anything\n"