Update: 10/10/2019 — added more bugs/instability notes As an ultraportable 15-inch notebook with Intel’s 9th generation Coffee Lake hexa-core CPUs and Nvidia’s GTX 1650 graphics, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1 review here, P1 Review here) is one of the most in-demand premium...
Update: October 13, 2019 added HWiNFO logs of extended gaming benchmarks We recently noted in our review of the X1 Extreme Gen 2 a few days ago that performance was a bit weaker than it should be due to thermal and power-limit throttling. In...
Ever wondered whether your laptop’s vanilla 60 Hz display could be replaced with a faster 144 Hz screen? The answer seems to be a confirmed “yes” — for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 1 and 2) and P1, at least. Intrepid redditor and...
It’s been a long time since I had a Lenovo product and even longer since I’ve owned a ThinkPad. But when Lenovo offered to lend me their 2019 ThinkPad Carbon X1, I couldn’t help but be excited. Truth is, I always loved my old...
For some of our readers, external batteries might be a distant memory from 2005. For others (notably ThinkPad users and fans), an external battery is a much more recent memory. That’s because up through the Tx80 of the venerable T-series (I won’t make a...
Update: September 9, 12:48PM HKT — original pricing from SnazzyLabs’ video was misleading ($279 was for Hackintosh-incompatible AMD version. $339 seems to be the cheapest price for Intel I3 model). Additional buying links for the Core i3 330s are here. Apple & Tech YouTuber...
On September 5th 2019, Lenovo has just announced a host of updates to their ThinkBook and Yoga laptops, Smart-home devices, and monitor product lines. The most interesting new devices for me are the new Yoga S740 and Yoga C940, as direct competitors for the...
The Legion series is Lenovo’s lineup of gaming notebooks, and the Y740 is their highest-tier offer as of the first part of 2019. Unlike other manufacturers, Lenovo doesn’t focus on making the best gaming ultraportable on the market, but rather at making the best...
Chinese PC manufacturer and steward of the ThinkPad brand, Lenovo, announced updates to their flagship X-series line of ultrabooks at CES this year at CES. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 and X1 Yoga Gen 4 were both expected to have June 2019 release...
I previously wrote in my long-term review for the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (essentially the same laptop as the X1 Extreme except with Nvidia Quadro GPUs instead of GeForce) that it was my favourite laptop of 2019, and one of the best all-around laptops I’ve...
Lenovo is fairly new at making gaming laptops, but their Legion lines have been some of the best-buy products in their categories in the last two years, with the Y720/Y520 and then the Y530/Y730 models. Despite that, Lenovo is not resting on their laurels...
As more and more reviewers rely on loaner devices and being first with a review to stay afloat, long-term reviews of laptops are becoming rarer. However, the overall user experience, manufacturer support, and engineering are aspects that are difficult to speak of without an...
Lenovo’s roadmap for their ThinkPad line of laptops has apparently been leaked and subsequently tabulated, revealing some juicy tidbits for fans of the ThinkPad series. Chief among the updates is a long-awaited update to the 12-inch X280 series. Previously the most compact ThinkPad laptop...
This article is about the Lenovo Yoga C930, Lenovo’s top-of-the-line consumer convertible laptop and a follow-up of the popular Yoga 920 and 910 from previous years. It’s been available on the market for a few months now, so we were able to test if...
Updates of Lenovo’s top-tier ThinkPads are expected for later this year, and they’re not just the standard hardware updates, but actually address a few of their quirks and improve on certain aspects. Both the ThinkPad X1 Carbon clamshell and the ThinkPad X1 Yoga convertible...
Surface Laptop 3 15 vs Dell XPS 15, ThinkPad X1 Extreme/P1 and MacBook Pro 15
Microsoft’s Surface Laptops have been some of the more popular ultrabooks of the last few years. With the 3rd generation, Microsoft added a full-size 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 alongside...
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