Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Nano Weighs Only 1.99 Pounds and Is Powered By Intel Tiger Lake CPUs (hothardware.com) 51
MojoKid writes: The new 13-inch ThinkPad X1 Nano is the thinnest and lightest Lenovo ThinkPad ever in the brand's history. The machine weighs just 1.99 pounds (907 grams), while still sporting a fairly powerful Intel Core i7-1160G7 Tiger Lake quad-core CPU, up to a 1TB NVMe SSD, 16GB of 4267MHz LPDDR4X RAM and a 48 Whr battery. In the benchmarks, the machine holds its own for productivity and content creation tasks as well as a bit of light-duty gaming, versus heavier machines in its peer group. In terms of battery life, the new ThinkPad X1 Nano hangs pretty tough as well, offering about 7.5 hours of constant use up-time with HD video playback. With its 2K (2160X1350 -- 16:10) IPS Dolby Vision-certified display and top tier configuration, it doesn't come cheap, as you might imagine. The ThinkPad X1 Nano has a current starting price of $1,289 and tops out at $2,231 for its most powerful configuration with 1TB of fast SSD storage. Regardless, it's impressive what the machine can deliver in terms of features and performance in its weight class.
Why the Slashvertisement? (Score:4, Insightful)
How about posting every computer review on the web to fill up the front page with even more useless shite?
Kudos to Lenovo for getting rid of features like the microSD slot though. Physical media is horrible and we should despise having ports and holes in our devices or indeed anything that acknowledges they are machines at all.
Re:Today's snowflakes are so physically weak (Score:5, Insightful)
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And in particular "thinner" is more often "worse". Worse battery life (much, much worse), worse resistance to damage, worse thermal problems due to lack of thermal mass and proper cooling capabilities, worse performance due to space and thermal constraints, etc.
OTOH you get to go on and on and on about how your underpowered whatever is 0.5mm thinner than anyone else's, at least for the first few seconds before people get bored hearing it.
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OTOH you get to go on and on and on about how your underpowered whatever is 0.5mm thinner than anyone else's, at least for the first few seconds before people get bored hearing it.
The great thing about "thin" is that people who want it will always pay extra.
This thing costs over $1,800 - no wonder they don't want to hear you boring technical opinion.
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But thinner doesn't buy me anything
As someone with not fond memories of the limited space I had in a bag among books and papers going through university I would have taken thinner over lighter any day of the week.
It may not buy *you* anything for your specific use case.
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I thought it was going to pull my arm out of my shoulder socket, hustling between gates in the Houston airport.
While it was a blast (at the time) to be able to take a computer on the road, it
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Maybe people that don't care about performance do that.
For people that actually give a shit about write speeds to portable media and ubiquitous connectivity, USB is still king. And, it turns out that USB-C enclosures for NVMe drives are only about $30 and deliver an order of magnitude more performance than any SD card you can buy.
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I have a feeling it's because most USB devices cannot act as a USB host. Having a bi-directional capability may involve some tricky engineering that may get expensive.
The only devices that I can think of that act as both a USB device as well as a USB host are tablets and phones, and they are running general-purpose computing hardware and full-blown operating systems inside.
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Micro SD cards are basically SSDs now, the high speed ones have an NVMe interface and DRAM cache. So they are great for expanding the storage of your laptop without having to open it up. Of course supporting that also means that the manufacturer has to get PCIe lanes onto an external slot, no easy task in an ultrabook.
Even just an internal USB3 interface for SD card is going to be very fast for bulk storage. They are great for consumers because the car doesn't protrude from the laptop, making it a nice easy
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This might come as a galloping shock, but not every single device that is available in the world is pointed at you.
There are lots of people out there that aren't interested in a SD slot, but are very interested in a compact, lightweight, and still powerful notebook. In fact, there's many large organizations that spend effort to disable SD slots via management frameworks for data security purposes, and probably buy many notebooks in the 13-inch screen class for managers and sales folk.
Before posting a whine
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Yeah, I hate that I can only use USB flash drives that have an order of magnitude faster access than SD cards, as well as far higher storage densities for less money. Those sons of bitches.
Seriously, I can put a 1TB NVMe drive into a self-powered USB-C enclosure for $130 where a 1TB SD card will cost me over $200 and still only write at a max speed of ~ 90MB/sec unless the manufacturer went cheap on the actual memory, in which case you won't even see 90MB/sec.
However, I can take a NVMe drive off Amazon for
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Hey! My main workstation is a Raspberry Pi, you insensitive clod!
Nerds needing nerdy news has to know (Score:5, Insightful)
at almost 2000 bucks it better be able to run Linux because i would be sorely disappointed if it only ran windows-10
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Re: Nerds needing nerdy news has to know (Score:1)
This is Lenovo. Former IBM laptops. The X and T series are for professionals. If anyone supports Linux, they do.
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That support is due to the fact that the entire RHEL and Fedora dev team uses T and X series laptops, fix their encountered bugs, and upstream that code.
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Of course it is.
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Is the memory soldered onto the motherboard?
Of course it is.
Does it matter? I can count on the fingers of a quadruple amputee the number of times I or anyone I know upgraded the memory on their laptop. Hell I haven't even upgraded the memory on my desktop in the past 10 years. CPU yes, GPU yes, but not the memory.
I suspect you are penny pinching too much. Get a machine with a decent amount in the first place and it should well and truly outlive the useful life of any portable computing device.
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Does it matter? I can count on the fingers of a quadruple amputee the number of times I or anyone I know upgraded the memory on their laptop. Hell I haven't even upgraded the memory on my desktop in the past 10 years. CPU yes, GPU yes, but not the memory.
I've upgraded memory in many laptops and desktops. Not only to increase memory also to replace bad ram.
Rather amazing what some integrators have passed off on unsuspecting public in order to save money. Using memory chips of insufficient grade, lacking equipment to do proper testing and even an official policy of knowingly passing ram with bit errors. Things I've discovered after wasting far too much time debugging memory problems that won't even show up in memtest86 after 24-hrs.
I suspect you are penny pinching too much. Get a machine with a decent amount in the first place and it should well and truly outlive the useful life of any portable computing device.
Markups on models with
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> I can count on the fingers of a quadruple amputee the number of times I or anyone I know upgraded the memory on their laptop.
Sure, I have.
Within days of buying my powerbook 180, I coughed up for a module to max it out and add another 10mb . . .
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If you are buying a 13" notebook, upgradability is not your primary concern. That's one reason why 14", 15", and 17" notebooks still exist.
13" notebooks exist in order to have something as portable as possible for people that need portability as a high concern. Otherwise you would spend less money for more performance and upgradability.
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youngone asked the rhetorical question:
Is the memory soldered onto the motherboard?
Of course it is./p>
You're probably right about the RAM.
But I'll bet the SSD is pretty trivial to upgrade ...
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It's frustrating that they solder the RAM in, when there is an M2 slot for the SSD and the wireless card is socketed too.
Anyway, it's an Intel so it runs hot and performance is mediocre. I'm waiting for some Ryzen machines with Thunderbolt.
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I bought an older model Thinkpad L380 several years ago specifically to run Linux, (but still also boots to Win 10) which it does perfectly. Same form factor as the reviewed machine, but of course less powerful with only an i5, 16G ram and 500Gb SD drive - but I couldn't be happier with it. It also has great battery life and still gets 6+ Hours on battery doing normal work stuff, even though its a few years old now.
One factor to consider is the size and weight of the power supply, which is not mentioned. M
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It does. Intel has been doing a pretty good job of getting drivers for their stuff into the kernel. And Lenovo has been doing a great job of making sure stuff like fingerprint readers work, unlike *ahem* Dell, who still don't have Linux drivers for fingerprint readers they shipped 3 years ago.
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2 pounds (Score:1)
2 pounds is a lot. I mean think of it .. if you can only bench say 300 and youâ(TM)re at 299 and someone adds on a 2 pounds weight .. then what?
Re: 2 pounds (Score:1)
Do you want a battery or not?
(Ok, synthetic hydrocarbons and a fuel cell would get that battery weight and volume down to a tenth. Ideally, a CO2-collecting tank would have to make it bigger again though. But not really heavier.)
Apple M1 seems like the best mobile hardware model (Score:2)
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Most of our Apple laptops were still running 8-10 years later. A 2006 13" MacBook Pro was acting as my media server until maybe 18 months ago - admittedly not with the original disk drive.
Honestly the drives made more difference than the processors in terms of useability - even early SSDs ran circles speed-wise around the traditional hard drives... especially given the slow hard drives Apple tended to put into their laptops.
I was pleasantly surprised by my MacBook Air (Score:2)
Which I bought in 2013 (which makes it a 2012 model). It has been a great laptop for use on the road - it isn't good for any kind of real coding/application builds, but for emails, presentations and the occasional spreadsheet I've never had anything better. The aluminum case is decently rugged although it's starting to show it's age. The only issue I've had with it is the battery which needed to be replaced after five years and now I'm due for a new one...
And I'm wondering whether to put in a new battery
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Unless you want to run legacy applications or x86 virtual machines, the M1 is really good. For the use cases you specify the M1 would be a good fit and a significant upgrade from your current model or even from the most recent intel models.
I have an M1 and a 2017 macbook pro, and the M1 runs circles around the 2017 pro.
Re: I was pleasantly surprised by my MacBook Air (Score:1)
Yeah, sorry, only computers qualify. Computers to the user that is. Not to Apple.
Get you desktop condescendingphone outta here.
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My 2010 macbook air still works, and was in active use (albeit with degraded battery life and an out of date macos) until i replaced it with an M1 at the end of last year.
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I few years ago I went to an SSD and put the a new 2G HD with a caddy in the place of the optical drive, otherwise it's still original.
And it runs Kubuntu, the original XP has been wiped years ago.
Oh God no... (Score:2)
Don't make anorexia a thing for proper computers too.
It's insanity. Modularity and battery modules should be law! There should be prison sentences for selling non-modular or non-standard-compatible or non-repairable products, for lock-in, and for any other kind of monopolism / taking away the ability to choose.
Lenovo s*cks (Score:2)
I've had 5 Lenovo top-of-the-line Thinkpads. Every one of them failed in short order, apparently from the same heat conduction design flaw. My 20 year old IBM Thinkpad still works just fine, though it's a little short on compute power.