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| Lenovo ThinkBook Plus (Gen2),Dual-Screen |
My friend's brand new Lenovo thinkbook
plus gen2 is in front of me and I've had my eye on this for quite
some time because of its idea its concept instead of just a traditional normal laptop
that we're used to seeing on everything where you get your main display you
have the keyboard you type on it you do your work this one adds a second
display and it doesn't do it in the way that ASUS does it where they add it to
the top deck of the keyboard or somewhere below but they take the the back
panel and they turned it into an actual ink display now this is very interesting
because e-ink is not the best display for watching content
it's not the best
display to even draw on but what e-ink really excels at are two things one you
get significantly better battery life like if you're just using the ink portion
of this and nothing else battery life is amazing and the other area where it
excels is reading content like if you're literally using your laptop to just
read a lot then you're to appreciate this because your eyes are going to thank
you the cool thing though is when they were able to do all of this by placing
it in such a thin and light form factor like this is not bigger because of the
second display it only weighs 1.2 kilograms or just under three pounds you get
the latest 11th gen intel processor it's not super cheap but it's not over the
top expensive either now the one thing you do have to know about these
processors is that it's not the standard higher watt 11 gen intel processor in
fact the i7 is very similar or is similar the same one actually as the one
that's in the lenovo ThinkPad nano now even though it's using a lower i7 it still
loses out to the nano quite significantly so like you're really not buying this
to like edit video you're not buying this to do crazy 3d workloads this laptop
has enough performance to basically be used as a general productivity device
take notes write notes have tons of tabs open do the odd task that requires a
little bit more than usual but you're not pushing this thing like crazy now
there's not a lot of ports but what you do get is two thunderbolt 4 ports on
the left hand side you have an audio jack and then on the right hand side of
course the place to put your pen and then you have a power button even when you
have the laptop down like this there's a little cool arrow telling you exactly
where the power button is so you can access it quickly with your finger now the
top display is not as big as the display that's inside like this is just a 12 inch
display but it has a very pixel dense resolution we're talking uh qhd plus here
okay so there's a lot of space to write and jot down notes now if you're gonna
be using this as a note taker it's honestly not the best because e-ink technology
has never been the best for writing and the reason being is because it's just
slow you know like if you're writing on the display you can see the curves
happening at a major delay and there'll be often times where i'm writing on the
display and it doesn't even pick up the word the two main areas where i found
it to be the best was obviously reading and using it as a tablet form factor
the internal display is actually quite nice it has a 16 by 10 aspect ratio so
it's 2560 by 1600
so it's very pixel dense the color accuracy is fantastic it
has good color reproduction there's a bit of reflection on the display
depending on how you move it you have your 0.9 megapixel camera on top which is
not the best but the power button also acts as a fingerprint if you want to log
in securely the keyboard has a very shallow depth to it so it's not super
quickly like the more expensive think pads like the carbon and the extreme but
overall I found it very comfortable to type on and just like other lenovo
laptops if you want to change the different profiles you can use function cube
and you can cycle between battery performance and intelligent cooling now again
this is not a powerhouse okay and when this thing is under full load it doesn't
get really loud like the highest i could hear the fans was around 44 decibels
but that's only if you have it on extreme performance like if you leave it on intelligent
cooling you'll barely hear the fans at all i should also mention that this
screen is touch and you can use the pen with it
so if you need to quickly jot down something while the laptop
is open you can do that too honestly for bottom firing speakers they get loud
they don't have much bass but they do sound fantastic the touch pad is very
easy to use it's glass and it's very accurate and the sticker placement is some
of the best i've seen in years internally not a lot is upgradeable in fact the
only thing you can swap out is the nvme ssd which by the way is pcie gen4 so
you get some fantastic read and write speeds even the wi-fi card is soldered
onto the motherboard in fact there's only one fan cooling the system i would
have loved to see two and the ram is soldered onto the motherboard battery life
is fantastic on this thing if you're talking about the main display i got about
eight hours and 15 minutes before needing to charge if you're just using the
ink display it's even better like i was getting 12 to 14 hours of use before
needing to charge this laptop so this is a cool idea i don't think this is for
everyone i think this is for a very small market i'd personally never buy this
just because it wouldn't fit my workflow but i feel like if you're someone who
carried two devices and wants to reduce that to one this would work for you
like say an e-reader and a laptop this just takes away both of those devices
and puts it in one maybe you're someone who needs a tablet but also a laptop
this can act as both you hook it up to a monitor you use the top portion so you
can write and draw on it and and you're doing some of the same things you would
do if you were to go out and spend money on a wacom tablet honestly it's a cool
concept it's not over the top expensive but it's not cheap either the only
drawback to this is obviously everything being soldered on and the performance
is not living up to a true i7 in its category it's using the lower wattage
version honestly\
if you're buying this I'd probably just buy the i5 because you're not really getting the performance
of the i7 i hope that answers all your questions if you have any more let me
know in the comment section down below
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fantastic rest of the week cheers everyone love you
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