Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes Lenovo has finally delivered the ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 folding laptop, more than a year after teasing the device. “Pushing boundaries can take you to interesting places,” wrote the marvellously named Jerry Paradise, VP of Lenovo's Commercial Portfolio and Product Management. “When we announced the ThinkPad #X1Fold last year, we …
When folded out, you get a 16.3" screen at 2560 x 2024
The "starting" weight is 1.28kg, but with keyboard and stand it's 1.94kg. At that weight you might as well have a proper laptop - so I can't really see the point.
I guess it's for people who liked the Sony Vaio C1, and will tend to use it folded with the lower half acting as touch keyboard??
Have to say I've never understood the complaints about laptop weight. In my mind, 2.5 kg is pretty negligible. I often have both my work and my personal laptops in my backpack, along with their power supplies and sundries. No big deal.
Sure, there are many people who for one reason or another can't or shouldn't cart that sort of weight around, but for most users, is it really a problem? We're not mining coal here.
... of the portable monitor. I've got a fairly cheap 4k that is almost the same form factor as my Stinkpad, and you get a lot of extra screen estate (not to mention two screens).
I'm struggling to think of too many situations where you could unfold a big screen like this but not use a portable monitor ...
Agreed. But it's still very early days in terms of folding screens. I'd say I'll wait 5-10 years, but I'll be retired by then, probably won't have the wherewithal to waste that amount of cash on a vanity laptop and have no use case for it any more :-)
After all, the early laptops were often barely even "laptops", requiring mains power to run (lets not go near the "luggables"), then crappy LCD screen emulating CGA or worse came along on some quite heavy, chunky laptops. Now we have wafer thin OLED screens that weigh next to nothing but don't like being folded at all. Early adopters will be all over these foldable screens, the rest of us will probably be able to afford them and find them useful and convenient eventually, as the tech moves on, production and reliability improves. Or maybe it'll be a dead end and we never get cheaply produced, reliable, flexible electronics.
Weird aside. Remember CRTs and the switch to flat screen LCD and the strange effect of flat screen appearing to bend inwards after spending time in front of the bulging CRT? I just had a weird throwback experience to that. I spent most of the day in front of a very wide curved display panel, then had to go into one of out mini conference rooms with a "traditional" flat screen and it looked like it was bowed in at the middle :-)
Can I have that without the laptop please? Or the folding?
It's so weird to me that we're seeing more and more portable devices with what's basically a 4:3 screen resolution but it's still damn close to impossible to buy a regular desktop monitor like that.
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