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I've been a covenant we are here taking a look at the lenovo thinkpad twist now even though the system has the thinkpad name from lenovo not more consumer-friendly ideapad game it's actually got some of the features that we've seen on those ideapad laptops that are maybe a little more design heavy a little more consumer friendly it's got the flat top island-style keyboard with those little kind of convex cut out to the bottom of the keys that you find a lot on a lot of lenovo systems these days makes typing a lot easier it's got a big button free click pad which I always liked better than let's say having a separate left and right mouse button although you still do have the extra set of mouse buttons up here for the track point that has still not gone away yet still there if you need it and it's got some nice rounded corners and a cool matte black finish so for a thinkpad it's pretty design heavy thinkpad kind of like the inch line that lenovo has but much more important than that because this is a Windows 8 laptop it is a touchscreen laptop see it goes like that just put your finger on it and even more important than that it is a convertible laptop something actually the Lenovo and thinkpad we're doing for many years before Windows 8 made touch screens and convertibles kind of cool for windows again it's called the twist which means that you can take the screen and you twist it around like that now in this mode maybe I'd call that kind of a kiosk mode so you can maybe play a movie here show a PowerPoint presentation without having the keyboard in the way it's sort of a good presentation mode but then you take the screen you fold it all the way back and then you have got basically a tablet and it's not the thinnest or lightest tablet in the world but it's certainly a little more easy-to-handle then let's say the lenovo ideapad yoga which has a screen that bends all the way back but then leaves the keyboard exposed on the back here in this case the keyboard is hidden is probably a nicer overall tablet experience than the yoga and of course you just twist it to bring it back and that is why of course it's called the Lenovo twist the other thing I liked about this is that with a basic core i5 configuration and the touchscreen like you see here it's actually only 899 and this is a premium looking and feeling laptop for 899 that makes up for some of the flaws like let's say having a lower resolution 1366 x 768 screen i'm dan ackerman and that is the thinkpad twist