Gadgetory

so I've been on this mission looking at different computing devices I did the iPad pro experiment in which I just couldn't get used to that tight cover I know it's slim its slender but I started to long for a more tactile click now I have an extensive history with the MacBook products but you know that keyboard has changed a lot over the years we're now using butterfly switches which will loves if I wanted to find the ultimate laptop or typing experience clicky keys who should I look towards and of course Lenovo ThinkPad came into my head because I was like man I remember back in the day I had a t-series with a real nice keyboard I'm hoping that maybe this thing is the ultimate laptop typing experience it's the x1 carbon it's thin it's light it competes directly with the MacBook Air of course this is on the windows side this one what's the spec all right do we have this back here we don't have the spec use the one I have is the classic black Perkin we got the box in the box scenario this is a nice looking box over here all right ooh Oh boom see man elevate good night listen Shh whoo-hoo nice and thin I don't know jack am i switching the windows at night night MacBook time okay that's pretty slim type-c connector as well on the power adapter here we go mmm-hmm look at that it's thin it's light yes there's actual carbon we have a headphone jack a USB on the other side Type C this is a networking breakout for a wired connection via the docking station another USB in a full size HDMI out so different from the styling that we're seeing so commonly on laptops today military utilitarian get the job done make the trade do the deal business is getting done here let me give us a little taste I see a little curvature to each key cradling the fingertip oh yeah yeah okay that's a keyboard which keys on there there's letters you type them you hit them there is travel and the whole thing it's super solid there's no flex in the deck whatsoever since you're all business you can cover the front-facing camera very nice you still have the little red touch point tracking surface there certain ThinkPad people they love that thing I never got used to it I'm probably on a trackpad myself fingerprint scanners over here I might be a little nicer to see it somewhere where you're gonna touch more frequently like the power switch but anyhow you have the fingerprint scanner there let's go ahead and boot it up a matte screen it's somewhat anti reflective when compared to the glossy stuff that we're used to seeing also happens to be touch screen so you could reach up and tap away now another thing I've always liked about the ink pads look at that all the way down to there Kirk was telling me he's at yoga the other day what poses that sleeping dog it's a sleeping dog you see I know my yoga look you know what you hold it like that oh my god it's slender super light what is the weight of this will 2.5 so lighter than a MacBook Air so you're saving 0.25 pounds quarter of a pound quarter-pounder you're saving a quarter pounder maybe you want the quarter pound maybe you need to carry this and a quarter pound what is the screen size this is also a bit bigger right 14 inch so the MacBooks a 13 inch this is a 14 inch plus it's a quarter pound lighter okay there that's full brightness I feel like I didn't show you before if I'm at a Starbucks I'm on this you're like that guy he's probably doing something series you see the same guy but he's got the macbook Shh forget about him that guy he's no trouble you can listen to it yourself I mean you can hear them but they're not they're not slapping you in the face now an area I'm a little concerned is the speaker performance okay sound is coming on the bottom meter there's two speakers that fire against the table they're right there oh you know what I mean it is better coming off the table oh I just noticed the eye lights up on big pads that's a futuristic touch this is like thinning light ultraportable hacker this is your neo it's the matrix post-apocalyptic future this thing scuffed up a little bit you slide it into like a bag that's beat-up this thing is so light it's just like a frisbee Will's MacBook Pro is a 15-inch laptop it's like four and a half pounds bring that laptop over here well with us your favorite part of the day ah this is powerful graphics card okay like we understand it's not a one-to-one comparison give her a shot yeah it's pretty light no hold it hold each one don't hold it going oh yeah yeah yeah obviously this one's heavier yeah so you're converting so you're converting over you're done with this I'll just throw this out for you feels good though right mmm give the keys a little little tinkle oh yeah you sure now hey yeah that's what I like those Oh if you're in like a Starbucks that's a little much well if you type like that but I'm doing the same here but you know what though like what build quality for the keys is actually pretty good it's the only way to test it you press on the corner of the spacebar if the whole thing you know kind of works with it yeah kind of all presses down that's how you know it's like a good design hmm-hmm-hmm oh this don't do that buddy hmm I haven't exclusively used Windows on my laptop in a very long time so what would you say will he do to the idea of me getting rid of the MacBook Air and just going x1 carbon for a bit you don't think windows is gonna do it for me I think so it does email it does YouTube pretty well you're trying to say I don't do very much hmm huh I'm into it man I'm looking to try more stuff out then go to Starbucks I can be neo I can do the blue pill I can do the red pill to to I do both pills let's tell them what the configurations are you can get an F HD IPS anti glare you get the same display with multi-touch that's the one we have right here but it's only 300 myths look at those nits Jack if you step all the way up to the HD rwq HD display it gets glossy you get dolby vision because of the HDR thing and you go up to 500 nits storage 256 up to 1 terabyte 16 gigs of ram on all the versions up to an eighth generation intel core i7 8650 you that's 1.9 gigahertz up to 4.2 gigahertz turbo boost okay it starts at 1300 so the macbook air starts at 1200 this starts at 1300 they're orbiting in the same solar system it's an interesting package I feel like I'm having a bit of a throwback a bit of laptop nostalgia going on but in a modern form factor in terms of size and weights but for now I'm gonna start a little Windows experiment multi-touch really nice keyboard mm-hmm I'm going to touch this keyboard and I'm gonna see what happens okay let's do it yeah