Gadgetory

all right so I talked a lot in the past about my laptop of choice you may have even seen the previous video in which i showcased this laptop here is the x1 carbon from lenovo then light but really the reason I choose this over other laptops for the day-to-day is because of the keyboard I'm a huge fan of the keyboard and I really feel like keyboards on laptops have been going downhill over the past couple of years past few years that's what opened the gates for me to test out some various pcs and move over to Windows but the ThinkPad line is not gonna be for everyone I mean it's a utilitarian look to it you see it's got this like matte black finish but that's not gonna be for everyone a lot of people are gonna look around this and while my thing to be a little bit flashy err possibly a little bit more modern-looking this one is called the s 940 it has an i7 1.8 gigahertz eight gigs ram 256 storage a 14-inch u HD IPS panel well what's the retail cost on this one 1800 bucks USD but the s 940 starts at $1400 for a lower spec I found this particular laptop to be exciting you have a kind of really polished looking laptops but with some of the attributes from the ThinkPad that I like it's a 14 inch laughter that's a tiny little box by the way it's pretty tiny that's a 65 watt USB type-c connector I found this charger which is like this tiny little brick capable of charging these laptops via USB C and that's my travel that's my go-to travel charger of choice now here's the laptop this is the box that's wild that is super tiny Wow so it's 2.6 pounds in the x1 carbons 2 and a half so it's about the same maybe it's just the metal playing tricks with me here so it's a bit darker than Space Gray I think I actually left it more to be honest it's kind of into charcoal territory look at the form factor that's why that's a 15-inch MacBook Pro and this is the s 940 the carbon is a bit taller because the aspect ratio on the screen is different in this case and this guy is gonna be a bit wider if I place it on top oh it's actually it's almost exactly the same it is okay so most of our gains then in the display Department display size department are the shrinking bezels the bezels are tiny on this smartphone esque they even went so far as moving the front-facing camera above it's kind of notched out into the top part of the display if I hold my hand behind there you can see it actually jumps up a little bit now the other nice thing this is a single handed lift this is pretty nice guys the keyboard the keyboard is not is not ThinkPad level there's just not as much travel in the keys these ones are more like a traditional keyboard this is more like a like a chiclet style that you would be used to on a more modern keyboard deck alright so I also see the dolby atmos speaker system logo here and it looks like the speaker grilles are here so that could be an improvement either way I like the fact that they carried through a similar a similar scale with each key and curvature to thunderbolts on this side over here lots of potential expandability there and speed over on the other side you got your power connector in the form of a USB type-c connector and a headphone jack you're losing lacking a little bit in diversity of ports when compared to the ThinkPad lineup which is gonna give you quite a few connectors on here an hdmi port on this guy the display is wild there's almost no bezel around it it is crazy slender on each side including the top with the expanding front-facing camera now the reason they did this you've seen other manufacturers that want to have a really slim bezel on their laptops you've seen them put cameras in all kinds of crazy places including down below here Huawei has done that in the past but then you get this weird front-facing camera for video conferencing that like looks up people's noses so you got to appreciate the engineering on that front you'll see how crazy different it is when compared to the ThinkPad I mean this baby triple the size of a chin maybe now this display the UHD display on here is definitely better obviously than the FHD one that I have on that x1 carbon over there I mean the range from the black to the white they're deep blacks over here too it's just a better display and of course it's got more resolution as well that's a no contest in the display zone I mean this looks look at this this looks great I mean that's like all display that's pretty wild this is the main advantage this is if you spot this thing at a coffee shop you're like wow I want one of those and this is probably the reason why everybody wants portability but they don't want to give up visibility you don't want to give up the multimedia component and immersion and productivity that comes with having a larger display I can't say that the keyboard is competing in any way with the ThinkPad keyboard so you got to decide like what what is more important to you and why so let's go ahead and turn up the volume have Apple and iPhones that's all they need it's all they want they're set for life there's definitely a customer base that believes that and then also yeah the speakers are much better than my finish it's it's a nice thing to hold in one hand sorry clear I honestly do not even need to play the speakers off to act upon carbon to you yeah I'm happy with the speakers anyway so if you're wondering why it's important to have the camera the webcam up at the top and why they had to design that in there I mean that would have taken tremendous effort to get that to fit in up there this is the purpose this is the reason I'm looking directly into it if I happen to be on skype if I happen to be doing a video conference Kirk you just did a video conference in fact if the camera was popping up from the bottom then it's gonna be more like this Jack can you see this can you get there it's more like this now you're looking up my nose now it's not the greatest camera me it's like a little 720p webcam up there so keep that in mind but still to cram it in up top this is where we're at on smartphones it's the same story where do you put the front-facing camera it seems to be the one characteristic that informs so much of the design and now you're seeing the same thing in laptops where they're trying to figure out where to put into trying to figure out how to minimize bezels so the trackpad I'm probably gonna say that it's maybe it's even a little bit nicer to use then on the ThinkPad it's it's responsive it's acceptable so it's not a substitute for me I wouldn't say I wouldn't even say it's particularly special I would say it's a pretty typical keyboard but as a package deal I think it's a pretty slick laptop to be honest it's got almost no bezel they found a way to fit the front-facing camera in the right spot the keyboard is usable the trackpad is nice it's got enough IO for most people with the double thunderbolt and a headphone jack so there's advantages and disadvantages the overall look I mean I think this thing probably crushes for most people it's a very slick and slender design a lot of times or the reason you end up liking a particular laptop has to do with your own personal preference around form factor or economics it's a bit more difficult to put your finger on why you like one better than the other so really in this case I'm gonna use this a bit more extensively and see where I land but something's telling me I'm just a think pad guy I don't if I can get away from it now the keyboard it's been so rewarding me it's a place I like to live I mean I just can't wait to like respond to emails and I hate email so that's got to tell you something about what lenovo has been able to package up in the x1 carbon it's a that's a crazy popular laptop and for good reason but this thing's slick it's more modern it looks more futuristic I think it's gonna be appealing to some people