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man I've been interested in laptops recently you could probably tell I've been using Mac books for years and recently you know bumping into some problems keyboard issue that keeps on flaring up but in the meantime I've been experimenting a lot more with Windows and the wide variety of choices that you have 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 it's just a little bit more exciting to be honest because there's more choice did a video on this guy here this is the x1 carbon Lenovo ThinkPad two and a half pounds it's got an anti-glare display as well which I've actually grown to really like using near a window prior to that the surface laptop 2 that I have here is mostly aluminum with of course in the Alcantara interior as much as I wanted to love this one the keyboard was just a little bit too flimsy maybe I'm hammering a bit hard when you put them in a showdown between the x1 carbon and this one the keys themselves yeah I mean they're nicer they're nicer on the laptop by a touch I just gravitate towards that one you have tablets and iPads and smartphones in so many different devices competing for your attention and when you reach for one of these you want to have a nice keyboard experience a nice display experience the speaker experience haven't been super happy with on x1 carbon saloon 2 speakers on this are not as nice as pretty much any MacBook that I've used so anyhow that brings us to today the x1 extreme this is the Lenovo equivalent to the MacBook Pro this is the workstation this is the gtx 1050 this one has a core i7 in it this is configurable up to 64 gigabytes of ram in fact if you buy this laptop in a form of the p1 then you could be looking at intel xeon processors in a laptop it's got 2 slots for SSDs but the craziest part about this is it still comes in incredibly light right at four pounds so think MacBook Pro think thin and light okay here we go this one has a 4k display on it that's a ton of pixels for a laptop but it does come at the expense of being a bit heavier compared to the x1 carbon I mean you're gonna notice the difference more screen real estate on this side it actually supports quick charging 135 watt power brick which isn't even not huge think of quick charge for your smartphone but for your laptop and it's about time that took place they've gone with a proprietary connector here I think it's worth it in exchange for quick charge on your laptop it's got the soft touch to it it's all business but that's alright it just says I want to get the job done nothing extra you have an SD card slot a couple of USB ports over here there's a Kensington lock to Thunderbolt three USB type-c connectors HDMI out Ethernet breakout and also a headphone jack much different than the Apple approach on the MacBook the rapid charge will bring this laptop up to eighty percent of its total battery capacity in a one hour charge ok cool this one there's a little bit more room on the deck the trackpad looks a little bit larger than the x1 carbon let's take a quick peek at that yeah it's a bit taller and the fingerprint scanner moved this one they say is anti reflective but it has glass over top so it's gonna be more reflective than the one that I'm currently using on the carbon this is the best whoo look at this like why don't more laptops do that let me go flat if I have to that is crazy so if you're all about contrast and vibrance and so on this is probably the display that you're going to select if you go with this particular system having 4k resolution in something that's 15 inches I mean that's a ton that's some serious pixel density going on there let me do a little bit of typing on his keyboard I'm curious quick brown fox jumped over that Lee easy dog I love these keyboards man I didn't realize how deprived I had been for so many years butterfly key switches when we've even when they worked like you just feel like getting after it it's like the carbon with some added stability if typing is of utmost importance to you apparently the audio performance is better here than it is on the sixth-generation carbon that's a hundred I feel like I hope that I've uncovered some value it does sound better than the x1 carbon it's still not macbook pro level sound the fans are jumping on a little bit again we got we got hot or hardware I mean that's the bottom line and the screen I'm seeing a lot more color and saturation in the video when compared to the 1080p display like that's a really good-looking image right there in the 4k display is so nice to look at but it's gonna increase your power consumption obviously you could go in and and create some some very customized versions of that product you can spec this unit with an i5 and i7 like I said you go to the workstation version where you can go all the way up to a Xeon and it's not even over once you own the thing because you can pop this bottom off right here and you can actually upgrade it yourself you can throw another SSD in there it's actually pretty easy to do and they don't mind you doing it you're not like voiding a warranty or anything like that is the extra horsepower worth the added weight scale size and so on when compared to the x1 carbon which I've been liking look at the way I handle that with one hand I've been liking this so much it might be for me and my day-to-day tasks that this is a bit more convenient I don't really know yet but I'm real interested in what Lenovo is doing with the ThinkPad line it's got me fired back up if you're like me and you've been on a macbook for a really long time it might be the time to take a glance back it's the extreme version it's the desktop replacement sort of workstation little bit of gaming it's like the power ThinkPad if you're looking for something smaller lighter this is 2.5 pounds go check out the video that I did on this laptops your cool get one type something