If the macbook air was a window's laptop, this would definetely be it. One correction I would like to make is that the apple macbook air 13 is now $1399 not $1499 for the 16gb RAM and 512GB RAM version.
@@RK-um9tu What do you mean? Passively cooling the chip with everything soldered down? I mean, it's not ideal, but for the use case, an entirely passively cooled monocoque design is fantastic.
I'm wondering if there will be a Snapdragon X Elite version of this laptop - would be an absolute banger - I would like to update my comment as a result of reading the actual reviews of laptops equipped with Snapdragon SOCs: at the moment I would be more interested in the Lunar lake version of this Thinkbook 13x gen 4, especially in regards of thermals. Snapdragon laptop's battery life is not that much longer to worth to deal with compatibility issues, at least for me.
Thanks Andrew! They should've remade this with the Qualcomm chip. Also, I have a request for you: in my search for a quality laptop for work and light play, I have tested many laptops and noticed a lot of them have minor but annoying issues. One thing I want to ask of you is do a thorough sleep and wake test, shutting the lid and coming back to it later, checking if the laptop wakes itself when its closed and sleeping (major issue on some), etc. Basically a user experience test.
This year Lenovo products are Elite.. so waiting eagerly for an in-depth review on Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x ... and Elite books with great battery life for the first time and OLED mania continues.. Huawei Matebook X pro is dope too.. This second half of the year is going to be delight for notebook lovers.. APPLE, dude you got serious competition now..
That thing looks amazing. Just got a m3 MacBook Air for school which I was hesitant due to macOS, but build quality, battery life, and performance won me over… if things don’t work out I’ll have my eyes on this
This is a nice laptop, light and portable with a great screen and price! The camera video and audio quality seems really good for an ultra portable. Good review as well, thanks!
I have this laptop with the "Force Pad" Haptic pad. It is a generic in house made haptic pad, its not great feeling & is noisy. It is not the Sensel Brand Haptic Pad used on XPS, Z13, Macbooks, etc.... Also they designed the RAM chips to use the top bar of the chasis (above the FN keys) as a heat sink. Direct contact. Thats why That area gets super hot as shown in the video.
@@runetek2 Well you can just turn off the feedback, yes. type Touch pad settings in the windows search bar. There will be no click though either, you will just be pressing with your finger and create a click without feedback
@@kengurukapromesse9781 performance and battery life was pretty good. At least 6 hours on moderate use. I had to return it though. The screen was too small for me
Hey Andrew, it looks like the price for this laptop has increased? Clicking on your link shows me $1580 for the base model with no upgrades and $2220 for the Ultra 9/32 GB RAM/1 TB SSD config. I don't think this is worth it at that pricing :(
Very impressive ultra portable laptop that certainly will not disappoint! It's got an excellent IPS display, ultra fast soldered RAM, excellent 1080p webcam, excellent internal mics, excellent quad speakers for a Windows laptop, and decent battery life. It is a dream of a computer and I highly recommend it!! Brilliant review Andrew as always!!! 👏😁
It looks like the ThinkBook 13x Gen 5 Snapdragon is the one to get... and it could potentially be the benchmark for Lenovo to finally streamline the product line up and endless variants. Server, Workstation, Home/Business, Gaming.
Lenovo are getting better and better every year. They listen to customers and improve on their laptops. This thing is sexy and performs very good for a windows laptop!
Got this laptop as reviewed (I did have the haptic trackpad upgrade at no charge) for $870 bucks a couple weeks back with a beneplace discount. The best laptop I’ve had. Far exceeds the thinkpad z13 gen 1 I have and barely beating the MacBook Air m2 I traded in. I only wished windows was a smoother and more aesthetically pleasing OS like Mac OS.
It would be cool if you could compare all the time the battery life between the MacBook air as well with every laptop since that’s the gold standard of laptops right now
Dang, in the market for new compact laptop, just purchased an HP ENVY 17in, just as simple EDD for home use, to replace 7 year AW 17 R4, this Lenovo, makes me reconsider my idea of the Surface 9, but Hell, I can buy both.
Really nice review as always Andrew. So many good choices this year to choose from but i'm waiting to see how the snapdragon laptops perform and to see if the hype was worth it or not.
Can you please include the MacBook AND this track in All your reviews? Cuz I'm compiling a playlist of "best laptop speakers" and consistency in comparisons is kinda important.
The haptic forcepad is quite hell to work with (if you didn't worked with that before) - please, does anybody know if the haptic forcepad can be disabled and use the pad more like classical touchpad/clickpad? Witrh a software or hardware interference, doesn't matter. Thank you very much!
You can deactivate vibration of the haptic forcepad in the windows touchpad settings. I was also very disappointed. The vibration sound is weird noisy (like rattle) and its different loud whereever you push it on the touchpad area. Therefore I sent it back.
@@andrewmarcdavidniceeee :D please please review for playing games, while showing the CPU, GPU temps while also showing the wattage on MSI afterburning... thanks 😅
I brought this one, return because: 1. It feels heavy in hand. 2 design is worse than z13 and xps13, the groove at the back break the smooth feel when holding. 3. The keyboard feels way more cheap than z13. 4. I love haptic of my z13 but hate the haptic touch pad on this one. The Z13 feels much more premium.
I will get the Core Ultra 9 Model with 32GB of Ram in about a month - coming from a Thinkpad Z13 gen1. What I will be missing is an Oled but everything else, especially Thermals, seem to be way better. Since I use mine only for light browsing, Netflix and Office (office mostly with an external Display), I think I should be fine with the higher temperatures. But then again, my Z13 was also running very hot and loud all the time.
Could you take a look at the ROG Flow X13 2023 edition (w/ only the iGPU)? It is sometimes on sale for $699 at Best Buy, and somewhat as a competitor machine with the ThinkBook 13x Gen 4. It gets a lower resolution display, and definitely worse speaker system, but seem to have better performance on multi core due to a much higher power and thermal budget.
It looks a bit tight (lack of better word) English not first language still learning, like the keys are too close to each other i can imagine that it would be difficult to type fast
Doesn't this have a new 'stainless' magnesium alloy material for the chassis? If so, does it improve on the 'feel' of recent magnesium alloy materials? e.g. ThinkPad 13x.
If it fixes the complaints about the feel of mag-alloy compared to aluminium, then Lenovo should go all in and ditch the endless variations of plastic, carbon fibre, etc.
Very nice pc. Camera and mics are good. Sound on this unit is very good. One thing to be aware is Microsoft is putting with their AI capability with the newer iterations of Windows 11 is this thing called "Recall" which appears to inject possible privacy issues using windows. From what I have read about it it takes snapshots of your keystrokes and what you are doing every 3 seconds. Supposedly data from this is stored locally but Microsoft has the ability to capture this data. Keep an eye out about this if there are potential privacy issues using this down the line then these Windows laptops might not be the best way to go in the future. Who knows? Anyway another great review. Thank you.
If this thing had AMD processor instead of Intel, it would be as performant while being more efficient, cool and cheap. Intel powered laptop in 2024 is just overpriced heater-fan.
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- Daddy, I don't wanna eat!
- Me tooooo!
- No one leaves the table hungry, you know the drill, kids!
@@vecherinsky Look at all the homework our son has... Yada yada yada...
If the macbook air was a window's laptop, this would definetely be it. One correction I would like to make is that the apple macbook air 13 is now $1399 not $1499 for the 16gb RAM and 512GB RAM version.
Matebook X Pro 2024
No Windows laptop would ever be made a poorly as a MBA.
There is a reason why tech ignorant people buy Apple...
@@RK-um9tuyeah sure 🤡
Is it not
ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (14″ Snapdragon) Laptop?
@@RK-um9tu What do you mean? Passively cooling the chip with everything soldered down? I mean, it's not ideal, but for the use case, an entirely passively cooled monocoque design is fantastic.
Between this, the Surface Laptop 7, the Yoga Slim 7x, and the Matebook 14, Windows laptops are getting really exciting!
I'm wondering if there will be a Snapdragon X Elite version of this laptop - would be an absolute banger - I would like to update my comment as a result of reading the actual reviews of laptops equipped with Snapdragon SOCs: at the moment I would be more interested in the Lunar lake version of this Thinkbook 13x gen 4, especially in regards of thermals. Snapdragon laptop's battery life is not that much longer to worth to deal with compatibility issues, at least for me.
Thanks Andrew! They should've remade this with the Qualcomm chip. Also, I have a request for you: in my search for a quality laptop for work and light play, I have tested many laptops and noticed a lot of them have minor but annoying issues. One thing I want to ask of you is do a thorough sleep and wake test, shutting the lid and coming back to it later, checking if the laptop wakes itself when its closed and sleeping (major issue on some), etc. Basically a user experience test.
Great suggestion!
legend
So glad you circled back to this laptop. Looks really good and thanks again for mentioning that there is no PWM flickering.
Glad to help!
As always concise, but really to the point & with all the needed information.
This year Lenovo products are Elite.. so waiting eagerly for an in-depth review on Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x ... and Elite books with great battery life for the first time and OLED mania continues.. Huawei Matebook X pro is dope too.. This second half of the year is going to be delight for notebook lovers.. APPLE, dude you got serious competition now..
Love your reviews! Giving me a lot of value and time savings!
That thing looks amazing. Just got a m3 MacBook Air for school which I was hesitant due to macOS, but build quality, battery life, and performance won me over… if things don’t work out I’ll have my eyes on this
Look at asus rog flow x13
This is a troll post, so just ignore it...
@@RK-um9tu ??
This is a nice laptop, light and portable with a great screen and price! The camera video and audio quality seems really good for an ultra portable. Good review as well, thanks!
Totally agree!
I have this laptop with the "Force Pad" Haptic pad. It is a generic in house made haptic pad, its not great feeling & is noisy. It is not the Sensel Brand Haptic Pad used on XPS, Z13, Macbooks, etc.... Also they designed the RAM chips to use the top bar of the chasis (above the FN keys) as a heat sink. Direct contact. Thats why That area gets super hot as shown in the video.
Exactly, the haptic forcepad is not good at all - any idea how to deactivate it (if possible) and use it as clasicall pad? Couldn't find anything...
@@runetek2 Well you can just turn off the feedback, yes. type Touch pad settings in the windows search bar. There will be no click though either, you will just be pressing with your finger and create a click without feedback
Would've liked to see the Ultra 9 model with 32 gb of ram over this ultra 5 model
I can’t control what Lenovo sends me
@@andrewmarcdavid understandable I still enjoyed the review as this computer is a high candidate for my next laptop, so thank you for that.
I have the ultra 9 of this laptop. It’s really amazing.
Hey I'm thinking about getting that model, how's the performance and battery life? And does yours have the haptic touchpad as well?
@@kengurukapromesse9781 performance and battery life was pretty good. At least 6 hours on moderate use. I had to return it though. The screen was too small for me
Thank you for the review!
It will be interesting to compare air 13 m3 with this laptop but major model with 185H and 32 Gb of ram that costs like air 13 m3
Hey Andrew, it looks like the price for this laptop has increased? Clicking on your link shows me $1580 for the base model with no upgrades and $2220 for the Ultra 9/32 GB RAM/1 TB SSD config. I don't think this is worth it at that pricing :(
Lenovo tends to have high prices but then have frequent huge discounts. Price may be lower in a few days :)
🤍Love the content. Great review as always.👍Kudos from NYC.🗽
Very impressive ultra portable laptop that certainly will not disappoint! It's got an excellent IPS display, ultra fast soldered RAM, excellent 1080p webcam, excellent internal mics, excellent quad speakers for a Windows laptop, and decent battery life. It is a dream of a computer and I highly recommend it!! Brilliant review Andrew as always!!! 👏😁
It looks like the ThinkBook 13x Gen 5 Snapdragon is the one to get... and it could potentially be the benchmark for Lenovo to finally streamline the product line up and endless variants. Server, Workstation, Home/Business, Gaming.
Lenovo are getting better and better every year. They listen to customers and improve on their laptops. This thing is sexy and performs very good for a windows laptop!
Ahh.. 3:2, I'm in love with my hp spectre 3000x2000
how does this compare to the Thinkbook Z13 Gen 2 you reviewed in January?
I agree, wifi7 and 5g would make this the ultimate windows laptop we've been waiting for years.
Got this laptop as reviewed (I did have the haptic trackpad upgrade at no charge) for $870 bucks a couple weeks back with a beneplace discount. The best laptop I’ve had. Far exceeds the thinkpad z13 gen 1 I have and barely beating the MacBook Air m2 I traded in. I only wished windows was a smoother and more aesthetically pleasing OS like Mac OS.
Nice! How do you like the Haptic Touchpad?
@@andrewmarcdavid it’s way better than the one in the z13 gen 1 and in the xps 13 9320. I’ll put it a very close 3rd behind the m1 and m2 MacBook Air.
I've found subwoofers are really needed on a laptop. As it helps keep it from sounding so tinny.
It would be cool if you could compare all the time the battery life between the MacBook air as well with every laptop since that’s the gold standard of laptops right now
I've been rocking 1kg X1 Nano Gen 1 for 3.5 years now. Would really love to see a current gen 1kg alternative with the TrackPoint.
Sounds like a winner to me! Thanks for posting this video Andrew.
Dang, in the market for new compact laptop, just purchased an HP ENVY 17in, just as simple EDD for home use, to replace 7 year AW 17 R4, this Lenovo, makes me reconsider my idea of the Surface 9, but Hell, I can buy both.
Really nice review as always Andrew. So many good choices this year to choose from but i'm waiting to see how the snapdragon laptops perform and to see if the hype was worth it or not.
Great video in my opinion this magic thing is very useful especially for girls when doing their makeup videos
Can you please include the MacBook AND this track in All your reviews?
Cuz I'm compiling a playlist of "best laptop speakers" and consistency in comparisons is kinda important.
This is a spectacular laptop. I wish it was getting the snapdragon cpu as well. I’d buy it for sure
But this still has fans! I hate my MacBook but I hate fans more
Looks amazing!
Still using my thinkbook 13s Gen 1 from 2019
When are you going to do the reveiws on the new P1 Gen 7 and the T16 Gen 3??????? No one else has dropped them yet, get that first!
The haptic forcepad is quite hell to work with (if you didn't worked with that before) - please, does anybody know if the haptic forcepad can be disabled and use the pad more like classical touchpad/clickpad? Witrh a software or hardware interference, doesn't matter. Thank you very much!
You can deactivate vibration of the haptic forcepad in the windows touchpad settings. I was also very disappointed. The vibration sound is weird noisy (like rattle) and its different loud whereever you push it on the touchpad area. Therefore I sent it back.
If this gets a Snapdragon CPU, can you let us know asap? Thanks for the great content! Love your work
No one is talking about the ThinkBook 16p Gen 5 (16” Intel) Laptop will you review it?
I just received it stay tuned
@@andrewmarcdavid You're the GOAT!
@@andrewmarcdavidniceeee :D
please please review for playing games, while showing the CPU, GPU temps while also showing the wattage on MSI afterburning... thanks 😅
I think the smallest laptop size I could go with is 14". Though I prefer 15.6" and no bigger.
Buy this or surface laptop 7??
That looks awesome! A question Andrew... Spectre X360 14" is $630 off at $999 today. Which one would you go with?
Depends if you need pen support.
Definitely choose the Spectre X360 if it fits your budget, or consider a laptop powered by Snapdragon processors.
This is a good laptop...but my love for x1 carbon isn't going to end !😂
I brought this one, return because: 1. It feels heavy in hand. 2 design is worse than z13 and xps13, the groove at the back break the smooth feel when holding. 3. The keyboard feels way more cheap than z13. 4. I love haptic of my z13 but hate the haptic touch pad on this one. The Z13 feels much more premium.
I will get the Core Ultra 9 Model with 32GB of Ram in about a month - coming from a Thinkpad Z13 gen1. What I will be missing is an Oled but everything else, especially Thermals, seem to be way better.
Since I use mine only for light browsing, Netflix and Office (office mostly with an external Display), I think I should be fine with the higher temperatures.
But then again, my Z13 was also running very hot and loud all the time.
I’m also planning to get it with the Ultra 9! Really hoping it won’t run too hot..
And how do you like the Ultra 9 CPU? It should be faster in gaming atleast.
Would love to see Lenovo make a ThinkPad Detachable tablet with Snapdragon X Plus/Elite SoC. That would be wicked.
Love that new Lenovo product and the review!!!
Could you take a look at the ROG Flow X13 2023 edition (w/ only the iGPU)? It is sometimes on sale for $699 at Best Buy, and somewhat as a competitor machine with the ThinkBook 13x Gen 4. It gets a lower resolution display, and definitely worse speaker system, but seem to have better performance on multi core due to a much higher power and thermal budget.
When this inevitably ships with ARM its going to be amazing
Or atleast with equivalent AMD chip which would be cooler and cheaper
now make it with lunar lake and add more *useful* ports
I wonder if you would be able to get Lenovo to send the top end model for a direct comparison between the chips for battery and performance.
Btw, what happened to THE song? Did you retire it? I might have to start watching old reviews from now on 😁
this looks really nice, display looks gorgeous!
Is it the same thing as ThinkBook X AI 2024?
Would be a better performer with a Snapdragon X Elite, especially for battery life
Can you compare the speaker sound of this laptop to the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 laptop? Thank you.
3:2 aspect Ratio on such a small screen ruins video watching for me, with those big black wasted bars in top and buttom
Lenovo be releasing new laptop every week
If it comes with snapdragon....
Kind of a shame they skipped the Ultra 7, Ultra 9 is a bit too much tbh
Yeah very interesting
Very good contender, but they had to make sceen glossy.... Removed from shortlist
I have the ultra 9 and the screen definitely isn’t glossy
Other than yoga 9i pro, which 16inch laptop you think is best for coders
Would have been perfect had it had the X Elite/Plus instead. x86 is done for.
I hope Lenovo will launch the X Elite version based on this mold
It looks a bit tight (lack of better word) English not first language still learning, like the keys are too close to each other i can imagine that it would be difficult to type fast
That laptop looks excellent.
Unless you're gaming, why would you buy any windows ultra portable that doesnt have the new Snapdragon chips?
No one really knows how snapdragon is gonna perform, it looks good on paper so far, but everyone is just waiting for the proof
The reason I buy a MacBook Air M3 is because it doesn’t have a fan . I am allergic to dust 😢
Can you do a versus z13 vs thinkbook x13?
what would you recommend between this laptop and hp spectre x360 14 (2024)? I'm having a hard time choosing... ahahaha
Depends if you want a 2-in-1
Doesn't this have a new 'stainless' magnesium alloy material for the chassis? If so, does it improve on the 'feel' of recent magnesium alloy materials? e.g. ThinkPad 13x.
I think there is a special edition with that
If it fixes the complaints about the feel of mag-alloy compared to aluminium, then Lenovo should go all in and ditch the endless variations of plastic, carbon fibre, etc.
Very nice pc. Camera and mics are good. Sound on this unit is very good. One thing to be aware is Microsoft is putting with their AI capability with the newer iterations of Windows 11 is this thing called "Recall" which appears to inject possible privacy issues using windows. From what I have read about it it takes snapshots of your keystrokes and what you are doing every 3 seconds. Supposedly data from this is stored locally but Microsoft has the ability to capture this data. Keep an eye out about this if there are potential privacy issues using this down the line then these Windows laptops might not be the best way to go in the future. Who knows? Anyway another great review. Thank you.
Looking for a legion 7i gen 9 review
Can you do the Lenovo LOQ 2024
Can u review lenovo 7i 2 in1
Now imagine these laptops with Lunar Lake 17 watt chip using TSMC N3B node.
🎉🎉
Amen!
@@andrewmarcdavid for the first time Intel will have almost apple level of process node which is TSMC N3B. I want to see better BATTERY LIFE gains.
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anyone can compare this thinkbook 13x vs Hp spectre x360 14?
Is this Lenovo ThinkBook x ai model ???
Yes it does have NPU
coming up i like that
great laptop windows have to control heat otherwise eveeything is in vain
Nice laptop ❤
Is the keyboard backbiting?
Yes
BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE AN LTE 4/5G SIM SLOT -IN 2024 THAT´S A NO -NO!
Still x86 but not arm :(
you can't get it with core ultra 7?
No
@@andrewmarcdavid ok thanks
After launch of X-Elite and egoistic launch from Microsoft my respect for AMD and Intel 📈
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F Macbook, that's what I like to hear 😄
Meteor Lake was such a let down. I kinda feel bad for people who paid full retail for Meteor Lake now that Lunar Lake is shipping.
At this every thing is shit until we get review of laptop with snapdragon x Elite.
MacBook Air M3 kills this laptop
no nipple
Designwise this cannot be compared to apple
I disagree
@@andrewmarcdavid so you prefer the notch outside the display than within?
@@skulling4893 remind me what’s the purpose of the notch? Face ID?
Haha nice one!
If this thing had AMD processor instead of Intel, it would be as performant while being more efficient, cool and cheap. Intel powered laptop in 2024 is just overpriced heater-fan.
Overpriced, heater Intel powered laptop in 2024 ? No
I dont like chinese companys. Sorry.
Sir should i wait for snap dragon or just pick this? I wanted a very long battery drive