One of many highlights of CES 2024 was the ThinkBook 13x. I’ve waited months to get my palms on one, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s light-weight, enticing, and has as much as 21 hours of battery life and three USB-C Thunderbolt ports. With essentially the most superior networking expertise at present out there in a pocket book, this machine is a showcase for each what the AI PC is turning into and Intel’s new Meteor Lake. Beginning at $1,106 and sporting an NPU for AI, it is a first rate providing.
Here’s what I like concerning the product.
Measurement and Weight
The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 4 is a 13-inch class pocket book, and it’s surprisingly skinny and light-weight, given its near-extreme battery life. Weighing in at a slight 2.7 lbs. and being MacBook Air-thin (.5 inches vs. .44 inches for the MacBook Air), this pocket book may be very simple to hold. It appears actually good, too, with an aluminum end and brand that’s elegantly dealt with. It appears like a way more costly providing. It sits properly on the lap as effectively, with out an excessive amount of weight on the display that may trigger it to overbalance. It ought to match properly on a coach seat tabletop (although I’d nonetheless sweat the individual in entrance of me reclining their seat).
Connectivity
This pocket book has Wi-Fi 6e and the most recent Bluetooth expertise, together with three USB-C Thunderbolt ports. These Thunderbolt ports can join at extraordinarily excessive velocity to printers, storage, screens, and different peripherals. If these peripherals are Thunderbolt suitable, you possibly can daisy chain them to get much more gadgets hard-wired to this pocket book. Sadly, there isn’t any WAN possibility, however you possibly can nonetheless tether this to your cellphone so you might not want one. It has a headphone/microphone jack, which is turning into ever rarer, however permits you to use outdated or cheaper headphones and microphones.
Display screen
It sports activities a 13.5-inch, 2.8K IPS touchscreen that refreshes at 120Hz, has a 3.2 facet ratio (what most desire), 100% RGB, Eyesafe blue mild safety, and places out 500 nits of visible energy. This 500-nit output ought to enable the machine to work effectively outdoors, although utilizing it outdoors will considerably reduce into the battery life. That is an impressively good display.
Magic Bay Video Conferencing Gentle
My ThinkBook arrived with a Magic Bay Video Conferencing mild, and I’m advised it will possibly additionally use the Magic Bay Digicam. The Gentle is round $20 further, whereas the digital camera is near $150. Each can enhance the video conferencing and streaming broadcast options of the pocket book considerably. I by no means tried the digital camera, which is 4K and may movie at 30fps, however the mild is good for the cash and properly lights your face so that you not appear to be the lead within the film “The Shadow”. The usual digital camera isn’t unhealthy and works effectively with this mild with a decision of 1920 x 1080, and it helps Home windows Hiya.
Battery Life
As famous, battery life is spectacular with as much as 21 hours for video playback which covers even the longest airplane journeys. It ought to final over 8 hours for internet looking and utilizing Workplace. We don’t but have a superb sense of how lengthy it would final when utilizing AI, however I count on that quantity might be nearer to the Workplace quantity than it will be for watching movies.
Wrapping Up
The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x Gen 4 Pocket book is a powerful piece of equipment. It carries effectively, has first rate battery life, is without doubt one of the first notebooks to make use of Intel’s spectacular new Mercury Lake Intel Core Extremely 5 or 9 processors, and it’s each spectacular to make use of and spectacular to hold.
With audio system by Harman Kardon and sporting Dolby Atmos certification, this pocket book can blast out the sound and higher entertain you while you’re touring.
The dimensions and capabilities of this pocket book would greatest be utilized by these starting to discover desktop AI, who’re highway warriors and want a small, mild product, and who wish to be pleased with what they carry.
The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x pocket book is my new favourite, and I can hardly wait to take it on the highway.
As President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, Rob gives regional and international firms with steerage in the best way to create credible dialogue with the market, goal buyer wants, create new enterprise alternatives, anticipate expertise modifications, choose distributors and merchandise, and apply zero greenback advertising and marketing. For over 20 years Rob has labored for and with firms like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, Sony, USAA, Texas Devices, AMD, Intel, Credit score Suisse First Boston, ROLM, and Siemens.
