I just bought an x1 I'm stoked about it and more so now 🙌 seeing it showcased even though you were talking general lap top choosing I feel great about my choice now.
X1 carbon is great laptop but for an MBA student in is quite expensive one, especially outside of USA. Also considering the fact that you will get a good laptop from your employer (the one with you will start working after MBA) , it makes sense to not heavily invest in premium laptop for studies and save the money for something else.
Good video on discussion of considering the wall adapter in top of just battery life. Surprise you didn’t talk about also considering what program you will use in school is an important factor. The thinkpad also has a very good sold state hard drive as well as preventing water damage when you spill drinks on the keyboard. Also lower resolution means longer battery life along with choosing the i5 over i5 intel cpu. Should also discuss that undervolting thinkpads are common because you get same performance, lower temperatures and critically longer battery life. Also no bloat ware to uninstall in thinkpads. Along with easy repair ability of screen and motherboard. Lastly thinkpads often go on sale so keep an eye out on the prices for “specials”. I agree that touch screen is way over blown and prefer a matte screen. Though you can slap on a Matte screen protector like I did with my X1 yoga. The red nub and keyboard are are great because it enable you to do things without a mouse.
@@aravindcetce X1 Yoga is pretty good if you want to take handwritten notes as well as type. The trade-off is that it is heavier than the X1 Carbon and cost a little more. It is still very nice to carry around since it profile is slim. If you are not into using the red nub but you still want to use two-in-one computer the Lenovo C940 is popular. Some people don't like the aspect ratio but for me it fine since it is a 14' screen. Any smaller than I can understand that it being not as usable. I had originally the Surface Book 2 which weighed even more but definitely had longer battery life. The problem with that one was that I didn't use tablet part of it much and it just took too long to convert on the fly and I found that I didn't need that much battery life. But what made me return it was that it seems fragile. There was numerous complaints of screen cracking near the lip of the display. I didn't want to baby my laptop and also wanted something that I could easily repair myself. SB2 you would have to send to the manufacturer since it is practically impossible to do self-repair. Another minor point I didn't like about SB2 was the the keyboard layout. Look on the right side keys and youll see what I mean. I am a touch typer and didn't like that there was no right ctrl key. Not a big deal if you're just typing normal word documents but if you want to take advantage of all the keyboard shortcuts its a pain. Also face id microsoft thing isn't that great so much that I find the Thinkpad fingerprint scanner much faster. The sooner I can get the job done the sooner I am free to do other things. Think of the laptop as a tool. Any other specific questions? I am also using a reMarkable as well.
just got my 8th gen X1C last week in China. really amazing laptop. but it is a pity that Lenovo did not upgrade it with 3:2 display. btw, a L shape USB-C adapter might improve your charging experience.
Hi Dave... I’m starting MBA next month and looking at X1 Carbon, or sticking with Macbook (Apple user here)... if I stay with Apple... can I get by with all the school work? Worried about the apps and software compatibility.
I think you can probably get by with a Mac, but you might have to use dual boot for some programs. With that being said, I think the most common program that will be challenging to use will be Excel. If you're pursuing finance, then I'd highly recommend you get a Windows laptop just so you can learn all the hotkeys.
I just recieved the X1 Carbon 8th with 4K screen. It's a featherlight but I would advise about not ordering the 4K screen as it is too glossy. I should have gone for the WQHD AntiGlare screen.
Great piece of advice. I've steered away from glossy screen since my first laptop almost a decade ago. Sometimes even morning light through a window causes enough glare to force me to reposition. Kinda annoying.
I'm happy to hear you say this! My 7th gen X1 is on the way and I ordered the anti-glare with touchscreen and I was second-guessing my choice. I'm planning on using the laptop for law school, and with the amount of papers I write, I thought the anti-glare screen was the better option. The glossy screen is beautiful, but the glare on my MacBook Pro makes me nutty. (Yes, I'm switching from a Mac -- grand experiment!).
Here are some mistakes you have done which you can improve in your next video. Screen resolution doesn't affect vividness at all, they are often more vivid as manufactures use higher quality panels when making higher res displays, if a laptop as upward facing speakers as well as downward facing, that's fine as the downward facing speakers are woofers which dont distort or muffle when something covers them up unlike tweeters which are the upward facing speakers, another mistake is that most people can see beyond 1080p on a 14" when using it as normal, but 1080p @ 14" is fine for most, there is one thing you should know, matte displays can be unusable outdoors as they put an unattractive haze on the screen which can block the light coming from the screen to your eyes, unlike glossy displays which can be applied with an anti reflective coating on the display which can significantly reduce the reflection intensity on the display which in my opinion make them more usable than matte displays as they don't have this haze on the screen for light
I just bought the 8th gen but sadly UPS are late with delivery. Did you call pre-sales and ask them if they can give you a better price. I got 20% off the RRP.
Nice video but I disagree with you on one point. You can see the difference between 4k and FHD on 17" screen very well. Even on 15.6", it is a good difference. I can even see the difference on smaller 13-14" screens but at that point, you need a trained eye to see.
i dont understand why people complain about where the fn button is. specially for people who have apple laptops which has the fn button on the left of the ctrl button
I don't recommend the 7th or 8th generation Carbons for typing. They really have the worst keyboards since the Carbons first came out. Not pleasant to type on unless you come from a MacBook with horrendous keys. The mouse is ok. I'm not a fan of ELAN software. Lenovo should have stuck with the software from the 6th Gen.
What do you think of the WQHD resolution for the X1 Carbon? I've been hesitating with the FHD display, it seems to offer a good compromise between display and battery life
For MBA purposes, a FHD screen is more than enough. The only time I would consider getting a higher resolution screen is if you do graphic/video editing. Keep in mind that large 24" monitors still have FHD resolutions. I have two of these myself and I can't even tell the quality difference. So for a 14" laptop screen, the same FHD resolution means that it will have a much higher pixel density, so you're even less likely to be able to tell the difference. Might as well save your money.
Something not considered here is the aspect ratio of the screen. While the Lenovo X1 Carbon has about four more square inches of screen than the MacBook Pro to which you compared it (an MBA student can calculate this), the X1 Carbon's screen is shorter than the MacBook's. The Carbon's is about 6.86 inches tall, while the MacBook's is about 7.05 inches tall. That's not a big difference, I know, but when you consider you're losing viewable screen height to a bar or bars of information at the top of the screen, you might find you must scroll your screen annoyingly more to see the information you want to see. This might be irritating to those using spreadsheets or trying to read the text of a program they're writing. Microsoft produces some computers (I include tablets among these) with screen width to height ratios of 3:2, which is best for productivity of a quantitative nature. The MacBook's aspect ratio is 16:10, and the Carbon's is 16:9.
