It has finally happened: You’ll soon be able to buy a laptop with an OLED display.
Already a common display technology in phones and televisions, OLED’s big advantage over traditional LED displays is its ability to turn off a pixel entirely, rendering it as a true, deep, inky black. This boosts contrast and provides far more natural image quality.
The ThinkPad X1 Yoga will be the first laptop to offer this technology when it hits the market in spring of 2016, and believe me – it’s incredible. Lenovo will also build an X1 Yoga with a standard display, and showed it side-by-side with the OLED model. I could see the difference even from across the room. The OLED panel’s superior contrast made dark backgrounds look far deeper and, just as importantly, helped fine details stand out.
Lenovo says the 1440p OLED screen will add about $200 to the X1 Yoga’s base price of $1450. The OLED will also reduce battery life to some degree, potentially reducing endurance from 11 to 9 hours. Details will vary based on what’s viewed, as the OLED display is extremely efficient when rendering dark scenes, it can be power hungry when displaying white and bright colors.
Aside from its display, the X1 Yoga doesn’t stand out from a glance. But that may be a good thing. Lenovo has modeled the system off the X1 Carbon, an excellent enterprise Ultrabook. That means it shares the X1’s dimensions, keyboard, touchpad, and offers similar connectivity including three USB 3.0 ports. The keyboard particularly is very impressive. It offers an excellent layout with deep key travel and excellent feedback. Plus there’s trackpointer in the center of the keyboard, which works fantastically. You could see the difference even from across the room.
The hardware’s no slouch, either. There’s a selection of 6th-gen Intel Core processors, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of PCIe NVMe storage. These specifications have become standard for high-end Ultrabooks, but no one can accuse Lenovo of falling behind in performance.
In short, the X1 Yoga looks like it’ll be a great notebook. It may not be such a great tablet, however – because as said, it’s similar to the X1 Carbon, which is a 14-inch system. Like most past Yoga 2-in-1s, this model uses a 360 degree hinge, which means the bottom half is always part of the package. It does offer Lenovo’s lift and lock keyboard, which retracts the keys to keep them out of the way when the system is folded back into a tablet. But the fact remains that this is a 2.8-pound notebook that’s a bit less than seven-tenths of an inch thick. It’s much larger than any tablet, even an iPad Pro
Source: Digital Trends.
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