Still no definitive release dates for Tiger Lake devices?
This is undoubtedly a very nice laptop, but it's clear that TGL devices will be very expensive, as that $1399 is not for the high end i7 configuration, and as the memory is "up to" as well, then that must be 8GB at this price.
> [2160x1350, 195 dpi] will allow 200% scaling to work perfectly.
I guess by "perfect" you mean 195 dpi being close to 200%'s assumed 192 dpi, but 1080x675 dp doesn't sound like a useful screen size to me. This is close to a 10 inch 1024x576 netbook, and those were painful to use.
Agreed. If anything, for those who find 100% not suitable, 150% scaling could be a good option. Effectively providing the same screen realestate as a 1440x900 display. For business usage, this could be valuable when many enterprise application user interfaces were designed with 900p as the minimum recommended resolution. However, many of the same applications probably won't scale well with Windows scaling too. Eitherway, I suspect that it'd be a great resolution without scaling.
Brett, check your press release. Most sites are showing a weight starting UNDER 2 POUNDS! I think it is 907g.
@Heftig, you don't have to run at 1080*675 - but you can if you want to. I wouldn't want 4k in a 13" package - the print would be way too small, but FHD++ (or whatever this is) would be a great asset to have a FHD page, plus title bars, office headings, etc.
Looks like the X40 again but with a decent amount of power this time. Complaints about 16GB limit are silly - this is not a workstation. It's a fast, long-battery workhorse for people using MS Office and similar. If you need 64GB and 4 SSDs, look further up the range. I'm likely to specify these over the X1 Carbon for most of my team, will definitely be my next home machine to replace an aging ganless Dell 7370.
what are you, stupid? who says anything about workstations and their 128-256GB RAM? there are smartphones with 16GB RAM in ~1/5 of ThinkPad X1 Nano's volume.
It should have had at least minimum 32GB max RAM with an ideal 64GB RAM given the times we live in and the current tech state/evolution.
You buy it now with 16GB RAM and it is already obsolete next year ...
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psychobriggsy - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
Still no definitive release dates for Tiger Lake devices?This is undoubtedly a very nice laptop, but it's clear that TGL devices will be very expensive, as that $1399 is not for the high end i7 configuration, and as the memory is "up to" as well, then that must be 8GB at this price.
heftig - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
> [2160x1350, 195 dpi] will allow 200% scaling to work perfectly.I guess by "perfect" you mean 195 dpi being close to 200%'s assumed 192 dpi, but 1080x675 dp doesn't sound like a useful screen size to me. This is close to a 10 inch 1024x576 netbook, and those were painful to use.
CallumS - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
Agreed. If anything, for those who find 100% not suitable, 150% scaling could be a good option. Effectively providing the same screen realestate as a 1440x900 display. For business usage, this could be valuable when many enterprise application user interfaces were designed with 900p as the minimum recommended resolution. However, many of the same applications probably won't scale well with Windows scaling too. Eitherway, I suspect that it'd be a great resolution without scaling.jbwhite1999 - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
Brett, check your press release. Most sites are showing a weight starting UNDER 2 POUNDS! I think it is 907g.@Heftig, you don't have to run at 1080*675 - but you can if you want to. I wouldn't want 4k in a 13" package - the print would be way too small, but FHD++ (or whatever this is) would be a great asset to have a FHD page, plus title bars, office headings, etc.
Spunjji - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
2560x1600 would have given people with badly-scaling apps and/or poor eyesight the ability to run at 200% for an effective 1280x800 resolution.As it stands, this sounds a little bit too high for many people to use at native res, and not quite high enough for 200% scaling. YMMV I guess!
Brett Howse - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
The specs are correct in the table according to the datasheet I received.mobutu - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
So at the end of 2020 lenovo has this with "Up to 16 GB LPDDR4x"Such shame ...
lmcd - Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - link
Lenovo already defaults to 125% on a 14in 1080p laptop, so I'd assume that 150% or 175% would be the default here.dontlistentome - Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - link
Looks like the X40 again but with a decent amount of power this time.Complaints about 16GB limit are silly - this is not a workstation. It's a fast, long-battery workhorse for people using MS Office and similar. If you need 64GB and 4 SSDs, look further up the range.
I'm likely to specify these over the X1 Carbon for most of my team, will definitely be my next home machine to replace an aging ganless Dell 7370.
mobutu - Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - link
what are you, stupid? who says anything about workstations and their 128-256GB RAM?there are smartphones with 16GB RAM in ~1/5 of ThinkPad X1 Nano's volume.
It should have had at least minimum 32GB max RAM with an ideal 64GB RAM given the times we live in and the current tech state/evolution.
You buy it now with 16GB RAM and it is already obsolete next year ...
intromatt - Sunday, October 4, 2020 - link
8GB is plenty. 16GB will future-proof you for the next 5 years easy.This is not a workstation and Windows 10 runs fine with 8GB and will for years....you dumb potato.