ThinkPad X1 Yoga & X1 Carbon 2021 leak: Renders supposedly show the new ThinkPad flagships with 16:10 screens

[Redaktion]

Through the Chinese site Baidu, we may have gotten the first pictures and spec-info on the next gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6. Both appear to be redesigned and are apparently featuring 16:10 screens.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-X1-Carbon-2021-leak-Renders-supposedly-show-the-new-ThinkPad-flagships-with-16-10-screens.496791.0.html

[eclyps]

If Lenovo doesn't release the Tiger Lake equipped Slim 7 Pro in the US then this new 16:10 X1 Yoga will likely be my next laptop. Let's hope that they include decently large batteries

[Robert2]

I sure hope there's an AMD version, but I'm not holding my breath  :-\

[Fredrik]

Agree, lets hope there will be AMD Cpu options.

No 8 Core Ryzen = No buy

[Anonym]

Agree, lets hope there will be AMD Cpu options.

No 8 Core Ryzen = No buy

It's highly unlikely, because this is one of those models that was bankrolled under one of the Intel's programs. However I do agree with you, no way I'd buy anything other than the superior AMD Ryzen as of now.

[xpclient]

I can't find a single laptop with separate touchpad click buttons and 16:10 display  :( Notebookcheck, can you help me find one?

[Sterlinger]

I can't find a single laptop with separate touchpad click buttons and 16:10 display  :( Notebookcheck, can you help me find one?

10 years ago all workstation laptops had 6 buttons (3 above and 3 below the touchpad) and 16:10 ratio and even a pointing stick...

I think at the moment only the ThinkPad X1 Nano has click buttons, 16:10 ratio (and a pointing stick), (13", 2160 x 1350 resolution), however, I am not sure it is available yet

There will be more ThinkPads with 16:10 ratio, as it seems...

[S.Yu]

For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps. Even as everybody's going minimalist, they stubbornly add curves to the keys. It's just perplexing.

[panzersharkcat]

For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps. Even as everybody's going minimalist, they stubbornly add curves to the keys. It's just perplexing.

The "ugly" curvy key caps are one of the reasons I buy ThinkPads. They're designed to make it easier to touch type. I'm more concerned about them lowering key travel on these and the placement of the X1 logo. I preferred it in the lower corner on the back.

[zzman]

For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps.

The keys aren't flat because human fingers aren't flat. I don't care if flat square keys look prettier, I use the laptop for work, I care about the usability. Sadly most manufacturers don't care, which is why so many laptop keyboards are utter garbage (for various reasons).

[doa379]

Chin up fellas

[aaaa]

It looks like a Lenovo Yoga with ThinkPad branding.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[S.Yu]

For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps. Even as everybody's going minimalist, they stubbornly add curves to the keys. It's just perplexing.

The "ugly" curvy key caps are one of the reasons I buy ThinkPads. They're designed to make it easier to touch type. I'm more concerned about them lowering key travel on these and the placement of the X1 logo. I preferred it in the lower corner on the back.

I think you're quite deluded and you'll fail a double blind on this, but nobody's bored enough to design one.

For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps.

The keys aren't flat because human fingers aren't flat. I don't care if flat square keys look prettier, I use the laptop for work, I care about the usability. Sadly most manufacturers don't care, which is why so many laptop keyboards are utter garbage (for various reasons).

Strawman argument. The ugliness of the keys do not add to usability. Look up "ergonomic keyboard" in an image search and none of the first  few pages of results show ugly keys like Lenovo's. Mechanicals are overwhelmingly better yet they're not ugly like Lenovo's, and being mechanical doesn't exclude them from being compact either as the old Razer Pro has proved. Further, the Thinkpad keyboards that had the best reputation were actually from pre-Lenovo models, and IBM did not have to uglify them to get there. Finally, "human fingers aren't flat" is only an excuse for the top surface of the key to be curved, it does not imply anything about the side edges, whereas the curved bottom edge of Lenovo keys are a significant part of why they're so ugly. If it's just a round dent in the middle, that might actually be quite quaint.

[Huhuhu]

Can we please have a 35 Watt Ryzen 9 5900HS in the 2021 ThinkPad T14 and X1 Extreme?

I'm sick of these zero improvement, outdated and slow 14nm++++++++++++++ Intsl processors that run hotter than a (stereotype) man abandonning his preggy woman.