So I talked a lot in the past about my laptop of choice.

You may have even seen the previous video in which I showcased this laptop.

Here is the X one carbon from Lenovo, then light.

But really, the reason I choose this over other laptops for the day to day is because of the keyboard.

I'm a huge fan of the keyboard, and I really feel like keyboards on laptops have been going downhill over the past couple of years.

Past few years.

That's what opened the gates for me to test out some various PCs and move over to Windows.

But the ThinkPad line is not gonna be for everyone.

I mean, it's a utilitarian look to it.

She's got this, like, matte black finish.

But that's not gonna be for everyone.

A lot of people are gonna look around.

I want my thing to be a little bit flashier, possibly a little bit more modern looking.

This one is called the S 9 40 has a nice 71.8 gigahertz.

Eight gigs ram to 56 storage.

Ah, 14 inch U H D I PS panel.

Well, what's the retail cost on this 1 1800 bucks USD, but the S 9 40 starts at $1400 for a lower spec.

Found this particular laptop to be exciting.

You have, ah, kind of really polished looking laptop, but with some of the attributes from the ThinkPad that I like.

It's a 14 inch laughter that's a tiny little box, by the way.

It's pretty tiny.

That's a 65 watt USB type C connector.

I found this charger, which is like this tiny little brick capable of charging these laptop via USB C, And that's my travel.

That's my go to travel Charger of choice.

Now here's the laptop.

This is the box that's while that is super tiny.

Wow.

So it's £2.6 the X one carbons two and 1/2.

So it's about the same.

Maybe it's just the metal playing tricks with me here, so it's a bit darker than space gray.

I think I actually like it more.

To be honest, it's kind of into charcoal territory looking the foreign factor.

That's while that's a 15 inch MacBook pro, and this is the S 9 40 The carbon is a bit taller because the aspect ratio on the screen is different in this case, and this guy's gonna be a bit wider if I place it on top.

Oh, it's actually it's almost exactly the same.

It is exactly the same.

Okay, so most of our gains then in the display department display size department are the shrinking vessels embezzle zehr tiny on this smartphone esque.

They even went so far as moving the front facing camera above its kind of notched out into the top part of the display.

If I hold my hand behind her, you can see it actually jumps up a little bit.

Now the other nice thing, this is a single handed lift.

This is pretty nice, guys.

The keyboard, the keyboard is not is not ThinkPad level.

There's just not as much travel in the keys these ones arm or like a traditional keyboard.

This is more like a like a chick lit style that you would be used to on a more modern keyboard deck.

All right, so I also see the Dolby at most speaker system logo here, and it looks like the speaker grills air here, so that could be an improvement.

Either way, I like the fact that they carried through a similar a similar scale with each key and curvature to thunderbolts on this side Over here, lots of potential expandability there and speed over on the other side.

You got your power connector in the form of ah USB type C connector and a headphone jack.

You're losing, lacking a little bit in diversity of ports when compared to the ThinkPad line up, which is gonna give you quite a few connectors on here in HD my port On this guy, the display is wild.

There's almost no basil around it.

It is crazy, slender on each side, including the top with the expanding front facing camera.

Now the reason they did this you've seen other manufacturers that want to have a really slim basil on their laptops.

You've seen them put cameras in all kinds of crazy places, including down below here.

Wall Way has done that in the past.

But then you get this weird front facing camera for videoconferencing.

They're like, looks up people's noses.

So you got to appreciate the engineering on nah front.

You'll see how crazy different is when compared to the think having this baby triple the size of a chin.

Maybe this display the you HD display on here is definitely better obviously than f ht one that I have on that X one carbon over there.

I mean the range from the black to the white.

They're the deep blacks over here.

It's just a better display.

And of course, it's got more resolution as well.

That's a no contest in the display zone.

I mean, this looks Look at this.

This looks great.

I mean, that's like all display.

That's pretty wild.

This is the main advantage.

This is if you spot this thing at a coffee shop, you're like, Wow, I want one of those And this is probably the reason why everybody wants portability, but they don't want to give up visibility.

You don't want to give up the multimedia component and immersion and productivity that comes with having ah, larger display.

I can't say that the keyboard is competing in any way with the ThinkPad keyboard, so you've got to decide, like what is more important to you and why?

So let's go ahead and turn up the volume have around Apple and iPhones that that that's all they need.

It's all they want.

Their set for life.

There's definitely a customer base that believes that.

And then also.

Yeah, the speakers are much better than I think it's.

It's a nice thing.

Toe hold in one hand.

Sorry.

Clear.

I honestly do not even need to play the speakers off the X one Carbon to you, Theo.

Yeah, I'm happy with the speakers anyway.

So if you're wondering why it's important to have the camera, the webcam up at the top and why they had to design that in there, I mean, that would have taken tremendous effort toe, Get that to fit in up there.

This is the purpose.

This is the reason I'm looking directly into it.

If I happen to be on Skype, if I happen to be doing a video conference Kurt, you just did a video conference.

In fact, if the camera was popping up from the bottom, then it's gonna be more like this.

Jack, can you see this?

Can you get there?

It's more like this.

Now you're looking up my nose now.

It's not the greatest camera means like a little 7 20 p webcam up there, so keep that in mind, but still to cram it in up top.

This is where we're at on smartphones.

It's the same story.

Where do you put the front facing camera?

It seems to be the one characteristic that informs so much of the design.

And now you're seeing the same thing in laptops, where they trying to figure out where to put into trying to figure out how to minimize Basil's.

So the trackpad.

I'm probably going to say that it's maybe it's even a little bit nicer to use.

Then on the ThinkPad.

It's responsive.

It's acceptable.

So it's not a substitute for me.

I wouldn't say I wouldn't even say it's particularly special.

I would say it's a pretty typical keyboard, but as a package deal, I think it's a pretty slick laptop.

To be honest, it's got almost no basil.

They found a way to fit the front facing camera in the right spot.

The keyboard is usable, The trackpad is nice.

It's got enough.

I owe for most people with the double Thunder Bowl and the headphone jack.

So there's advantages and disadvantages the overall look.

I mean, I think this thing probably crushes for most people It's a very slick and slender design.

A lot of times, or the reason you end up liking a particular laptop has to do with your own personal preference around form, factor our economics.

It's a bit more difficult to put your finger on why you like one better than the other.

So, really, in this case, I'm gonna use this a bit more extensively and see where I land.

But something's telling me I'm just a ThinkPad guy.

I don't know if I can get away from it now.

The keyboard.

It's been so rewarding.

It's a place I like to live.

I mean, I just can't wait to, like, respond to e mails and I hate email.

So that's got to tell you something about what Lenovo has been able to package up in X one carbonates.

That's a crazy popular life top for good reasons.

But this thing slick, it's more modern.

It looks more futuristic.