Present in Las Vegas, the Chinese manufacturer is the first to offer for sale a kind of large tablet that folds to transform into a laptop. The price: 2,500 dollars.
Lenovo has a sequence of ideas, and that was last year a prototype becomes reality in 2020. At CES, the brand has unveiled the ThinkPad X1 Fold, the first PC notebook with a screen Foldable Oled. It’s like the Samsung Galaxy Fold except that it’s a computer, not a smartphone.
Unfolded, it is a 13-inch tablet capable of displaying images in a definition of 2,048 x 1,536 pixels, and pending the launch of Windows 10X, dedicated to this new type of device, the manufacturer has opted for a customized version of Windows 10 Pro. Under the slab, there is the Lakefield platform from Intel, 8 GB of RAM and an SSD disk.
A keyboard sold separately
The interest is obviously to transform it into a portable device by folding the screen, and of course, you have to make concessions. First on the size of the screen since we end up with a slab that is ultimately very small, but also with a small keyboard, sold separately, which is placed on the lower part of the screen. It is Bluetooth and its little touches will require dexterity. And since it is wireless, it can also be used with the unfolded screen, as with an iPad.
The price of this innovation is around 2,500 dollars (2,235 euros approximately), and it is obviously expensive for a laptop. But ultimately, it may be cheaper than the Galaxy Fold which costs nearly 2,000 dollars, and which remains a smartphone. One thing is certain, the reception given to this laptop will give an index to the competition, and more particularly to Microsoft which has the same project in stock with the Neo, but also Apple which plans to launch a foldable iPad.