The keyboard is very responsive and nicely dampened to not sound overly loud or “clicky,” making it a more discrete typing experience when used during meetings. I appreciated the spacing around the arrow keys, making it easier to hit the proper key without having to look at the keyboard.
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The keyboard comes with 1.2mm of key travel, matching the keyboards offered by HP and Microsoft on the Spectre x2 and Surface Pro Type Cover, and requires 72 grams of actuation force. The keyboard comes with three adjustable levels of backlighting brightness, an island-styled arrangement with Lenovo’s smile-shaped key design and curved key caps. The keyboard on the ThinkPad X1 Tablet is one of the most comfortable keyboards on a detachable, thanks to Lenovo’s heritage with business ThinkPad keyboard designs. Like the Surface Pro, the keyboard attaches to the bottom of the tablet with magnets, and a second set of magnets on the bottom of the display can also be used to raise the keyboard to a more comfortable typing position. And unlike the Surface Pro, the pen is fortunately included in the box. It also works with Lenovo’s Active Pen, which is based on Wacom’s active stylus technology. The glossy display appears reflective, exhibiting glare, at lower brightness settings, but cranking up the brightness to 40 percent or higher alleviated these issues.Īs a tablet, the ThinkPad X1 supports ten-finger touch input. This makes the ThinkPad X1 Tablet’s screen more comfortable to read outdoors, and I had no problems viewing the screen under shaded conditions on a bright sunny day. The ThinkPad X1 Tablet’s display gets a lot brighter than the consumer-centric Lenovo Miix 720.
The display maintains the same 3:2 aspect ratio as the 2017 Surface Pro, but doesn’t match Microsoft’s 2,736 × 1,824-pixel resolution and falls behind HP’s Spectre x2’s high 3,000 × 2,000-pixel sharpness. Text looks sharp, and videos and photos are sharp with good viewing angles on the IPS panel. Colors popped on the 12-inch 2,160 × 1,440-pixel display. The ThinkPad X1 Tablet comes with a high resolution panel that is vibrant and bright. The ThinkPad X1 Tablet feels more stable when used on the lap in laptop mode given its bottom-opening kickstand, but there are also disadvantages introduced with this design. The advantage of Lenovo’s design is that the stand occupies less space when extended, which helps with lapability. Whereas the Surface Pro’s kickstand folds out from the center of the rear of the tablet, the ThinkPad X1 Tablet’s stand opens out from the bottom edge of the slate, similar to Lenovo’s implementation on its consumer Yoga Tab series. It will also makes the tablet less futureproof once the standard really takes off.Ĭompared to the Surface Pro and its many competitors, the biggest difference with the ThinkPad X1 is its kickstand. Given that Thunderbolt 3 operates over the same USB Type-C port, The lack of Thunderbolt 3 support will likely introduce some compatibility confusion when ThinkPad X1 Tablet owners choose accessories, like docks, in the future. Thunderbolt 3 supports faster data transfer speeds, and its inclusion would allow business users to add a graphics dock when using the ThinkPad X1 Tablet at their desk, effectively converting the tablet into a business workstation. Unfortunately, Lenovo didn’t add support for the faster Thunderbolt 3 over USB Type-C specs on the ThinkPad X1 Tablet, a feature that is standard on the consumer Lenovo Miix 720 that we previously reviewed. The volume buttons, 3.5mm audio jack and a Kensington lock port are located on the left edge in landscape orientation. As a business system, the ThinkPad X1 supports a variety of ports, so you won’t have to carry dongles for basic computing needs. The 12-inch slab measures 11.4 × 8.2 inches. With flat, angled edges, and a 0.3-inch thick profile, the ThinkPad X1 Tablet looks more like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 rather than the more bulbous edges on this year’s Surface Pro. And unlike consumer systems, like the MacBook Pro and the Surface Pro, the ThinkPad X1 Tablet comes with MIL-STD 810G certification, making it more rugged for use in more challenging environments. The choice of magnesium makes the ThinkPad X1 Tablet more resistant to dings than the unibody aluminum enclosure on my Apple MacBook Pro.
Covered in a unibody magnesium metal enclosure and cloaked in a stark matte black finish, the ThinkPad X1 brings with it the familiar understated business aesthetics that dominates Lenovo’s ThinkPad line.
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