It looks less compelling than premium chromebooks in the same price tier.
At the very least, even if it's not a chromebook, I feel like every snapdragon laptop should be a 2 in 1 with a wacom layer. Windows 11 has both hardware and platform support to do android emulation well. A non convertible doesn't make sense. I hope we see more in the future and it was delayed simply because of some delay on the supply chain.
The display is a huge disappointment but I have noticed that with ThinkPad it usually takes 2 or 3 generations of a new laptop line before it feels polished. The fact that this is a 300 nit screen while even some of the most budget Android phones and tablets have gorgeous high brightness displays seems more than an oversight though. With a laptop sized battery and the power efficiency of a snapdragon processor, I imagined they would have a huge energy budget for the screen. Charging speed isn't marketed which makes me wonder if it will be lackluster. It uses usb pd 3 and both the 45w and 65w chargers are listed as compatible in the manual in addition to specifying usb c pd 3 compatibility.
I look forward to seeing more from this line. Too bad there's really poor support for booting into Ubuntu. On the other hand WSL2 has matured to a point where I would feel comfortable working in it with non graphic intensive applications and can't see any other glaring expected pain points. Other than thr fact that there's no windows 11 vgpu driver available for snapdragon arm64. So no proper hardware gpu acceleration in wsl2 apps.
Seems like a great concept that is making weird compromises. I think it can be a serious contender for everyday use once these few things are taken care of and it's stuffed into a 2 in 1 form factor. And 3:2 aspect ratio would be a cherry on top.
Lenovo has to be saving like $5-10 on the BOM to keep shipping such terrible screens.
I’m optimistic about the long term future of these chips but these laptops aren’t it. Slow, dim, expensive. It’s hard to swallow. I don’t find a built in wireless modem does anything but save a few seconds tethering while adding a large recurring expense. At about $1000 they would have broad appeal… at $1300 this is a very niche product.
It really looks promising with a fanless design, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and both large fast storage and RAM. No idea if or how well it runs Linux, though.
At the very least, even if it's not a chromebook, I feel like every snapdragon laptop should be a 2 in 1 with a wacom layer. Windows 11 has both hardware and platform support to do android emulation well. A non convertible doesn't make sense. I hope we see more in the future and it was delayed simply because of some delay on the supply chain.
The display is a huge disappointment but I have noticed that with ThinkPad it usually takes 2 or 3 generations of a new laptop line before it feels polished. The fact that this is a 300 nit screen while even some of the most budget Android phones and tablets have gorgeous high brightness displays seems more than an oversight though. With a laptop sized battery and the power efficiency of a snapdragon processor, I imagined they would have a huge energy budget for the screen. Charging speed isn't marketed which makes me wonder if it will be lackluster. It uses usb pd 3 and both the 45w and 65w chargers are listed as compatible in the manual in addition to specifying usb c pd 3 compatibility.
I look forward to seeing more from this line. Too bad there's really poor support for booting into Ubuntu. On the other hand WSL2 has matured to a point where I would feel comfortable working in it with non graphic intensive applications and can't see any other glaring expected pain points. Other than thr fact that there's no windows 11 vgpu driver available for snapdragon arm64. So no proper hardware gpu acceleration in wsl2 apps.
Seems like a great concept that is making weird compromises. I think it can be a serious contender for everyday use once these few things are taken care of and it's stuffed into a 2 in 1 form factor. And 3:2 aspect ratio would be a cherry on top.