Is this what Millennials want? - Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 (2022)

A killer webcam, decent speakers, solid specs, vegan leather? Does Lenovo have its pulse on the millennial market, or should they have spent more time solving some of this laptop's flaws?

FOLLOW US ELSEWHERE
---------------------------------------------------

CHAPTERS
---------------------------------------------------
0:00 This laptop doesn't smell good
0:48 Look and feel impressions
1:48 Keyboard flex test and wrist rest feel
3:13 Sponsor - iFixit
3:37 Display and trackpad impressions
4:43 Specs
5:14 Keyboard impressions
6:31 Webcam
8:10 Speaker test and comparison
9:50 Gaming - Valheim
11:21 This keyboard gets HOT
12:39 Teardown
13:57 Overall thoughts and pricing
15:51 Outro

[BenyaCb]

Alex is just transforming more and more into Linus

[DanielDenette]

I appreciate Alex's commitment to calling out Windows Modern Standby in every video because he's right.

[muneeb-khan]

Honestly that hand size information is immensely cool to have in a review. I’m super glad you included that. It’s not a perfect stat because there’s region to region variation but almost no one includes the fact that the diamond cut sides would cut into your wrists if you have even average hands.

[cutcorners]

That M2 slot is not for SSD. It's LTE/5G card.
You can fit a small M2 in there but it might be white listed on the bios to only work with certain cards. Also they have like 2 lanes typically.

[zoladkow]

I love how Lonovo keyboard magically manages to fit F11, F12, End and Home separately, while Dell somehow lacks space to do just that and you have to Fn all the time this way or the other 🤦

[kajton]

Alex just killing it - love the laptops and cars reviews he does

[lucun_]

I will agree on that very clear sounding audio part. It sounded surprisingly nice in the YT video itself, which says a lot for audio from putting a mic next to speakers and then running it through YT compression.

[bw]

Ok the microphones were seriously impressive. Honestly sounded damn close to the audio in the main video. 👏👏❤️

[Quettesh]

I'm disappointed, Lenovo always had amazing IO even on really thin laptops.

[hayyan_azzam]

"Your laptop should not be at 51 degrees", these are very wild statements Alex

[roomii-]

Like the extra information and numbers on who's hands fit on the laptop! I feel that ShortCircuit miss out a lot of information for things that arn't on the specsheet, if I wanted to buy something I'd have to look at other reviews to get more of an indepth idea if the product is right for me. I'm happy to see that might be changing!

[hassan_codes]

A "ThinkPad" without USB Type A, HDMI, and SD Card slot? That's no ThinkPad, they should've added it to their IdeaPad lineup

[FoxMccloud]

6:20 They did the same thing on the trackpad on the T440. At the T450 where the buttons back, because most people hated it, that the buttons where missing.

[ĸıxz]

I appreciate how Alex explains the feel of the laptop and stuff starting from the smell of the laptop.

[omegamalkior]

I am more than pretty sure that this DOES NOT have vapor chamber cooling. It just looks like it has black paper covering the heatsink which was not removed in this video. No spec sheet from Lenovo says it has a vapor chamber. LaptopMedia's teardown said that paper was indeed just a shroud for covering the cooling. Otherwise it would have shown much better cooling capabilities.

[zacharylowe]

You can change the performance mode by clicking “Fn + Q”. They call it “Q Control.”

[yagamirex]

Man, I am loving Alex day by day and his transformation. When he first appeared on LLT and other channels, I was like, "Who's that awkwardly standing guy, should he be given the position of a host? He isn't even showing any emotion just like Linus and Riley do.", I now know how terribly I misjudged Alex back then. I am so much of a camera shy person myself, so was Alex.

but him being more and more Entertaining, Open, Informative person day by day is so good to see. Keep it up.

[dylan-nguyen]

I used to work in IT, we used to use Dell laptops then switched to Lenovo
The reduction in tickets and repairs were crazy
The cost reduction was also amazing

I would never recommend a Dell to anyone these days too many bugs and bad software/drivers

[GFGgifted]

Lol "quality control: control your quality" made me chuckle out loud. Well done to that editor.

[farajistarks]

there's something satisfying about listening to the laptop speaker review sections of your vids from my M1 MBP