Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Review: Lighter Than (MacBook) Air!

This is the review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano by Andrew Marc David
#Lenovo #ThinkPad #X1Nano

Video Index:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Disclaimer, Specs & Pricing
01:57 Size & Build & Durability
03:07 Ports and Connections
03:42 Performance, Benchmarks & Gaming
04:26 Thermals, Surface Temps & Fan Noise
05:05 Battery Life & Charging Times
05:39 Display
07:05 Mics, Webcam & Fingerprint Scanner
08:19 Keyboard, Touchpad & TrackPoint
09:41 Internals & User Upgradeability
10:41 Audio
11:04 Pros & Cons
11:45 The Score

[bpoppap]

One of the best reviewers on YouTube. Great job again!

[nutterwithbutter]

Love your “coming up” at the beginning of every video!

[nirajjoshi]

You are the no one reviewer in YouTube my dear friend.
Based on your previous review, I just purchased Lenovo thinkpad x390 and its awesome.

[waynewilliams]

Mainly because of this guy, I will never own anything other than a Thinkpad again. I love my X1 Carbon.

[soubhikmukherjee]

200K subscribers coming very soon. Keep it up.

[paulkoigi]

Hi Andrew. Good to see you again. This is truly a lovely unit. I think it's potential would have been truly unleashed if RAM modules would be made smaller so that they can be slotted in for upgrades. Hope you're doing well, though. Hope to catch the next stream 😊

[JtotheRizzo]

Thanks Andrew. I was about to pull the trigger and pick this up BUT then Lenovo went ahead and showed us the new Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9. A bigger screen with the same 16:10 aspect ratio BUT A LOT MORE PORTS and only 1/2 lbs heavier. But still at 2.5lbs, the X1 Carbon Gen 9 seems to be the better buy then the 2lbs X1 Nano.

[thanhnhando]

Despite its expensive price tag, this X1 Nano is such a great competitor against the LG Gram.

[hashmin]

The main issue I see with the nano vs the new macbook air is that the new m1 processors completely blow the nano's to bits. From what I've seen, there is also a fair amount more throttling with the nano when performing strenuous tasks in comparison to the air. Take the price differential and battery life into account and it may just turn a lifelong thinkpad user into a macbook guy. The two things that keep me coming back to the nano are the keyboard (even with slightly less travel) and the extremely low weight.

[lawrenceavenido]

one of the best tech channels in youtube, the variety of gadgets and brands being reviewed are phenomenal

[torpedospurs]

Chief competitors in its weight class - Yoga 7i Carbon and LG Gram 13 2021, which are 16x10 and have higher resolution. Also the Fujitsu UH-X. Not really going for MacBook Air which is much heavier.

[berntlie]

Video camera: not the greatest. Nice review -- am curious about battery life on the touch display. And: how is performance compared to a couple of generations old processor? (E.g., my Surface Book 2...). Regarding the shallow key travel... rumors have it that the X1 Carbon/Yoga of 2021 also have the same, shallow key travel.

[matthewqtran]

Ok folks, thinking about getting this for my mother to replace her ancient Mac Air. She does basic emails, browsing, and some crypto trading (Mac Air hooked up to external monitor). It is really hard to justify buying the Nano w/ i5 & 16GB RAM for $1750 vs a similarly spec XPS13 for $1100. The $650 extra for a larger 512GB SSD and 2k screen on the Nano doesnt work out for me somehow. Thoughts?

[janalexandermyhrvold]

So well edited and presentation with graphics, and you keep improving every time. Further improvements can be showing if there was any panel back-light bleeding in your model, b-roll with backlit keyboard in a dark studio setting, a close up from the side where you press one key (to show key travel/shallowness/click) for those who are picky on keyboard, and clickpad sound. Keep it up :)

[cjchico]

Great video! I think 16gb of ram needs to be the base model standard on these newer machines.

[MickDavies]

So tempting, top spec is approx $3K AUD, just love that thin and light ThinkPad design. But with M1's available it's a hard ask

[Ferroza-md]

Great review. Waiting for X1carbon tigerlake with 2 slot ssd highspeed, 15inc 16:10 display weight😉

[Electra]

We have both the X1 Nano and X1 Titanium Yoga with the Intel Core i7-1160G7, 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD (2242).
This X1 Nano has a Geekbench 5 score of 1464 single- and 5077 multi-core. And the X1 Titanium a score of 1387 single- and 4864 multi-core. According to a review on Notebookcheck the Nano‘s CPU Runs with a much higher TDP of 40 watts.

[williamcohen]

Nice PC. Camera and microphone okay. Display is very good. Like the easy access to the inside. Also like the fact that it runs fairly cool (efficient). To make this complete they should have included a dongle for USB-A port and SD card slot. Would be nice if it had a 5G slot for wireless internet. This is a great PC for portability, but not that great for home use. Most of these small PC's have that issue. To get around that one could connect to a full external keyboard and mouse and docking station and external monitor at the home or office. One question, Is the wireless card slotted or soldered in? As always another great review.

[moroishere]

I never thought I'll watch a review for a laptop from an Italian mafia gang member from the god father era ... enjoyable!! Loved it !!