It be honest 2.2 kilos, and its veil is genuinely cool too.

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Yes, that’s a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano on your pc bag. You presumably honest did now not comprehend it for the reason that pc weighs barely two kilos. 

The ThinkPad X1 Nano is officially the lightest ThinkPad ever built. Lenovo said it managed to squeeze the weight out of the Nano by utilizing a mixture of carbon fiber and magnesium-aluminum within the die-solid chassis. “Contemporary technology and presents” within the keyboard and cooler additionally shave off some oz. The ThinkPad X1 Nano shall be on the market earlier than the close of the year with prices starting at $1,399.

Gentle-weight veritably manner less efficiency, but Lenovo taps Intel’s new 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPU to energy the ThinkPad X1 Nano. The firm did now not affirm which particular chip, but it’s miles a Core i7 with Iris Xe. That tells us the pc’s most of 16GB of LPDDR4X is configured for dual-channel, as you may presumably perhaps be ready to’t net net an Iris Xe badge with out the upper-efficiency reminiscence configuration.

Because of the the ThinkPad X1 positive factors Intel’s new Evo badge, we know the pc positive factors Intel’s Dynamic Tuning as nicely, which uses machine learning in its latest iteration to serve push a CPU’s enhance clocks more durable.

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Nonetheless the most standout phase of the  ThinkPad X1 Nano is the veil. Most laptops in this class feature commodity 13.3-creep monitors with a resolution of 1920×1080 (FHD). The next trail up is veritably a battery-draining UHD 4K veil with a resolution of 3840×2160. Despite the proven truth that customers fully admire the premise of 4K, it be veritably is a blinding wretched skills: Some apps don’t scale nicely in Dwelling windows 10, and you may presumably perhaps be ready to on the total demand to lose a third of your battery existence utilizing that high-res panel.

With the ThinkPad X1 Nano, Lenovo uses a 2160×1350 resolution, 13-creep veil. That increases the pixel density to 2.9 million pixels, which is set a third bigger than an FHD panel’s 2 million pixels. The attain is the next pixel density, so that you may presumably perhaps be ready to squeeze in extra home windows, but with out the battery-existence mark of a 4K panel’s 8.3 million pixels. The panel is on the market with or with out contact and is rated at 450 nits.

It be, frankly, the most cheap component to attain in a dinky pc. The motive it be now not veritably done exterior of Microsoft’s Surface and Apple’s MacBook’s is mark. 

In various specs, the Nano will offer a 1TB PCIe SSD, WiFi 6, and two Thunderbolt 4 ports, at the side of a combo headset jack.

One ultimate nifty trick Lenovo has tucked into the ThinkPad X1 Nano is what it calls “human presence” detection. In total within the occasion you leave the Nano on your desk and it goes to sleep, merely sitting down or leaning in entrance of this can self-discipline off the pc to reach wait on out of sleep and log you in utilizing the IR biometric camera. Lenovo did now not affirm what it uses to energy the human detection, but it be likely phase of the IR camera.

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Regarded as one of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and parts since 1998.