Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga vs Microsoft Surface Book:(Comparison)

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga                                                                                                                     The 14" ThinkPad X1 Yoga is supremely thin yet rigid, and it has a spill resistant keyboard-- it's ready for the road and isn't in the least bit delicate. It weighs 2.8 pounds (1.27 Kg), and Lenovo claims it's the lightest and thinnest 14" business portable. weighing in at just 2.8 lbs. It's not quite as light as the waiflike Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which weighs just 2.6 lbs., but it is noticeably lighter than the 3-lb. MacBook Air, even though that machine has a smaller, 13-inch display. That makes the X1 Yoga a better option for commuters and frequent travelers who need a notebook that's easy to lug around. The definition of versatility, this ultralight 2-in-1 adapts to your business with 4 flexible modes to work, present, create, and connect.  Features a stunning display with intense color and deep contrast. Even a dockable, rechargeable stylus pen. Plus, the fastest, advanced mobile broadband technology available. The ThinkPad X1 Yoga will be the first laptop to offer this technology when it hits the market in spring of 2016, and believe me – it’s incredible. Lenovo will also build an X1 Yoga with a standard display, and showed it side-by-side with the OLED model. I could see the difference even from across the room. The OLED panel’s superior contrast made dark backgrounds look far deeper and, just as importantly, helped fine details stand out.  It is the first convertible device being launched with an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. We’ve seen these displays predominately on smartphones, with the occasional tablet as well, but it’s now made its way to the laptop form factor. Lenovo is using a Samsung OLED as the optional panel, and it’s a 14-inch 2560x1440 version. Samsung is the market leader in OLED technology, so it makes a lot of sense that they would turn to them for this display. The base device comes with a 1920x1080 IPS LCD, and there is also an optional 2560x1440 IPS LCD too, but the OLED should give a large gamut and of course the deep blacks that OLED is known for, along with infinite contrast. It is exciting to see that this technology is now making its way here. The other big change, as the name of the ThinkPad X1 Yoga indicates, is that the keyboard of Lenovo’s flagship business ultraportable now flips around 360 degrees. So, you can use it in laptop mode, tent mode (like an inverted V), stand mode and as an absolutely enormous tablet. The keys retract into the base for this last mode, to make the rear feel flatter in the hand. The laptop has a 4 cell, 52 Whr battery that's sealed inside. You could replace it if you remove the bottom cover affixed with several Phillips head screws. Lenovo claims 11 hour runtimes (9 for the OLED display model), and as ever that's optimistic. We did however average 9 hours of productivity and streaming video use with brightness set to 40% (a bit dim for my taste) and WiFi on. That's quite good for a very slim and light laptop with a 14" full HD display and the Core i7 CPU. It supports Lenovo's quick charge, so a half hour layover at the airport can significantly top up the battery.The full-sized, backlit keyboard is spill-resistant and the keys retract automatically when not being used as a laptop, so they are not exposed when the keyboard is face-down on a desk or table. The ThinkPad X1 Yoga runs on 6th generation Intel Skylake dual core, 15 watt core i5 and i7 CPUs with SSD drives, and your choice of 1920 x 1080 x QHD 2560 x 1440 IPS touch screens with pen input. An OLED QHD display, It weighs just 2.8 lbs. and is extremely thin yet robust. Up to 16GB DDR4 memory, Up to 1TB PCI-E NVMe SSD, 3 x USB 3.0, OneLink+ port, Mini-DisplayPort, HDMI, microSD, Onboard Stylus Pen, 333 x 229 x 16.8mm (WDH)                                                                                        Price:$1499

                                                                       VS                                                                                     Microsoft Surface Book                                                                                                                               The Microsoft Surface Book packs high-end components, including new Intel processors and optional Nvidia graphics, into a smart, slim body. Some components and most of the battery are hidden in the base, so the tablet half is lighter. The high-res screen looks great, and the included stylus pen is excellent.               The Surface Book has 13.5-inch display offers 3,000 x 2,000 resolution for 267ppi. Microsoft also uses its new PixelSense technology which essentially means a very thin, closely bonded, glass screen for super responsive touch and stylus controls. The Surface Book, also all metal, offers a detachable screen that doubles as a tablet. But this has meant a slight increase in thickness to nearly 23mm when closed. The Surface Book display offers sixth-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 chip 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of SSD storage. While the tablet part of the Surface Book is limited to the Intel HD Graphic 520, there is a separate GPU in the keyboard section. This is an Nvidia GeForce processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. The Surface Book offers plenty of connectivity options that vary and may appeal to different people's needs. The Surface Book offers two USB 3.0 ports and full microSD. The MacBook features an HDMI port where the Surface Book is limited to a Mini Display Port and using a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.                                                                                                                                                                                              The Surface Book is no ordinary Surface, sporting a sleek, all-silver, magnesium design with a unique, flexible hinge designed to keep the laptop's removable display from getting too wobbly. But while Microsoft mostly knocks it out of the park with its first laptop, the device is still a bit top-heavy, and opening the lid is more difficult than we'd like.  Microsoft’s Surface Book offers SSD storage options of 128 GB/256 GB/512 GB/1 TB. It also comes with a microSD slot. The new Microsoft tablet cum laptop hybrid bears an 8 MP rear camera and a 5 MP primary camera and will run on latest Windows 10.                                                                                                                                                                                                            Microsoft is downplaying the Surface Book as a tablet by calling it "clipboard mode," but you can remove the Surface Book's screen to use as a humongous slate. This should be a big upgrade over the Surface Pro 3, as both the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 have big glass trackpads – a lot like Apple's MacBooks.       Battery life
Battery life on the Surface Book is both pretty good and surprisingly disappointing. While Microsoft has promised 12 hours of continual usage and other outlets report getting even more juice out of the machine, our best time for the device was 7 hours and 39 minutes. As for the Clipboard on its own, the tablet can last for 4 hours.
While these are more than respectable numbers considering all the hardware inside the Surface Book, I honestly expected a much longer run time. The good news is this notebook recharges quickly, going from zero to 100% charge in under two hours.

But,Configurations with the optional Nvidia GPU and more storage get very expensive. There are some first-generation quirks, including an awkward gap between the screen and base when closed.
THE BOTTOM LINE While it's not nearly as refined as the new fourth-gen Surface Pro, Microsoft's Surface Book is a powerful, feature-filled premium hybrid that doesn't forget it's a laptop first.                       Price:$1499
                                                                                                 

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