Not only does moving to a 16:10 design modernize the viewing experience for users, but allowed Lenovo to rejigger a lot of the component placements for hardware that helped improve the width the of trackpad, increased the speaker size by 20 percent and shift the finger print reader to the power button while still maintaining a 17.7mm thickness. In its 4th generation, the X1 Extreme gets a chassis overhaul to introduce a new 16:10 panel with narrower bezels as well as new patent pending cooling solutions for better boost performance alongside a new carbon woven pattern. Lenovo also showed off its most significant update to its ThinkPad X1 Extreme line up. Lenovo also tossed out a 2nd Gen L13 that delivers a familiar experience as its Yoga cousin with same core components, at least on paper.īoth the L13 (2nd Gen) and the L13 Yoga (2nd Gen) will be available in August of 2021 and start at $799.00 and $999.00 respectively. Other specs of the L13 Yoga (2nd Gen) include configurations with up to 16GB of DDR/3200MHz RAM and a 1TB of SSD as well as Dolby Premium audio support, Modern Standby software support, Match on Chip Fingerprint reader, and Windows Hello facial recognition. As Lenovo is want to do these days, the L13 will come with an integrated digital pen in the box as well as 46Whr battery capable of up to 10 hours of use on a single charge. Similar to its previous generation, the L13 Yoga (2nd Gen) comes in both black and silver with a 13.3-inch FHD IPS display and 300 nits of brightness. The L13 (2nd Gen) will boast AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 series APU with integrated Radeon graphics.

We recently reviewed the ThinkPad L13 Yoga here at OnMSFT and as quickly as we finished that piece, Lenovo is back with a second generation that brings a notable platform upgrade.įor the first time in Lenovo's company portfolio, it's introducing an AMD ThinkPad Yoga powered by Microsoft's Windows operating system. Lenovo just took the wraps off its updated ThinkPad L lineup introducing its L13 and L13 Yoga's in their second generation.

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