Just Thinking..

[PickleSauce]

To start off with a bit of a background- I'm 20 years old and a college student attending The University of North Florida in hopes of earning a Bachelors in Computer Science. My Macbook pro recently died on me, to I assume overheating. This got me thinking. While digging through years and years of old laptops looking for a viable short term replacement, I came across my dad's old Thinkpad Yoga 14. I remembered how much I used to love this keyboard. This laptop had respectable specs for the time, packing an dual core 4th gen i5 mobile chip, 8 gigs of ram, and a geforce 825m gpu. After making a few upgrades to it, like swapping in an extra 8 gigs of ram, and replacing the 1tb spinning rust with a 128gb Sandisk SSD, I got windows set up and started installing some of my commonly used programs. When I was going through this setup, I realized that it wasn't really that slow. While i definitely noticed it's it's age while using Eclipse and VScode, I decided to switch to it for a little while. One month later i am still using this dated laptop and am now considering a replacement. I am looking at the new Dell XPS 13, or the Thinkpad X1 Yoga gen 5. I recently saw LTT's review on the Dell XPS 15 and 17 inch calling it the perfect laptop. So naturally i wanted to get an opinion of the X1 Yoga gen 5 from the same people so i could finalize my decision. My reason for writing this forum post is to ask the wise team of LTT to make a full review of the X1 yoga.

 

Here is the link to the X1 Yoga that I was considering:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1-Yoga-Gen-5/p/22TP2X1X1Y5

[kelvinhall05]

I'd pick the X1 in a heartbeat.