Lenovo ThinkPad Twist

Lenovo wants to take us back in time with the new laptop ThinkPad Twist, that time when several devices for companies began to experiment being convertible between laptops and productive tablets with Windows as operating system.

At that time Windows Vista was chosen to release the devices, but now with so many advantages offered by the interface of Windows 8 for touch devices, Lenovo cannot miss the opportunity to once again offer a laptop with this design. Let's see in depth what it offers us.

Design designed for professionals

The Lenovo ThinkPad Twist shows as its main feature a design in which its classic hinges that would support the screen have been replaced by a single central hinge which enjoys two degrees of freedom allowing you to rotate and move the screen in any direction.

If we put the device in portable mode, we can see a touchpad and a keyboard which we will use as peripherals, also adding the touch capabilities of its screen. But if we rotate the screen and put it by closing the device, it becomes a very complete 20mm thick tablet, having available a 12.5-inch IPS touch screen with 1366 x 768 resolution as well as some physical shortcut buttons.

We don't know many details about its materials, but we can imagine that it will incorporate some metallic parts as well as some common resistance certification for professional devices.

Lenovo ThinkPad Twist power to be called ultrabook

On the design side, the ultrabook name is too far from it, but due to the power so similar to these laptops the Lenovo ThinkPad Twistmoves through these zones.

Among the possible hardware configurations we can find Intel Ivy Bridge i7 processors, up to 8GB of RAM memory and 128GB SSD storage units, this for the highest configuration models, since the basic level incorporates i5 processor, HDD storage and only 4GB of RAM.

Although its thickness is somewhat high, this inconvenience provides a good number of ports among which we find a conventional-size Ethernet port, two USB 3.0, and micro-HDMI and mini-DisplayPort video outputs .

Price and availability

The new Lenovo ThinkPad Twist is preparing to launch in the US on October 26 at a starting price of849 dollars And for us we have to wait a few days and see if the company decides to take this convertible to other countries outside the American continent.

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