Until the X1 Nano series is axed in 2024, the X1 Nano has been released in a total of 3 generations, Gen1 is a 2021 model with an 11th Gen Core processor, Gen2 is a 2022 model with a 12th Gen Core processor, and Gen3 is a 2023 model with a 13th Gen Core processor with no Ryzen version. Between the 12th and 13th generation Core X1 Nano battery life collapse, the significance of the Tao machine is even less, so the main description object of this article is selected as the original X1 Nano, the basic Gen2 and Gen3 compared with Gen1 There is no essential change, if it is necessary to mention the characteristics of Gen2 and Gen3, it will be specifically noted.
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一丶Thinkpad X1 Nano的整体印象
10,000 yuan high-end ultra-thin and light notebook has not made any new progress before X1 Nano, as if X1c is the optimal solution for this market segment, in this case, ThinkPad can go one step further, toss another way, after all, courage is worthy of praise, after all, 13-inch ultra-thin notebook has always been the hardest hit area, not many players can stay on the field all the time.
Second, the configuration selection idea
There is no i3, each generation is the i5 and i7 two models.
Gen1: i5-1130G7, i7-1160G7, all four cores and eight threads
Gen2: i5-1240P (Xe80), i7-1260P (Xe96), directly on the P28 processor, 4 large 8 small 12 cores and 16 threads.
Gen3: i5-1340P (Xe80), i7-1360P (Xe96), the specifications are the same as the previous generation, and it is also 4 large, 8 small, 12 cores and 16 threads.
There are two kinds of screens, but there is only one resolution, 2160 x 1350. This screen should be customized, and it's not cheap to replace a broken screen, and it's a lot more expensive than the X1c kind of 2K HDR, and it's not easy to find.
On the 2K screen is more like a choice that must be made in order to be worthy of the price,I personally think that under the premise of not being able to solve the battery life,It is more practical to put on a great 1080 low-power screen,Instead of2K。
In fact, at this time, there are already signs of a bulge, but it is not too obvious, and the bulge has basically become a family design of Lenovo in 22 models.
There is one more thing, this screen seems to have to be directly replaced with the AB side of this assembly.
Gen1 is an onboard 16G LPDDR4x-4266, I haven't seen other SKUs, but Gen2 has a version of LPDDR5 memory up to 32G, and when it comes to Gen3, well, up to 16G LPDDR5X memory.
Iris XE graphics card,But don't expect this small graphics card to do anything.,Heat dissipation is not allowed.,That is, it's a stable level of LOL.,Games with a little more intensity.,For example, eating chicken.,You can go in and play at the beginning.,But the continuity is very poor.,It takes a long time to raise the frame rate after hitting the wall.,It's no different from not being able to play.。 I'm not afraid that it will stabilize 30+ frames, but I'm afraid that it will be 40 frames or 15 frames, which is more uncomfortable than 30 frames in the whole process.
But if there are not many special effects or something, you can also make do with editing a light 1080p video.
The hard disk is 2242 specifications, but unlike T480s and other computers that can have dual hard disks, X1nano's 2242 hard disk is a hard disk that needs a single notch, and it can be used with Gen3 x4 hard disks such as SN530, not PCIe3.0*2 such as SN520.
At present, the maximum capacity should be 1T,2T is not in the impression of large manufacturers' products,This is a little uncomfortable,Unlike the 18 models that use 2280 hard disk slotsTp,You can install a single-sided 2T 2280 hard disk。 However, now that the hard disk has risen a lot, it is not suitable to change the hard disk.
Hard disks also come with a heat dissipation copper sheet, which is more commonly used in 21 models.
From the perspective of networking methods, the X1 Nano should be divided into three categories: a WiFi version, a 5G version, and a 4G version.
OriginallyX1 Nano Gen1 only listed the WiFi version and the 5G wwan version,At that time21 years, I was noisy and shouted that 5G would bring revolutionary changes,Lenovo waved a big pen directly on5G module,And then because of the price difference between the price of the 5G version and the WiFi version of the same configuration3000 yuan,Then slowly everyone also found that 5G is a bit of nonsense,So the market is not applauded or popular。
So Lenovo brought the dish back and heated it again, replaced it with a 4G module, and served it again.
What's hilarious is that this operation happened when Gen1 and Gen2 were competing on the same stage, so it was almost equivalent to Gen1 in Gen2's year, and he backstabbed Gen2 fiercely, and then Gen3 backstabbed Gen2 at the listing price, Gen2 is really not easy.
In addition, I haven't used the non-5G version of the X1 Nano, I don't know if the WiFi version can be changed smoothly to the 5G version, it's a pity that this piece of content is missing, including whether 5G can be changed to 4G I don't know (this doesn't seem to be necessary).
The feel of the keyboard and the trackpad is indescribable, the key travel is 1.35mm, the back-mounted keyboard is also a small-sized keyboard, and the physical three-key feel on the trackpad is also different from the conventional physical three-key.
Heavy text office users will be uncomfortable to use for a long time.
There's very little feel to speak of, and after the novelty wears off, I wonder again and again why I don't use the X1 Carbon.
3. Other matters
The fuselage is made of carbon fiber wrapped in a black skin-like coating, which is easy to leave scratches, and there are mostly heavy business travelers who use the X1 Nano, running around in a bag, and the condition is likely to not be good, which is also a matter of no choice.
The touchscreen version will be carbon fiber textured A-side, but this woven texture A-side has always been a more practical but user-scoffed configuration, and people would rather wear a skin-like layer that is easier to flower shells than use a woven texture that is incompatible with the ThinkPad design language.
The difficulty of dismantling is very low, and it belongs to the quick disassembly design.
The maintainability is acceptable,The fan cable is not the X13 design that can only come out by pulling hard,Similar to the keyboard cable。
Compared with Gen2 and Gen1, there are still a lot of internal adjustments, but there are too many congenital problems, which can not be changed by acquired adjustments, and even because of P28, heat dissipation and battery life have ushered in an avalanche.
The interface is miserable,There are only two type-c ports with thunderbolt 4 functions and a 3.5mm headphone port,This combination is quite magical,While completely abandoning the A port to adopt the layout of the full C port,In addition, a 3.5mm headphone port was given by a stitch,There is an inexplicable sense of joy,Looking at men, women and children。
However, adding a USB-A port can't save this machine, and there are too many hard injuries that are too serious.
The most important thing to solve is battery life.
X1c is basically the limit of the balance between elegance and practicality, heavier and thicker than X1c, inevitably uglier, smaller and lighter than X1carbon, and the practicality will be greatly reduced.
This machine is also very contradictory, for practicality, you always have to bring a docking station, but after bringing the docking station, what is the difference between the weight of the docking station and X1c? As the X1c gets closer and closer to 1KG, the X1 Nano is doomed.
The battery is only 48Wh, and now (February 2024) second-hand is generally 80%-90% of the health, so the actual second-hand is 38wh-43.2wh, the measured full high brightness, and the web page + office is more than 2 hours of battery life, as for those 70%+ batteries, it can be said that it is miserable, and this battery life is very painful to use.
There are very few people who are suitable for the X1 Nano, but this group of people is a heavy demander of battery life. This thing is portable, but it has to have power available.
In '21, intel began to sell its "EVO" certification, and because the X1 Nano can obtain EVO certification, I doubted the rigor of EVO, so I guess it was another farce that ended in nothing.
Power supply, the original is a 65W large head power supply, but the Bank of China will generally give an additional lipstick power supply, so when Xianyu Tao personal second-hand, you can grind with the seller to ask for a lipstick power supply, people don't give it and there is no way;
Compared with the cable of the heat dissipation module of X13, this kind of cable is much easier to take.
The heat dissipation design is a strange one,The heat pipe has a big circle,The gap between the efficiency of heat dissipation and the layout of the later generations of Neo14 is too big,Heat dissipation and battery life are the two points that this ultra-thin notebook needs very much,But I can't look at them carefully。
The more you hold the computer in your hand, the more sensitive it is to the surface temperature of the fuselage.
Fourth, the model slot
The battery life of the three generations X1 Nano can't be seen, Gen2 and Gen3 are because they use the P28 kind of standard pressure processor, the performance has been improved but the battery life has collapsed, as for Gen1, it is because the battery health of the previous batch has naturally been consumed to about 80%.
Laptops don't mean that the tolerance of battery life is very low, mainly depending on the use, such as game books or workstation notebooks, these computers have a short battery life, which is acceptable to everyone, and it is a similar UPS emergency battery life requirement, but the battery life is too short for the business thin and light book with low use intensity.
Generally speaking, the battery life and performance release are inversely proportional, but the X1nano has low performance release and short battery life, which is difficult to make a convincing product.
If the X1 Nano is a low-performance machine that can watch office, but the battery life is enough to keep you from battery anxiety, the Nano is still a reasonable machine. In the final analysis, the battery life of Gen1 is not very strong, or it is not worthy of its application scenarios, but it can still be used by pinching the nose, and when it comes to Gen2 and Gen3 Nano, this problem is too obvious.
The short leg completely knocked the Nano series to death.
Maybe this machine is not suitable for the Intel version, it will be better to use the AMD R3 low-voltage processor (this is a pure joke), and the battery life will be greatly improved. After all, the X1 Nano is also X86 with AMD, even if the AMD compatibility is not as good as intel, the applications that can open the gap will not expect the X1 Nano to run. But high-end machines generally don't use AMD,After all, the bug rate is high,Collaborative optimization with manufacturers is also less,And then a real whole R3 low voltage up seems to be a direct death sentence for this machine to be executed immediately。
Fortunately, MacBook and win are not the same track, otherwise the X1 Nano's battery life problem will be exposed in 21 years.
The interior of the X1nano looks messy, which has formed two schools of thought: one is that the internal design is not important, and it is not easy to reduce the weight of the machine to 907g anyway, and tends to be a little more tolerant of the internal design. Another point of view is that the interior is messy, and the heat dissipation of the machine is also rubbish.
I won't consider who is right and who is wrong of these two points of view for the time being, but this debate has inspired me to think that the X1 Nano is messy internally, and from my previous experience with projects, it is likely that the importance of this product is not high enough in the group, and the resources that can be won are limited. Because the importance is not high enough, the idea is not "I want to design a 907g laptop", but "small who, you go to the ready-made plan to pick a mature one, and find a way to cut it to 900 grams".
With such a thin and light laptop, the starting point is different, and the end point is naturally different.
X1 Nano is like ThinkPad to capture the gap of high-end ultra-thin and light business laptops, and then found a ready-made solution to cut 907 grams to fill the market gap of high-end ultra-thin and light business laptops, and make a product that runs away with a sum of money, I didn't take it seriously and did it well, but I just made a notebook that met the indicators of leadership requirements, it has no clear thinking and no soul, and there is no room for future upgrading, Gen1 basically saw at a glance where the end of this series is.
The X1 Nano is the lightest laptop in the history of the ThinkPad (but not the lightest computer in the history of laptops, LG and NEC both like to toss ultra-thin and light laptops), and the X13 is a 13.3-inch machine, starting with the X390, the fact that the ThinkPad X series is neither light nor thin is a tacit fact that users know. However, the X13 is almost the most abundant interface and the most practical machine among competing products of the same size.
I used to agree that the X1 Nano can't be messy inside a small-sized machine, until I saw the promotional image of the ThinkBook X 2024, and I suddenly realized that high performance + ultra-large capacity battery + ultra-thin and small size + heat dissipation can happen on one machine, and the price has not jumped.
There is already a generation gap in the design level of the Yamato Laboratory and Lenovo Continental teams, which is impossible not to admit.
The X1 Nano Gen1 is not a useless machine, but if you are going to buy a second-hand X1 Nano, it is best to think about a complete set of application plans and budgets in advance, such as what is the main output device, how to synchronize files on multiple platforms, whether to use NAS or Onedrive or network disk?
Limited by interface, performance release, and battery life, it is difficult for X1 Nano to provide users with a complete set of office equipment to meet most of their needs on its own, therefore, with X1 Nano, it is very likely that you will need a lot of accessories and equipment to form a complete set of personal office combinations, for example, you also need a desktop computer or a 14-inch/15-inch laptop that can carry the cable to undertake the tasks that X1 Nano does not move, and transfer it to X1 after completion Nano, you also have to consider what bridge to use to transmit data between multiple devices. Such a set is too complicated, and the overall budget is not a single X1 Nano.
But no matter what the plan, the cost of the whole set is low, which is a bit out of the original intention of second-hand shopping.
To put it bluntly, for most users, the X1 Nano is similar to the secondary weapon in CS - pistol, which can hear a sound and indeed knock people down, but if you have to fight the whole gun game with one pistol, the experience must be bad.
The X1 Nano is difficult to become a primary computer, and it will most likely only be a luxury second computer. If you want to fully enjoy the convenience brought by the X1 Nano's thinness and lightness, it is likely that you will need a machine with enough performance and interfaces to meet most needs, quietly connected to the Sunflower Remote and waiting to be called. And in this case, it won't make much difference whether you take an X1 Nano or a cheap 2-in-1 laptop.
Personally, I think that the X1c 2018 can be said to be a work of showmanship, and the X1 Nano can only be said to be a curiosity-based exploration, far from a complete and mature product.
The X1 Nano is not very practical as a win, which is basically indisputable, and there must be someone who applies it, but it cannot be said that it is highly practical. I personally feel that ultra-thin laptops, and 2-in-1 win laptops overlap very much, X1 Nano does not give a better choice than 2-in-1 win laptops, and the battery life is much worse than the 11th generation Core Huawei matabook E, but Huawei matebook E, there is no maintainability at all, and X1nano can at least replace the aging heat dissipation module with ash and silicone grease.
The battery life of the X1nano is even far inferior to that of the Huawei matebook E, and it seems that the Huawei Matebook E is a little more correct.
But in the final analysis, 13-inch notebooks are not easy to do, high-end ultra-thin and light laptops are even more difficult to do, X1 Nano is riddled with diseases, but it is also one of the most tossed contestants in this market segment, the popularity and sales are not bad, although there are still people who regret it when they die. Apple's New MacBook, which focuses on this positioning, doesn't make a sound when it's cold, doesn't blow suona or invite the singing troupe, and carries it out and buries it without saying a word.
Fifth, the second-hand market situation
As a choice of second-hand laptops, the biggest trouble of X1 Nano is that it is too expensive, 3000+ second-hand laptops people will be very cautious when choosing, and X1 Nano is such a delicate and luxurious plaything, it is difficult to find its own audience.
As a brand new machine, it doesn't have many customers who just need it, and as a second-hand laptop, it has even fewer customers who just need it.
It's best not to expect the X1 Nano to be your workhorse, as there are very few users who can rely on an X1 Nano to get around. I use the X1 Nano myself, not because I like ultra-thin and light small size portable laptops, but because I am a second-hand dealer, I have a lot of X1 Carbon, T480s, Neo 14 waiting for me to use at any time, one more X1 Nano does not matter, occasionally change to a new toy to experience a different freshness, after all, there are few competitors with the same positioning of X1 Nano before, I will definitely choose the more accustomed ThinkPad.
It's very expensive,Gen1Get the goods have to be 3000 more,The price must be at 3800-4000,More than 5G modules or something is more expensive,There are a lot of machines to choose from at this price,At the same time, Gen1's brand new machine is still on sale,All the way down to about 5600The price,I feel like I have to buy X1 Nano,The best choice is that the company can reimburse people to buy a new Gen1 directly,It's not a cost-effective choice to buy second-hand at your own expense。
For the X1 Nano, there are few suggestions for Taoji, and it can only be said that if you are sure to buy it, play the 11th generation i5. It is only recommended to buy Gen1, not Gen2 and Gen3, even if it is Gen2 and Gen3 with insurance from the Bank of China, they are second-hand options with low meaning of money spending, insist on picking a cheap one, and Gen2 and Gen3 will not bring you a better experience.
If the company or unit pays for you to buy it, I have nothing to say about it.
It's best to get a new X1 Nano, because the Gen1 is still on sale, so there are quasi-new machines in circulation on the market, which are in much better condition and have a high battery health.
I estimate that the X1 Nano will be the hardest hit area for the health of the battery when it is sold second-hand, and it is easy to sell for no other reason.
If you need real-time networking, it is also more recommended to Tao LTE version rather than 5G version, 5G version is hundreds or even thousands more expensive than LTE version, but 5G and 4G do not feel any gap in use.
I still think that if you can choose the X1c, you should not choose the X1 Nano.
Fifth, summary
The X1 Carbon 2018 is the most important machine I've ever played with, but the X1 Nano doesn't feel that way, after all, after all, after the novelty, the laptop will have to compromise on practicality. Even if you're a business person who hugs your computer around all day, the X1 Carbon is best for you, not the X1 Nano.
ThinkBook X 2024 (ThinkBook 13x Gen 4) will be available in two months, maybe the thinkbook X 2024 technology is mature and uploaded to ThinkPad, ThinkPad will learn to make its own ultra-thin and light business notebook seriously.
This kind of laptop, or Apple is more handy to make, and the internal design is much better-looking. In addition, this kind of weight-loss plan, which greatly exceeds the industry average, requires a higher corporate structure than the previous step-by-step iteration of laptops to coordinate the weight reduction, and if the project level is not high enough, it will not be so easy to coordinate and the efficiency will be greatly reduced.
A friend commented on the X1 Nano, saying that it was a laptop that "couldn't be put on the table".
I think so.
The name of this article is "Don't get close to the living",It's intended to dissuade readers who haven't used X1 Nano but are curious to prepare real money to buy a reader who comes to see,The so-called don't get close to the living;But if you've seen and used Nano and still love it,Then I hope it will help you a little.,Most readers just watch a lively line.,There's no need.。
But don't look at my low evaluation of X1 Nano in 2024, in fact, when X1 Nano first came out in 2021, I personally had a high evaluation of it, and I liked it very much, after all, there was no reference for the same positioning at that time, and at that time, I was still arguing with other netizens on the Internet about whether the internal mess of X1 Nano was a slot. Even after the stocks of COSCO Shipping Holdings and China Merchants Bank hit new highs in the first half of 21, I thought about whether X1c 2021+X13 2021 intel+X1 Nano will come to a new one.
Time has passed, and the people at that time have changed a lot, and the likes and dislikes at that time have also changed a lot.
It is not recommended to buy second-hand, but I still wish everyone a smooth shopping machine!
And, Happy Chinese New Year.