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In our Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 review, we loved its elegant premium design and sharp, vivid display. Though it lacks Thunderbolt 3 ports, we awarded it Editor's Choice for it good performance, decent battery life and comfortable keyboard. Design-wise, the Surface Laptop 3 is a classy notebook with a modern design and premium materials. At 12.1 x 8.8 x 0.6-inches and a weight of 2.9 pounds, the Surface Laptop 3 is larger and heavier than the Dell XPS 13 (11.9 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches, 2.7 pounds), the Apple MacBook Pro (12 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches, 3 pounds) and the HP Spectre x360 13 (12.1 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches, 2.7 pounds).
Port-wise, like most 13-inch laptops, the Surface Laptop 3's selection is modest. It has a magnetic Surface Connect port, a USB 3.1 Type-A port and a USB Type-C input. There's also a headphone/mic jack built-in for your must have peripherals. With its 10th-gen chip and all-metal finish, the Surface Laptop 3 is a worthy successor to the Surface Laptop 2. At $200 off, it's a solid deal if refined hardware and Windows 10 power are what you look for in a laptop.
If you need more horsepower, the Surface Laptop 3 with Core i7-1065G7 CPU and 16GB of RAM is also on sale for $1,299 ($300 off) at Best Buy. Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a great alternative to popular 13-inch laptops, like the Dell XPS 13 or HP Spectre x360 13. But the 14-inch business machine isn't a direct competitor to those smaller devices. Now Lenovo is entering the premium and portable segment in earnest with the new ThinkPad X13 and ThinkPad X13 Yoga.
Originally meant to debut at the now-cancelled MWC 2020, the ThinkPad X13 and ThinkPad X13 Yoga are a duo of laptops fighting for the coveted title of best 13-inch laptops. As their names suggest, the ThinkPad X13 is a traditional clamshell laptop whereas the X13 Yoga is a convertible system. We haven't seen the devices in person but product images show pretty thick display bezels. Lenovo hasn't embraced the edge-to-edge display like other vendors. As a result, some of its laptops are starting to look dated.
As a 2-in-1, the X13 Yoga can fold back into a tablet or stand in tent mode for presentations or content viewing. The Yoga even comes with an integrated stylus. The clamshell ThinkPad X13 isn't as flexible, but the screen still rotates 180-degrees. As is standard for ThinkPad laptops, the X13 and X13 Yoga are MIL-STD 810G tested, which means they can withstand extreme conditions, like high temperatures, altitude or humidity. When it comes to security, the ThinkPad X13 and X13 Yoga pack an IR camera with ThinkShutter webcam cover, a fingerprint sensor, an optional ePrivacy screen, and a dTPM 2.0 encryption chip.
At 2.9 pounds, these two laptops are fairly lightweight, although the lightest of 13-inch devices go down to 2-pounds flat. And at 12.2 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches, the X13 Yoga is pretty sleek, and actually thinner than the ThinkPad X13 (0.7 inches).On the low end is a 13.3-inch, 1080p non-touch display with 300 nits of brightness. From there, you can upgrade to a touch screen panel with 300 nits on the ThinkPad X13 or 400 nits on the X13 Yoga.
There is also a 1080p Privacy Guard panel with 500 nits of brightness available on both the X13 and X13 Yoga. This display has a built-in privacy filter that limits viewing angles so the people around you can't peek at your sensitive documents. Only the ThinkPad X13 Yoga comes with an optional 13.3-inch, 4K OLED touch screen with an anti-glare finish.
The ThinkPad X13 is highly customizable. Equipped with a Core i3 CPU and 4GB of RAM, the base model X13 is pretty disappointing.Fortunately, you can upgrade those components to an Intel Core i7 CPU with vPro, up to 32GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage.The X13 Yoga starts with more agreeable specs, including a Core i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM. Specs top out at a Core i7 with vPro CPU and a 2TB SSD but RAM stops short at 16GB.
Lenovo says the Thinkpad X13 and X13 Yoga will launch with AMD's new Ryzen Pro 4000-series processors, which we're dying to test and compare to Intel's 10th Gen CPUs. If Lenovo can bring everything we love about its other ThinkPad laptops --- a durable chassis, comfortable keyboard and useful security feature --- to a smaller, 13-inch design, then the XPS 13s and MacBook Pros of this world will be under some serious pressure.
We'll see if the Thinkpad X13 and X13 Yoga live up to expectations when we get a review unit later this year.CES 2020 has officially kicked off, and we've already seen some of the most exciting laptops, tablets and computing gadgets of the year. We've gotten our hands on one of the lightest laptops of all time, exciting new 2-in-1s, and an accessory that turns any laptop into a powerhouse gaming machine.
Be sure to bookmark this page, as we'll be rounding up the biggest news stories of CES 2020 as well as our hands-on impressions of the latest wares from Lenovo, Acer, Dell and more.In preparation for 5G's launch throughout larger swaths of the country, we're expecting to see a lot more laptops sporting mobile broadband. These always-connected laptops will be faster than anything we've seen before and can act as a hotspot in a pinch. While we've gotten glimpses of some notebooks like the beautiful Galaxy Book S, we're expecting to see a lot more options. Heck, there's even a rumor that Apple will be joining the fray with 5G MacBooks.

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