hey guys today lenovo has sent over the
thinkpad c13
yoga chromebook i think for some reason
the title of this thing just will not
stick in my head but it's a thinkpad
it's a c13 it's powered by ryzen chips
it's got all kinds of cool internal
stuff it's got a stowable stylus full hd
screen great build quality all that kind
of stuff is what we are expecting but we
got the box in and wanted to just hop on
camera and get this thing out of the box
and see what it looks like
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today okay so without any further ado
let's hop in the box and as far as
chromebook boxes go i mean this is kind
of a nicely branded one it's got that
whole thinkpad thing going on on the
outside but ultimately it is just a big
brown box with a chromebook inside
there's not a whole lot of surprises
when we come to unboxings and honestly
like the phone industries getting into
this too so we're losing chargers and no
headphones in the box anymore so even
phone unboxings are kind of getting a
little bit more boring so we don't want
to spend a whole lot of time on the
packaging and all the junk in here we
just want to get a first impression of
this chromebook so i'm going to get it
out of the bag here and just set it down
let's make sure there's no other goodies
here inside
um nope your general paperwork
and
yeah nothing surprising as far as the
charger goes it's a usb type-c charger
again all of this is just par
for the course when it comes to
chromebooks so
just get all of this stuff
out of the way and get to what you came
here for which is this new c13 thinkpad
from lenovo
and right off the bat i love the color
of this thing it's like a
dark navy almost black but just a really
nice finish
very substantial which isn't surprising
i mean think pad devices whether they're
windows or chromebooks are generally
built for
enterprise this one's no different this
is definitely aimed at the enterprise
market it's not that it's not available
for consumers but they're building this
thing with enterprise in mind and that
means it is just really rigid very nice
and firm and this is not a cheap
chromebook by any stretch of the
imagination uh it's it's in anywhere
from 800 to over well over a thousand
dollars depending on how you get it
outfitted but the chief thing about this
is that it's one of the first
chromebooks to come out with amd's new
processors in it so the one they sent
over to us specifically is the ryzen 5s
of the 3500c processor 8 gigs of ram and
256 gigs of internal storage and that is
of the emmc or not emdmc i'm sorry nvme
variety
but again this is just kind of first
initial
thoughts here we got lots of i o lots of
good port selection here so
uh if you can see on the side we've got
full size hdmi we've got a usb type-c
over here volume rocker power button
speakers on the side there so we'll have
to see how those sound and then the
other side you get two full size
usb 3.0 ports another usb type-c and
then your micro sd card headphone jack
so honestly as far as like
old peripherals you want to plug in full
size hdmi for meetings usb type-c stuff
docking solutions it's all here
you've got all the stuff you need in
front of you so let's just open this
thing up hinge is nice and firm you're
not going to get a one-hand lift and we
generally don't see that whenever you
are dealing with a convertible
but while we're at it
we'll we'll look at that hinge as well
and see if this thing
yeah we'll have to cut away to power it
on but
you know we flip the hinge around it's
it's a general convertible chromebook
nothing surprising there as well
16 by nine screen so full hd
300 nit screen again convertible form
factor and just like any other
chromebook that converts it doesn't feel
like a great tablet or anything but when
you want to set it you know in a
presentation mode or something like that
it will work really well for that it's
going to be nice to flip it around and
get to the stove stylus that we'll talk
about here in just a second but
let's take a second and get this thing
booted up and let me sign in real quick
so i can give you a little more of a
full rundown okay now that we are all
logged in booted up and all that kind of
stuff that whole process of just kind of
getting a chromebook set up usually
informs me a lot about a bunch of stuff
on a chromebook again this isn't a
review we're just talking about some
quick hands-on impressions but this
device has a lot of good stuff going for
it uh first up and i'm not gonna blow
hopefully blow the shot out here is the
screen is actually
really nice and bright it's rated at 300
nits from what i understand so
um it's not gonna be crazy bright
compared to a handful of other
chromebooks but the colors look really
great the viewing angles even as i'm
looking straight down the screen right
now i can see everything on the screen
so the viewing angles look good the
colors look good again 16x9 full hd 13.3
inch screen here so nothing crazier out
of the ordinary but say you've used a
pixelbook go you kind of would be
familiar with the the screen size the
the dimensions the resolution and the
brightness uh it feels a lot like that
screen which is a good thing it's a it's
a solid screen there is a 4k model of
this that has a 400 nits screen i
believe on it but i personally think 4k
at this resolution is just absolute
overkill so a very good screen uh just
even moving the the hinge around and
just like the rigidity of the top part
of this thing the whole thing just feels
incredibly well built already uh just
from messing around but you can already
tell there's all kinds of cool stuff
going on here so yeah great i o so great
port selections
you've got a backlit keyboard that you
don't see a ton of light bleed all
around so you just kind of get this nice
glow from the top there's a little bit
another unique thing that we have on
this particular chromebook that we've
kind of not seen in a little while is a
stowed stylus so
a couple unique things about this
particular stylus one it's usi
so that means that it would work
technically i could take the stylus and
go pick up any other chromebook with a
usi stylus screen and start writing on
it would work
the other thing is hopefully you can
focus on that and see that there are
actually some leads there
usi stylus pins need battery well this
one obviously still has some sort of
battery inside of it and those leads are
what this chromebook uses to charge it
whenever you've placed it right back
here in this holster so that's kind of a
unique first thing with uh with chrome
os is to have a chromebook that has a
stylus that not only is stowable in the
device
also stowable in the device as a usi
stylus that also recharges whenever it's
put away you've obviously got the nub
we'll talk about that here in just a
second you've got a world-facing camera
so if we flip into presentation modes
you know if you're in this mode here you
can actually get
a video
going this way if you have the thing in
tablet mode or something like that i
don't know how useful these are uh
especially in enterprise stuff but like
maybe if you're scanning things you're
taking pictures of inventory that kind
of stuff will obviously test out these
cameras and see if they're any good or
not but usually the world facing cameras
are a little bit better than your
standard webcam that is included and
then you get
some interesting things going on here so
first a fingerprint scanner i set that
up as i first opened the chromebook up
and it works just like any other
fingerprint scanner the positioning is a
little strange
but it works
it's quick and it unlocks your
chromebook very fast and keeps you
secure the trackpad is glass it has a
very nice quiet like you probably can't
even pick this up
no that's barely making any noise but
it's a very satisfying good feeling
track pad so that's very cool and you
get physical buttons up here so three of
them and this is a thinkpad thing so
this is something that uh thinkpads do
on windows devices and when the first
thinkpad came out it was
a few years back that lenovo made a
thinkpad chromebook uh they google made
them nicks these and now they've they've
i guess figured out a way to make them
happy and and so they're back so you
have obviously left right and then you
have the center click button as well so
it'd be the same thing as if you clicked
on the mouse wheel but really what those
are for is if you're using that nub to
move around with and
when we first started talking about this
on a chromebook a lot of people were
like what's the point of this you got a
track pad why would you need this
and we all negate the idea that uh
there are people that have to work that
wear
some sort of gloves whether they be huge
like construction type gloves that are
heavy and hard to like manipulate stuff
with or even just rubber gloves that are
going to mess with using a track pad
well these little nubs help you move the
mouse around the screen and then you
have these hard buttons down here to
actually use it and so in a lot of
environments honestly outside of sitting
at a desk or a cubicle that little nub
probably comes in very very handy so
it's cool to see that come along i mean
that's just a lot of stuff going on here
world-facing camera fingerprint scanner
we're going to use all of it mess around
with all of it and see how all of it
works but what i can tell you right off
the bat is yeah i know this thing is
expensive it's an expensive chromebook
and yes it's aimed at enterprise and
working individuals but just off the bat
it feels great it feels like a
professional level chromebook and
you know think pads have come a long way
they used to be really really ugly and
kind of clunky and this one is
kind of attractive looking it's a little
frankensteinish you know there's a lot
of stuff going on here but it's a good
looking chromebook i need to spend some
time
with the device in order to figure out
how well the processors work we've we've
messed with a couple amd devices at this
point with this ryzen 5 chipset in them
and the benchmarks aren't great but i
need to use it on a day-to-day basis to
find out what it actually feels like to
use it is it slow is it fast the
benchmarks aren't amazing they're
nowhere near what we get from 10th and
11th gen intel processors but benchmarks
don't tell the whole story these amd
chips have much better gpus in them so
that could make up for a lot of things
it's going to be hard to tell until i
spend some time with it what i can tell
you right off the bat is that this is a
great feeling chromebook that has a lot
of unique features for a lot of working
class people that honestly may appeal to
a lot of you so i'm interested to you
know take this thing for a test drive
really get in and review it see how it
performs see how all the extra little
bits and pieces actually add up for you
a better or just a average chromebook
experience we won't know till we review
it so obviously we will be doing that
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