Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold (2022) First Look: This Feels Radical

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold offers a foldable 16.3-inch (2024 x 2560 pixel) OLED display. It supports a Wacom stylus right out of the box, or you could just use your finger thanks to On-Cell Touch technology. In short it’s a nice display, and a flexible one — no pun intended — whether you’re doing work tasks or watching videos. 

The display can be used flat — as a touchscreen tablet — or folded in several ways. You can use it unfolded out flat in either landscape or portrait mode, with or without its included keyboard. The latter can function detached or attached to a fold-out kickstand that also comes with the device.

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Alternatively, you can use the Lenovo folded partially, like a book. I could see myself doing that when using the ThinkPad X1 Fold to read novels or comic books. It can be set up on its side when it’s folded like this, standing up without the aid of a kickstand.

Adding to the flexibility, you can rotate it 90-degrees and use it folded like a laptop with an onscreen keyboard, or by attaching the physical keyboard magnetically to the lower half. This effectively turns the device into a 12-inch ultraportable notebooks, switching the lower half of the touchscreen off while the keyboard is in place.

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Lenovo’s bundled keyboard is nice, too. In fact it’s very much like the keyboard included on ThinkPad X1 notebooks released over the last few years. It has a standard touchpad as well as a Trackpoint — the little red nub you see in the middle of the keyboard – a ThinkPad classic.