Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga G4: Affordable 2 in 1 in 2024

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@ithinkabout4369 5 ай бұрын

What makes this device significant is the full-body Aluminium chassis, first time Lenovo did this with a ThinkPad. Both the X1 Yoga G4 and its immediate successor X1 Yoga G5 also use this unique Gunmetal Grey color, which no other ThinkPad model has.

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

I did wonder about that, thanks for confirming.

@arnoldasurmonas4397 5 ай бұрын

Had this model, alot of issues with soldered RAM, needs to be reflowed

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

Interesting. Can you share more about your experience?

@Mar8308 5 ай бұрын

The system memory is soldered to the motherboard and is not upgradeable for memory RAM that sucks I like Lenovo but with slots for upgrades for example Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen 2 you can upgrade to 192GB DDR 5 that's powerful with i9 Intel

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

Yep, soldered memory isn't ideal.

@Mar8308 5 ай бұрын

@@LaptopRetrospective true but still I like upgrade just in case you need do something heavy and faster

@massimobaldrighi 5 ай бұрын

I had the unfortunate pleasure to own this machine. At the time I did not have a good idea on how to spec a computer. I had a terrible experience with it, first of all I bought it with the 4k screen, and the i7-8665u could barely hold some window movement without lagging. It got warm to the touch and the battery (with extremely light usage) lasted about 2/3 hours. Even more I thought that my tweeter in the middle of the hinge were broken, later I discover that they where so small and underpowered that you could not hear them except at maximum volume and with the heats on the keyboard. The build quality was really good, but for a 2,5k machine it was an horrible experience.

@verpejas 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately that is the case with an X1 Yoga G4 that i got for my parents - it has an i7-8665u and the 4k screen - the only way to make it usable was to disable all the transparency effects and it still is lagging due to 4k screen on the underpowered UDH 620 graphics. I was never able to make it work decently - lowering the resolution isn't an option as the screen gets blurry. Battery life is very bad with a original batterypack that has 99% health and even PTM7950 cannot make the fans stop spinning when doing normal web browsing. It was supposed to be an "upgrade" from the X1Y3/i5-8350u/1080p, but in reality it was really a downgrade in every single aspect, except for smaller screen bezels and nicer keyboard without the slideout mechanism. I even tracked down the oirignal Lenovo 1909 or 2004 Windows 10 recovery media and restored it - it was lagging the same way, so Lenovo knew this configuration was terrible, but decided to release it anyway.

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

I can see how this would be a recipe for issues. That's a lot of performance in this kind of chassis.

@Kazz7420 5 ай бұрын

@@LaptopRetrospective I believe this has more to do with a bad cooling solution more than anything, the i7-8665u is already pretty old by now and it's only a quad-core...compared to the more modern Intel chips with a big.LITTLE architecture, and a lot more cores (and power) in it.

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

Could be. I wonder if they relied on the materials to passively cool too much. 🤔

@massimobaldrighi 5 ай бұрын

@@Kazz7420 Hi! Unfortunately the cooling was not the real problem. I made some empirical experiments and by dragging a window (with all translucent effect active) the CPU stays at high clocks but saturate pretty quickly. Unfortunatly it was born "bad", or maybe the 4k screen killed what could have been a great machine.

@juanignacioaschura9437 5 ай бұрын

Such a form factor deserved the Ice Lake CPUs, the choices Lenovo made in regards to soldered RAM and processor line-up were quite a miss. For the price they are asking I fail to see the value. Not even illustrators can make use of the pen, it's Wacom's AES and that one is behind N-Trig.

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

Not my favourite X1 Yoga out there for sure. Used prices will make it more attractive over time.

@ithinkabout4369 5 ай бұрын

Ice Lake was never featured in any business laptops, because Intel did not launch vPro variants of Ice Lake. You can't really blame Lenovo for not using Ice Lake when Intel didn't want them to use Ice Lake here. Also, this is a 2019 model, Ice Lake was a 2020 product.

@chrishayes5755 17 сағат бұрын

just bought a refurbished on for $300 at best buy. hopefully its ok.

@LaptopRetrospective 2 сағат бұрын

@chrishayes5755 let us know how it goes.

@Kazz7420 5 ай бұрын

8th gen AND 10th gen Intel chips as an option, now that's interesting. I suspect that this is Lenovo's way to make use of leftover components.

@LaptopRetrospective 5 ай бұрын

Very likely or regional availability or prioritizing.

@ithinkabout4369 5 ай бұрын

This device came out with 8th gen Whiskey Lake CPUs in 2019, with 10th gen CPUs later added as a special option in some markets. So not really leftover components at all. The main reason Lenovo brought it out with the 10th Gen was the i7-10710U, the first Intel ULV Hexacore CPU, a configuration not available with Whiskey Lake.