FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 31The Lenovo 5G is a 360-degree convertible PC.Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold in clamshell mode.into five different modes, from traditional
clamshell to tablet, and it’s touch/pen friendly
as well.
Acer also showed off the Swift 3 thin-and-
light mentioned earlier (go.pcworld.
com/3swf), with your choice of Intel or Ryzen
4000 chips inside.
The HP Spectre x360 15t (go.pcworld.
com/s15t) is getting even thinner and smaller,
with a battery that just won’t quit even with afactors, built to accommodate new
hardware from the big-name chip vendors,
we also saw a surprising amount of form
factor innovation this year.
Lenovo showed off a foldable tablet of
its own, a $2,500 machine dubbed the
ThinkPad X1 Fold (go.pcworld.com/
thx1). Another oddity? The
ThinkBook Plus (go.pcworld.
com/thpl), which plops a
secondary e-ink display to the
outside of the laptop’s lid, ostensibly to help
you focus. Weird. But maybe cool? But weird.
Lenovo also revealed the Yoga 5G (go.
pcworld.com/yg5g), based around
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx chip and
touted as the first 5G PC, complete with a
nanoSIM card slot. It promises all-day battery
life, unlike the Microsoft Surface Pro X (go.
pcworld.com/srfx) built using a Qualcomm
variant, though app compatibility will still be
something to watch. For gamers, there’s the
Lenovo Legion Y740S (go.pcworld.com/
y74s), a gaming laptop with no discrete
graphics, as it’s made to pair with the
Legion BoostStation—Lenovo’s debut
external graphics card dock.
The Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel and
Ezel Pro (go.pcworld.com/ezel)
bring a funky, yet useful dual-hinge
configuration as well as even
beefier hardware to our favorite
content creation laptop of 2019 (go.pcworld.
com/fv19). It can flip and rotate its display