Lenovo is known for coming out with some very interesting products, particularly at CES. And this year is no different.
This year, Lenovo is debuting the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid. This is a Windows laptop that allows the screen to detach and turn into an Android tablet. Giving you a 14-inch tablet that you can use on the go. It’s a stunning 14-inch tablet with a 2.8K OLED Display, and it really reminds me of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra, which has a similar screen size and is also OLED.
Basically, Lenovo has put a processor, RAM, and storage into the display and into the base. The base sports the Intel Ultra Core 7 processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The tablet itself runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor, has 12GB of RAM, and has 256GB of storage. So, both parts of this laptop are pretty high-end. And in the short time I had to play around with it, it does live up to the hype. Both operating systems were pretty smooth on the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, but it wasn’t the final software, and the OS was somewhat limited during our hands-on time.
It’s super easy to detach the screen
One thing I was worried about with this laptop was how hard it would be to detach the screen. And it’s actually fairly easy. Now it does need to be at almost a 90-degree angle to actually detach. But then it’s a simple pull of the tablet off of the base. It’s easy, but not so easy that it’s going to fall off when you don’t want it too. Lenovo is using a locking mechanism here, as well as magnets to keep them together.
This is a pretty cool product from Lenovo, and out of a bunch of the weird products that Lenovo tends to announce every year, this is the first one that I could actually see people buying. The only downside is the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 on the tablet, while everything else is the latest and greatest. It would have been great to see at least the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on here, if not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. But the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is still a very capable processor.
Lenovo is expecting the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid to launch in the second quarter (so that’s April through June) and it will be priced at $1,999.
