ThinkPadX240s review: classic and innovative coexist

Compared with the X230s launched a few months ago, the appearance of the X240s has not changed significantly. It is mainly upgraded to Intel’s fourth-generation smart core processor (Haswell) processor. In addition, it also supports IPS screen optional, up to 1920 x

1080 resolution, optional touch screen.

The overall body still follows Xiaohei's classic black tone. The body is made of carbon fiber material, and the surface is treated with skin-like texture, making it very comfortable to hold.

Moreover, the carbon fiber material not only ensures the light weight of the whole machine, but also provides maximum safety protection for the fuselage.

On side A, the ThinkPad logo and the Lenovo logo still occupy two corners. At the same time, the direction of the ThinkPad logo has also been rotated 180 degrees compared with before.

The small red dot of the letter "i" on the "ThinkPad" logo is a breathing light, which is always on when the device is powered on and flashes when in standby mode.

In terms of weight, the X240s also performs very well.

Through actual testing, we can see that the bare metal only weighs 1.49 kilograms, and the weight with the power adapter is 1.78 kilograms.

Such a small and light body makes it more attractive to mobile business people.

Through actual testing, we can see that the thickest part of the X240s body is only 17.63mm. Taken together, the X240s can be regarded as an extended design centered on the X1 Carbon.

12.5-inch matte IPS display ThinkPad X240s is equipped with a 12.5-inch matte IPS display with a resolution of 1366x768, excellent color reproduction, and a very wide viewing angle, which can reach 170 degrees.

Moreover, the matte surface treatment can avoid reflection problems under strong light, and the visual effect is better.

In addition, users can also choose a high-resolution screen with 1920X1080 resolution with touch function according to their needs.

A high-definition camera is set up on the upper border of the screen, with array microphones on both sides. This provides high-quality video communication for mobile business users, and video communication can be started at any time while out and about.

Keyboard: Six lines of helpless touch replacement. As for the keyboard, the new high-touch chiclet keyboard that was uniformly deployed last year continues.

The unique feature is that a certain arc is designed on the keycaps to better fit the fingertips and bring a better feel. As for the keys, as the X230 is changed to 6 columns, the X240 will continue to maintain this style of keyboard.

There is a fingerprint recognition function built into the right side.

Unfortunately, due to the thinness and lightness of the X240s, a certain amount of key travel has been sacrificed. In actual experience, the keyboard elasticity is obviously insufficient, and there is still a big gap with traditional long key travel and high-touch keyboards.

The entire keypad does not have independent shortcut keys, but the combined shortcut keys of Fn and F1-F12 are optimized for Windows 8 and are very convenient to use.

On the right border of the keypad, there is a power button and a fingerprint reader.

The overall look is relatively simple.

ConsiderPad

, there is only one relatively large panel left. The increase in the size of the touchpad may cause some inconvenience to old users who are used to the small red dot of ThinkPad.

It is worth mentioning that the X240s has added an anti-touch function. During typing with both hands, the mouse will not be dragged after the palm touches the trackpad, which prevents the possibility of misoperation to a certain extent.

Interface: Meets basic needs. The X240s has a thin and light body like an Ultrabook, but its interface configuration is far better than that of mainstream Ultrabooks.

Due to the limitations of the sunken hinge and the size of the fuselage, the interfaces are concentrated on both sides of the fuselage.

On the left side of the fuselage, starting from the end, are the power adapter socket, cooling air vents, VGA video interface, USB3.0 interface and a mini DisplayPort high-definition video interface.

On the right side of the fuselage, from the end, are the security keyhole, RJ45 network cable interface, SIM card slot and SD card reader distributed up and down, as well as a USB3.0 interface that supports shutdown charging and a two-in-one audio jack.