LENOVO THINKPAD C13 YOGA CHROMEBOOK REVIEW: A CHROMEBOOK FOR GROWN-UPS

It's not great, however it's pragmatic

As of late, I've audited an enormous number of Chromebooks focused on understudies. They are an objective market for some makers, due both to the strength of Google Classroom across a wide range of grade levels and furthermore to Chromebooks' reasonable sticker prices (contrasted with comparative Windows and macOS machines). 


In any case, grown-ups and experts like Chromebooks, as well. Some might be power clients running Linux applications, some might utilize Google Workspace in the workplace, and some may very much like Chrome OS. That is who the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook is for: it's a Chromebook for adults. 


That implies it breaks some cliché "Chromebook '' shows. Principally, it's not modest: it's not very a long way from the MacBook Air in cost. Lenovo isn't the principal organization to attempt this shtick: Samsung and Google, for instance, have both designated this market with $999 Chrome OS machines before, and there are Dell Latitude Chromebooks drifting around that are significantly more expensive. But the C13 Yoga is my number one endeavor at a higher cost than expected, convertible Chromebook that I've seen to date. It has the ThinkPad highlights that have made Lenovo so predominant in the business space for such countless years: the lightweight and durable form, the incredible console, the strong specs, the business-centered security highlights, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. It's not awesome, however it's common sense. Also, eventually, it works. 


Put this Chromebook close to different individuals from the ThinkPad line, and you could trick me into thinking it was another exceptional Windows machine. ThinkPad's are known for their solid forms, and this one is no exemption. The case is aluminum in general. There's no flex in the console or the screen — and I can't recall the last time I said that regarding a Chromebook. The 360 pivot is solid, and there's no screen wobble by any means. The C13 accomplishes this without getting excessively cumbersome: it's 3.3 pounds and 0.61 inches thick. Lenovo says it's been tried against 12 "military-grade" certificate strategies. 


The presentation on my survey unit is a 300-nit 1920 x 1080 IPS board. The C13 is additionally one of not very many 13-inch Chromebooks that offers a 4K OLED show alternative — that one gets up to 400 nits. The vast majority shouldn't require that one, as the FHD screen is acceptable. It conveys pleasant tones, great differentiation, and amazing subtleties. It has the confined 16:9 perspective proportion, something I've been happy to see other ThinkPad moving away from this year. Elsewhere, you'll see various other mark ThinkPad prospers. There's a truly agreeable illuminated console, including the mark red TrackPoint in the middle. (It accompanies a standard Chromebook design, instead of the typical ThinkPad format, however the modified T bolt keys remain.) ThinkPad fans will likewise perceive the discrete clickers on the highest point of the touchpad, just as the match-on-chip finger impression sensor on the right half of the console deck and the small webcam shutter. There are some novel goodies too. There's a Google H1 security chip inside, which works like the TPM chips that you'll frequently discover in Windows business workstations. There's a discretionary camera on the console deck (notwithstanding the one on the top bezel) which you can use to snap front oriented photographs in case you're utilizing the C13 in tablet or tent mode. There are two sound system speakers on the lower part of the gadget which convey a decent encompass quality, however the actual sound is metallic and not extraordinary. 


Yet, the truly intriguing thing about the C13 is that it's the main Chromebook to utilize AMD's Ryzen Mobile 3000 C-series processors. AMD presented this "C-series" the previous fall as a line explicitly intended for Chromebooks. All things considered, they're for the most part rebrands of more established AMD chips — the Ryzen 5 3500C that is in my C13 model is essentially a renamed Ryzen 5 3500U from the customary 3000 Mobile series. This is two ages old now (the 5000 portable Series came out recently), yet it's as yet a strong processor for this sort of PC. 


The base C13 begins at $909 for 4GB of RAM, 32GB of capacity, and an Athlon Gold 3150C processor. That is an awful arrangement for $909, purchase Lenovo estimating is regularly abnormal and arbitrarily limited and this design is at present recorded at a more sensible $590.85. The model I have is recorded at $1,247 (however right now accessible for $810.55) — it accompanies the Ryzen 5 3500C, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of capacity. That is still somewhat high for those specs, however it's a more sensible worth. I like that the capacity is a PCIe SSD (as opposed to the lethargic eMMC stockpiling that organizations now and then attempt to slip into expensive Chromebooks). 


This is certainly the best-performing Chromebook I've utilized in a long while. I utilized the gadget as my essential driver for a couple of days, running above and beyond twelve Chrome tabs and Android applications, and I never felt heat or heard the fans except if I put my ear to the console deck. Nothing dialed the framework back, by the same token. I had the option to alter a bunch of photographs in Adobe Lightroom with a dump of tabs and applications open and both a Zoom call and Spotify running behind the scenes, and the experience was okay. Talking as somebody who's tried various slow spending plan Chromebooks as of late, it's truly invigorating to see Chrome OS running this easily. 


AMD has asserted that its coordinated Vega designs are the best illustrations you can get in a Chromebook, and keeping in mind that I can just check that guarantee episodically, I had an essentially better gaming experience on the C13 than I at any point have with an Intel Chromebook. Rest in Pieces, one of my #1 portable game, is generally a playable-yet stutter experience on Chromebooks. However, it was very smooth on the C13, without a falter in sight. Photograph altering, in both Google Photos and Adobe Lightroom, was additionally no issue on this machine. 


I wound up two or three benchmarks to perceive how this framework piles up to rivalry. On Andre Bench, which estimates the speed of the capacity, the C13 Yoga Chromebook was well in front of the pack on most errands, and far and away superior to the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2. Deeply and a 2963 on a multi-center. While those scores aren't just about as great as those we've seen from our top Chromebook pick, Acer's Chromebook Spin 713, (and don't measure up to any semblance of the MacBook Air, obviously), they're actually near the highest point of the Chrome OS pack, beating scores we've seen from both Samsung Galaxy Chromebooks and the Pixel book Go. 


I likewise viewed the inherent pointer to be smooth and responsive on this touchscreen, however it was somewhat of an aggravation to eliminate from its carport. 


One frustration highlights all of this, and that is battery life. However the C13 has a sensibly estimated 51Wh battery, I just found the middle value of six hours and two minutes of ceaseless use with the screen at 50%. I ran preliminaries utilizing a wide range of Android applications, and preliminaries utilizing simply Chrome, without seeing a gigantic contrast. I've seen fundamentally more than that (with a similar responsibility) from a wide range of Chromebooks, also Windows and macOS workstations. This absolutely makes me reluctant to suggest that anybody get the 4K screen choice — I can't envision that the vast majority will get OK battery life on those arrangements in case this is the thing that I'm getting with the FHD screen.



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