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Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 found a weird new place to add a second screen, and we're into it

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 found a weird new place to add a second screen, and we're into it

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I've seen many PC makers try to squeeze a second display into a laptop over the years at CES. But Asus and Lenovo are the only companies that are still experimenting with the idea and, for the most part, succeeding. Asus is at CES 2022 with its latest dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 gaming laptop, which puts a secondary 14-inch touchscreen under its main 16-inch display, giving it the look of one large display (or at least something close to it). Lenovo's taken a different route with its latest ThinkBook Plus Gen 3, though.

Now that's a wide screen.

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With the first two generations of the ThinkBook Plus, Lenovo put an E Ink display on the lid of a 13-inch laptop. The external display lets you read, take notes, get notifications and see your work calendar, all without opening the laptop. It's a cool idea but also kind of limiting. Aside from being a laptop with two displays, the third-gen model seen at CES 2022 is nothing like its predecessors.

For starters, it's an ultrawide 17.3-inch laptop with a 21:10 aspect ratio and a 3,072x1,440 resolution at 120Hz and with 100% P3 color gamut, which could be interesting if this were a gaming laptop. But it's not, it's made for doing work. The second display, an 8-inch color pen-enabled touchscreen with an 800x1,280-pixel resolution, is embedded in the laptop deck to the right of the keyboard and touchpad. It's like if you set down an 8-inch tablet on your laptop's keyboard and it just latched on and wouldn't let go. 

The 8-inch display can be used for lots of things including taking notes. 

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For creatives, the second display could be used to view tools or an image library or to draw quick sketches or edit with the included pen. It can be used to waterfall a document from the main display so you can work with less scrolling (though Asus' design would seem to work much better for this scenario). It can be used as a calculator since the second screen takes up space where the keyboard's number pad would sit. 

Lenovo also suggests using it with Microsoft's Your Phone app to mirror your phone on the display and have mobile notifications as well as access to your phone's photos and files directly on the laptop. You could use it as a launchpad for your most-used apps, too. 

You're gonna need a bigger bag. 

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Aside from the dual displays, though, the laptop isn't too unusual. It'll be powered by 12th-gen Intel Core H-series processors and have up to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory and an up-to-1TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 solid-state drive. It has security features you'd expect to find on a Lenovo business laptop in addition to a fingerprint reader in the power button and a full-HD webcam with an IR camera for face recognition and a privacy shutter.

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 will be available in May starting at $1,399 (approximately £1,040 or AU$1,940), which seems reasonable for what you're getting.

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Lenovo launches less-expensive ThinkBook laptops

Lenovo launches less-expensive ThinkBook laptops

For its new small-business-focused ThinkBook S line, Lenovo has jettisoned much of the traditional ThinkPad baggage in favor of a consumer-friendly but relatively durable clamshell laptop design. The ThinkBook S comes with a subset of the security and support options that differentiate Lenovo's enterprise from its mainstream hardware. There's an extended warranty, better service and some of the company's ThinkShield features, plus a physical shutter over the camera. 

Its prices are now more approachable: The ThinkBook 13s starts at $729, while the ThinkBook 14s starts at $749, and both will ship this month. We don't know pricing or availability for other regions, but those directly convert to approx £559 and AU$1,045 for the 13s and £575 and AU$1,075 for the 14s.

The ThinkBook doesn't have a typical ThinkPad keyboard.

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The ThinkPad's carbon black exterior gives way to silvery aluminum for the ThinkBooks. And the ThinkBook breaks with the past in a way the ThinkPad can't without causing a riot: The keyboard has the same sculpted keys, but it puts the ctrl and fn keys in more familiar locations (they're swapped on the ThinkPad keyboard). It also has a mainstream touchpad instead of the TrackPad, and there's no Trackpoint stick.

Why two models in such similar sizes and prices? Variations in regional demands. 

Comparative specifications

	ThinkBook 13s	ThinkBook 14s
CPU	Up to 8th-gen Core i7	Up to 8th-gen Core i7
Graphics	AMD Radeon 540X or Intel UHD 620 integrated	AMD Radeon 540X
Memory	4, 8 or 16GB DDR4	8, 16GB DDR4
Storage	up to 512GB SSD	up to 512GB SSD
Battery	Up to 11 hours	Up to 10 hours
Display	13.3-inch 1,920 x 1,080 300 nits 72% NTSC gamut	14-inch 1,920 x 1,080 250 nits
Size	12.1x8.5x0.6 in. (308x216x16mm)	12.7x8.8x0.7 in. (323x223x17mm)
Weight	3.1 lbs. (1.4kg)	3.3 lbs. (1.5kg)
Connections	1 x USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, 2 x USB-A 3.1 Gen 1, 1 x HDMI 1.4b, 1 x combo audio	1 x USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, 2 x USB-A 3.1 Gen 1, 1 x HDMI 1.4b, 1 x combo audio
Starting price	$729	$749

They're the same except in a few key ways: The 14s' base configuration has more memory and comes with the AMD discrete graphics. But it also has a lesser screen -- it's bigger but dimmer and with a smaller color gamut -- and the battery life is slightly lower, likely because of the discrete graphics. 

On the other end of the spectrum, Lenovo also refreshed its ThinkPad X1 Extreme, its business laptop for people who need a little more power under the hood. The X1 Extreme Gen 2 will be getting an option for a 4K OLED touch display and processor choices up to a ninth-gen Core i9 (8 cores). 

Lenovo's also upgrading the discrete graphics from the current Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti to the newer GTX 1650 Max-Q, which should offer a small bump in performance, though it still feels underpowered for a system that starts at $1,500 (directly converted, £1,150 and AU$2,150). And it will seem especially low-rent if you configure the system with the pricier i9 and OLED panel. But Lenovo's 'real' prices tend to be 10% lower than its nominal prices, so do the math. 

The updated model is slated to ship in July, though the OLED option won't appear until closer to the end of August.

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