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Lenovo Premium Yoga Laptops & X1 Extreme ThinkPad Unveiled at IFA 2018

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Many of the tech giants have gathered at the IFA in Berlin and are ready with their new products to be showcased in the event. On Thursday, another tech giant Lenovo unveiled its new X1 Extreme ThinkPad with two other premium Yoga Laptops, C930 and S730.

The latest Lenovo X1 Extreme is embedded with the NVIDIA’s GeForce 1050Ti graphics and will be the first ThinkPad laptop to own it. It has a 15.6 inches 4K high-resolution touch screen with the Dolby Vision support. The laptop is built upon the Intel Core i9 variants with the 8th generation chipsets. The lightweight laptop supports up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM, and up to 2TB of PCIe SSD storage. Also, the laptops claim to have 15 hours of battery life after 100% of charging and the laptop gets charged up to 80% within an hour, thanks to the Rapid Charge technology. For secure login, it has also got the touch and face recognition features. The appearance of the laptop is similar to the older ThinkPad laptops and the chassis is built using carbon fibre, that is capable of absorbing shocks.

Lenovo also announced two more laptops in its Yoga laptops series, the Yoga C930 and S730. The C930 laptop uses the 8th generation Intel Core i5 processor. It holds up to 4 GB of RAM, and 258 GB of SSD storage. The laptop has a foldable 13.3 inches 4K IPS-technology touch screen. It also has a privacy shutter on the webcam and is integrated with a rotating soundbar.

Even being a part of the Yoga series laptop, the S730 is not 360-degree foldable and also does not support a touch feature. The laptop is like a notebook having a slim body with 13.3 inches screen that makes it the look-alike of the Mac AirBook. The laptops support the 8th Generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 variants, with Intel HD 620 graphics. The laptop holds up to 16GB DDR4 RAM and up to 1 TB PCIe SSD storage.

The laptops will be available in the market during the last 3 months of the year. The price of the X1 Extreme laptop ranges from $1859 ( around Rs. 1,31,900). The Yoga C930 is going to cost $1,399 (around 99,280) and S730 will be available in approximately $999.99 (around Rs. 70,900).