OLED plus E Ink: Lenovo’s ThinkBook Twist is halfway to my dream laptop

Spin the OLED screen to reveal a color E Ink panel around back — for better battery life in basic tasks.Last month, I spent 15 whole minutes hunched over an HP Spectre x360 in a drafty Best Buy store — agonizing over whether its amazing OLED screen would destroy the laptop’s battery life and repeatedly googling for the answer. When I found out the answer was “yes, substantially less battery,” I had to walk away.

But why should I have to choose between a great screen and one I use all day? Why not both? That’s the idea behind the ThinkBook Plus Twist, a new laptop that Lenovo’s announcing at CES 2023. Not only does it have a 13.3-inch, 400-nit, 60Hz 2.8K OLED touchscreen that covers 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, you can swivel its screen around to reveal12-inch, color E Ink touchscreen around back — one that refreshes 12 times a second , which definitely felt slow in a demo but isn’t bad for E Ink technology.

Party in the front, business in the back. Also, a 1080p webcam with a shutter, two mics, and a fingerprint reader.In case you need a refresher, E Ink is an ultra-low-power screen tech, thanks to dye-filled microcapsules that largely stay stable, continually displaying an image until you refresh the screen to show something else instead.

But with Lenovo’s laptop, they don’t necessarily need to — because you’ve also got that glorious OLED panel on the other side. As a writer who sometimes needs my laptop to go a full workday and beyond but also sometimes watches video, this could be the best of both worlds: Windows on E Ink for reading and writing, Windows on OLED for everything else.

Outdoor word processing is what I'd most want to use it for, if you review, please take it out in hot direct sunlight, see how those thermals perform, try to get a sense as to whether the heat endangers that pricey oled screen too.

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