ZDNET’s Key Takeaways
- Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid runs both Windows 11 and Android 13.
- It allows you to enjoy the best apps from both environments, powered by great hardware.
- The device’s high cost (over $3,500) and few ports will scare away most interested users.
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus series is an interesting family of laptops. Each generation does something completely different from the last. The fourth generation had an e-ink display, and the one before that had a small screen next to the keyboard. The Gen 5 Hybrid is doing something out of left field again, with Lenovo taking the idea of a “2-in-1 laptop” quite literally.
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2-in-1 computers, for the most part, tend to just be a laptop with a touchscreen that bends all the way back. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, on the other hand, is two devices rolled into one. It consists of a tablet and a keyboard, each housing different hardware.
It’s not a large device, sporting a vibrant 14-inch 2.8K OLED touchscreen. Still, the tablet houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC running Android 13, while the keyboard houses an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor running Windows 11. So, you have two different ecosystems on the same device, and you can hop between them by pressing the Super key next to F12.