Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga

£1,729

STARTING PRICE: $1,526/£1,729 | OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows | SCREEN SIZE: 14-inch | CHIP: Intel Core i7-1165G7 with 16GB RAM | MEMORY: 8GB | CONNECTIONS: 2x USB Type-C Thunderbolt 4, 2 x USB Type-A, 1 x HDMI 2.0, 1 x 3.5mm combo jack | STORAGE: 512GB | DISPLAY RESOLUTION: 1920 x 1200p | WEIGHT: 1.35kg

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Yoga is the latest refresh for the company’s flagship laptop and is the most expensive, although we also rate cheaper machines in the X1 Yoga range, and the Android Yoga Tab 13 above. As it features a touchscreen in its 2-in-1 design it is also a tablet, albeit heavier and more expensive than others in this roundup. It runs Windows so will take on the most advanced music production applications, and the addition of Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake processors means it will run them with ease.

ThinkPad X1 Yoga comes loaded with connectivity for additional music peripherals. You get two USB Type-A ports in addition to the two Thunderbolt 4 USB Type-Cs, as well as an HDMI 2.0. The display is outstanding, a 16:10 touchscreen – great for software that is optimised for touch. You might want to up the memory to 16GB and storage to 512GB from the standard spec (which is half this) but then you are adding to an already high price tag.

We’ll make no bones that this is more laptop than tablet, but if you want the touchscreen portability of tablet music making on top of a Windows OS, they don’t come much more powerful. Just be prepared to lay out some cash as it’s the most expensive tablet on test here.