Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 1 review: A value tablet for business

The ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 1 is is Lenovo’s answer to the very good Microsoft Surface Pro 7+. Both are tablets with detachable keyboards and a business bent. While the Surface Pro 7+ has high-end cachet, however, the ThinkPad X12 is more about value.This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best laptops. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. Mark Hachman / IDG
Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 1 (20UW0012US) basic features
Of the seven different configuration options of the ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 1 on Lenovo’s website, our review unit (the 20UW0012US, $2,229 on Lenovo.com) seems to be popular, going in and out of stock as we wrote this review. The tablet sold out on Amazon, as well. (When it's in stock, however, Lenovo priced the tablet quite affordably: $1,331.40 at press time after extensive discounts, the cheapest of the tablets we've reviewed.) The Lenovo offers other basic configurations of the X12 Detachable that start with 8GB of RAM, which we’d consider a bit skimpy if other options are available.To read this article in full, please click here