I haven’t used a Lenovo laptop as my main computer for years. In fact, the last time I touched a Lenovo laptop for more than a few hours was when I used to manage a fleet of them in a corporate environment before joining The Verge. Lenovo ThinkPads are the de facto laptops of the corporate world, and since I now work in a business where I can choose my equipment, I haven’t been compelled to try one as a result.

Lenovo surprised me at CES this year, though, with its latest X1 Carbon ultrabook. The surprise: it’s actually an X1 Yoga with a touchscreen, stylus, and 360-degree hinge, so you can flip the keyboard behind the display and use the laptop like a tablet. It’s about as far from a staid, corporate feature set as a ThinkPad has ever…

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