The Lavie Mini is a modern netbook that doubles as a game console

Fortunately, Lenovo is no stranger to weird laptops – the half-e-ink Yoga Book C930 comes to mind, as does last year’s ThinkBook Plus. The fact that the company has taken them out of the design phase, through development, and onto store shelves should give new Lavie fans some hope; they are solid proof that Lenovo is committed to this level. In the short term, however, if you want a Lavie machine, you’ll have to settle for the Lavie Pro Mobile from Lenovo and NEC.

At first glance, the Pro Mobile is as practical as the Mini is fancy. The fact that it packs the Intel i7-1165G7 chipset with 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM and integrated Xe graphics should give the Pro Mobile the boost to handle most road warrior workloads, but let’s be honest: the real draw here is how portable this thing is. In addition to a 13.3-inch display and six-row keyboard with 1.5mm key travel, the Pro Mobile’s body (partially carbon fiber) weighs less than two pounds and measures that 0.66 inch thick. The only drawback? Lenovo says you can expect up to ten hours of use from the Pro Mobile’s 49 Wh battery, which is by no means surprising for a $ 1,700 laptop.