According to Atomic Habits author James Clear, the third law of behavior change and becoming more productive is to make things frictionless. If you’ve got the best laptop, and your work setup is as comfortable and frictionless as possible, then you’ll produce your best work and create an oeuvre to rival Shakespeare or Colleen Hoover. However, thanks to a hideous laptop, I’ve found the opposite is true.
The laptop in question is a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 2-in-1. At the time of its release, back in 2021, it checked all my boxes. I’d grown to love ChromeOS for productivity on more conventional laptops, but Lenovo had packed Google’s operating system into a compact laptop/tablet format that could switch between modes quickly.
