At the heart of the unusual compact, the laptop is a Lakefield generation Intel Core i5 processor. The chips in this series are built using a 10nm manufacturing process and feature extremely low power consumption and are designed for thin mobile devices. They use a Foveros 3D layered layout that combines cores with different architectures. The Intel Core i5 model is equipped with four low-power Tremont cores for multi-threaded tasks and one high-performance Sunny Cove core (like Ice Lake) for single-threaded workloads. The ThinkPad X1 Fold will be available in two flavors: one large 13.3-inch folding OLED display and two, 9.6-inches each. The manufacturer indicates that the large screen received an aspect ratio of 4: 3, supports a QXGA resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels, and has a brightness level of 300 cd / m ². It also claims support for 95% DCI-P3 color gamut and Dolby Vision technology. The laptop does not have a discrete graphics card, so the 11th generation Intel UHD graphics subsystem integrated into the central processor is responsible for displaying the picture on the screen.

The compact laptop is equipped with 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, clocked at 4267 MHz. As a storage subsystem, the novelty will be able to offer an M.2 NVMe drive with a capacity of up to 1 TB.