It’s too heavy and too large to be used as a tablet for long. While smaller than before, the X1 Yoga still isn’t a good tablet. It’s also a tenth of an inch thinner and a few grams lighter, though those changes are almost unnoticeable.įirst, the bad news. The X1 Yoga still has a 14-inch display, but it’s now about a half-inch smaller than the previous model in width and depth. It allowed for a stiffer chassis and that, in turn, helped the company shave the bezels. Lenovo says the aluminum chassis had another benefit. The recipe has changed, but the baker is the same Lenovo has stuck with a conservative style that won’t offend, but it also doesn’t make a statement. No one will mistake it for an inexpensive laptop. The aluminum X1 Yoga feels durable and robust yet, unlike many ThinkPads, looks luxurious as well. That’s the Dell XPS 15 or 13, not the X1 Extreme or ThinkPad T480s. ThinkPads are not inexpensive, and while geeks in the know might appreciate the technology that makes them robust, most people will lean towards a laptop that seems more robust. It’s an issue we’ve complained about in the past. So it actually does slow them down a bit with the power. But when you're fighting with a bamboo, you'll find that less is more with them. The problem with an aluminium sword or even a wooden sword is that's really gonna hit hard onto another sword. So we just had to try and find a way of pulling that power back a little bit. Especially that Gwendoline is a strong girl and puts a lot of power into it. That's a scenario where we had to make sure that there was a bit of bamboo to try and slow down and take the power away from Brienne. And with some of our training regimes for example, we had Pod and Brienne fighting. They suddenly realize when they have bamboo, that they can move faster. Some of our actors are very strong, so what happens is that they just keep hammering and hammering so hard. Fight or if you have to ride horses that's when we have rubber scabbards, rubber swords so everybody walks away. So we make sure everybody's a bit safe on set. If it's a principal weapon, you'd have a couple of hero ones. Absolute probably, 10,000, 15,000 different types, depending on what the weapon would be. There are so many different looks and styles that are brought into the tales. So anybody who fights will be bamboo on bamboo, will be rubber on rubber, will be aluminium on aluminium and we never mix and match the different blades. So we have all the components that will be safe. We'll make a bamboo version and we'll make a rubber version. We always then make an aluminium version of the blade. We'd never fight with them but we'd always have them for the hero feel, the hero look. They're dangerous enough at the same time, I mean, the hero ones for example, will be a tougher weld with the steel blades. She fights left-handed but she's actually right-handed. Actually she's always been good with it, considering how she fights. So the sword has kept with her, it's the same. It's all as is, obviously she's grown up, not a lot but she's grown up. And it hasn't changed, the holder hasn't changed. So we know that the weapon would have to be some sort of file or that kind of scenario where being a needle, it was exactly what the name said. At that stage I think Maisie was only like 12, 13. Needle was a nice one because it was one of those things where obviously, she's a very young girl. Making sure it looked like what it was, using jewels like Swarovski crystals. To ignite it and to turn it off, but the effects did a very, very good job, good lads. And again, I never look and never chase up the image that George had in his books, because I didn't want to be persuaded by his feel or his interpretation, I like my feel of it and my interpretation of what it is.Įmma Fierberg: How did you make Beric Dondarrion's flaming sword?ĭunne: That's a combination between ourselves and the special effects team, because obviously I made and designed the original one, which was quite a basic sword, nothing fancy about it, the Beric one, but then obviously the special effects team had to come up with a procedure of lighting it, so they made an internal gas system into a hollow sword and then we just supplied all the crossguards on with the handpiece, so they would make a gas rig and they would make a, basically a sword that was impregnated with a lighting liquid, that could be lit by flame, so it would keep alight for, about half a minute and I think it was simple enough, the physical one that they fought with, but the gas one was a bit intricate. But no, it's cool, it's mainly down to myself, what the look and design is and the feel of all the weaponry. Tommy Dunne: My name's Tommy Dunne and I'm the weapons master on HBO "Game of Thrones." Everyone tells me it's the coolest job in the world and I say it's the one with the biggest headache.
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