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ThinkPad design and looks, excellent build quality good keyboard and trackpad, fingerprint reader, IO several interesting screen options, matte or touch lots of options on SSDs, RAM, IR camera good speakers for the class 57 Wh battery and long battery life on the FHD screen variants. Now that the ThinkBook 13x is out of the way , I can focus my attention on the other laptop Lenovo lent me: the Thinkpad X1 Carbon. I was very interested in this laptop mainly because of how much I liked the 7 th Gen X1 model that I reviewed a few years ago.
But to see that they added a screen, wider trackpad, and bigger battery, without changing the overall design much — it really caught my attention when it was announced. After using it exclusively for over a week, I quickly appreciated all of what Lenovo has to offer here.
They kept all of the pros that I noted when I reviewed the 7 th Gen model and pretty much improved on all of the cons. At first glance and feel, the design was very familiar to me. The X1 Carbon is known for being extremely lightweight and yet still feels premium. The entire laptop has a very consistent feel to it: soft and sturdy.
The lid itself is made of carbon fiber composite, while the rest of the laptop is made of a magnesium allow, just like on the slightly larger ThinkPad X1 Extreme series. All have a soft-touch coating on them, which makes the laptop feel more like plastic, but in a nice way. The laptop is very light, weighing just under 2. The overall design is balanced so you can pick it up from pretty much any corner, with very little effort or worry. Starting at the top, the lid is smooth with the typical Lenovo tag in the lower corner and a larger Thinkpad X1 logo in the upper corner.
But other than that, the rest of the lid is pretty clean. Lifting the lid is thankfully a one-finger effort. Above the screen is an HD webcam that has a privacy shutter. Down below is what looks to be the same keyboard and trackpad as on the previous models. More on those shortly.
Also, on the palm rest are the cutouts for upward-facing speaker arrays on both sides of the keyboard. This button doubles as a fingerprint reader, which worked very well throughout my use. When powering the machine on, it registers your fingerprint to be used when you hit the Windows logon prompt. For IO, we have a decent selection on this model. On the left, there are two USB-C ports. Both support Thunderbolt 4, but only one supports charging.
Both also support DP 1. Right next to it is an HDMI 2. The underside is pretty plain, but there are a lot of stickers on it. The exhaust goes into the hinge area, by the way. There are also two more speaker cutouts down here, bringing the total number of speakers to four.
Overall, an excellent design for a portable business laptop. Lenovo kept what I originally liked about the Carbon X1 series and improved it with a bigger trackpad and a better coating on the lid. As far as laptop keyboards go, this one is probably amongst the best in this class of thin and lightweight devices. It took no effort on my part to get used to typing on it.
The key feedback is perfect for such a shallow keystroke and the keys are perfectly spaced apart. On top of that, the keycaps have a slight concavity that makes them easy to strike. The key layout is pretty normal for the most part. The only oddity is the Fn key which is to the left of the Ctrl key. This is normal for ThinkPads, but not for me. I accidentally hit it instead of Ctrl often, but I eventually got used to it.
One thing I appreciate about the layout is the dedicated page up and down keys as well as a full arrow keys layout. The keyboard is also backlit. It only has two brightness levels and they are both white. You can control the brightness by pressing Fn-Spacebar. The backlighting on this model is not enabled by default. You have to hit Fn-Space every time you boot the device if you want to have backlighting. The trackpad on this model works very well.
The trackpad itself is glass and my fingers glided smoothly. But you also have those right, left and middle click buttons above it, if needed. Those buttons are more for the Trackpoint though, which is smack in the middle of the keyboard. It works fine, but I hardly am an expert on these things because I always ignore them.
I can see using it for things like clicking and dragging or highlighting multiple items though. As noted earlier, this trackpad is wider than the previous versions. They live up to the ThinkPad vision and meet every expectation I had for them. The screen is pretty decent on my model. Lenovo offers a couple of other panel options as well, though, both matte or touch.
The nice thing is the bezels are pretty small on all 4 sides. Viewing angles on the panel are perfect and I detected no backlight bleed. More good news is the maximum brightness on this panel is quite high. I measured up to nits, which is OK even for offices with a lot of lighting and glare from the windows.
The last thing to mention is that this FHD panel has low power consumption. This configuration of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon X1 9 th generation comes with an Intel Core iG7, which is a quad-core processor that boosts up to 4. Paired with 16GB of RAM, this is fast enough to complete the tasks of most programs used in a typical office environment.
The Intel Iris Xe graphics is good enough for minor graphicly intensive programs, so even things like CAD will still run decently. Considering the size, this laptop does very well doing what I needed it to do. Being a Thinkpad, the cover comes right off when you take the screws out. The only thing you can swap out is the SSD. The Wifi module and RAM are soldered. Another mystery is what looks like a card reader on the motherboard. If you look closely on the left side of my teardown picture, you can see the slot just below the USB port.
The laptop runs quietly and efficiently on Better Battery life, and for our later benchmarks, we used the Max Performance mode. As far as taxing CPU chores go, this laptop runs at a high power of around W for a few loops in the Cinebench R15 loop test, on the Max Performance profile, with temperatures in the highs Celsius.
After a few run, the system stabilizes at around W of power, with temperatures in the mids. Chief among them were the input devices: the keyboard with its capacitive Function keys and unorthodox layout and touchpad with its full-depression clickpad design were acceptable reinventions to some, but to others, they were enough to dispel any further interest in the machine. Subjective as it may seem, far less risky approaches exist, with few affiliated compromises. Other adjustments have also been made—such as the inclusion of a Thunderbolt port and an increase in the size of the internal battery—but the rest of the package remains strikingly similar to the original.
It also rests well on the lap, though the unfortunate placement of the intake vent on the bottom-right of the PC can be blocked by a poorly-placed leg while lap-borne. All of this style and portability does come with strings attached, however: an area of concern with the previous X1 Carbon candidates was that of rigidity, and once again , the Gen 3 Carbon does exhibit a notable degree of flex , both while resting on a hard surface and when picked up and subjected to twisting.
In our test unit, moderate pressure along the casing surrounding the touchpad resulted in audible clicking and popping , and the material visibly flexes in the process. Meanwhile, the display lid , which is built from carbon-fiber and glass-fiber reinforced plastic, twists fairly easily—though beyond mere torsion resistance, its protection against pressure from behind actually seems better than expected , as no distortions are visible on the LCD panel under any normal degree of stress.
The implications of the wobble are reduced by the semi-anti-glare screen filter, but it is nevertheless a nuisance. Finally, on the subject of maintenance , the X1 Carbon lives up to its obligations as a business device. This includes the M. One item which remains out of reach is the system RAM , which is once again soldered directly to the board.
Still, we would have loved to see an SD card reader on top of it all, and certainly another USB port somehow ; for a inch business machine, the selection is certainly a bit constrained. Port placement is mostly unproblematic, though we did find that while the Ethernet Expansion Cable adapter is attached, it can be difficult to attach a larger USB device adjacent to it.
Signal strength was never an issue in any scenario that we tested, which places the X1 Carbon a notch above the XPS at least, with the available drivers at the time benchmarks were performed. This adapter also includes integrated Bluetooth 4. As mentioned above, the X1 Carbon also supports native Gigabit Ethernet connectivity via connection of the included ThinkPad Ethernet Expansion Cable —a solution which is decidedly superior to that of most other notebooks—again, including the XPS —which typically require a USB 3.
During our testing, this solution worked well, though it is worth mentioning that during heavy file transfers we witnessed odd pointer jumpiness and system hiccups. Fortunately, most of these are very easily removed should the user wish to spend 10 to 15 minutes upon receipt of the machine doing so. The X1 Carbon includes a 1-year depot or Carry-In warranty. As is typical, upgrades to in-home service, longer warranty terms, and Accidental Damage Protection are available at a premium. The first of the major improvements to the X1 Carbon Gen 3 we alluded to in our introduction regards the keyboard design.
Gone are the goofy capacitive, dynamic function keys, replaced once again by the familiar F-keys of yore. Caps Lock is also back. The mechanical qualities of the keyboard remain excellent. Key travel is very good for an Ultrabook, actuation force is comfortable, and feedback is great. The keys are tightly affixed and feature smooth, comfortable surfaces which do tend to collect oils from the skin, but which are nevertheless easily wiped clean.
The keyboard is also backlit with three total levels of brightness off, low, and high. Furthermore, it rendered control with the TrackPoint especially frustrating. Gone is the pointer jumpiness we experienced with many of the drivers and pointing devices on previous-generation ThinkPads. Finally, the TrackPoint needless to say has experienced a return to form as a result of the resurrection of the two physical buttons—so users who are comfortable with that method will be pleased with the results.
In summation, the changes to the input devices are an incredibly positive reversal of experimental design which is sure to satisfy most consumers—especially those with such cultivated mobile computing tastes as the ThinkPad audience. The anti-reflective film covering the panel surface makes for fluid finger gliding and relatively easy cleaning of fingerprints. What we mean by semi-matte is actually mostly matte, but not quite as diffusive of reflections as the least glossy panels; a good comparison would be many modern LED HDTVs or many of the LG and Samsung panels that are found in modern laptops.
The matte filter is actually applied overtop the panel and is visibly separate from the surface of the touchscreen itself. As an added bonus, the filter also makes it somewhat easier to clean the screen of fingerprints. Subjectively speaking, the color quality is average, and contrast appears to be nothing special.
On average, the panel only manages In terms of contrast , the high black value of 0. On the other hand, accuracy is fortunately quite good with a ColorChecker deltaE average of only 3. Post-calibration, that number drops even below 3. Couple that with a Total Gamma value of 2. Outdoors , the panel holds its own thanks to its semi-matte panel finish—however, depending on the makeup of the environment, it sometimes struggles more than it ought to due to the low brightness and contrast.
At the lowest end of the spectrum, the X1 Carbon still packs a perfectly respectable Intel Core iU up to 2. The top-end CPU, meanwhile, is the iU up to 3. Our review model inhabits a much more reasonable middle ground with a Core iU up to 2. A subsequent run of 3DMark 06 while running unplugged produced a result of This is a dual-core CPU based on the Broadwell architecture with a clock rate ranging between 2. It carries a 15 W TDP, but thanks to numerous efficiency improvements including a 14 nm process and FinFET transistors it ought to be easier on battery than its Haswell predecessors.
Also as a result of these improvements, the U scores higher than even the Haswell Core iU. We cannot determine this problem in single-thread scenarios, so the performance is comparable with other Core iU devices. All in all we cannot recommend an upgrade from the Core iU to the Core iU for the X1 Carbon because of the small differences. In terms of general system performance, the X1 Carbon feels capable and nimble throughout daily use.
Our tests of everyday application performance using PCMark 8 and 7 agree with our sentiments: in both, the machine competes with a number of other category leaders. Only solid-state drives are available for the X1 Carbon. Apart from capacity and expense, one other reason to consider aftermarket replacement is the performance of the stock SSD: the Samsung drive we received in our test unit falls short of the best SSDs.
AS SSD awards it a respectable points. Without the limitation of the SATA interface we can measure enormous sequential transfer rates of 1. The 4K results are very good as well, even though the faster interface only has an advantage with multiple parallel accesses 4K tests. You can particularly notice the performance advantage of the PCIe-SSD when you copy large and connected files, although this scenario should be pretty rare for the majority of users.
The performance of the drive is certainly impressive — but you should really think about the price-performance ratio before the purchase. The XPS 13 achieves slightly higher values in both places, but neither machine is truly meant for any sort of serious 3D horsepower. Like the Gen 2, while idle , the X1 Carbon Gen 3 is completely silent ; the fan is turned off under such conditions.
Under load , meanwhile, we recorded maximum values somewhat louder than those heard coming from the Gen 2— When compared with the Dell XPS 13, which reaches an ear-splitting 48 dB A under rare scenarios where extremely heavy load is imposed, the X1 Carbon wins hands down. What about the implications on case temperatures, however? The hottest points, at the center top quadrant, still come in at just While idle, the machine is completely cool to the touch, without any notable variations in temperature.
Workstation this is not; under any degree of stress, the X1 Carbon buckles fairly quickly. The two bottom-mounted, down-firing speakers on the X1 Carbon depend on the existence of a flat, hard surface underneath them for a fuller sound via the benefits of reverberation as do all down-firing configurations. Out of the box, the speakers are loud, and even at full volume there is no distortion detectable. With all this talk about the efficiency of the Broadwell chipset, how much does the X1 Carbon benefit from the jump to the next hardware generation?
Coupled with the 50 Wh battery up from 45 Wh on the Gen 2 X1 Carbon , we should be able to expect longer runtimes. Under load, meanwhile, for the Classic Test , we recorded 2 hours and 21 minutes , which is indeed better than the Gen 2 model by around 30 minutes.
However, the most relevant test for most people is probably the Wi-Fi Surfing Test, which simulates everyday web surfing by visiting a series of predetermined sites at regular intervals. To help compensate for this during our comparisons in this review, we ran both the old test and the new test. The new test , which is a fairly accurate estimate of how long the battery is actually likely to last for most avid users, allowed the X1 Carbon Gen 3 before it shut off.
In short, this is likely to translate to fairly good battery life during daily use, but thanks to the more demanding nature of modern web surfing activity i. Certainly the screen should not play much into this equation.
We were a bit disappointed by our results here. The Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd Gen is a beautiful machine. Much like the Dell XPS 13 took the initiative to cram a inch screen into an inch form factor, the X1 Carbon sports dimensions that are more comparable to a typical inch machine—and that includes its weight and thinness , both of which are indisputably manageable.
The case also feels fairly solid, though the incidence of flex and relative lack of torsion resistance in some regards gave us pause. Perhaps more exciting, however, is what has improved over the X1 Carbon 2nd Gen. The Gen 3 wholeheartedly acknowledges these complaints and implements a complete reversal of those decisions. As a result, the keyboard —immediately familiar and accessible— is one of the absolute best we have ever used on an Ultrabook. Meanwhile, the three classic top-mounted physical buttons for use with the Trackpoint have returned , and the touchpad itself ditches the controversial full-click design in favor of a far more comfortable and, in our judgment, reliable clickpad approach.
What about performance? CPU performance differences between the 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen X1 Carbon models were essentially nil in our testing—for all intents and purposes, the machines are identical in this regard.
Our classic Wi-Fi Surfing Test produced a result only slightly better than that of the 2nd Gen , and the revised Wi-Fi test we just recently implemented—which is more broad and aggressive and arguably closer to actual real-world usage patterns—recorded under five hours before the machine shut down. Rounding out the list of considerations is an underwhelming screen , at least in terms of brightness, contrast, and color saturation—though we do most certainly appreciate the anti-glare display filter for both its diffusion of reflections and relative ease of cleaning.
The X1 Carbon Gen 3 is also invariably cool and quiet , clearly favoring comfort over top-end performance as we discovered during our stress testing of the device. Summing up, the X1 Carbon Gen 3 is indisputably superior to its predecessor. Although some of these improvements come in the form of better GPU performance, cooler temperatures, and lower average system noise levels, the vast majority of them center on the thankful retreat from the experimental and finicky input devices of the Gen 2 design and back to sanity.
But in spite of this self-improvement, how does the X1 Carbon compare with its modern competitors? That we received only marginally better battery runtimes in spite of a larger battery and more efficient chipset. Dell XPS HP Elitebook Folio G1. HP Spectre heg x2. Dell Latitude E The X1 Carbon 3rd Gen answers the criticism with solutions which aim to please all parties.
We explore the results in excruciating detail in our full review. Classic ThinkPad styling. The only flashy item on the exterior. Fit and finish is excellent, as typical.
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