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amazon Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviews
The structure and design
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 13 inch transformed into a 14-inch ultrabook in the form of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon new. X1 is not the favorite products of Lenovo, the number of business customers are looking for a laptop 13-14 inch thin and light design with high-performance but still growing.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a 14 inch screen, but it is attached to the frame of a 13-inch ultrabook. This laptop weighs only 1.3 kg with a thickness of just 18.8 mm. Intel’s official policy on the ultrabook thickness not exceeding 18 mm for the 13-inch ultrabook and no more than 21 mm for 14-inch ultrabook.
Quality and reliability, the X1 Carbon is also designed roll cage structure (roll-cage) durability of the classic ThinkPad, but using carbon fiber instead of magnesium, which helps make the machine much lighter. Previous generation ThinkPad roll cage structure uses magnesium alloy but X1 Carbon combines carbon fiber chassis and cover both the lid. Carbon fiber can be good strength as aluminum but weighs only 1/3 as compared with aluminum. Not only that, Lenovo announced roll cage inside the X1 Carbon 50% stronger and 50% lighter than magnesium frame. Thus, the X1 Carbon pass 8 MIL standard tests (humidity, low temperature, high temperature, extreme temperatures, sand, altitude, vibration and mechanical shock).
An interesting fact in the design of the X1 Carbon (same version previously X1) is hinged, very durable, can allow you to open the screen to a viewing angle of 180 degrees, the keyboard and the screen surface to form a relative flat. In theory this would alleviate the tension of the hinge in case the laptop is dropped.
Quick Look to the bottom of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon we will see the replacement of expansion for the laptop will be quite difficult. You can remove the bottom half of the frame separate from the rest of the ultrabook, but the cover-piece removable hard drive or RAM is not as simple as on other ThinkPad. If you want to upgrade the RAM or swap ban WiFi card, you will need to comfortably accept that taking apart your laptop.
Connectors and Features
ThinkPad X1 Carbon equipped with all major ports on both the left and right chassis. You are equipped with connectors less than last year’s X1 X1 Carbon, but thinner and lighter. You will have a 4 in 1 card reader, headphone jack, mini DisplayPort port and a USB 3.0 port on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon one side and on the other side is the power jack, USB 2.0 and Wi toggle switch Fi. The number of ports is not large, but better than most of the 13 or 14-inch ultrabook other.
A feast upon other ports hidden behind a rubber cover on the rear edge of the X1 Carbon is the SIM slot.
Now you can comfortably and easily connect X1 Carbon via wireless connection of the network provider that best suits you. No additional connection ports on the back edge because the screen hinge moves down and cover the rear edge of the frame when the screen open at a flat angle. It should be added that the X1 Carbon does not have any dedicated port for connecting to a docking station, so if you want to connect any other device to your laptop only connecting via USB.
Screen and speakers
14-inch screen on the ThinkPad X1 Carbon HD + resolution (1600×900 pixels), non-reflective matte screen with 300 nit brightness reached. The remarkable improvement in resolution is increased a bit (on the X1 resolution 1366×768 px only hit) and anti-reflective matte screen. Matte screen makes it easy to read the document under light or direct sunlight without reflective keep your eyes do not hurt. Corning Gorilla Glass scratch resistant glass used on the old X1 can help your screen more durable, but the glossy surface do you have trouble to see the document in the light.
Talking about the problem to see what displays on the screen we also need to discuss the issue of perspective, perspective on the X1 Carbon is pretty good for a TN panel standards, but would be perfect if this ultrabook is equipped with panel IPS 1080p resolution. The colors on the screen X1 Carbon does not distort much as you tilt the screen forward or back.
Speaker quality is quite good with a business-thin laptop and maximum volume loud enough to fill a large meeting room with clear sound. Sound quality sufficient to meet the basic video conferencing or video chat online. Lenovo once again partner with Dolby to equip X1 Carbon technology Dolby Home Theater v4 audio (software adjustable stereo headphone output and audio processing) to give this laptop a taste the best multimedia experience.
Keyboard and touchpad
ThinkPad X1 Carbon is equipped with a new keyboard with high precision, similar to the keyboard on the X1 old but there are a few changes. Newly designed keyboard with six rows of keys has been developed and authentic research data based on consumer tastes. Lenovo’s target is to maintain the comfort, accuracy and flexibility on the keyboard design separate keys modern style. Layout help to increase the space between the keys and a single template for all keys (more curved trim at the bottom edge of the keyboard) is pending patent. Keyboard LEDs X1 Carbon is also the background to help you ease typing in the dark. The only point that is not satisfied keys “Home” and “End” keys not located near the “Page Up” and “Page Down” …, but it is not too bad.
The engineers of Lenovo X1 Carbon has equipped a whole new touchpad. One of the recognizable touchpad on the X1 Carbon that is larger than on the X1 (greater than 37% compared to the touchpad on the X1). It really is a “clickpad” (touchpad no buttons allow you to press the button at any position) to support multi-touch. Touchpad on the new laptop is exactly 10 times more efficient than the old X1 touchpad on the data throughput from the touchpad to the computer (this helps to monitor activities of your finger more accurate). It’s a big secret new touchpad surface is made of glass.
New touchpad surface is created from the results of an empirical study on the ideal characteristics on the touchpad as feelings, sounds, and even dirt repellent. Lenovo Solution is a proprietary formula based multistep these findings. Have to say, the surface of the touchpad on the X1 Carbon is like a second skin, and has been available to lubricate your fingers can slide freely.
Of course, there are still red TrackPoint buttons between the keyboard and the left mouse button, center, right at the bottom edge of the keyboard … but even those customers have favorite classic TrackPoint can also enjoy the feel of the touchpad X1 Carbon if they try to use it once.
Performance and indices
Lenovo X1 Carbon will provide different options with 3 processors (Intel Core i7-3667U with vPro, Intel Core i5-3427U with vPro, Intel Core i5-3317U and). X1 Carbon version is evaluated in this article, but it’s somewhere between a very respectable performance, not only in terms of ultrabook standards but also in terms of any standard laptop yet business-friendly.
In fact, the performance of the X1 Carbon also pass both the ThinkPad X230 with a faster processor if the X230 is equipped with a standard HDD versus SSD in the X1 Carbon Standard. Anything on the X1 Carbon is limited because of the use of power-saving processors were offset by high-speed SanDisk SSDs.
While the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 will not help you win friends while gaming, graphics hardware, but this is more than enough for most tasks in business graphics such as HD video presentations, photo editing high resolution or edit video presentations, …
Temperature and noise
Noise is not an issue with the X1 Carbon, the radiator fan is almost silent when the processor idle tasks like web surfing or even HD video editing. Unfortunately, the measured temperature is not pleasant at all. While performing the tests for 3DMark and PCMark statistics, the bottom of the chassis there is a point in its center near the radiator fan has a very high temperature, measured 45 degrees C (113 degrees F). This is not the laptop has the highest heat, but more than enough heat to cause discomfort in a short time if you use your laptop on the lap. Fortunately this is a high temperature only when CPU-intensive operations, the temperature of the machine if only surfing, it rarely exceeds room temperature. All temperatures measured in the image below in units of F (1 ° C = (° F – 32) / 1.8).
Battery life
ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Intel Core i5-3427U processor with battery life of 5 hours 56 minutes with built-in battery. These results are similar to results obtained on the ThinkPad X1 with Intel Core i5-2520M processor. Battery life test was conducted with 70% screen brightness, Wi-Fi connection and reload the web page every 60 seconds on Windows 7 is set energy balance mode. With a battery life of 6 hours, the X1 Carbon can be enough to use for the typical entrepreneur but it’s still less than what the ThinkPad X230 offers with 6-cell battery.
One other thing worth mentioning about the X1 Carbon battery that is not equipped with optional external battery as the sole form of the old X1. This is done to make the Carbon X1 is thinner, lighter and more stylish, but it also limits the potential for enhanced battery life. Old ThinkPad X1 can run continuously 11 hours 8 minutes when a combination of the internal battery and external battery substrate types. You will not be able to get this on X1 Carbon.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Processor: Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
Storage Drive: 128GB SDD
Optical drive: No
Display: 14-inch, a resolution of 1600 x 900 px
Graphics Card: HD Graphics 4000 (integrated)
Sound Card: Dolby Home Theater v4
Ports:
1 x Mini Display port, HDMI 1.4a 1x,
1 x RJ45 LAN
1 x Mic (microphone / headphone combo jack)
1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0,
1 x eSATA / USB 2.0 combo (Powered),
4-in-1 card reader
(SD, MMC, SDHC and SDXC)
Webcam: 720p
Battery: 35.5Wh, used 5h56 ‘
Size: 337mm x 231mm x 16.5-21.3mm
Weight: 1.3kg
