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The ThinkPad X1 Carbon, available Aug. 21, pulls off an impressive feat: It fits a 14-inch screen into a body more typical of a 13-inch laptop. It weighs just 3 pounds, is less than ¾-inch thick, and is only about 13 inches long and 9 inches deep. It is eminently portable, easily usable on an airplane seat tray.
One reason for the machine’s light weight is that it uses carbon fiber, a strong but light material, for much of its tapered body, which is in the traditional ThinkPad black. It felt rugged and solid.
Not only has Lenovo crammed a larger screen into a small case, but it has endowed the screen with an especially high resolution of 1600 by 900. That means that more of a Web page or document is visible without scrolling than on some larger displays.
ThinkPads have long been known for great keyboards and the X1 with battery such as Asus A31-F9 Battery , Asus A31-S5 Battery , Asus A31-S6 Battery , Asus A32-A8 Battery , Asus A32-F3 Battery , Asus A32-F9 Battery , Asus A32-M9 Battery , Asus A32-S5 Battery , Asus A32-S6 Battery , Asus A32-T12 Battery , Asus A32-U1 Battery , Asus A32-U5 Battery , Asus A32-V2 Battery Carbon is no exception. For this model, Lenovo has tweaked the keys to provide a larger top surface and greater separation. I found typing on this backlit keyboard to be a real pleasure.
The touch pad, which is made of glass, is 37% larger than on the prior model and the company says it will accommodate the gestures built into Windows 8. It was smooth and responsive in my tests.
The new ThinkPad handled every app or program I tested quickly and well. It doesn’t use a traditional hard disk, but instead relies on a solid-state drive—essentially flash memory—and was able to resume from sleep almost instantly. The downside of this is that you only get 128 gigabytes of storage in the base model.
I was disappointed that such a premium laptop was mediocre in my harsh battery test, where I turn off all power-saving features, set the screen brightness to 100%, leave the Wi-Fi on to collect email in the background and play a continuous loop of music.