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Testseek.com have collected 440 expert reviews of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G1 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G1.
Award: Good Buy October 2012
October 2012
 
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The editors liked

  • There is a ton of stuff across the business aisle that
  • For whatever reason
  • We haven't seen in mainstream ultrabooks—really cool things like spill-proof keyboards
  • 3G connections
  • And biometric fingerprint security. And the X1's beautiful
  • Beating-resist
  • Keyboard is exceptionally easy to use
  • Physical interface is familiar
  • Very rugged device
  • Durable
  • Lightweight chassisSolid performanceGreat keyboard and trackpadHSPA+ connectivity
  • Thin
  • Light
  • Strong and ThinkPad tough with Carbon Fiber shell
  • Most stylish ThinkPad yet
  • Favorite Ultrabook keyboard
  • Period and it's backlit
  • Nimble in SSD
  • High res display
  • Large glass touchpad
  • Beautiful design
  • Superb build quality
  • Gorgeous 2560X1440 display
  • Great performance
  • Useful adaptive function row
  • Best keyboard in the business
  • Stunning design that continues to show business machines can turn heads
  • Powerful internals to match the machine's beauty
  • Light weight and super portable
  • Gorgeous highresolution multitouch display
  • Lenovo's OneLink port feels like the future of docking
  • Light body
  • Comfortable keyboard
  • Keys have good travel
  • Great battery life
  • Trackpad that can carry off multitouch gestures
  • High-resolution screen
  • Screen
  • Very compact
  • For a 14-inch screen
  • Chock full of useful bells and whistles
  • Fast
  • At least for CPU-bound tasks
  • Fantastic build quality
  • Stylish
  • Understated
  • Sleek
  • Best trackpad in the business
  • Solid battery life
  • Great sounding speakers
  • Very thin and light
  • 14″ Display in a 13″ Package
  • Great Keyboard and Touchpad
  • Charges very quickly
  • Gorgeous WQHD Screen
  • Durable and lightweight design
  • Accurate speakers
  • Runs cool
  • Thin and light
  • Vivid touch screen with wide viewing angles
  • Speedy performance
  • Excellent typing feel
  • Adaptive function keys
  • Durable and sleek design
  • Comfortable
  • Backlit keyboard
  • Sharp and responsive touchscreen
  • Snappy overall performance
  • Extremely slim and light design is still tough enough to take on the road. High-resolution (2
  • 560-by-1
  • 440) touch display looks great. Intel Core i5 processor and solid-state drive offer zippy performance.
  • Slim yet strong
  • Larger than average display for an Ultrabook
  • High res touch option
  • Lovely design
  • 3 lb. weight
  • Superb keyboard
  • Long battery life
  • Vibrant and colorful display
  • Comfy
  • Soft-touch chassis
  • Very light
  • Good keyboard and choice of pointing options
  • Integrated 3G cellular broadband
  • Excellent battery life. Under 3 pounds. Dual pointing devices. Speedy SSD and day to day performance. Backlit keyboard. Good volume on speakers. Matte display.
  • Incredibly light for a 14-inch laptop
  • The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is ruggedly built
  • And has a better keyboard than any ultrabook-style laptop
  • Even Apple's MacBook Air
  • Lenovo takes its solid 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon and upgrades it with Windows 8 and a touch screen
  • While keeping the excellent keyboard
  • Slim. Speedy SSD. 1
  • 600 by 900 resolution screen. Great keyboard. Dual pointing devices. Comes with QuickLaunch Start Menu replacement.
  • Exceptionally thin
  • And strong
  • Above-average performance
  • Terrific keyboard and pointing devices
  • Fast battery charging
  • The better-than-HD touch display on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon looks great
  • The new row of adaptive function keys is clever
  • And the keyboard and touch pad remain best-in-class examples.
  • Robust
  • But lightweight construction
  • 2560-by-1440-pixel touchscreen
  • HDMI and DisplayPort
  • Hardwired ethernet
  • 802.11ac Wi-Fi
  • Adaptive function row
  • Slim yet built like a tank. Superb keyboard with standard layout
  • TrackPoint buttons are back
  • Swift Core i5 performance
  • Comfortable keyboard and touchpad
  • Sturdy design
  • Loud audio
  • Slim
  • Light yet strong. Fantastic keyboard
  • Very good display
  • Good port selection
  • Gorgeous QHD display
  • Marketleading keyboard
  • Lightning quick SSD
  • Remarkably thin and light yet sturdy
  • Splendid keyboard
  • Crisp 1080p display
  • Security and manageability features for IT departments
  • Excellent build quality and design
  • High resolution touch enabled display
  • Good performance
  • Good battery life
  • Ethernet is available via an included USB dongle
  • Performance is dazzling
  • As you'd expect from a computer with a topoftheline chip like the X1 Carbon offers
  • As you'd expect from a computer with a topoftheline chip like the X1 Ca
  • Oh my! Best touchpad surface ... ever!
  • Matte display!
  • Solid construction
  • Good overall performance
  • Gorgeous design
  • Excellent keyboard and trackpad
  • Solid overall performance
  • Touchscreen works well
  • Gorgeous
  • Sleek design
  • Solid performance
  • Great keyboard
  • Understated good looks
  • Solid build quality
  • Nice keyboard/touchpad.
  • Light weight and slim
  • Semi-rugged and durable construction
  • Excellent keyboard for an Ultrabook
  • Multiple inputs
  • Including TrackPoint
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  • Laptop
  • Lenovo
  • Notebook
  • ThinkPad
  • Touchscreens
  • Windows 8
  • The best connectivity and I/O port options in this form factor. Incredibly light
  • Svelte
  • And durable. Great performance and overthetop battery life
  • Reliable performance
  • Insanely light for a 14inch device
  • Great Audio
  • Excellent visuals with crisp images and great color accuracy
  • Highresolution touch screen (optional)
  • Keyboard
  • Thin and light for a 14-inch Ultrabook
  • Bright
  • High-res screen
  • Adaptive keyboard panel can be useful
  • Solid build
  • Lightweight for a 14-inch machine
  • Fast performance
  • Light and sturdy chassis
  • Very quiet
  • Large ClickPad
  • Integrated UMTS modem
  • Input devices offer great feedback
  • Good viewing angle stability (90°)
  • Very good battery life
  • Spacious SSD with 512 GB capacity
  • Semi-matte touch display
  • HDM
  • Incredibly fast CPU and application performance for the size
  • Very lightweight
  • Yet strong shell
  • Extremely quiet
  • Matte display
  • Large touchpad
  • Improved gamut range
  • WWAN options
  • Mini DisplayPort
  • High CPU and application performance
  • Rigid casing
  • Quiet
  • Even relatively quiet during load
  • Big touchpad
  • Integrated 3G modem
  • Feedback strong input devices
  • Short battery charge time
  • AR coated touchscreen
  • Lightweight
  • Sturdy chassis
  • Usually quiet
  • Very large clickpad
  • Integrated LTE modem
  • Highly responsive input devices
  • Superb viewing angles (90°)
  • Battery charges quickly (compared to discharge)
  • Matte touch display
  • Beautiful
  • Comfortable design
  • Fantastic keyboard
  • Vastly improved clickpad
  • Resurrected physical buttons for TrackPoint
  • Anti-glare display panel
  • Accessible maintenance
  • Silent while idle
  • Quiet otherwise
  • Comfortable temperatures even under load
  • Relat
  • Ultra light and slim case
  • Excellent input devices
  • Fast wireless connections
  • High-resolution and viewing angle stable display
  • High system performance
  • Low system noise and temperature
  • 3 years warranty
  • No CPU or GPU throttling on battery power
  • Excellent keyboard and touchpad
  • Slim design
  • Strong chassis
  • Respectable battery life
  • Easy serviceability
  • Brighter backlight
  • WWAN support
  • Quiet fans
  • No PWM

The editors didn't like

  • The software
  • Strangely. For as mighty as the firmware on the trackpad and keyboard are
  • The business-facing software that Lenovo loads onto the X1 is more oppressive than you'll find from other OEMs—even repeat offenders like Asus and Sony. Things like a
  • None that were significant
  • Middling display and battery lifeHigh cost
  • DDR3 1333MHz system memory versus 1600MHz on other machines
  • Pricey
  • No SD card slot
  • New ThinkPad keyboard is awkward to use and will take time to get used to
  • Battery life is less than impressive
  • Adaptive keyboard is more cumbersome then helpful
  • Stiff hinge makes the PC annoying to open
  • Webcam is a bit tragic
  • The GPU performance mystery
  • No 16GB RAM option
  • No SD Card slot
  • Again
  • Display could be brighter
  • Speaker volume when used on lap
  • Fixed battery
  • Screen brightness
  • Awkward
  • Uncomfortable keyboard
  • Lackluster touchpad
  • Relatively slow SSD
  • Poor quality webcam
  • Expensive
  • Not the longest battery life
  • Harsh audio
  • Annoying keyboard layout
  • Stiff upper mouse buttons
  • Shorter battery life than Windows 7 version
  • Some touchpad issues
  • Wi-Fi adapter can be wonky
  • New function bar adds unnecessary complexity to simple functions. New keyboard layout may not be to everyone's liking. Ethernet requires dongle. Short battery life
  • New keyboard design is dubious
  • No dock or battery slice options
  • Battery life just average
  • No dock or battery slice
  • Dim Screen
  • Tinny audio
  • Limited port selection
  • LCD panel seems dim and a little washed out
  • Uses new AC adapter format. Only 54GB free space left on SSD. Only one USB 3.0 port
  • No HDMI
  • For such an expensive laptop
  • Battery life is just so-so. Consumer-friendly options such as HDMI are missing
  • The touch screen makes the lid thicker
  • And the touch pad can be finicky at times
  • Mid-pack battery life. Limited I/O ports. Ethernet requires dongle. Sealed battery
  • Short battery life (and you can't swap in a fresh one)
  • Just one USB 3.0
  • One USB 2.0 (and you'll need one for ethernet)
  • Even dropping the higher-resolution touch display doesn't bring the price down
  • And the otherwise excellent keyboard has a couple of head-scratching
  • And typo-inducing
  • Changes to the standard layout.
  • Short battery life
  • Unconventional keyboard layout
  • Over-hyped speech- and gesture-recognition features
  • Display brightness and color gamut fall behind the pack leaders
  • Relatively dim display
  • No touchscreen option
  • No USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 port
  • Lack of Ethernet and SD Card slot
  • Mediocre endurance
  • No USB-C or Ethernet port
  • No touch screen
  • MicroSD instead of standard SD card slot
  • The keyboard is a mess
  • The Clickpad has a vague feel
  • No extendedlife battery option
  • Soldered memory chips
  • Slow to boot (nearly 30 seconds). Surprisingly buggy during normal operations
  • Like running Windows Update. Clickpad is merely OK. Puny battery
  • Gets pretty hot
  • No more slice battery option
  • 1600x900 is good ... 1080p would be better
  • Way too much bloatware
  • Gets hot easily
  • Terrible for gaming
  • Gets really hot
  • Too much bloatware
  • 128GB SSD
  • Average battery life.
  • Only two USB ports
  • Sub-par touchpad
  • Touchscreen means lower battery life
  • Viewing angles aren't as wide as we'd like
  • Probably the most expensive computer in its class. Screen not as impressive as the previous generation. Battery life upgraded
  • But still not enough
  • Touchpad is a minor disaster. Anemic SSD configuration. Relatively weak screen brightness. No touchscreen option (yet)
  • Display suffers in direct light due to limited brightness
  • Keyboard design
  • Worst-in-class battery life
  • No SD slot
  • Backspace key is shrunken and in a different place
  • Touchscreen doesn't come standard
  • Narrow viewing angles
  • Very high price
  • Integrated touchpad mouse buttons
  • Webcam quality is marginal
  • Lacks true Fn-keys
  • Surface temperatures can become very warm
  • No Gorilla Glass
  • ThinkLight
  • HDMI
  • Integrated RJ-45
  • Or dedicated docking ports
  • Plastic display bezel feels out of place
  • Mediocre battery life
  • Mushy left- and right-click buttons
  • Overall fingerprint magnet
  • Tight viewing angles compared with IPS
  • CPU throttling during extreme load
  • Few interfaces
  • No docking port
  • High price
  • CPU exhibits some throttling
  • Bad webcam
  • No real F keys
  • Bouncy hinges
  • Low LCD brightness and contrast
  • Lackluster color saturation
  • Somewhat lower performance unplugged
  • Restrictive thermal management leads to throttling under load
  • Limited write speeds of the SSD
  • Unimpressive battery
  • Slightly wobbly display hinges
  • LAN only via adapter
  • No USB Type C
  • Hardly any upgrade options
  • Unable to maintain maximum rated TUrbo Boost speeds
  • Narrower color gamut than the WQHD SKU
  • Hinges could be more taut
  • Fingerprint magnet
  • No USB Type-C
  • Slow charging
  • Soldered RAM

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  Published: 2018-04-02, Author: Bình , review by: topnewreview.com

  • Abstract:  Recommended 5/5The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a superior business class ultraportable with a lofty asking priceLENOVO IS AN old hand at business notebooks, and the fifth-generation ThinkPad X1 is its thinnest, most powerful laptop to date, which retains th...

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  Published: 2017-04-28, Author: Christopher , review by: wired.com

  • The best connectivity and I/O port options in this form factor. Incredibly light, svelte, and durable. Great performance and overthetop battery life
  • Touchpad is a minor disaster. Anemic SSD configuration. Relatively weak screen brightness. No touchscreen option (yet)

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  Published: 2016-05-18, Author: Michael , review by: notebookreview.com

  • Gorgeous QHD display, Marketleading keyboard, Lightning quick SSD
  • Lack of Ethernet and SD Card slot, Mediocre endurance
  • The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2016 edition receives our Editor's Choice Award for taking a product we already loved and making it only better.The QHD display is simply gorgeous. It caught our eye the first time we booted the machine up and never stopped i...

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  Published: 2016-05-16, Author: Dr. , review by: techarp.com

  • Abstract:  At just 1.17 kg , the new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the world's lightest 14″ business-class Ultrabook. It is amongst the thinnest Ultrabooks in the market with a thickness of just 16.5 mm . All this is thanks to its satellite-grade carbon fiber chassis...

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  Published: 2016-05-13, Author: Lisa , review by: mobiletechreview.com

  • Slim, light yet strong. Fantastic keyboard, very good display, good port selection
  • No touchscreen option, no USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 port
  • The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon faces some serious competition, even within Lenovo's own overlapping lineup where the ThinkPad X1 Yoga and ThinkPad T460s beckon. The X1 Yoga brings a 360 degree hinge, touchscreen and a Wacom pen for $300 more. The T460s is...

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  Published: 2016-05-06, Author: Eric , review by: computershopper.com

  • Remarkably thin and light yet sturdy, Splendid keyboard, Crisp 1080p display, Security and manageability features for IT departments
  • No USB-C or Ethernet port, No touch screen, MicroSD instead of standard SD card slot
  • Lenovo pares another few grams and millimeters from its lustworthy ThinkPad X1 Carbon, turning the executive status symbol into the best 14-inch business notebook, period. Read More…...

 
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  Published: 2016-05-05, Author: Allen , review by: notebookcheck.net

  • no CPU or GPU throttling on battery power, excellent keyboard and touchpad, slim design; strong chassis, respectable battery life, easy serviceability, brighter backlight, WWAN support, quiet fans, no PWM
  • Unable to maintain maximum rated TUrbo Boost speeds, Narrower color gamut than the WQHD SKU, hinges could be more taut, fingerprint magnet, no USB Type-C, slow charging, soldered RAM, pricey
  • With strong alternatives available like the MacBook Air or XPS 13, the pressure has been hard on Lenovo to keep the ThinkPad X1 Carbon series going strong. The latest model feels better than ever as detailed in our previous review of the unit and its WWAN...

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  Published: 2016-04-30, Author: Travis , review by: gottabemobile.com

  • If you're in need of a well-built, well-designed notebook you absolutely should consider the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. In fact, I'd say it's one of the few Ultrabooks I can recommend without reservation.There are no serious problems here that prevent me from do...

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  Published: 2016-04-09, Author: Till , review by: notebookcheck.net

  • ultra light and slim case, excellent input devices, fast wireless connections, high-resolution and viewing angle stable display, high system performance, low system noise and temperature, good battery life, 3 years warranty
  • slightly wobbly display hinges, LAN only via adapter, no USB Type C, hardly any upgrade options, very high price
  • Especially its great mobility is a strong argument for the X1 Carbon.With an aggressive weight of not even 1.2 kg, you can take the ThinkPad on every business trip and it easily lasts a whole day without power adapter. Despite slim design, the user hardly...

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  Published: 2015-06-03, Author: Josh , review by: notebooks.com

  • Abstract:  The ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2015 update is an amazing notebook that deserves a spot on the buying list of anyone searching for a thin and light notebook with long battery life and an excellent keyboard.Lenovo builds on the success of the first two models to de...

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