Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2015) review

OUR VERDICT

The Lenovo X1 Carbon offers reliable performance with a stellar keyboard, but short battery life and a glare-filled screen are two untenable problems.

FOR

  • Excellent, reliable performance
  • The very best keyboard and trackpad
  • Thin and solid build quality

AGAINST

  • Paradoxically glare-prone anti-glare coating
  • Still no SD card reader
  • Unimpressive battery life

Design

If you were to sit the new Lenovo X1 Carbon next to it predecessor, they would look almost like identical twins. That’s not really surprising, since the two 14-inch laptops share practically the same frame with a few subtle changes.

Firstly, Lenovo made a few weight saving measures by dropping the carbon-fiber lid for a carbon- and glass-fiber reinforced plastic panel that’s still resilient against flexing. Similarly, the new laptop features a hard, semi-glossy finish in place of its predecessor’s soft touch feel. As a result, the laptop is a bit plainer (falling in line with the rest of Lenovo’s enterprise notebook fleet), but it’s less prone to scratching and picking up fingerprints.

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