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Testseek.co.uk 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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440 Reviews
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1474 Reviews
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The editors liked

  • Smaller and lighter in every way
  • Improved Microsoft Precision Touchpad
  • Windows 10 Signature Edition cuts bloatware
  • Lightweight
  • Sleek design
  • Super upgrades
  • Beautiful sturdy design
  • Fast
  • Responsive performance
  • Thin
  • Light and portable
  • High-res IPS touchscreen
  • Class-leading keyboard
  • Good battery life
  • Three-year warranty
  • 11
  • Hour battery life claim
  • 16GB of RAM
  • WQHD screen
  • Thin and light
  • Rugged carbon-fibre casing
  • Touchscreen support for Windows 8
  • Sleek and sturdy built
  • Slim and light for a 14 incher
  • Solid performer
  • Alright battery life
  • Runs cool and mostly quiet
  • 4G/LTE modem included
  • Excellent
  • Reliable performance
  • The very best keyboard and trackpad
  • Thin and solid build quality
  • ThinkVantage technologies
  • Clever adaptive keyboard
  • Fantastic design ID
  • Unmatched inputs
  • Excellent manufacturing
  • Good display
  • Great keyboard and touchpad
  • Practical matte finish screen
  • Supremely well equipped
  • Very portable
  • Tough carbon fibre construction
  • Trackpad and keyboard comfortable for long periods of use
  • Great build quality
  • Antireflective screen coating is handy
  • Good for longform typing
  • Security features
  • 4G an option
  • Tough carbon finish
  • Trackpad feels great
  • Backlit keyboard is comfortable for long typing periods
  • High-resolution
  • High-quality screen
  • Excellent keyboard
  • Light
  • Impressive exterior
  • Good upgradability
  • Three-year warranty included
  • Rugged quality
  • Trackpointer is still excellent
  • Strong processor performance
  • Excellent battery life
  • Excellent input devices
  • Matte touchscreen
  • Much-improved battery life
  • Runs cool and quiet
  • Even under heavy load
  • Slim and attractive
  • Speedy SSD
  • 1
  • 600 x 900 resolution screen
  • Excellent performance
  • Stylish
  • Compact design
  • Extremely fast charge times
  • Ruggedly built to last
  • Terrific screen
  • Stylish design
  • Ruggedish casing
  • Fingerprint security
  • Light and sleek
  • Superb backlit
  • Spill-proof keyboard
  • Durable soft-touch finish
  • Powerful specs
  • Good high-res screen
  • Sleek
  • Minimalist design
  • Carbon fibre construction
  • Great keyboard that's spillproof
  • High resolution screen
  • Integrated 3G modem
  • Fantastic build quality
  • Responsive touchscreen
  • Class leading keyboard
  • Good SSD options
  • Quick charging
  • Quiet
  • Best laptop keyboard on the market
  • Looks brilliant
  • Extremely light
  • Super thin
  • HD screen quality has improved since the last X1
  • Trackpad is better
  • Backlit keyboard

The editors didn't like

  • Expensive
  • Giant TrackPad
  • Fingerprint smudges
  • Price
  • No SD card reader
  • Lots of pre-loaded software
  • Display could be brighter
  • Seriously expensive
  • Pricey
  • Marginal upgrade to 2015
  • No touchscreen
  • Sealed unit makes for poor serviceability
  • No Ethernet port
  • No dock connector
  • Poor usability changes involving the keyboard and trackpad
  • Lacks an SD cardreader
  • Poor webcam
  • Puny speakers
  • The WQHD screen is somewhat muddy
  • Paradoxically glare
  • Prone anti
  • Glare coating
  • Still no SD card reader
  • Unimpressive battery life
  • Integrated battery
  • Generally dim screen
  • Average battery life
  • Horrible speakers
  • Overheating when pushed to its fullest
  • Keyboard and function key changes will polarise opinion
  • ThinkPad logo might polarise opinion too
  • Far pricier than a MacBook Air
  • No sd card slot
  • Polarising keyboard changes
  • The screen's pixels are visible and headache inducing
  • It's pricey
  • ThinkPad logo too prominent
  • Not as light as some competition
  • Pricier than a MacBook Air
  • Screen quality beaten elsewhere
  • Battery life good but not the best
  • Bigger and heavier than ultrabook rivals
  • Business features add to price
  • Not the thinnest or lightest
  • Mediocre SSD and graphics performance
  • Keyboard changes will irk many touch typists
  • Screen should be brighter
  • Sealed battery still stinks for many business users
  • Only average battery life
  • Limited I/O ports
  • Poor screen quality for the price
  • Odd keyboard layout
  • Not cheap
  • Screen panel still TN
  • Integrated graphics are weak
  • Due a Haswell update
  • Touchscreen adds a fine layer of grain to the images
  • Battery life could be better
  • Audio is thin
  • Kitguru says
  • A fantastic ultra portable which is quiet
  • Powerful and cool running
  • Rating
  • 8.0
  • Pages
  • Sound quality is weak
  • Another USB 3.0 port would be nice
  • Hot spot at the rear of the chassis
  • The ThinkPad X1 continues to impress Kitguru. We love the keyboard
  • 9.0
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  Published: 2012-11-21, Author: Mike , review by: itpro.co.uk

  • Lenovo's first ThinkPad Ultrabook wasn't up to scratch, but the firm has addressed criticisms and nailed it second time around. The familiar ThinkPad design and build quality mean it'll stand the rigours of the office, the trackpad and keyboard are sup...

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  Published: 2012-11-02, Author: Frank , review by: uk.hardware.info

  • The Lenovo Carbon X1 is an outstanding portable workplace. It has a display with great resolution, offers impressive performance and again features a high-quality Lenovo keyboard. If you want an Ultrabook for daily use and need it to be one of the most ...

 
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  Published: 2012-10-24, review by: expertreviews.co.uk

  • The ultimate business Ultrabook; Lenovo proves it knows what professionals want ...

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  Published: 2012-10-19, review by: v3.co.uk

  • Thin and light, rugged carbon-fibre casing, ThinkVantage technologies
  • Integrated battery, no Ethernet port, no dock connector
  • Lenovo's X1 Carbon delivers the ThinkPad business laptop in a super-slim ultrabook format, without compromising on performance or ruggedness. Like other ultrabooks, it is limited to an internal battery and cannot be docked to a desktop cradle....

 
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  Published: 2012-10-15, Author: Riyad , review by: itproportal.com

  • Sleek, minimalist design, Carbon fibre construction, Great keyboard that's spillproof, High resolution screen, Integrated 3G modem
  • No Ethernet port
  • The X1 Carbon is the best Ultrabook I’ve seen, and is the one laptop that’s tempting me to switch back to Windows from OS X – not because I prefer Windows, but because X1 Carbon itself is such a wonderful piece of hardware. If you’re a laptop power user...

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  Published: 2012-10-05, review by: kitguru.net

  • quiet, best laptop keyboard on the market, looks brilliant, extremely light, super thin, HD screen quality has improved since the last X1, trackpad is better, backlit keyboard,
  • sound quality is weak, Another USB 3.0 port would be nice, battery life could be better, hot spot at the rear of the chassis, Kitguru says: The ThinkPad X1 continues to impress Kitguru. We love the keyboard, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
  • The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is another impressive laptop from the Lenovo portfolio. I was a huge fan of the original X1 and liked it so much that I ended up buying one after the company took back our review sample.The new Carbon version is one of the slimmest...

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  Published: 2012-08-23, review by: techadvisor.co.uk

  • Lenovo's X1 Carbon offers an understated look and exotic chassis material, but the LCD panel display quality could be better. ...

 
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  Published: 2012-05-25, Author: Khidr , review by: itpro.co.uk

  • Early indications suggest the X1 could be the best Windows 7 Ivy Bridge Ultrabook especially when it comes to portability and text input. However, concerns remains over the price and the battery life, which have yet to be disclosed...

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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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