ThinkPad X1 Carbon

There is a reason why Lenovo is selling certified refurbished X1 Carbon Gen 9 with high spec for dirt cheap at the moment. If it sounds to be good to be true… There is a inherent issue with gen 9 unfortunately so they had a huge return back to base from corporate rerun.

4k display kills your battery. Avoid X1 Carbon if you don't like soft touch coating. Some other models might have a soft touch as well, so look that up before buying. I'd go with the same CPU you had, 1185g7 is a good option on a budget. Or AMD 6650u, 6850u are still powerful enough, battery efficie

Factory defect, with a sleepstate issue, units when shut down for a few days or more would no longer POST or charge. CMOS battery was/is fully charged, requiring a pin-hole reset to temporarily resolve the issue. Solution is board replacement, this issue was prevalent in both the X1 Carbon Gen 9 and

I'd go for T14, maybe t14s or X9 - the X1 Carbon always was "expensive, but cool and slow", it was never about being a good deal I also hate to say it, but if you are not overly attached windows/linux, just get a macbook. Even refurbished M4 Pro or something like that will be miles ahead in terms of

The X1 Carbons and T series feel nice (especially recent ones) but they're not a solid piece of metal so they're always going to have some creak compared to a MacBook. But the hinges are very solid and the keyboard praise is real. There are a lot of other compromises though compared to a MacBook. Wi

_UPDATE 2: I returned it. The coil whine was driving me mad. It was not only during load but it also appeared during less stressfull scenarios like browsing and office work :/ Total no go for me. You can find a youtube link in this post. Then there was the issue with the speakers doing a "plop" soun

Oh they do. I have the top of the line x1 carbon gen 13 thinkpad for work and it has awful finger prints that show all over. Luckily for me it's not something that bothers me but the thinkpad is very bad at showing fingerprints.

I am also stuck in this quandary. I much prefer using Linux OS but the Apple portable hardware is so good. I’ve resigned myself to using Apple for laptops, and Linux on desktops. Asahi etc is a route, as you mentioned, but I’d rather just do thinkpad et al as it’s less likely to have problems. I was

I feel like a Macbook Air is excellent value for money at that price point. If you want a good ThinkPad (say X1 carbon) you'll probably need to pay more. But maybe do the research and ask a question based on exact models you can get at that price point locally.

• Is the i5-1235U going to bottleneck me noticeably for this kind of workload? No, but it's the least efficient processor generation that was ever released under the "core i" marketing umbrella. So battery life isn't good compared to the machines older or younger than it. - Would you go Gen 10 i5 or s