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I'm Dan Ackerman we are here taking a look at the brand-new Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon now about a year ago we saw think pan x1 and that was a laptop this is before they even had ultra books that was designed to sort of compete with the MacBook Air and a handful of other really super thin 13-inch laptops but appealed to business users at the same time that just was perfectly nice but it wasn't really as thin wrists like as a MacBook Air didn't really stand out from the crowd too much when I first saw this new version the x1 carbon I said to myself you know they didn't really change the name it's still called the x1 it kind of looks the same at first glance I wonder if it's really been upgraded enough for us to really pay attention to but now that I actually have the x1 carbon I gotta tell ya this version feels a lot different than the original I it's really a lot of fun to use feels great in the hand very light they bumped up the screen to a 14 inch screen even though the body is still just about the same size as a 13-inch laptop and lenovo says this is the world's lightest 14 inch laptop it's just a hair under three pounds let's just call it three pounds and it is as thick as a 13-inch ultra book should be even though it has a 14 inch screen and of course it's got the latest 3rd gen Intel Core i5 CPU a lot of the models have have have 3g data antennas built in it doesn't have a discreet graphics card which we've actually seen on some high-end ultra books recently just a regular intel HD 4000 graphics but it does have something I really appreciate in a laptop of this size and that is a 1600 by 900 screen as opposed to the 1366 by 768 screen the lot of 13 and even some 14 inch laptops have those always sort of feel cheap I think 16 by 9 for 13 or 14 inches really the sweet spot you want to be at the bounce screen real estate and readability all at the same time one cool feature is that you can bend the lid all the way back like this now the one problem you're gonna have with the ThinkPad x1 carbon is honestly the price it starts at $13.99 this one tiny step up model is $14.99 and it just gets more expensive from there some companies can get away with charging a premium and certainly Lenovo ThinkPad line is among those especially if your business user let's say your company is gonna buy the laptop you're not gonna go out and buy it yourself that being said if they could have gotten this down closer to $1,000 even for a slightly stripped down version it would really be a must buy because they've got all that sort of thinking and engineering that goes into ThinkPads especially the keyboard protects sort of the the the curved bottom keys that are a lot easier to type on and you get all that built in here but you're still paying a premium for it I did however like this new style of trackpad which I don't think I've seen on a lenovo before it's a it's a glass covered trackpad and it really is probably the most responsive Windows trackpad I have ever tried in fact it was so responsive I had to take a few minutes to get used to it because the the point it was just nipping around all over the place so if you can handle the high price again $13.99 $14.99 or higher depending on what CPU and how much harddrive space you want I really have not seen an ultra-thin laptop that's probably is all-around usable outside of maybe a MacBook Air if you're being Apple fan then this guy right here I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon