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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon touch edition that is important because we've previously looked at the ThinkPad x1 carbon which was lenovo's really thin 14-inch pretty much full power laptop from up mid 2012 it was sort of their businesslike answer to something like an ultrabook or a MacBook Air a very nice system but it came out right before Windows 8 hit and of course with Windows 8 you had touchscreens and pretty much every laptop we saw after that point so lenovo has gone back and updated the x1 carbon with both windows 8 as you can see here and more importantly a touch screen because frankly Windows 8 on a laptop it is pretty difficult to navigate without a touch screen if you try doing it just with a mouse or just with the touchpad you know it can get pretty frustrating other than that this is essentially the same x1 carbon we looked at before adding the touch screen does make the lid just a hair thicker frankly compared to some of the really thin touchscreen Windows 8 systems that we've seen it's actually fairly noticeable that this is a pretty chunky lid now relatively speaking although it's still quite thin the whole package is still about three and a half pounds and for a fairly full powerful feature 14-inch business-oriented laptop with Windows 8 and a touchscreen still highly portable although it's not the thinnest or lightest laptop you're going to see in kind of this first round of Windows 8 systems you do get some things that are very unique to Lenovo like they're excellent custom keyboard with the keys that are curved just a tiny bit at the bottom to make them easier to hit little calls it kind of a forgiveness zone where if you just brush the bottom of the key you're more likely to hit it it has got the traditional Lenovo track point here with these extra mouse buttons but a larger glass trackpad I found this trackpad to be a little bit on the finicky side actually I had to go in and mess with the settings still not 100% happy with it but the keyboard is so good it kind of makes me forgive that this is $14.99 which means that they've added $100 for the touch screen on top of these starting price for the original non-touch version last year we're seeing a lot of touchscreen Windows 8 laptops for $600 even less so it is a hefty investment but you do get that excellent Lenovo build quality and all those business friendly features with it I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon touch edition