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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon of course a sequel to last year's x1 carbon which was a sequel to the Year befores original x1 lenovo says this is the lightest 14 inch laptop on the planet I'm inclined to agree it's a hair over three pounds if you get the optional touch screen which you should it's a hair under three pounds if you don't one of the great upgrades this year is an optional 2560 by 1440 screen the same sort of better than HD screen that you see on something like the MacBook Pro with Retina display or the Toshiba cure book or even lenovo zone IdeaPad yoga2pro there are two other things that make this new version notable one they've upgraded the touchpad so that even though you still have that Lenovo TrackPoint in the middle you don't have the big buttons on top of the touchpad anymore all the buttons top and bottom are just sort of built-in click pad style and they've made a couple of changes to the keyboard I still love the Lenovo keyboard best in the business feel wise but they took the backspace key and kind of made it split a space with the Delete key I found it very distracting and over here the caps lock is now a home and Enki good luck finding those if you're trying to touch type and navigate your way around a page possibly the most notable new thing is what they call an adaptive keyboard which is really just this trip up here that replaces the function key row it's backlit it has about four different modes and depending on what app that you open whether it's a web browser or Skype or an office document you'll actually get a different row of functions and that's actually kind of a cool idea and it works well in the application that works with I'd love to see a future version maybe letting you let's say customize your perfect function key row and tie it to a specific app but they don't have that yet of course all this does not come cheap this is the premium end of the ThinkPad line starts to about 1,400 bucks goes up to 2,000 I'll get a good in the middle about 1679 build it has a core i5 8 gigs a Ram 128 gig hard drive and most importantly that upgraded 2560 by 1440 touchscreen which i think is really the big selling point here I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Lenovo ThinkPad x1 carbon you