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Lenovo's slim X1 Carbon gets an "adaptive" row of touch controls

2014-01-06
i'm dan ackerman here at CES 2014 with the latest version of lenovo's x1 carbon laptop this is the 2014 edition and it's got a bunch of changes some big some small it's a little bit thinner a little bit lighter this is still pretty much the thinnest lightest 14-inch ultrabook you can get the big change here for this year is this really cool road here that replaces the function key row it's called an adaptive keyboard and it basically gives you a different set of touch commands based on what you're doing right now I've got some basic commands that work with the the windows menu here and if I flip over and get a web browser then I get some different commands that a web browser based let's say a reload key or I could switch over to skype and you get a bunch of VoIP commands and then if you switch back to your web browser you can go back to that and they're like four presets that work with VoIP programs or web browsers that work with the windows menu and you get the basic function keys if you want those as well this is a cool improvement comes with every version of the new x1 carbon which starts at 12 99 and should be available right now i'm dan ackerman at CES 2014 with the 2014 edition lenovo x1 carbon you
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