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Lenovo's fifth-generation of its ThinkPad x1 carbon recommends itself is the perfect travelers laptop with its lightweight carbon-fiber body relatively speedy performance and exceptional 11.8 hour battery life but you'll pay for the privilege of toting it around a decent configuration will run you just under two thousand dollars it is a fourteen inch HD display that's bright non reflective and quite readable with an embedded webcam on the top bezel company will be releasing a quad HD version later this year which I suspect will be harder on the battery it offers a decent set of connections for a system this size and purpose to USBC connectors one of which can hook up to a display two USB 3 type-a full size HDMI and a mini Ethernet connector plus a headphone jack I don't love the keyboard but it's not bad the concave chiclet keys do feel nice on your fingers and they have a decent amount of travel Lenovo's ultra nav system of buttons thumb stick and touch pad offers a lot of choices to your preferred method of navigation but the touchpad is a little smaller than we've seen lately to make room for all of it plus the fingerprint sensor it's got combination escape and function lock button which I really like that way you can choose whether the top row of buttons act as Hardware shortcuts for volume brightness and so on or whether the function keys are in effect and given the awful placement of the function shift button right where touch typists reach for the control key for operations like Oh cutting and pasting and navigating text it's great that there's an option in the Lenovo control panel to swap them I went a little nuts until I discovered you