Lenovo - ThinkPad X1 Carbon 14" Touch-Screen Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - 512GB Solid State Drive - Black

After a rugged delivery process (Canadian address bad wrote) the package arrive in good shape, the PC works beautiful.

Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Gen looks amazing. At a first glance, the sleek black lid with X1 and ThinkPad logos make quite an impression. Once you connect the power charger, a small dot in the ThinkPad logo lights off. A nice touch. And a godd thing is that fingermarks don't stick that much on the matte finish of the lid. The keyboard is the most impressive feature in this machine. I previously had an Yoga 3 Pro, with a decent keyboard. But this one is amazing. Response, height, size, it all make for the best keyboard I've ever seen in a laptop. My machine (Intel Core i7 8thGen vPro, 16 GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 10 Pro, 20KH002JUS model) starts in seconds. Faster than my old Samsung Tablet. It is so fast to start and shut off that I no longer just close the lid. I put it on Hibernate mode. Login became much faster due to the fingerprint reader as well. Just a touch in the reader and I'm logged in. One thing that my Yoga 3 Pro had, and it really bugged me, was a delay on connecting the wireless adapter. Every time I'd start the laptop - or wake it up from Hibernate - I had to wait a while for it to get the wireless on. With the X1 Carbon, it's instantaneous. Screen resolution on my old Yoga was higher than on the X1 Carbon, but that was a choice I made. The screen on the Yoga was brighter and looked better as well. You can get higher res models (mine is 1920 x 1080), but I chose the Full HD version in order to be able to connect an outside monitor without the need to adjust the resolution on the laptop screen - which also bugged me on the Yoga 3 Pro. I read some people complaining about fan noise before I settled for the X1 Carbon. When in full speed, it is noisy, but there is so much power available on the machine that it rarely goes full speed. Even running PowerBI graphs and dashboards, it rarely reaches a point when I hear the fan. When I was configuring the system, installing my stuff and things like that, I heard it. It is a bit noisy, but you will only hear it once in a while, when the processor is being highly demanded. The charger is not too big, and for those who need carry the laptop around - my case - it is not a nuisance. The whole thing - computer and charger - are light enough to travel well. And, for the daily activities you can even chose to leave the charger at home. Unless you plug a lot of stuff on the computer, the battery will last a full work day. I've been using mine for more than five hours, on and off, today and still has 46% of juice left. Not bad at all. Yoga would be at 20~25%. Touchpad is good enough and if you want, there is always the red thingy (not sure what to call it) in the middle of the keyboard. Never got used to it, even in the old days, when IBM ThinkPads had only that to move the pointer. There are three buttons, for those who like to click things, rather than just do multi finger moves on the touchpad. Over all, despite being an expensive machine, X1 Carbon is a great computer. Hope it lasts even more than my Yoga (four years and still working well, just a bit outdated). I recommend for users who need processing power and a light computer to carry around.

Only a few months after I received this computer, the keys started falling off the keyboard. I grumbled and put them back on. A few months later, the main charging port started overheating and then stopped working entirely, and the battery life dropped from 5-6 hours to under 2. I had the extended warranty so I was able to exchange for a new laptop, but it was a huge hassle (nearly 2 weeks of using a tablet for work - ugh!). My new laptop worked fine for about six months, but now the touchpad's going wonky (doesn't detect when I try to click using it) and also there's battery issues again, where the laptop just shuts down at around 50% battery. Although that issue might be the operating system's fault, who knows. Regard;ess, deeply regretting my purchase but it's a big enough cost that I'm just dealing with it for now.

Exceptional laptop. Light weight excellent for travel. I have been using Lenovo thinkpad’s for 28 years and the software is 21st century

The laptop is relatively light and thin, and works great. I got the 500GB SSD with 16MB memory.