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I can't remember who it was and I'm actually not sure where this particular

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viewer got the idea from but someone got

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it in his or her head that I'm somehow professional enough to review a business

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laptop and suggested that I take a look at the Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 3 a premium

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lightweight business Ultra Book by the way if you enjoyed our cherry and

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Sennheiser factory tours stay tuned because assuming this video gets posted

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on schedule I just got back from touring the Omron Factory in Japan and that's

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coming very

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soon The Cooler Master Nova touch tkl is

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powered by toer hybrid capacitive switches for the ultimate typing

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experience and is now available for a reduced price click my face to learn

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more now the specs of Ultrabooks aren't really that variable so when I went on

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lenovo's site and saw that my CPU choices ranged from a coree I5 dual core

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with hyperthreading to a slightly faster Core i5 to a slightly faster than that

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core i7 dual core with some extra cash to go along with its hyperthreading with

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the only performance differences being slightly different clock speeds I wasn't

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surprised what did surprise me was the completely unnecessary limitation on the

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5200 U equipped model where it can only

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be configured with 4 gigs of RAM with a $100 5300 U option being required to

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upgrade it I mean first of all 4 gigs is pathetic for any modern computer and

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second of all those CPUs literally cost

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the same with the 5200 U having no place

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in a business grade laptop anyway since aside from being the same as the 5300 U

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or Worse across the board it lacks business grade features like vpro and

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trusted execution technology so the entry level starting at $199 model is a

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total laugh anyway way this is what Apple does right instead of offering

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their customers stupid options that make no sense just to have a lower advertised

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starting price point they build computers that will please their

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customers and slap a price tag to match on them but that's not to say that Apple

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does everything right either and Lenovo didn't send me one of the asinine

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configurations of the X1 anyway so let's take a look at what we do have in front

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of us today it's got a core i5 5300u 8

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gigs of RAM HD graphics 5500 clocked at 900 MHz a 256 gig solid state drive

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Intel 7265 AC Wireless with Bluetooth

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4.0 a 50 W battery that managed about 4

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and 1/2 hours in my standard PC Mark test although it should be noted that

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when you're not pushing it really hard it can run a lot longer than that but of

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course people don't buy think pads for their specs um since there's lots of

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portable Computing devices that offer great battery life and specs they buy

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them for the legendary quality something that Lenovo hasn't seemed to mix up

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since buying IBM's computer Division and the back to business Basics style

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something that the last generation X1 Carbon actually did kind of mess up with

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those bizarre adaptive capacitive buttons along the top but the Gen 3x1

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carbon features none of that nonsense the screen lid which is surprisingly

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strong for being so thin by the way is plain scratch resistant black with a

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single red LED dotting the eye and the think pad logo and the underside is

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pretty much the same with only the intake for the single cooling fan which

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is satisfactorily quiet even under heavy load and kept my CPU under 65° C by the

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way and the shockingly bad bottom mounted speakers they actually get

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reasonably loud but I had to double check if there was an audio control

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panel with like an auditorium preset enabled or something since music had

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this distance sound as if it was being played on a super loud Bluetooth speaker

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from the other end of a football field I/O is fairly run-of-the-mill with the

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right side consisting of a vent a proprietary mini Ethernet port and a USB

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3.0 port with the left side having power

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and Dot connectors side by side HDMI and

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mini DisplayPort another USB 3.0 and a

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four-pole audio jack but things get more

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interesting once we flip the screen up on this puppy because it's 2560 by 1440

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matte IPS touchscreen display is unlike

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any that I've ever used before I've seen some reviews online say it's not the

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brightest display on the market and this is true but it's brighter than I needed

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in any situation where I used it and I really liked both the resolution Choice

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1440p looks great at the size and requires less dramatic text scaling

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which makes the issues associated with it less noticeable than some of the 3K

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displays on the market and the matte finish that feels nice on my fingertips

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and helps reject fingerprint smudges from using the touchscreen as much as it

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helps produce glare from nearby light sources so Kudos on the display Lenovo

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and while we're singing this notebook's Praises holy crap this keyboard rocks

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the key caps are a little bit slipperier than I prefer but considering how thin

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this thing is like 1.8 cm they have an

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astonishingly long travel and typing on the rounded chicklet keys on the X1

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Carbon is the second best typing experience I've had on a notebook with

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the one notable exception being the MSI gt80 Titan with its full-size mechanical

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keyboard and the layout is with the exception of the why on Earth did you do

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that swapping of the functioning control keys very good too with full size up and

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down arrow keys dedicated page up and down and print screen keys and some

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useful Windows 8 shortcuts from f8 to F12 so they're a fingerprint reader

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along the right hand side which is super handy and fast to use by the way I've

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never had a PC with one before and the function control swap that I mentioned

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before are pretty much the only on un usual thing oh sorry did I say only

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unusual things I guess I forgot to mention the big red swollen nipple in

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the middle of the keyboard the young kids might not remember the days when

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trackpads were unusual partly because they totally sucked and the mouse nubbin

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rained supreme but this laptop and I guess this leads pretty well into the

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conclusion for this product was made for people who want high-end performance in

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a super light carbon fiber design but do

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remember the days of nubbin with dedicated buttons for them positioned

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right below the keyboard and unfortunately no one else the touchpad

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on the X1 Carbon is so close to being awesome but has one deal breaking flaw

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for me the glass surface feels great and it tracks very accurately but right and

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left click rely on having a finger pressed down on the top surface of the

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trackpad so my casual leaning against the bottom of the touchpad use would

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cause frequent misclicks it's the kind of thing I could get used to but I feel

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like I shouldn't have to dedicated right and left switches under the pad next

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time please Lenovo and while we're at it where the actual heck is the 16 gig

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configuration option it's like you and Dell got together in a back room

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somewhere with cigars and decided the best way to sell the 2016 models of the

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X1 Carbon and XPS 13 was to this

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year's with 8 gigs of RAM Max so I guess

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that's pretty much it for the X1 Carbon thanks for watching guys like the video

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