Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon - 2018 Edition!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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today we are here in the lenovo suite where they are showing off their latest
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thinkpad x1 carbon it's got some pretty
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significant spec upgrades first and foremost of which is an 8th gen core
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processor yes my friends we are talking quad core in a tiny lightweight laptop
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like this it can be equipped with up to 16 gigs of RAM up to a one terabyte m.2
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drive and it's got a ton of other great features built into it as well it's
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available with Windows hello facial recognition as well as
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you know fingerprint sensors for plebs it's got a shutter to hide the webcam
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sort of maybe we'll get to that later it's available with up to a 500 peak
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brightness 1440p display and there's another option with
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touch and this premium display option
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has a hundred percent adobe RGB coverage and it is factory calibrated they've
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actually tuned the display for dolby vision and in terms of the performance
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it is somewhere near the HDR 400 spec
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which is kind of like it's like sort of related to HDR 10 but that would be like
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a thousand so it's like HDR 1000 is a thousand nits peak brightness and then
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there's like 600 and 400 the actual value of it is sort of debatable but
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it'll understand an HDR signal let's put it that way it's got support for dolby
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atmos and the keyboard is characteristic of lenovo pretty darn solid with
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everything you could want in terms of inputs you got the nipple you got the
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buttons and you've got the touchpad
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i o is not disappointing actually
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you can't say that about a lot of modern devices so we've got a three and a half
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millimeter jack we've got a usb-a on that side we've got another usb-a we've
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got an HDMI output we've got two
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Thunderbolt ports with four PCIe lanes
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each and an Ethernet jack but it's like this
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weird proprietary form factor for it i had to ask i was like why do you need an
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Ethernet jack why isn't it just a type c if it's got to plug into your dock which
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has a bunch of other io on it and the answer was actually really smart it's so
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that your Mac Address doesn't change that's great for corporate clients when
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you plug into your dock and you want to access your vpn or whatever it's got
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integrated 4g lte and uh
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57 watt hour battery cortana support now
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let's get into the things that i'm like super disappointed about
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so the premium 1440p panel
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not available with touch thank you panel makers
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the ir camera is not compatible with the cover
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and the ir camera version is not available with the premium panel
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so it's like man it's like so close to being like
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basically perfect maybe next year
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