When Lenovo discontinued its ThinkPad X300 series, many mobile professionals were disappointed which they could don’t get the svelte 13-inch laptop, which combined a lightweight soft-touch chassis that has a comfy keyboard plus a high-res screen. Fortunately, after nearly each year, Lenovo has debuted the latest 13-inch business ultraportable while in the ThinkPad X1. This machine is good more and more than simply business users should check out our in-depth review.

Design
The ThinkPad X1′s appearance will never be mistaken for anything aside from a ThinkPad: The matte black chassis is in conjuction with the design of past and current ThinkPad models. It uses hardened magnesium to use metal construction, which seems sturdier compared to the Lenovo X220′s chassis after I gave it the existing palm-press-on-the-lid test. At 0.84 inches, it’s thicker as opposed to Apple Air 13-inch (0.68 inches) and Series 9 (0.64 inches). Nonetheless its edges are sharp, as being the bottom half tapers off the sides just like a plate, giving the impression it’s thinner of computer in fact is. The ThinkPad X1 weighs 3.7 pounds, which isn’t as light since the Air 13-inch (2.9 pounds) and also the Samsung Series 9 (2.9 pounds), though. It’s heavier than the 3.3-pound Lenovo X300, which shipped by using a built-in optical drive. While using the extended battery attachment, which you may need, the body weight climbs up to 4.5 pounds. 

Keyboard
The ThinkPad X1s has got the same keyboard as other X200 series notebooks such as the Lenovo ThinkPad X201 and X201 tablet.Locating a ThinkPad X1 with the fingers of a touch-typist is actually putting a Stradivarius in the hands of a violinist. While all of Lenovo’s ThinkPads have strong keyboards, the ThinkPad X1 features the top laptop keyboard we’ve ever tested.With the curved “smile-shaped” keys making it very easy to avoid hitting adjacent keys by accident towards adjustable backlightto the gentle slope with the deck, the X1 gets everything about the typing experience right.Most likely the best feature of your X1 keyboard would be the strong force feedback it offers a superior; it reminded us on the highly tactile IBM model M keyboards of your 1980s. The keys created subtle, pleasant clicking noise as we typed.

Pointing Stick and Touchpad
The ThinkPad X1 includes the signature pointing stick the top in the market but the touchpad had some dramatic changes. It is a click touchpad, the kind who has a button buttons built-in. For lifelong ThinkPad users, there may be a time period of adjustment. It’ll seem weird (to start with) lacking some of dedicated mouse buttons below the touchpad, and occasionally the scroll gesture (the touchpad incorporates multitouch gestures) begins inadvertently.

Display
The 13.4″ SuperBright LCD display features glossy Corning Gorilla glass for additional scratch resistance that has a low-light HD webcam and microphone centered above. Lenovo has implemented the things they call an infinity design with the display and surrounding bezel. Comparable to an infinity pool, the glass since the display extends out after dark side of the screen so they cover nearly all the display bezel. This brings about an extremely elegant look which is something I have to see other manufacturers adopt whenever using non-matte screens.

Performance
The ThinkPad X1 unit i was sent is equipped with a dual-core Core i5-2520M clocked at 2.5 GHz. It is a same four thread capable processor we were treated to for the X220 that also features Intel HD 3000 graphics to get a max TDP of 35W. Additional hardware includes 4GB of DDR3, a Hitachi 320GB 7200 RPM disk drive, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 wireless, Bluetooth, a 6-cell internal battery (38.92 Wh) as well as a 13.4? TFT display running at 1366 x 768 that is definitely covered with Corning Gorilla glass. Our weight as tested is 3.73 pounds with dimensions of 13.26″ x 9.1″ x 0.65″ 0.84. Except for the inner battery, hardware specs are virtually the same as the X220 even though you can configure the processor, memory and hard drive for a exact specification. We had arrived also provided by the optional external slice battery, a 6-cell (35.5 Wh) unit for more runtime.

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