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How cool. I wonder if I’m the only one: I just placed an order for my first Windows laptop in 11 years. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7. Apple’s overthin design,

How cool. I wonder if I’m the only one: I just placed an order for my first Windows laptop in 11 years. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7. Apple’s overthin design, heavy aluminum, bad thermals, throttled chip, soldered parts scam is over for me. Love macOS but fact is Windows is nice now and I’m back to the fun days of weird and wild hardware. Feels great.

snek 7y ago
I just got an X1 extreme, and although windows 10 pro really underwhelmed me (not very responsive, poor battery life, etc), putting linux on this thing has been an absolute dream. The battery life easily matches my old macbook air, and the performance is fantastic. From what I've seen over the past few weeks while getting moved into my laptop, the carbon series has even better support from the linux ecosystem than the extreme does.
buboard 7y ago
I would like X1 to be a little thicker actualy, perhaps have the same ports as the X series. Or maybe i would like a 13.3 inch X series. lenovo could expand in that region And i wouldn't oppose to an aluminum design, as someone who is not very careful with the things.
jotto 7y ago
Are the thermals that bad? My understanding is that they had a bad incident with a 6-core MBP in 2018, but they managed to fix it.
- microdrum 7y ago
  It’s not going to melt down. The whole line just falls way short of benchmarks for the chips. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on it.
  - kristofferR 7y ago
    Uhhh, I don't think you've seen LTTs recent video review of it - they came away quite impressed at its performance and thermals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg You've probably only seen an old video about the old models of the Macbook Pro. ;)
Droobfest 7y ago
I generally agree with you, but what's wrong with aluminum?
- lucb1e 7y ago
  Not OP, but for me I hate it whenever anything metal touches it. Jacket zipper, wristwatch band and/or clip, perhaps a ring for married people, it's awful. Yay for plastic. Same for phones. My previous one was a Samsung Note 2: plastic, slightly bent back. Then I tried a Xiaomi MI A1 and (after sending that one back) a Huawei P10 Lite, metal and glass respectively. I hated metal more, but both are awful. It's flush with any table, hard to pick up, even harder if the screen is on and you don't want to touch anything, and it slides out of your hand if you want to use it one-handed in anything other than a near laying down flat position while still operating the screen. People say (about plastic, both in laptops and in phones) that it gives a premium feeling. It doesn't to me, but it's also just terrible UX wise, so they can keep it.

snek 7y ago

I just got an X1 extreme, and although windows 10 pro really underwhelmed me (not very responsive, poor battery life, etc), putting linux on this thing has been an absolute dream. The battery life easily matches my old macbook air, and the performance is fantastic. From what I've seen over the past few weeks while getting moved into my laptop, the carbon series has even better support from the linux ecosystem than the extreme does.

buboard 7y ago

I would like X1 to be a little thicker actualy, perhaps have the same ports as the X series. Or maybe i would like a 13.3 inch X series. lenovo could expand in that region And i wouldn't oppose to an aluminum design, as someone who is not very careful with the things.

jotto 7y ago

Are the thermals that bad? My understanding is that they had a bad incident with a 6-core MBP in 2018, but they managed to fix it.

microdrum 7y ago
It’s not going to melt down. The whole line just falls way short of benchmarks for the chips. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on it.
- kristofferR 7y ago
  Uhhh, I don't think you've seen LTTs recent video review of it - they came away quite impressed at its performance and thermals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg You've probably only seen an old video about the old models of the Macbook Pro. ;)

Droobfest 7y ago

I generally agree with you, but what's wrong with aluminum?

lucb1e 7y ago
Not OP, but for me I hate it whenever anything metal touches it. Jacket zipper, wristwatch band and/or clip, perhaps a ring for married people, it's awful. Yay for plastic. Same for phones. My previous one was a Samsung Note 2: plastic, slightly bent back. Then I tried a Xiaomi MI A1 and (after sending that one back) a Huawei P10 Lite, metal and glass respectively. I hated metal more, but both are awful. It's flush with any table, hard to pick up, even harder if the screen is on and you don't want to touch anything, and it slides out of your hand if you want to use it one-handed in anything other than a near laying down flat position while still operating the screen. People say (about plastic, both in laptops and in phones) that it gives a premium feeling. It doesn't to me, but it's also just terrible UX wise, so they can keep it.