> But the X1 Carbon only has a 1600x900 resolution. While better than 1280x800, this is still too little for having 2 windows side-by-side in most cases. I know

> But the X1 Carbon only has a 1600x900 resolution. While better than 1280x800, this is still too little for having 2 windows side-by-side in most cases. I know this because I have a Thinkpad T430 myself. I have the T410, which has a 1440x900 screen. It's certainly a bit of an issue, but I compensated by running a tiling window manager to save on screen real estate. And this might be more of an issue in Windows, where screen real estate isn't used as carefully. I checked out the ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A at a local store, and the trackpad didn't just agree with me. The poor Linux compatibility and the lack of a pointing stick are concerns as well. > The Thinkpad build quality also isn't what it used to be. I haven't seen any statistically significant proof of this. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence, but that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.