The business laptop market is flooded with devices that pack a ton of storage and performance into giant, nearly unliftable bodies. Workstations like Lenovo’s ThinkPad W540 ($2,573, £1,606, AU$2,946) and Dell’s Precision M6800 ($3,490, £2,075, AU$3,750) offer the performance of typical desktops with above average displays.
Unfortunately, both machines are hefty. The Lenovo weighs 4.46 pounds and the Dell weighs 8.37 pounds. You’re not lugging those fat boys around with you.
Fortunately for the business user, there are cheaper and lighter models on the market that combine the benefits of workstation performance with top-notch consumer design. No machine accomplished this better than last year’s Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
New model specs
In comes the 2015 ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The third-generation of the X1 Carbon line $1249 (£1150, AU$1,433) is 14 inches and built with a rugged carbon-forged chassis that houses an Intel i5 processor (or an i7 upgrade) and a full HD 1920x1080p resolution or Quad HD 2560×1440 touchscreen monitor (same as last year’s version).
Unlike the old model, the 2015 ThinkPad X1 Carbon ditched the adaptive keyboard technology that combined liquid crystal and electroluminescence in favor of your typical …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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