Lenovo X1 Carbon ThinkPad
A review of a great Windows laptop from a Mac user perspective.
Since the days of IBM ThinkPad’s, I always saw these laptops as business-only oriented. The design always felt boring with it’s plain, boxy, bulky aesthetics that only came in a dark gray or black color. It was the corporate America machine, and unless you were in some kind of profession in a cubicle farm setting, you didn’t want a ThinkPad.
Over the years, though, this has changed substantially. You still see ThinkPads as the go-to devices for business because of the robustness and power that they provide — let-alone all the external ports you need, especially in companies that use Microsoft in all areas of their software, including both development or infrastructure.
I feel not only has Lenovo kept the ThinkPad alive and prospering but has made it desirable to the mainstream. The X1 Carbon is a fantastic machine to work on. I have been using it over a week now and feel it is one of the best Windows laptops I have ever used — to be honest, I haven’t used that many.
Though I have little experience in using a variety of different Windows laptops, I do use a Dell Inspiron for work every day and have to say that this ThinkPad blows it out of the water in many ways. Not only is it refreshing to have a Windows laptop…
