Lenovo’s new ThinkPad has one major Linux upgrade
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon gets the Tiger Lake treatment
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Lenovohas updated its popular business-class ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop series, which now comes pre-installed with either FedoraLinuxor Ubuntu, besidesWindows 10.
Now in its 9th generation, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is one ofLenovo’s longest-running line ofbusiness laptops. The latest series sportsIntel’s 11th Gen Core Series “Tiger Lake” processors and a host of other improvements thanks to the line being Intel Evo certified.
The latest series retains the X1 Carbon’s characteristic hybrid carbon fiber weave and thanks to the magnesium alloy body weighs in at 2.49 pounds (1.13 Kg). New in this generation is the unified one-bar hinge design, a wider touchpad, and an improved Dolby Atmos enabled speaker system.
The laptop also sports a new 14-inch 16:10 format UHD+ (3840X2400) display.
Thinkpad X1 Carbon upgrade
Running through the specs, the Thinkpad X1 Carbon has all the features you’d expect from a business laptop.
The Tiger Lake CPUs can take upto 32GB of LPDDR4x-4266 DRAM and upto 1TB PCIeSSD.
Since the Thinkpad X1 Carbon is powered by the latestIntelCPUs, there’s also support for Thunderbolt 4, and it’s got a pair of them. According to Lenovo, a single Thunderbolt 4 port allows you to connect two4K monitorsor a single8K monitor.
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There’s also a couple of USB Type-A ports, both of which are USB 3.2 Gen 1, as well as a full-sized HDMI 2.0 port, a combo headphone/mic 3.5mm jack and an optional Nano-SIM slot.
The base model of the X1 Carbon with the Intel Core i5-1135G7 CPU, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD storage, and Full HD display costs about $1400, and the top of the line with an i7 processor,4Kdisplay, 32GB RAM, and 1TB storage, will set you back by $2286.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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