Hands-on: Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a drool-worthy workhorse [Video]

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon has proven its worth over the years, time and time again. Now in its 13th generation, Lenovo might just have made it into the most opulent AI-powered laptop money can buy. 

After some hands-on time with the new Aura Edition of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon at IFA 2024 in Berlin, all I can think is ‘I want one’.

Everything looks great spec-wise. It’s powered by Intel’s brand-new Core Ultra processor (Series 2) with Intel Arc Xe2 graphics and integrated NPU offering up to 48 TOPS, 3x the AI performance of the previous generation ThinkPad X1. It’s also, as you would expect, capable of a Windows Copilot+ experience when Microsoft rolls that out for Intel chips later this year. 

But I’m particularly impressed with the design of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon — and with an incredibly neat party trick that’s exclusive to Lenovo.

At just 2.16lbs it’s one of the lightest laptops I’ve picked up in a long time, almost feeling like it’s just …