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  • with a lot of effect active like blur

    Are you sure it's not just motion blur from the screen? What's the response time of the display. Doesn't look like it's good on even the newer models based on this review.

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2019-WQHD-Live-Review-Still-the-reference-among-business-laptops.427853.0.html

    Found the exact model. Yeah 44ms is not good, that's most likely your issue. Pair that with it being only a dual core CPU and everything is bound to feel sluggish even when it isn't actually slow.

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017-Core-i7-Full-HD-Laptop-Review.207160.0.html


  • MSRP of the X1E is about twice what the X1 non E is.

    TDP wise they’re also wildly different. Idk what the Gen. 1-3 are, but my Gen. 4 has a 109 watt PL1 and 130 something watt PL2. From notebook check review the X1c Gen. 8 can only sustain about 18 watts under load. They are wildly different machines despite the similar name.

    If money is a concern then go for the standard T14. They sell a metric fuck ton of them which means they’re going to be cheaper used. The X1c is the MacBook of the thinkpad line. Since they aren’t the “thin and light” ultrabook they have much more room for the CPU to run at full speed. My base model T14 Gen. 1 with its i5 can run at max turbo speed indefinitely. (About 25-30 watts, twice the X1c) And the T14 with its one slot of ram is capable of upgrading 40 gigs of ram unlike the X1 that’s soldered only. Here in the USA I got my T14 for $200 about 1.5 years ago. It still had 6 months of its factory warranty left. An X1 of that same generation would be at least twice that price, and a P1 would probably be 10x the price.


  • Don’t buy refurbished, buy a regular ass used laptop and skip paying for someone else to wipe the computer for you. You’re not paying for an OS when you buy used/refurbished. They’re just using the license key that’s already stored in the bios.

    Also the P1/X1E and the X1 carbon are completely different classes of machines. The T14s is a much closer fit to an X1 than the thin portable workstation that’s the P1. Good luck finding a P1 with no GPU because that’s 90% the point of this laptop.