The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 has a pair of full 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 ports, along with two 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 an a Nano-SIM slot for optional 4G LTE connectivity. ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 IO Port Expansion And Sound System We'll dig into specific storage performance later but beyond CPU, memory and storage, there are a nice assortment of IO options here as well. The storage subsystem is serviced by a PCIe Gen 3 SSD, and though we'd prefer some of that glorious bandwidth of PCIe Gen 4 alternatives available these days, it's obvious that manufacturers are going with some lower cost options that top out at 3GB/sec, which is typical of a PCIe 3 SSD. Quickly perusing the specs, we've got a standard issue Core i7-1186G7 Tiger Lake CPU under the hood, along with 16GB of soldered (unfortunately but not uncommon in this form factor) LPDDR4x-4266 DRAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD. UltraNav™ TrackPoint® Pointing Device, Glass Surface Multi-Touch Touchpadĥ7Wh, Supports Rapid Charge (80% In 1 hour)ģ15 x 221.6 x 14.9 mm (12.4 x 8.72 x 0.59 inches)Ĭase Material: Carbon Fiber (Top), Magnesium Alloy (Bottom) Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201, 802.11ax 2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5.2Ģ x Thunderbolt 4 / USB4™ 40Gbps (data, power, display)ġx Nano-SIM Card Slot (Optional For WWAN Models)ġ x Headphone / Microphone Combo Jack (3.5mm)Ħ-Row, Spill-Resistant, Multimedia Fn Keys, LED Backlit IR & 720p Webcam With Privacy Shutter, Fixed Focus, Human Presence Detection More on this later, but for now let's take a guided video tour of the new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9. This latter technology that is freakishly-adept at what it's design to do. Though the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 retains its unmistakably classic and understated hybrid carbon fiber weave and magnesium alloy body, weighing in at a feather-light 2.49 pounds, we're now also treated to a single, unified hinge design, a wider touchpad, an improved Dolby Atmos enabled speaker system and enhanced security features with optional IR camera and human presence detect. The machine that we have on tap for review here today also includes an impressive new 16:10 format UHD+ (3840X2400) display. Now in its 9th generation, Lenovo sought to re-energize the X1 Carbon not only with Intel 11th Gen Core Series processors ( Tiger Lake), but with Intel Evo certification that brings with it a number of key refinements. Hope that helps.Lenovo's venerable ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been one of the longest-running of the company's trusted business-class laptop series. HPD (Human Presence Detection) is not supported on Linux I’m afraid - it’s an interesting feature but not available for Linux yet. Fortunately the regulatory issues are looking good so now it’s mostly down to the last implementation issues and how to get the various pieces into users hands. We’ve got a lot of hurdles cleared but there are still a couple of pieces that fall in place. WWAN has been a bugger challenge than I expected (we are working on it for the X1C8 too and will have news there too in the not too distant future). WWAN is not available in the initial release but is being worked on. I’m not making any prediction because it turns out I’m terrible at them - but it’s being very actively worked on and there are a lot of people in Lenovo pushing to make it happen.įingerprint reader works (I think I’d be in trouble if it didn’t!). We are still having some teething issues with getting systems up worldwide but there is light at the end of the tunnel there. I’m hoping it won’t be very long before it’s available and online in the US and Canada. I can’t commit to a date when it will be available, but we learnt a lot from our experience last year and it should go more smoothly this year. I think I’m allowed to confirm Fedora will be coming with the X1 Carbon 9 - I hope so! We’re currently in test and energy cert with the updated F33 image the community kindly created for us recently.
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