Gear post comes early this year!
I actually got the current X1 Nano (gen 2?) and it's worse in almost every way to my older (9th? 10th?) Carbon.
Keyboard is worse, not as smooth and just kinda feels.. chunky. I keep making typos because I'm not sure if they key was pressed or not. Battery life is way worse, pretty much HALF. I don't know if this is the Nano's fault or just the new generation of Intel processors, which are faster but run much hotter and have way worse battery life. And yea, the fan on this comes on ALL THE TIME. It never came on with my Carbon.
Of course, it is significantly smaller and lighter, so that is an upside. And the 2K screen is pretty great, I agree that 4K is too much on a laptop, whereas 2K is pretty much perfect.
But I wouldn't buy it again, I think, I'd go back to the Carbon.
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I'm actually thinking my next Thinkpad should have an AMD processor. Intel is just not doing well.
There isn't currently an X1 with AMD, but the T14s with a Ryzen apparently has much better battery life than the Intel model, especially under load.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14s-G3-AMD-laptop-review-Quiet-and-efficient-workhorse-with-Ryzen-power.682906.0.html
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As always, very useful post. I was impressed the size / weight of the current generation Fujitsu Lifebook UH-X. Specs are good, keyboard and touchpads seem fine what I tried it out at Yodobashi a few months ago. I ended up jumping into the Time Machine and went backwards. Picked up a used 2017 MacBook 12" with 16gb of memory. I am still wed to OSX and didn't want to configure another Hackintosh.
Good to hear. I'm no longer tempted by the Nano!