We had such hopes for Intel's Ultrabook movement. With the first clarion call, we dreamed of a PC that would shatter Apple's monopoly on high-quality ultra-thin-and-light notebooks. In the first year of the Ultrabook campaign, we saw a few possible claimants to the throne, but in general, each entry was more disappointing than the last. The machines became notorious for using workarounds like larger screens (a 14-inch monitor in a 13-inch body!) and hard disk drives with flash caches (rather than actual solid-state drives) to skirt Intel's Ultrabook speed and size requirements.
Nearly a year after Intel launched the initiative, manufacturers have finally taken the Ultrabook specs to heart. Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon reflects what we feel is the true spirit of an Ultrabook: a light, thin body with powerful internals. Lenovo gets it. At long last, PCs have a real shot at the segment Apple has been dominating for years with the MacBook Air.
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First, the waifish body: at a base 2.99 pounds, 0.31 inches at its thinnest point, and 0.74 inches at its thickest, the X1 Carbon has similar dimensions to the MacBook Air (2.96 pounds and 0.68 inches at its thickest). But that's the 13-inch MacBook Air; the X1 Carbon actually has a 14-inch 1600×900 screen packed into a "13-inch body," as hardware manufacturers are recently so fond of saying. The extra display area is noticeable compared to a 13-inch computer, yet our backs and shoulders don't suffer any more for the extra real estate. And when we say 13-inch body, we mean it; the X1 Carbon is 13.03 inches wide by 8.9 inches deep, comparing well with the MacBook Air at 12.8 by 8.94 inches.
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