Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (14-inch, 2015) Series

86% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

High-resolution, high-quality screen ; Excellent keyboard ; Light, impressive exterior ; Good upgradability ; Three-year warranty included

Screen quality beaten elsewhere ; Battery life good but not the best ; Bigger and heavier than ultrabook rivals ; Business features add to price

Smaller and lighter in every way ; Improved Microsoft Precision Touchpad ; Windows 10 Signature Edition cuts bloatware

Expensive

Lenovo refines the already excellent ThinkPad X1 Carbon, making it smaller and lighter, while cutting bloatware and adding more power with Kaby Lake processors.

Excellent, reliable performance ; The very best keyboard and trackpad ; Thin and solid build quality

Paradoxically glare-prone anti-glare coating ; Still no SD card reader ; Unimpressive battery life

The Lenovo X1 Carbon offers reliable performance with a stellar keyboard, but short battery life and a glare-filled screen are two untenable problems.

Thin and impressively light; Great battery life; Excellent port options; Superb design; 14in thin bezel screen

Display performance is average at best; Pricey

While not the thinnest ultrabook around, it is certainly one of the lightest, offering excellent portability and one of the most generous array of ports and optional extras we have seen on a device. It's built from the ground up to be a business...

The big issue with the X1 Carbon is its staggering price. Just like the pricey HP EliteBook Folio 1020, you'll have to wave goodbye to a huge chunk of your IT budget if you want a fully-loaded model equipped with a high-DPI touchscreen.

Lenovo said that it didn't go for an Intel Core M design with the upgrade and instead opted for the chipmaker's latest 5th-gen Core processor. The model we tested was running a Core i7 chip, so felt super fast in our hands-on.

There's no denying the portable nature of this thin 'n' light laptop, even if it is undercut in both metrics by a 13.3-inch MacBook Air. The ThinkPad's processor performance is fractionally faster thanks to its 0.1 GHz advantage over the latter, but...

High-quality keyboard ; Solid build quality ; Great portability

An IPS screen isn't standard ; No SD card slot

Lenovo’s flagship ThinkPad has aged well. While it doesn’t seem as svelte as it once did, it remains a ruggedly built, quick machine with outstanding portability. There are elements that could be better, such as the display, but the Carbon proved at...