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All computers are increasingly moving to the touch interface. This is also the case that under Intel Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Lenovo's X1 Carbon Touch. Is this touchscreen is a gimmick? Find us on this model the signature of the Dell XPS M1530 brand? An affirmative answer in both cases, but look at it more closely ...
There are now more than a year, the Chinese Lenovo Thinkpad X1 released her, the first Ultrabook brand that offered an interesting finesse while keeping what makes Lenovo brand for mobile professionals. But the Chinese company - which bought the brand from XPS M1330 many years ago - did not not stop in so good way, and corrected some design his dell laptop to offer this time X1 Carbon in the middle of last year.
Following the arrival of Windows 8 and its interface with tiles (!), Manufacturers add the touch around for the best use of the latest version of Microsoft's operating system. Lenovo is no cut and is launching a version of "Touch" its X1 Carbon early this year. Several configurations with two Intel Ivy Bridge processors to choose from, either a Core i5-3427U dual-core 1.8 GHz with HyperThreading and Turbo to 2.8 GHz; either a Core i7-3667U also two hearts at 2 GHz with HyperThreading and Turbo to 3.2 GHz. The Latitude E5500 test model has the first processor with 4GB of RAM and an Intel SSD 180 GB
With 1.55 kg on the scale, this measure X1 Carbon Touch 2.085 cm thick and 33.1 cm 22.6 cm. It will easily fit in bags and other backpacks market. Its dimensions allow drag slab 14 "for a definition of 1600 x 900 with a tactile layer plus ten points at which a special treatment that gives it a slight matte effect is noticed. Reflections will be mainly avoided, although some may . still persist as with a window in the back, for example, the point of view of the Latitude E6500 quality of the panel, the display is good enough as it displays a deltaE of 4.3 and a contrast ratio of 614: 1.
An Ultrabook like the others?
Outside the slab, this notebook Lenovo offers a variety of ports to operate as a mobile USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatible mobile recharge even in standby, or mini DisplayPort output and SD memory card / MMC without forgetting the Dell studio 1555 headphone combo port and Kensington lock on the table made. Open, we discover a large keyboard on five rows of keys and an extra row for the function keys.
If Lenovo has not abandoned the Trackpoint system familiar to users of the brand, an extra large touchpad is available. Because yes, the X1 Carbon Touch has a share of a touchscreen, but also a multipoint touchpad. To use the pointing Dell studio 1558 devices come to coexist, the duo trackpoint / touchpad is useful for common tasks and tactile slab for games or scrolling documents like on a tablet.
Since we are talking about use, mobility is his chosen field. While lightness therefore, a range of more than 6 hours and 30 minutes is measured with brightness set at 30% and assets to meet the WiFi emails, browse the Inspiron 1300 web and write documents of all kinds. Video playback, it comes out a little worse since making the soul after four hours. In all cases, the X1 Carbon Touch is far enough from the 8.5 hours promised by Lenovo on its product page.
A word about the scalability ...
In general, this notebook is still widely exploitable mobility plus a 3G SIM card reader. Autonomy is substantially identical with native support of the card by Windows 8. To insert it, simply see on the back at the turn of the slab. But by removing the Dell studio 1535 machine, it can be seen that the internal cables keep the original layout of the old system PC brand by going straight to the top of the screen.
Speaking disassembly, this time it is much easier to change a keyboard or a 3G card on this model compared to the X220 for example. Simply remove seven screws found on the tower of the machine below for full access to the motherboard, keyboard and pointing device twice or communication cards. However, it will take into account when buying the RAM is soldered directly on the motherboard. It will then not be possible to make a hardware upgrade in the future, too bad. Even fighting on the side of the XPS M1210 hard drive as the slot used here does not drag a 2.5 "hard drive inside, the space is mainly occupied by the battery. Storing is entrusted to a SSD array.
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