Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook Announced

Lenovo is up to something really spectacular. It is trying to get the title of a manufacturer to ever release the lightest 14-inch ultrabook in the form of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon which has been announced today together with other powerful ThinkPad devices. Just so everyone knows, Lenovo is actually going for the high-end market so we can expect that ThinkPad X1 Carbon would be sporting Intel’s Ivy Bridge. But let’s try to look a bit closer into this ultrabook to see what the company has in store for us and what does it mean when it said it’d be releasing really powerful devices.

First, let’s try to see what made this ultrabook fairly powerful by looking into the properties of its processor (CPU). Lenovo hasn’t revealed much information yet only that it said ThinkPad X1 Carbon would be sporting the third generation Intel Core or the i3 core. So far, Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs are the most powerful ones that even Apple will use for its next geneation iMac and MacBook Pro. Lenovo however, didn’t go further into using even more advanced and powerful Ivy Bridge chips like i5 or i7 simply because for professional use, a dual-core CPU is enough to keep everything running. But for an ultrabook as thin and as light as ThinkPad X1 Carbon, we are even lucky to get i3.
While the amount of RAM to be used in this device hasn’t been revealed yet, we are inclined to believe it will sport at least 4 GB of RAM to optimize the its performance considering it will operate on Windows 7 64-bit. It is the most typical size of RAM for laptops like this but it could even go up to 8 GB and in this case it is not impossible. The least we can hope for is for this ultrabook to support even up to 16GB of random access memory. Basing on its design, Lenovo has apparently done a good job with sleeker innovations. One of which is the Carbon Fiber enclosure. You might have asked yourself why it’s called ThinkPad X1 Carbon, now you know why.

Lenovo chose to use carbon fiber instead of ordinary plastic because primarily it is very durable. If you’ve not known yet, carbon fiber is also used as coverings for racing cars because of its durability and being lightweight. That’s exactly what the designers of this ultrabook thought when deciding the best material to embrace the delicate yet powerful hardware inside. Besides, this material is glossy and couldn’t easily be bruised. But one of the features of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook is its 14-inch display that works perfectly with Vibrant Hi-Resolution technology to provide more vivid, clearer and deeper display. Plus, you’ll be getting a fairly high resolution at 1600 x 900 pixels.

If you’ve noticed, Lenovo is more inclined to offering entertainment features and the same is true with this ultrabook; you will be enjoying the Dolby Home Theater v4 audio plus the ThinkPad Enhanced Experience 3.0 software to make everything about this device beautiful. And don’t be surprised if the front-facing camera could record HD videos of up to 720p @30fps featuring Face Tracking functionality because that’s just one of the many things you can get from Lenovo devices.