Hi,

how is it possible that you have this laptop with NVMe disk? All over the internet is spread that x1 carbon 2015 BIOS doesnt support NVMe. Actually I bought 970 Evo NVMe and bios complains about this: Detection error on SSD0 (M.2). Any suggestions please?

I do not have a meter for screen brigthness, but this laptop has a screen which (too) agressively adapts to external ambient light. By default this dims the screen even with AC attached (you can disable this feature in the extended power settings). With the feature disabled the WQHD panel should provide the listed 300 nits (the HD+ panel is 250 nits). Without any measurements taken I would guess that the 300 nits measurement is right for this laptop as it is just a tad bit dimmer than my ZenBook with its bright screen of 330 nits. So the QHD panel is definitely not 250 nits IMHO. Thanks...

Great Laptop. For the Aussies in here, www.nomarkup.com.au has Lenovo X1 Carbon ThinkPad's for COST PRICE. Gen 4 and Gen 5. Check it out https://www.nomarkup.com.au/shop/notebooks/lenovo-x1-carbon-g4-i5-6300u/

Yes you heard right. Nomarkup sells products at wholesale value. See for youself.

Does anyone know if it's possible to swap the X1 Carbon 2nd gen keyboard with this new X1 Carbon 3rd gen?

The 2nd gen keyboard pisses me off so much. I constantly get the urge to drop kick it into an industrial shreader

In addition Lenovo Service is the worst ever. Wanted to check it out and got one.
My X1 Carbon came with a flickering screen caused by a crack hidden under the frame. Lenonvo refused to exchange since the crack meanwhile has spread over whole screen. That is called fraud not warranty.

Tell me please, how you can give this laptop score 87% with such a bad display. Brightness of this one is ridiculous bad. Work on this more than half hour is impossible - eyes pain ... it is very bad product ...

No, this should be the PCIe slot for a WWAN module.

Hey I noticed in the pic of the M.2 SSD there is an empty slot above it.  Will an mSATA fit in there? 

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IMHO, the absence of FHD option is a show-stopper. There are still lots of apps which won't properly resize with super-high resolution displays. 

Sorry, forgot to mention, that was for 3dMark06.

For Furmark, running at 1280x720, in three different benchmark runs.

Pre-1.06 Bios:
569
557
532

1.06 Bios:
631
620
632

Were the X1 Carbons tested with the BIOS version 1.06 or higher?  One of the changes in that revision promised improved graphics performance.  In my own testing, (i7 5600u, 8GB model) I did notice increases in some tests:

3dMark Score Old:
7255
Sm2.0: 2563
SM3.0: 3045
CPU: 3618

X1 Carbon: 1.06 BIOS
3dmark score:
8056
Sm2.0: 2846
Sm3.0: 3384
CPU: 4002

Pros cons still in german :(

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