Lenovo: ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Kaby Lake leaked

[Redaktion]

Business laptops (like ThinkPads) are still based on the older Skylake CPUs. Now, the top model of Lenovo´s upcoming Kaby Lake lineup has been leaked, the new X1 Carbon.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-with-Kaby-Lake-leaked.187374.0.html

[Anonym]

Now THAT is one really sexy Thinkpad! It looks like they have a winner here, now it all boils down to pricing, display-lottery and availability.

If they get that right, I think they will really "steal" a lot of MBP users!

[ti]

Can it run Linux ? If not I'll just skip it.

[senzen]

Preinstalled Linux with no backdoors or malware, OLED option... It would be THE laptop to have. Highly unlikely but still.

[Anonym]

Preinstalled Linux with no backdoors or malware, OLED option... It would be THE laptop to have. Highly unlikely but still.

The Thinkpad line is pretty much another company within Lenovo, you should not mistake what happened with Lenovo's consumer models (Superfish) with what you'll get in a Thinkpad.

Linux support is pretty much the bread-and-butter of a Thinkpad. Pre-installed? Probably not, as they don't want to give costumer support for Linux issues (buy RHEL for that)... however a FreeDOS version, maybe.