Lenovo ThinkPad X9 15 Aura Edition Laptop Review - The MacBook Air rival is very good, even without a TrackPoint

[Redaktion]

Lenovo's new ThinkPad X9 is a completely new design and convinces with long battery runtimes as well as an excellent OLED screen. However, Lenovo also breaks with a tradition and does not include a TrackPoint anymore.

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[Dom]

If I bought this Thinkpad, the first thing I would do is send it back. A Thinkpad without a track point is misleading advertising. Call it something else.

[Belikov Sergey]

Until it has fans it is not a MacBook Air rival.

[govance]

Any information on Linux (with recent kernel) support?

[davidm]

It would be nice if Notebookcheck would understand the consumer's point of view, not make excuses for manufacturers. Glad you didn't miss the trackpoint, but you probably don't use it that often and it's a totally different input type than a pad. For activities where the cursor is only occasionally moved, the pad is fine, otherwise the only thing better than a trackpoint would be eye or mind control.

[Bizarro_NikoB]

Whoever made this abomination should be fired. This will be discontinued within 1-2 generations like the Z series.

[Bizarro_NikoB]

Also, they should have marketed this as a ThinkBook since it has that design language instead of a ThinkPad.

[Randy]

Lunar Lake proves intel can match two year old Apple Silicon in battery life, at half the performance and with a robust fan to keep from melting.

[Nick Evans]

otherwise the only thing better than a trackpoint would be eye or mind control.

I've heard rumors of a revolutionary new type of pointing device that is under development, and that is vastly superior to both trackpads and trackpoints. They call it a "mouse".

[Bizarro_NikoB]

I've heard rumors of a revolutionary new type of pointing device that is under development, and that is vastly superior to both trackpads and trackpoints. They call it a "mouse".

Pics or it didn't happen!  :P

[AIPAC]

Not going far enough here Lenovo. Until they decide to remove the trackpoint from every single ThinkPad, I'll continue to personally boycott the brand.

[Puppy]

The half-size up/down cursor keys is like a cancer :-( Only gaming models have remained to have useable keyboards these days.

[Francer]

Compared to MacBook Air I'm not sure it's better. I'm pretty concerned about graphics, does it lag when playing block blast?

[Joe]

Great Review, So on the topic of PWM. I have been trying a few OLED Laptops, was very excited for my X9. Opened and used it for 4 day. I cant looked at the screen for more the 5-10 minutes with out have eye pain that last hours. Now i do notice this X9 has 1200hz so now wondering why the screen was bothering my eyes? any help would be great as for it my favorite laptop ever.

[Puppy]

I cant looked at the screen for more the 5-10 minutes with out have eye pain that last hours. Now i do notice this X9 has 1200hz so now wondering why the screen was bothering my eyes? any help would be great as for it my favorite laptop ever.

1200 Hz is high enough, typical mobile screen has around 250 Hz only. There may be a diferent issue. The display resolution (density) is quite low for a 15" screen (I'd accept 4K at least) and OLED use different subpixel matrix than LCD screens that looks more unreadable in low resolutions. I've seen a 1920x1200 15" OLED that was absolutely awful, there were always red shadows next to white text on black background as a result of the low resolution and different subpixel matrix. I wasn't able to use it at all. 4K screen was ok, as the resolution is high enough to hide it.