Deal | Lenovo ThinkPad X9 with 32 GB RAM and excellent 2.8K OLED display discounted by $710 on official store

In our review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14-inch laptop, we deemed the laptop the "closest competitor to the MacBook Air", and for good reason. The X9 sports an excellent 2.8K display, fast Intel Lunar Lake SoCs, and excellent battery life.

Courtesy of an ongoing sale over at Lenovo's official online store, the excellent ThinkPad X9 laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 7 268V CPU and 32 GB RAM is now available for just $1,399, indicating a massive $701 discount. No coupons are necessary, but interested customers are definitely advised to be aware of the time-sensitive nature of such deals.

ThinkPad X9: Good day-to-day performance, 32 GB RAM

The Intel Core Ultra 7 268V CPU powering the ThinkPad X9 is definitely a powerful chip, sporting an 8-core, 8-thread setup that allows the processor to trade blows with an Apple M3, and is only slightly behind the upcoming Core Ultra 7 355 in synthetic multicore benchmarks.

Our in-depth review of the ThinkPad X9 laptop with a slightly less powerful chip paints a positive picture, revealing very little room for complaint in terms of day-to-day performance.

Even under sustained loads, performance manages to maintain respectable levels. When unplugged, there is hardly any change in overall snappiness. Of course, Apple's M4 and M5 SoCs are well ahead in benchmarks, but folks with moderately intensive workloads will not have much to complain about.

There is no discrete GPU, although the Arc 140V iGPU is far from a slouch. In synthetic GPU benchmarks, the Arc 140V easily outshines competing iGPUs, such as the Radeon 890M and Radeon 880M. Needless to say, high-end AAA gaming is still off the cards, but some lightweight gaming at modest settings should be perfectly doable.

Beautiful 2.8K OLED display with 120 Hz refresh rate

As we have come to expect from Lenovo, the ThinkPad's 14-inch OLED display is simply excellent. The 2880 x 1800 panel rocks a 120 Hz refresh rate, along with a claimed 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut and 500 nits of peak brightness. The variant we tested was fitted with an inferior 1200p OLED panel, but we did find that the panel indeed covers almost the entire DCI-P3 color gamut.

The ThinkPad X9 laptop's fans do spin up when under load, with noise emissions on the louder side. Surface temperatures stay within tolerable limits, and battery life is perfectly adequate for most users, lasting over 14 hours in our WiFi web browsing test.

Clearly, the ThinkPad X9 is a solid laptop with many positives, and should be a great purchase for most people at its current sale price.

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