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Price about to drop: More options for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 incoming, including IPS screens and Ultra 5 CPUs

Price about to drop: More options for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 incoming, including IPS screens and Ultra 5 CPUs (image source: Benjamin Herzig)
Price about to drop: More options for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 incoming, including IPS screens and Ultra 5 CPUs (image source: Benjamin Herzig)
Lenovo is currently selling its expensive flagship business laptop, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13, with very limited options. That is about to change: WUXGA IPS displays, Ultra 5 CPUs and 5G/4G enabled models of the premium ThinkPad laptop are on the way.

Announced at IFA 2024 back in September, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 had a successful, albeit limited, launch in November. The expensive premium ThinkPad laptop was made available with only a single CPU, the Intel Core Ultra 7 268V and one screen option, a terrific, but also expensive and power-hungry 2.8K 120 Hz OLED screen. The only available option was the choice between a 1 TB or 2 TB SSD. We reviewed the ThinkPad X1 Carbon G13 in December and found it to be an excellent device, thanks to the efficiency of Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs.

However, the one hardware configuration available is clearly not for everyone - the OLED screen has PWM, and it reduces battery life compared to IPS options. Also, it is expensive, same goes for the Ultra 7. Plus, the X1 Carbon Gen 13 was lacking a 4G or 5G modem option, normally a staple of the ThinkPad laptop series. Accordingly, one of our critiques for the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon was the lack of configuration options.

Things are about to change: Lenovo is readying several new options for the X1 Carbon Gen 13, including Ultra 5 CPUs with 16 GB RAM and IPS screens, which will bring the price of the premium ThinkPad down. While Lenovo has not announced anything yet, these options are already listed on Lenovo's parts lookup support site, and they include:

When exactly Lenovo will make these options available is unclear at this point - however, a good guess would probably be February 2025, which is when the convertible variant of the X1 Carbon Gen 13, the ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura Edition, will also launch.

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Benjamin Herzig, 2025-01- 9 (Update: 2025-01- 9)