In the past, the definition of office was fairly simple; a computer, a workstation, a cup of tea, Office and Mail for a day.
Now, the office has become more diverse; it may be in the office, it may be at home; it may be in the high-speed rail, it may be at the meeting site; it may still use Office and Mail, and it may also need to add various VPNs and teleconferencing systems… But In any case, the unprecedented abundance of office scenarios and applications has become an indisputable fact.
Then the question arises, what kind of notebook can meet your current and future needs? And what kind of computer can satisfy the enterprise while the employees are satisfied?
A timeless classic
In 2022, the history of ThinkPad series notebooks will be 30 years old. As a legend that continues to this day, ThinkPad has become the common memory of the office and the times for countless people. As a high-end series operated by Lenovo, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which focuses on the ultimate business and ultra-thin and thin, has just passed its 10th year.
I have to say that Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a heavy burden; it is necessary to continue and integrate many classic technologies of the series on the basis of being light to thin, but also keep pace with the times to meet the needs of the new era, new users, and new scenarios. Numerous new demands on notebooks.
Therefore, for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, innovation has become the only choice and main line of development.
And 2022 is another year of innovation for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon; because Lenovo has integrated diverse office needs into product design.
Thin and light, large screen, extreme feel
The premise of achieving the ultimate in office experience is to fill up the experience in terms of basics, and this means that the 2022 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon should go further in terms of size, weight, keyboard, screen and other basic configurations. And in fact, the new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon does not disappoint.
In terms of size, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon still adopts the classic 14-inch design, with a length, width and height of 315.6×222.5×14.9mm and a weight of only 1.12KG; it can be said that the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is lighter than an ordinary 13-inch notebook. Provides a 14-inch screen and a thinner thickness.
In terms of screen, Lenovo has equipped the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with a 16:10 screen with a resolution of 2240×1400. Compared with the traditional 16:9 screen, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon can provide users with more vertical display space, which means that the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon has higher display efficiency in typical applications such as documents, tables, and web browsing.
On this basis, the screen of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon also provides the Rhine-certified hardware low blue light function, which can reduce eye fatigue during long-term office work.
In terms of optional configuration, Lenovo also provides 2.8K OLED 400 nits bright screen and 4K 500 nits super bright screen optional; the former can bring users more transparent color performance, while the latter can be more Good for displaying HDR content and providing better picture readability in sunlight.
The keyboard is still the strength of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The 1.5mm key travel and the resilient rebound force can bring a better long-term input experience, and all this is done on the premise of a 14.9mm slim body. Yes, it can be seen that Lenovo’s keyboard on the ThinkPad is quite deep. Of course, the classic little red dot and three-button design are not absent this time.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon adopts the design of aircraft-grade carbon fiber material A side + skin-like coating C, D side + magnesium alloy frame, so that it can achieve an excellent balance in terms of weight, sturdiness and feel. And the 10-year heritage of this design system is enough to prove its user acceptance.
Massive connections, all in one
The interface is a pain point that many thin and light notebooks cannot remove, but this is not a problem at all for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon provides two full-featured Thunderbolt four ports, two USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports, a full-size HDMI 2.0b port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a NANO SIM card slot.
Since the adapter adopts the Type-C interface, even in the case of an external power supply, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with rich interfaces can ensure that the simultaneous connection of multiple devices and multiple screens is not affected.
The existence of the NANO SIM card slot also proves that the series of iconic 4G LTE network connection capabilities are still not absent. With the 4G network package that comes with the purchase, users can get up to 12 months of nationwide network communication services (including 15GB of monthly data), allowing users to be free when the Wi-Fi signal quality is poor, security cannot be guaranteed, or when the customer’s site is unavailable. Easily connect to the Internet when you get connection authorization, etc., and stay online all the time.
New office, new atmosphere
Remote meetings are an important part of digital office space, and how to ensure the experience of notebooks in this scenario is the key direction for building an all-round user experience. In this regard, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is of course prepared.
First of all, in terms of the crucial camera, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon adopts a new generation of 1080P high-definition camera to ensure that users can participate in the meeting with a clearer appearance. In terms of sound configuration, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon uses speakers with Dolby Voice certification, which can provide a more realistic sound field and vocal restoration during meetings.
At the same time, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon also installed 4 microphones in different positions of the notebook and formed an array through professional algorithms; this not only allows the notebook to pick up sounds clearly, but also makes the user’s voice sound natural and powerful.
In addition, in order to ensure a quiet meeting experience for users, the 2022 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon also adopts a newly designed “aerodynamic” keyboard technology, which allows the notebook to introduce more airflow through the air guide groove under the keyboard to assist heat dissipation.
In this way, the whole machine can cope with higher loads with lower fan speed, reduce noise, and create a quiet environment for various applications. For remote conference scenes with full special effects, the quiet cooling experience can obviously allow users to focus on the content of the conference without being disturbed by fan noise.
With professional software, users can implement a series of functions such as intelligent focus tracking, intelligent noise reduction, intelligent image keying, background replacement, and beauty in the meeting, making online meetings immersive. At the same time, the Wi-Fi 6+LTE dual network configuration can also ensure that users can quickly access the conference under any circumstances without being burdened by the network environment.
A new platform, more pleasing to yourself
As a new upgrade product in 2022, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is equipped with Intel’s 12th-generation Core P-series processors. Taking the relatively mainstream Intel Core i7-1260P processor as an example, its heterogeneous design includes 4 performance cores, 8 energy efficiency cores, can provide 12 task threads, is equipped with 18MB L3 cache, and has a maximum turbo frequency of 4.7GHz. Power consumption 28W.
Through the performance test of CPU-Z 2.1.0.1, the single-thread score is 676.9, and the multi-thread score is 5445.6. (All the following tests are performed with performance mode turned on)
Cinebench is a benchmark developed based on Cinema 4D that reflects the rendering capabilities of the processor. In the R20 version, the single-thread score is 633cb, and the multi-thread score is 3759cb; in the R23 version, the single-thread score is 1656pts, and the multi-thread score is 10035pts.
Geekbench 5 is a popular cross-platform processor performance testing software, divided into three sub-projects: integer, floating point and encryption. In this test, the single-threaded score was 1671 and the multi-threaded score was 9054.
Through PCMark 10 comprehensive test and PCMark 10 application test (including Office three-piece and Edge web browsing) to simulate the actual performance of daily experience, the final score is 5501 respectively.
With the support of Intel 7 technology and a new heterogeneous architecture, the Intel Core i7-1260P processor on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon showed extremely strong performance at the 28W power level. Users can calmly cope with the daily light load brought by various office suites, emails, and remote collaboration systems, and can cope with a certain degree of moderate-to-severe task needs, which is sufficient to cover application scenarios such as office, home, travel, and field work.
And under the blessing of the 58Wh battery, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon equipped with the Intel Core i7-1260P processor can achieve 19 hours of 1080P playback battery life and 14 hours of comprehensive office battery life; it can handle all day field work without an adapter.
At the same time, with the built-in AI computing unit, Intel’s 12th-generation Core series processors can also show better performance in various applications equipped with AI algorithms. And these AI algorithms have been widely used in video rendering, picture rendering, remote conference, data analysis and other software.
In terms of display, the Intel Core i7-1260P processor is equipped with a new generation of Iris Xe core display with 96EU and a maximum operating frequency of 1.4GHz. Provide mainstream audio-visual entertainment experience; fully meet the needs of modern office and light entertainment.
On this basis, Lenovo also provides Intel vPro platform Essentials series processors for the ThinkPad X1 Carbon as an optional configuration, which can help enterprises achieve hardware-level remote management of notebooks and rich security functions.
Intel vPro platform is divided into two series of products, namely the Enterprise series for large enterprises and the Essentials series for small and medium-sized enterprises and departmental users. The two are basically the same in terms of basic management and security functions. The main difference is that the Enterprise series has added the stable IT platform plan support that is more important to large enterprises to obtain longer-term driver, BIOS, and firmware services.
At the management level, the Intel vPro platform has powerful hardware out-of-band management capabilities. Through the EMA platform deployed in the cloud or on-premises, authorized operation and maintenance personnel can realize functions such as restarting, powering on and off, and modifying BIOS settings without relying on the operating system when the computer is connected to the network cable and power supply.
For various software and operating system problems encountered during field work, business trips or home office, such remote operation and maintenance functions are undoubtedly of great significance; it can help enterprises to build work that covers more scenarios and has higher reliability flow, and greatly reduce the workload and cost of operation and maintenance.
At the security level, the hardware security shield design on the Intel vPro platform can realize automatic security protection at multiple levels. First of all, the hardware security shield can authenticate the underlying software such as BIOS and firmware to the root of the trust, preventing the hidden dangers of intrusion and data leakage caused by illegal BIOS and firmware.
At the operating system level, the hardware security shield can protect the OS, drivers, application software and processes in real time, preventing various code injections, viruses and malicious mining behaviors.
On the other hand, the hardware security shield of the Intel vPro platform also incorporates advanced AI security algorithms, which can predict the running results of various codes. The Intel vPro platform automatically terminates code execution once it is found that the execution of some code may threaten system security or cause data leakage. As a result, the Intel vPro platform has the ability to deal with unknown threats and prevent threats before they occur.
On the one hand, it can greatly improve the convenience and implementability of computer operation and maintenance through out-of-band management functions, and on the other hand, it can greatly reduce security risks and failure probability through advanced security design; Build the overall TCO of the new generation of digital office space, so that enterprises and employees can focus more on business flow and workflow, leaving enough space for innovation and growth.
At the same time, the addition of the Essentials and Enterprise series also makes the vPro platform more widely applicable and can adapt to the needs and characteristics of different business scenarios.
EVO certification makes the experience visible
In order to create an all-round high-quality business experience, Lenovo’s technology incorporated into the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is massive and multi-layered. But if you want non-professionals to understand the mystery, it is impossible to do it in a row. In order to help enterprises and individual users make purchases more conveniently, Lenovo sent the ThinkPad X1 Carbon to Intel’s official laboratory and obtained the third-generation Intel EVO certification.
This means that Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is equipped with the latest Intel 12th generation Core or vPro computing platform at the hardware level, which can provide strong basic performance;
Able to wake up in 1 second in sleep state and quickly enter working state;
Can guarantee to provide more than 9 hours of battery life;
Able to get at least 4 hours of battery life from a 30-minute charge;
Able to obtain higher network connection speed and quality through a Wi-Fi 6-compliant network card;
A better audio-visual entertainment experience can be achieved through the Iris Xe display core; higher-definition display output and higher-speed expansion connections can be achieved through the 40Gb/s bandwidth Thunderbolt quad interface…
Or to put it more simply, the three letters of EVO represent a high-quality and comprehensive application experience.
Office, it’s that simple!
Repeated epidemics, intensified competition, and rapid changes in the market have made employees and companies experience the difficulties of contemporary office work and the importance of flexible workflow. Therefore, when choosing an office platform for digital office space and future needs, companies and employees need to consider more and more complex factors. Performance, experience, management, security… Each area corresponds to a large number of basic knowledge and choices. It is difficult to tune the mouth, not to mention the color and flavor.
The answer given by Lenovo is very simple. Through a full range of technology and design innovation, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon represents the upper limit of the experience of today’s 14-inch thin and light business notebooks. It is a combination of technology and experience, and it is a variety of needs Complete and minimalist answer.
This reduction of complexity also coincides with the ultimate technology and simple selection concept represented by Intel’s EVO certification, Vpro Essentials platform, and Core platform.
It is certain that the future office needs will be more complex and diverse; but with the joint efforts of Intel, Lenovo and countless ICT people, users’ choices can be simpler, and the office experience and management efficiency can be improved. new level.
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