I received an X1 Carbon gen 13 after 5 weeks preordering and used it for 5 days. I come from a MacBook Pro M1pro 14", and my last Thinkpad was a X1 gen 8 for work.

I am overall very disappointed by the machine.

The good:

• light and strong chassis

• good battery life, I was getting ~7hours on typical excel+browser screen at 80% brightness

• responsive enough for my use case

• very reactive next day on site warranty (tested in Tokyo)

The Bad:

• Noises! Cracking sounds and coil whine just enough to be a pain in a quiet room

• Fan Noise. The fans have a high frequency noise, that gets higher and louder when the fan speed increases, Tested with tpfan manual option to be sure it was independent of the load. I had the fans replaced under the next day warranty and they have the same issue.

• trackpad: with physical buttons, it is small and unresponsive especially compared to my Mac

The screen and keyboard are Ok but nothing to write about.

Coming from a MacBook Pro I feel that Lenovo is cutting corners on their top of the line expensive machine. Better capacitors, fans and trackpad could make this machine so much more enjoyable. Variable refresh rate display wouldn't hurt either.

At this price point it is not acceptable to me. I so much wanted to like it and replace my Mac with it.

I also forgot, but in Japan at least their return policy is quasi-inexistant. If you opened the box then you are stuck with the machine. Coil whine and noise fans are not recognized as an issue to return or replace the machine, hence why I had the fans replaced under warranty. Some other brand have a 14days no question asked return policy.

My fault for not reading the fine print I suppose