Warning: English is not my native language, so I asked an AI to rephrase my text a bit while keeping the original as much as possible. Sorry if this annoys anyone

Background: I bought a new Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen10 model on March 10, 2023, for ~2700 USD. Before this model, I owned a MacBook Pro 2019 and an ASUS Rog Strix G513 gaming laptop. This was my first and likely last model from Lenovo. Initially, I was very happy with this product.

My use cases for the laptop: Mostly software development, Browse the internet. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a workhorse that should handle things like:

• Support for modern code editors like vscode and Jetbrains (Goland, Rider, Android Studio), often multiple instances along with testing programs.

• Containers, emulators, and virtual machines (WSL/Hyper-V, Docker, Android emulators).

• Browsers, messengers, and related productivity tools.

Pros:

• The best keyboard on the market, IMHO. Even external mechanical keyboards like Keychron can't compare to the comfort and pleasant feel of working with the native one.

• Ergonomic body. 14 inches, pleasant to the touch, light, and thin. The dream and ideal of what a laptop should be.

• Many smart features like fingerprint reader and Face ID.

• Security features thanks to integration with Lenovo enterprise services.

• Compliance with protection standards (at least on paper, like water and dust resistance, etc.).

Cons:

• TERRIBLE, SILLY processor. It's literally incapable of doing anything. Under minimal load, it operates within 75-95 degrees Celsius, causing constant throttling.

• TERRIBLE battery life. Don't even dream of working for more than 2.5-3 hours on battery under MEDIUM load.

• AWFUL cooling performance. The fans practically don't cope even with medium load.

• Ultimately, the build quality didn't meet the expectations of reliability and quality that everyone praised so much. When opening the display, it creaks. The physical buttons above the touchpad can also sometimes make creaking sounds. After 2 years of use, the fan started making sounds similar to a duck quacking, and then completely failed.

• Awful speaker sound.

• Display brightness is insufficient, especially after the Retina screen on the MacBook Pro.

In the end, I am completely disappointed with this product. The CPU overheating issues are killing me... it has become a huge blocker for me and stopping my work, effectively turning the laptop from a "workhorse" into an "anchor" that, instead of performing its tasks and making my life productive, only poisons it.

The maximum it's good for is doing various tasks in a browser and watching videos. only then it can compete with other laptops from the cheap segment.

Analyzing the cost I paid for it, I get tilted and feel like I was scammed. For the same price now, I could have bought Apple products with ARM chips and gotten a performance increase of several hundred times, be able to work using battery at least 6h and it wouldn't burn my hands/legs. I would have excellent sound quality and could even run LLMs locally or play modern games on maximum settings (spoiler: the Thinkpad can't even launch simple indie games like Raft or Liar's Bar).

Who is to blame for this? I don't know. Maybe other Lenovo models are far better, and the main problem is the HORRIFIC Intel processors that have pissed me off so much that I will never buy their products again, no matter what they are. I've seen reviews that older Thinkpad X1 models with AMD processors work much better and more stably.

so finally conclusion: I've had enough suffering, and likely in the very near future, I will try to buy a new MacBook Pro with an M4 processor and forget all this like a bad dream. But for now, I am deeply disappointed.

P.S.: Yes, guys, I changed the thermal paste, perform regular cleanings, the laptop does not operate on unstable surfaces like in the bed.

I also tested all possible OS, including Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Chrome OS Flex. The last two performed particularly well, these problems weren't as obvious with them. But due to work, I am temporarily forced to use Windows.

Thanks to those who read this far. Share your experiences with the X1 line, it's very interesting to hear about