I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9 that I recently bought and I'm considering to upgrade to Windows 11 but I've read online that there's a big battery issue reported by users with laptops, a downgrade from 16 hour battery life to approximately 10 hours for someone with the same laptop as me (Was posted a couple months ago).
Laptop specs:
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CPU: Intel Core i7-1185G7
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RAM: 16GB
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GPU: Integrated Intel Iris Xe
Can anyone with the same laptop or with a Thinkpad laptop in general that upgraded to windows 11 confirm if this issue still exists.
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Proud owner of a 2022 X1 Carbon Gen 9 here. Picked it up about 3 weeks ago. When I first booted to Windows 10 I quickly got on with getting it to Windows 11.
In the week following I found that battery life was trash, performance was pretty poor, and worst of all the display just looked all wrong (colour balance, clarity etc.).
I then downgraded back to Windows 10 and voila all problems solved.
My question is, has anyone else experienced similar? And because I cannot sit on Windows 10 past October has anyone had luck with a clean install of Windows 11 or other tweaks providing better results?
The processor in my gen 5 doesn't qualify, thinking of getting a newer model off ebay. Thanks.
I want to buy a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon 14in Laptop | i7-6600U 2.6GHz | 16GB | 256GB | W10 and wonder if it can be upgraded to Windows 11 without any hacks because of the hardware. I don't know if the laptop is 6th generation.
Thanks for any advice