Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Reviews

Bought a factory refurbished Gen 13 and is returning it: lightweight with good battery, but browsers froze and loaded slowly and the fans made a high pitched noise.

Their Gen 13 (i5 226V, OLED VRR) gets only about 5 hours on a clean, tuned Windows install at lowest brightness, far below published reviews.

Their unit bricked after a failed BIOS update, was fixed under warranty and then showed the same no-boot behavior again; disappointed after several earlier Carbons were trouble free.

Their WiFi card failed after a BIOS update, which they suspect is an Embedded Controller firmware power issue; as a first ThinkPad it has been a terrible experience.

They had a Gen 13 Aura Edition (Core Ultra 7 255U) running Arch Linux, found the battery poor and sold it for another ThinkPad.

They own the Gen 13 on Lunar Lake and after six months of trying distros and drivers still get audio pops, headphone problems, wake issues and Wayland frame drops.

Their Gen 13 X1 Carbon had its motherboard fail twice and they consider it just not a good computer.

Had the same browser freezing problem on this machine, their fourth X1 and by far the worst.

Found the Gen 13 smooth overall but not right for their needs: light games barely held 60fps and the keyboard often stopped registering typing, and they returned it.

Their Gen 13 trackpad goes erratic when used on a couch or bed; Lenovo sent someone to replace it and it seems somewhat better, though they wonder about a grounding problem.