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PRICE As reviewed, £1,808 (£2,170 inc VAT) from lenovo.com
From Lenovo's point of view, the great thing about Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops – which we’ll review next month – is that they make its ThinkPad X1 Carbon series look like good value. The top-end 14in MacBook Pro costs £2,399, but you can currently purchase this flagship and mobile broadband version of the X1 Carbon for £2,170.
For that, you enjoy a three-year on-site warranty and premium components. A Core i7-1165G7 CPU, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD make for a potent combination, with the latter returning blistering sequential rates: 5,384MB/sec reads and 3,581MB/sec writes. Multicore scores of 5,229 in Geekbench 5 and 4,756 in Cinebench R23 aren’t as extraordinary, but the X1 Carbon has enough power and…
