ThinkPad X9 Review: Good Not Great

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00:00 Intro
00:58 CPU Performance
01:32 GPU Performance
02:04 Heat & Fan Noise
02:49 Battery Life
03:54 Chassis
04:42 Display
05:41 Keyboard
06:58 Trackpad
07:29 Ports and Communications
07:52 Speakers
08:19 Webcam
08:27 Upgradeability
08:52 Linux
09:01 Pricing & Conclusion

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[andrianridhariawan]

For me, this is more like ThinkBook than ThinkPad

[zakerahmad]

I'm loving my X9. Its simple, elegant, a delight to carry, has fantastic trackpad, keyboard feel much better than all my past Asus, and a daylong battery life for all my work. For its form factor, dimensions and price range - its very well made.
Edit: I'm using a X9 14".

[pewpewpower]

So many of the negatives (battery, ports, fan noise, speed) are probably resolved in the 15” model. Hope that review comes out soon. It’s almost like a diff laptop on paper.

[RobertLindberg-cvvj]

Yes I would have wanted to see the 15 ich too. Over at Notebookcheck they really liked the 15 incher. Although they didnt say much about the flexing keyboard, did it flex much when typing? So I use mostly cloud services like Canva, AI in the cloud, then the standard emailing, youtube, streaming channels, google apps etc even a fantasy map maker I am interested in is in the cloud. I guess this qualifies for light use as you say? I wouldnt want the fans to kick in for those tasks. I wast thinking of the 15 inch with with 32 gb of ram, 1 tb storage with 268v. This sounds like enough to not have any fan noise? Overall, how will lunar lake age? Will it keep with the years?

[AndrzejC]

Looking forward to 15 inch version to be tested. This should be better in noise/performance and battery life

[fearlessfishman]

My 15" X9 is pretty much silent most of the time. With 32GB RAM it serves my development needs pretty well.

[ts]

Question: is the anti-reflective tech a plastic layer over a glass screen? or is the screen simply glass and not some wierd plastic or material?

[cameronbosch]

Honestly, if you want a good Linux laptop around this price point and don't need a dGPU, just get a Framework Laptop 13. It has perfect and official Linux support, it has much better upgradability, more ports, and the keyboard is better. Plus, with the removal of the trackpoint and touchpad buttons on this ThinkPad, there's really no benefit to this model over the Framework.

[kimochi]

"Isn't overpriced for a thinkpad" because it's not a thinkpad.
It should have been a thinkbook in the first place

[rl]

I thought this is comparable with yoga slim 7i aura? But you didnt mention it at all

[cameronbosch]

Is it weird I cannot see any OLED screen door effect on any laptop and weird I'm not sensitive to PWM?

[Maxrc]

in the benchmarks you guys have it as an ultra 7 and not the Ultra 5 with the 130v graphics?

[chaincraft_kda]

How is the X1 Carbon performance so much better if they are running the same processor (Intel Core Ultra 7 258V)?

[wgm]

Im returning my x9 15.3". It's perfect in every way apart from the fact the 2.8k OLED at 150% or even 100% scaling is not clear - there is some ghosting. It's the touch version. I also noticed PWM setting the brightness just two notches down from max which is disappointing. The best screen ive seen is on the yoga pro 9i 16" MINILED.

[gplusplus]

The video doesn't mention whether or not their review unit had a touchscreen, which makes a significant difference with the screen door effect. Also, the video reviews the 14 inch version and doesn't event mention differences with the 15, which are significant, but they still posted affiliate links for the 15 inch in the video description, which is slimy. I hope to see improvements in your future videos.

[Tom-eugq]

testing linux without updating is kinda misleading, when installing windows without the manufacturer software, most of these keyboard key functions don't work either. On linux once you updated to the latest kertel version available for the distro, you won't have those basic issues.
Your way of testing doen't mention that you didn't or did update fedora to the latest version. Also you don't mention that if the PC has just been released that those keyboard functions will be added (not bluetooth and wifi, those depend on the wifi and bluetooth card that have kernel drivers much faster)

[--DM]

Great review! Totally agree that this laptop is about $200-300 too expensive for what you get. I would add 2 things.
1) Lenovo super hypes this laptop as super duper AI+, where in reality I couldn't find any AI features that would work offline or would be genuinely beneficial to Developers, Business Analysts, Engineers, Enterprise Architects
2) Albeit it is marketed as a superior screen - in reality for some reason colour accuracy is off and working with documents sometimes shows pixels. I would say it is only ~90% colour accurate and for example 4 yr old Mac or 3 year 3-year-old Dell XPS significantly inferior displays look and feel better.

[jonathanng]

I know this is late but why haven't you guys ever reviewed the Honor Magicbook Art 14 yet? It's been a trending laptop for the past few months when it first released

[Piquliar]

Having gotten so accustomed to crap Webcam on laptops, the Webcam here wowed me. We cams in general have finally been improving quite a bit more in recent years fortunately

[Barandur]

The only reason why I dont switch to Mac is the OS and now Lenovo Laptops are not even close to work out of the box with Linux.
I mean I do have an OS fetish, but for 99% of people its just an easy MacBook Air recommendation. AMD, RISC-V or maybe maybe maybe Snapdragon need to save the Windows/Linux Laptop (even though Snapdragon first gen was a huge disappointment. Before release there were rumours of Snapdragon collaboration with some company to make Linux run on Elite X, however this did never happen).