ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

Do confirm the BIOS is not locked, and or its not locked to a company, but that's very cheap. You could pay well over twice that in Europe. RAM is fixed, as it is on all X1 Carbons, but 16GB is fine for most uses. High quality bright display, fast, decent battery life, well made and light. You can u

I recently bought (and fixed) a broken X1 Carbon Gen 9. The reason I got the X1C9 is that it is the first X1 Carbon getting the 16:10 aspect ratio, and therefore one I could buy a defective one cheap. I am very happy with it, the build quality is impeccable and it feels really nice. My only complain

I think the X1E is a solid choice. More keyboard travel. The CPU is more powerful than the X1C9's, the dGPU is nice if you have use for it and WON'T shorten battery life if you don't use it. It'll accept USB-C charging from chargers offering at least 60/65W up to the (then) USB-C maximum of 100W. No

Based on the documentation the laptop support PD charging only up to 65W never ever intentionally buy fake products, any other branded chargers even if they are middle market like ugreen or baseus would be a better choice in term of safety. If a charger is not designed to be a laptop charger it may

Result: After quite a bit of looking around at info, there were a couple of cons to going with a P1. Size, weight, heat and battery were obviously on the list and of no surprise - those are always the tradeoffs. I also have a desktop PC which does anything heavy so an H series CPU wasn't going to re