Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in price in Canada starts from CA$3,972.00. This 8th gen Intel Core i7 powered by Notebook laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in Canada due to its 51 Wh battery with very decent battery life and 16 GB LPDDR3-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of CA$3,972.00
Design and Built quality
carbon fiber makes it more light weighted but very sturdy. From top view, the laptop is 323 mm of width and 217 mm height and total thickness of 14.9 mm. being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 1.09 kg
Display
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in has a very nice and compact 14 inch display which makes it perfect for everyday business professional who are always on the run. Even though the screen is small, having a WQHD display with very high screen resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels makes this device fairly usable in almost all the productivity tasks.
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Performance
Processor :
With the powerful 1.8GHz 8th gen Intel Core i7 i7-8565U processor, this Lenovo laptop is a power house for all the applications or games that are available in Canada. Using Lenovo utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 4.6GHz.
Having 4 cores with 8MB cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
16 GB memory is fairly enough for day to day activities. and for most of the apps. this should be more than enough to get done your business work. LPDDR3-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR2. 2133 MHz is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This Lenovo laptop has RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to 16 GB.
Graphics :
This Laptop doesn't have a dedicated Graphics card. it has on-board Intel UHD Graphics 620 graphihcs chip with which you can do usual light work. but for gaming or any heavy graphics oriented work. this laptop is not the best.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 1000 GB SSD. This is also compatible with M.2 storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth version 5.0 connectivity. with WIFI 5 (802.11ac) You would get around 3.5Gbps but now that understand that there are laptops with WIFI 6 which can transfer Data more than 10Gbps. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 2 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This Lenovo laptop comes with 2 USB Type-C Ports which is perfect to be used for high speed data transfer devices. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It has an HDMI port for video output so you can easily connect your monitor or a projector. Laptop is charged using USB Type-C port.
Camera :
Built-in camera in this laptop is a HD with image resolution. Which would be decent enough for your video calls.
Battery :
51 Wh is decent battery capacity so you will be able to use the laptop 3 to 6 hours on battery power. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in has a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery which weights around . Battery is charged with 65 W power adepter using USB Type-C port. It takes around to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in in Canada is CA$3,972.00 from walmart.ca, Mississauga, ON , which is CA$73.00 (2%) less than the highest price listed here for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in, price from kijiji.ca, montreal which is at (CA$4,045.00) .. You can find Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon i7 14in for the above stated price range in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Hamilton, Brampton, Winnipeg in Canada
