ThinkPad X1 Carbon | Image: Lenovo
Intel’s 10th Gen chips are making their way into the world, and Lenovo has a bunch of new ThinkPads that are getting the new processors that it’s announcing today. The new laptops are largely the same as the previous designs, aside from the boosted specs, so don’t expect too drastic of an update.
Leading those laptops is a new ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the seventh generation of the hardware that Lenovo has released. New this year is Intel’s just-announced 10th Gen Comet Lake chips in both Core i5 and Core i7 options (including a hexacore Core i7 model). It also has Intel’s Project Athena label, meaning it’s guaranteed (in theory) to provide at least nine hours of battery life. The new chips will be available in September starting at $1,479.
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