Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #411 in Personal Computers
- Brand: Lenovo
- Model: 3444CUU
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .74" h x
13.03" w x
8.90" l,
3.00 pounds
- CPU: Intel Core i7 2 GHz
- Memory: 8MB DDR3 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 240GB
- Processors: 2
- Display size: 14
Features
- In the Box - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch (3444CUU), Integrated 4-cell Li-Polymer Battery Pack (45.8Whr), AC Adapter, Pre-installed Software- Windows 8 Pro 64-bit
- Thinnest Thinkpad ever
- Lenovo RapidCharge charges the ThinkPad X1 battery up to 80% in 30 minutes
- RollCage and Corning Gorilla glass protects the ThinkPad X1 against accidental drops and scratches
- RapidCharge battery designed to last 3 times longer than a standard notebook battery.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch (3444CUU)
Product Description
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch - Intel - Core i7 - 3667U - 2 GHz - DDR3 SDRAM - RAM: 8 GB - 240 GB SSD - Intel HD Graphics 4000 - 14 Inch - TFT Active Matrix - Bluetooth 4.0; IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n - Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit - 4-cell - 3 Years Limited warranty
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
By Bill Cox
UPDATE: I had to lower my rating from 5 to 3 stars due to service problems. My new laptop is stuck in "depot" repair, waiting for a new touch screen to arrive. They can't offer me even an ETA on the repair. I would not ding them for having a design problem in a new machine, so long as they fix it quickly. As it is, they're selling new machines with new displays, but they're not fixing the machines that are breaking. Service really is everything, and Lenovo failed in this case.Update: I lowered my rating from 3 to 1 stars due to the continued service nightmare. I've paid for depot service, and couldn't get a person to talk to me about my machine for two weeks. Now, my machine is in limbo... I needed that machine desperately in January, and now the slow hard drive in my old one is causing some schedule slip. You just can't develop Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 web apps with a slow laptop hard drive... it's totally miserable. Two months in limbo and counting. when will a company finally figure out that business users need good support? It's just like the freaking airlines that no longer get me to my meetings reliably.Update: March 15th, and I can't even get Irma, Lenovo's customer loyalty person assigned to my case, to call me or e-mail me about the new machine Lenovo was supposed to build to replace the broken one.Update: March 20th. I just got an email saying Lenovo estimates my replacement machine will ship April 10th. Unfortunately, it seems to be standard practice at Lenovo to lie about ship dates. April 10th is likely just another made up date. Check out this thread:[...]I believe what happened is Lenovo got a shipment of thousands of faulty touch-screen displays, and knew it. Rather than lose money on them, they built and sold ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch machines they new would fail. They continued selling these machines until they used up their supply of bad displays. Once they got new displays, they committed 100% of them for selling new machines, and haven't made any available for repairing the original faulty machines. Buying a ThinkPad from Lenovo is not at all like buying a ThinkPad from IBM.------------------------------Pros:- Touch screen works well with Windows 8- Fantastic build quality- Beautiful, small, thin, and light- Outstanding keyboard- Keyboard backlight- Excellent touchpad- Very fast SSD, excellent overall performance- Rapid charging- Fingerprint scanner- Good phone support- Quiet- Spill resistant keyboard- Does not get hotCons:- Some Lenovo bloatware- No VGA or Ethernet port- A bit light on battery life- Power brick is a bit largeThis machine will change how you use your laptop. Before, I always left my laptop on the table by my chair when I got up. With the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch, I grab the laptop in one hand, my soda in the other, and walk around. Because it stays cool, I don't mind using it in my lap, unlike my previous workstation class laptops. I'm finding that I'm working all over the house. It's not quite as mobile as a tablet, but it's close. If I'm going out for coffee, taking it along is a no-brainier. Being so mobile, I find that I don't bother plugging in the laptop as often. I'm finally truly wireless.While Windows 8 has issues, I doubt I will ever again buy a laptop without a touch screen. Being able to pinch and zoom in the browser is huge, and half the time I see something I need to poke on the screen, I just poke it, rather than finding my mouse cursor, moving it over and tapping the touchpad. As someone with poor vision, I have to give Microsoft huge kudos for their work on accessibility. Windows 8 is the most accessible operating system ever. The high contrast mode works wonderfully, and zooming in on text has never been easier. With Windows 8, most people should choose a touch screen.Compared to my wife's 13" MacBook Air, the X1 Carbon Touch is slightly heavier, but has a slightly larger screen. My screen seems slightly brighter, but both seem excellent to me. I'm not one to worry about screen resolution, but I love the high contrast on the X1 Carbon Touch. Like many people, my wife protects her MacBook Air with a plastic shell. With that protector, her machine is thicker, feels all plasticy, is uglier, and slips on surfaces easily. Why anyone would want a phone or laptop that they worry about scratching so much that they dorkify it is beyond me. With a ThinkPad, you just throw it in your case and don't worry about it. The main difference in thickness is the X1 Carbon Touch has a much thicker lid. It's stiffer than the MacBook Air's, which is good for the touch feature. Overall, with this machine, I am finally rid of MacBook Air envy. Now it's my wife's turn to envy my laptop's touch feature.The touchpad deserves special attention. It is nearly as large and works nearly as well as the one on the MacBook Air. Why did HP, Dell, Lenovo and others ship laptops for years with horrible multi-touch touchpads? That drove me crazy on my last too machines, so I'm excited to finally have one that works well. There are a couple of features I thought I would not use, but was wrong. I have sensitive data on my machine, so I got the 240G encrypting drive. I have an insanely long and difficult to type password (> 35 characters, with a mix of upper/lower case letters and digits). I found that my old 24 character passphrase had only 44 bits of strength, and could be cracked with a GPU in a few days. The fingerprint scanner saves me a lot of time, though I worry that it's not secure enough. The backlight on the keyboard is more useful than I'd thought it would be. Having low vision, I'm a solid touch typist, and often code in the dark, but with the new keyboard layout, the backlight actually helps. However, the extra pointing device in the middle of the keyboard seems to have zero utility now that the touchpad is solid. Because I wander around so much without my power supply, the rapid charge is quite useful. I spend a couple hours here, an hour there, and then in half an hour in my work chair, I've got back most of my charge. Still, the battery wont last all day, so you have to have access to a power source. I was worried about not having a VGA connector for presentations, or an Ethernet port for the rare cases when I have to plug in. However, I'll just put USB adapters in my laptop carrying case, and problem solved. I don't miss having a DVD drive at all. Why do people still carry these devices around when a USB thumb drive is cheaper, smaller, faster, higher capacity, and can be written to many times? As for the spill resistant keyboard, I've killed two laptops in the past with a spilled beverage, so I'm a fan. Also, I've read a number of complaints about having a USB 2.0 port, in addition to the USB 3.0 port. The reason for this is the USB 2.0 port has an always-on feature, which can be pretty useful.I'm a full-time programmer, a power user, and I hammer my laptop about 10 hours a day. I require high built quality, high speed, a good screen, and an outstanding keyboard and touchpad. Our IT guys want us to buy ThinkPads, and I need a laptop with a touch screen to develop touch features in our software. Those requirements mean I had little choice but to buy the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch. Fortunately, I didn't have to compromise much. I would have preferred having a graphics chip, and a quad-core high voltage CPU capable of full speed full-time, rather than just in bursts. That would have required a bigger fan and much larger battery, but I would have chosen such a machine if Lenovo offered a ThinkPad W line laptop with a touch screen and large SSD. In reality, this machine is faster than anything in Lenovo's ThinkPad W workstation line of high performance laptops. My older high voltage quad-core laptop is slower, because the SSD drive in the X1 Carbon Touch is amazingly fast, and more than makes up for the loss in CPU power. Incredible boot times and wakeup times are the first thing you'll notice, but also file copy, starting bloated apps like Libre Office or my CAD tools, and doing any disk-grinding tasks are several times faster. I'm probably going to save 2-3 hours a week, because I do a lot of huge software builds and installs, and run lot's of huge applications. So far, I've installed 100G of stuff on my 240G SSD. On a regular laptop, just writing 100G would have taken all day, but with this machine, I hardly had to look at the hour glass cursor. Also, I'm enjoying the lack of fan noise compared to my older power-laptops.For a professional programmer, reliability and durability are huge, and I feel good going with the ThinkPad line. When something does go wrong, I require quick and capable support. Losing a couple days of work can easily cost my company more than the price of a laptop. So, I tested Lenovo's phone support. If you buy an IdeaPad don't bother calling Lenovo when things go wrong - you're mostly on your own. However, for ThinkPads, the support guys are located in Atlanta. I had a hard technical question, so after a few minutes, the guy I was talking to put me on hold and consulted their guru. He had the right answer when he came back. I miss the old support Dell had in the 1990's when a guru would answer the phone directly, but Lenovo's ThinkPad support is good enough. This is the main reason our IT guys are pushing employees to buy ThinkPads, rather than anything from Dell or HP. Because Lenovo offers the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch, I was able to get a machine that fulfilled my requirements with few compromises, while keeping our IT guys happy. At the same time, I'm finding new freedom in where I choose to code. All in all, at least for initial quality, it's easily the best machine I've owned.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By Rastislav Telgarsky
1. I connected two 1TB external hard drives with USB 3.0 connections, but only one was shown in Windows explorer. Both had to be legally disconnected but one of them did not have assigned a drive letter. Then I tried USB 3.0 Hub made by Transcend, which has 4 output USB 3.0 sockets and is powered by 4A power supply. Again the first hard drive connected to the hub was detected and its folders and files were shown. The presence of second drive was indicated by a sound, but it had no assigned a drive letter. When I disconnected both, and second put first, then the first one connected could be used in Lenovo, but the second one was not detected. I am returning the Transcend hub, because it cannot help me to copy files from one external hard disk to another.UPDATE: I returned Transcend hub, and bought 4-port by kdlinks. This one works perfectly!2. I have VGA cable to our Sharp TV and was able to connect 3 laptops to the TV to use the big display. No problem. Now, this Lenovo does not have a VGA connection, so I bought an adapter (Accell sold by Amazon.com) from Mini Display socket to VGA cable socket. I tried different combinations, but the image from Lenovo on Sharp TV was always wobbling, especially the text and vertical lines. Also, the image was fuzzy, not like with other notebooks. Setting Sharp TV to lower resolution than its native resolution did not help. Again, I am returning the Accell adapter, because I cannot use it with Lenovo.UPDATE: I bought the Lenovo VGA adapter from Lenovo, and this one works all right. However, the HDMI adapter and connection to TV works nicer, because it also transfer sound - so we can play YouTube on TV.3. Since this ultrabook does does not have the Ethernet port, I bought in Newegg a USB2.0-to-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. This one works very well.4. When clicking on icon Lenovo Solution Center (seen in Desktop mode), an error appears: "Lenovo Solution Center has encountered an unexpected error and must close". Trying to access the center again, it brings a larger window showing that since I got Lenovo 20 days ago I always have two non-critical errors. Why this is happening in a brand new machine? Well, I am trying to see a big picture: to do some work in MS Office and LaTeX editor.UPDATE: The warnings by Lenovo Solution Center disappeared. All is OK.5. ADDED: I am happy with this purchase. Lenovo saves me a lot of time by fast turn on and fast turn off (or, to sleep and wake up) times.6. ADDED: Windows 8 interface is not well done, but one has to have it with touch screen. The start button was better than start screen.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By SPA
Recently bought this laptop and it is just AMAZING!The touch screen is very responsive and the build quality is awesome. Looks and feels premium! Worth the investment.
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