The house of ThinkPad has four new laptops and a very special new monitor to show off.
As you may have heard, today is launch day for Intel’s Core Ultra processors, likely better known by their codename, Meteor Lake. These parts are not only Intel’s first disaggregated design, but also the company’s first CPUs to include a bespoke Neural Processing Unit (NPU) designed to accelerate AI processing. Naturally, Lenovo is updating its flagship products along with this launch, including new ThinkPads, a new IdeaPad, and alongside, a fascinating 3D monitor.Top/Above: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12First up, the ThinkPad X1 updates, for both Carbon Gen 12 and the X1 2-in-1. At the top of the new features list is obviously the Core Ultra’s aforementioned NPU. This offers acceleration for a fair few new pieces of software, including AI-powered filters in Adobe applications, real-time video effects for Zoom and Teams, and of course Microsoft’s Windows Copilot that can help by summarizing web pages, automating e-mail composition, and more.
Those capabilities will be available on any Core Ultra system, though. The new stuff unique to the ThinkPad X1 systems are upgrades to the thermal dissipation and power management functions, as well as new computer vision features in Lenovo Commercial Vantage, the OEM’s rapid deployment suite. Those features include AI-powered wake-on-approach with face sensing as well as adaptive dimming on both internal and external monitors.Lenovo ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 9The new ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 2-in-1 will offer Core Ultra processors up to the Core Ultra 9 with a maximum of 64GB of non-removable LPDDR5X memory and up to 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage. Graphics will be provided by the powerful Intel Arc GPU built into the Core Ultra processors, and they’ll be hooked up to 14″ OLEDs in 2880×1800 resolution that refresh at 120Hz, have HDR500 TrueBlack certification, and notably, occupy very nearly the entire area of the lid, with extremely narrow bezels all around.
