Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13

A compelling evolution of the demanding executive's favourite laptop, with its quality undimmed by time

- TIM DANTON

This is the first laptop that's made me feel old. Is the X1 Carbon really turning 13? It remains an outstanding 14in ultraportable, but you need to give it a close examination to spot the differences to last year's model.

But there are differences, all of them positive. First, it's even lighter at 1kg rather than 1.1kg. Second, it now includes Core Ultra 200V series processors, bringing support for Microsoft's Copilot+ PC scheme. Third, the SSD has been upgraded from Gen 4 to Gen 5, and that means astonishing 13,588MB/sec sequential writes and 10,403MB/sec reads.