X1 Carbon Touch

Has anyone else actually managed to get the credit (for lateness) from Lenovo? I never received the credit, and now the customer service rep I had been in contact with is ignoring me.

 

Never got mine either. The second time I asked a different rep and he/she said it was "reflected" on my account or whatever, just not processed yet. That was 2 months ago, or so.

 

For those interested:
I ordered an X1CT on March 29th. Was supposed to get to me April 25th, then got delayed to May 15th. I didn't feel like waiting that long, so I cancelled the order and got it from B&H instead. Shipped the same day, lol. As far as cancelling, I had called Lenovo to make the order initially, and had an email address for the person I spoke with. I emailed him to cancel it, and he did it the same day with confirmation by email the following day.

 

Installed the UltraNav update, as a heads-up it puts settings back to default. So if your TouchPad goes to janky mode after the update remember to disable "Edge tap filtering" and re-apply any of your tweaks.

 

I am looking to get an X1 Carbon Touch and I am looking at the 3460cgu model, and here is a list of stuff I want with it. Do you think this will be a good setup?

1 3460CGU Notebook TP X1
1 04W7789 + ADP + BTY
1 0A33970 ADAPTR ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock (US)
1 41R4493 ADAPTR Combo Adapter
1 0B47048 ADAPTR Lenovo Slim Power Tip
1 0A36322 ADAPTR ThinkPad USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter
1 0A36536 CABLE mDP-VGA CABLE
1 0B47090 ADAPTR DisplayPort to SL DVI Adapter
1 0B47190 KEYBOARD US English

 

Did anyone experience this problem:

When I right click on my task bar and check power manager, the battery is displayed on the task bar but with no reading at all. It is blank.

However, when I open Lenovo Power Manager 6 and I click on the battery tab, it shows the battery reading.

What gives?

 

Well, that's really up to you as to whether you need all those accessories. If you do, then that will be a fine setup.

Are using the factory install of W7/W8? Or have you done a clean-install? Did this issue appear spontaneously, or from the day you've had it?

 

This is replacing my desktop at work and since I got most of the stuff for a good price. The dock was 72$ and the combo power adapter was 40 and the tip was 4. 8 for the usb Ethernet and 14 for the vga cable and 8.80 for the dvi adapter. The keyboard was 24. It took my a lot of effort to get this order approved as we are a dell shop and they wanted me to get a MacBook air as I am the mac support person in out department. I miss my old thinkpad 600x. That was my favorite machine next to a 760xl.

On another note, is this gap normal on the bottom of the screen?

 

No that gap does not look normal, it should be uniform all the way around the screen.

 

Mine has a similar gap, albeit a bit smaller, I think. Doesn't look nice and dust gets in there but I couldn't be bothered to send it back for that and wait another month or so for them to tell me that it's "normal" and send me back the same laptop. Or send me another one that has a even bigger gap.

I've had the X1CT since February now and wanted to share my experience. The main issues were/are:

1) The effin fan. For some reason, whenever I leave the laptop idling until the screen turns off, the stupid fan just ramps up as if the laptop was under load. I don't if this is Win8 or BIOS or whatever but it's annoying. I updated the BIOS a couple of days ago and it didn't really help.
2) Might be connected to no.1: the fan started making funny noises a couple of months ago until it completely died. The laptop carried on working for a while (it doesn't really need the fan if you don't put it under very heavy load) until I made the mistake of shutting it down and the BIOS then blocked it from booting because of the broken fan. Thankfully, I've gotten the On-site service, so a tech just came and replaced it, quick and painless (except I kind of had to coax the phone rep into sending a guy over, although that's what I bought the effin $300 warranty for, in the first place).
3) Marks on the screen have appeared and I can't clean them off with just water and a cloth. It has to be the keyboard when the laptop is closed, although the pattern doesn't really look like the keyboard. It's weird. Does anyone know what (besides water) I can use to clean the stupid protective sheet? I am also thinking of peeling it off, so if anyone has done that and could share their experience, that'd be great.
4) The wifi sometimes drops and maybe 10% of the time I have to disable/enable the adapter to make it connect again. Very annoying but hopefully they will fix this with driver updates at some point in the future.

Othewise, it's a cool, slick machine and really quite powerful, too (I got the i7 version). Runs Civ 5 like nobody's business. Gets scorching hot in the corner where CPU is but whatever.

 

I am thinking of just getting the lower bezel replaced to fix the gap. As for the machine I love it the i7 with turbo boost on is pretty darn quick. I got an external Samsung bluray burner to watch movies with. Now I just ordered a cheap pny 128gig sd card to store my movies to watch on the plane.

 

My X1CT, from the initial batch shipped in December, has a uniform gap between the bezel and screen all the way around the screen. I just have the bit of a gap under the wifi and hd LED's where the SIM card would have gone, really the only physical flaw.

 

1) The fan can be annoying though I didn't really notice it until I was given a HP Elitepad 900 to try out. I think it comes with the territory of an i7 equipped ultrabook. Though it shouldn't be misbehaving.

3) I don't think there is much you can do for the screen other than wiping it with a damp microfiber cloth. There is comfort in knowing that it is a screen protector that is being marked up and not the screen itself. There is a thread in the official Lenovo forums about moving the protective screen, doesn't sound difficult but sounds like it requires time and patience.

4) I have only experienced the occasional dropout with Cisco AP's, but I have had good luck with the latest Lenovo wifi adapter drivers. I had been using the latest from intel but the very latest weren't that great, 15.8.0.

 

With regards to the screen, I actually get the feeling it's not a stain but maybe a some kind of damage to the protector, or a slight gap or moisture in between the protector and the screen itself... Pressing on it does not make it go away even temporarily, though.Maybe I should get a tech again to look at it.