Less than a week after my T430s arrives, Lenovo finally announces real availability of the X1 Carbon that I gave up waiting for. And then they announce the T430u as well, which seems a lot like the T430s, but is even slimmer. One review of the X1 claimed it had an IPS screen, which would have been a major regret for me, but others claim the screen angles are only ok. I wonder which is true. I did look a little closer at the performance numbers, and the 17W i5 appears to struggle against the 35W version. More so on the graphics side it appears. There’s just not enough headroom to allow the CPU to turbo up to max speeds consistently. Both models come with buttonless clickpads. Not sure I’m ready to make that leap.

Regrets? Not really. I’m not sure what advantage the T430u offers. It still weighs the same four pounds, and the s model is plenty slim for me. Reduced functionality for no weight reduction. The X1 is harder to disregard. I’m going to tell myself I wouldn’t have been happy with the performance of a low voltage CPU.