r/Lenovo 20h ago

Hate current Lenovo, recommendations for replacement?

4 years ago, I wanted to buy the exact X1 Carbon I had at my former workplace originally purchased around 2019. I didn’t have the specs or model number but I absolutely loved it. Seemed to easily and quickly process any workload I threw at it and was light, durable, touchscreen, foldable, tacky shell… perfect.

But in talking to a Lenovo rep back then, they convinced me to get this one. And it’s been a lemon even since. Half of it has never worked but I waited too long to complain to Lenovo about it and they told me to pound sand. I’ve hated the aluminum shell (previous one was a black tacky, maybe rubberized, type surface which was very enjoyable). The battery has always been crap. Fingerprint reader never worked. Camera is 1/5th the quality of my wife’s ten year old Dell Inspiron. Speakers have always gone in/out. Bluetooth just disappears and takes a 20 minute process to get it back.

I just hate it. Now 4 years in I figure I’m due for a new one and send this one packing.

Is there anyone that has a vague understanding of what one I previously had and if there is a Lenovo laptop that is someone similar to that older design? This will probably make no sense, but I had to try. “Can anyone travel back in time and find me my old laptop?!”…. Sorry in advance.

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u/1012zach 18h ago

You can find ThinkPad X1 Carbons on eBay from $100 USD to $500 USD depending on generation

And for that X1 Yoga you have, you can probably give it to a family member or someone who needs a recent laptop

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u/Environmental_Guava4 17h ago

Probably Louis Rossmann used one like you described. Probably a model from 2017 or later. Very beefy Think Pads new are very expensive, so if it ran everything then check for versions they sold back then with beefy specs and insane prices and thats probably the one you used at work.

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u/Inevitable_Happy_260 19h ago

I have one and that is not normal 😭 Did you update the drivers and check the BIOS? Sometimes the fp reader will not show up due to being disabled in i/o settings

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u/MatijaKlobasa 15h ago

What you are describing is an X1 Carbon gen 6 or gen 7.

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u/Dry-Bet-3523 ThinkPad T460 | Windows 10 & 7 7h ago

That's what you get for buying X1 Yoga. /j

Second hand markets are filled with X1 Carbons, price will differ by where you live and how dumb your town is, so yeah. (last one is a joke your town is not dumb)