Summary: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch is attractive and solidly built, with an excellent touchscreen and a great keyboard. However, we'd like to see more ports and a removable battery at the very least. As it stands, this ultrabook is too expensive for widespread deployment.

Attractive design; Solid build quality; Superb touchscreen; Excellent keyboard; Fast battery charging; Mobile broadband with wireless hotspot support

Only two USB ports; Non-removable battery; Proprietary power connector; Expensive

I love this laptop; Fantastic Linux support; I UEFI boot Arch Linux using EFISTUB and it's lightning quick; Almost all of the hardware worked out of the box; I needed to configure the volume and brightness controls, but that's basically it; Durable.

The mic mute button doesn't work; Not sure if that's faulty hardware or Linux just doesn't recognize it; The blank button next to it is unused though, so I use that instead; My previous laptops all had a numpad when holding Fn; I miss that; It can get quite hot when charging.

Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch retains almost everything that is good about the original X1 Carbon while adding the touchscreen many value in a Windows 8 machine.

Light weight and slim; Semi-rugged and durable construction; Excellent keyboard for an Ultrabook; Multiple inputs; including TrackPoint; Speedy performance

Only two USB ports; Sub-par touchpad; Touchscreen means lower battery life; Viewing angles aren't as wide as we'd like

Lenovo got a lot of things right with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and all the advantages carry over to the Carbon Touch: it's light, gorgeous, functional, and powerful enough for every realistic ultrabook task.

Touchscreen works well; Gorgeous; sleek design; Solid performance; Great keyboard

Gets really hot; Expensive; Too much bloatware

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is everything the original X1 should have been. Though its TN screen doesn't quite match up to the premium style, build and features of this stunning Ultrabook, in every other regard it's easily the best business ultraportable around.

Stylish; light and sleek; Superb backlit; spill-proof keyboard; Durable soft-touch finish; Powerful specs; Good high-res screen

No Ethernet port; Screen panel still TN

With its consumer focused IdeaPad U310, Lenovo showed that it ‘got' the Ultrabook segment and impressed us with a solid, powerful and distinctive Ultrabook with great battery life and an even greater value at around $600.

Lenovo's first ThinkPad Ultrabook wasn't up to scratch, but the firm has addressed criticisms and nailed it second time around. The familiar ThinkPad design and build quality mean it'll stand the rigours of the office, the trackpad and keyboard are superb, and the screen's better than ever thanks to...

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 is clearly a product for a consumer business, so a strong focus on quality, neglecting the design slightly. The strengths are a body strong and resistant to falls, an ergonomic keyboard and spill-resistant, the fingerprint reader to protect your data from prying eyes, HDMI,...

RAM, USB 3.0 port, memory card reader, fingerprint reader, spill-resistant keyboard; Chassis resistant to falls, Bluetooth and optional WiMax

Internal memory; not eye-catching Design

The ThinkPad X1 sells in India for a price of Rs 1,02,000, which might seem like a lot to a regular laptop customer. Add the fact that it's very light and easy to carry around while still delivering a decent amount of performance and battery life.

Great performance and the usual fantastic quality. Yes please.