It has an 11th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. The manufacturer also lists a handful of preconfigured ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 models, but our test configuration is not among them.

Lenovo recently gave us a sneak peek at its latest ThinkPad laptops, which are getting the “Meteor Lake” treatment as Intel’s new 14th-gen Core Ultra chips debut.