Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Edition Review: No More TrackPoint

The webcam is 1080p, which is solid, though we’re seeing a batch of premium laptops determination to 5-megapixel oregon adjacent 12-MP sensors similar Apple's caller MacBook Air (M4). I did brushwood 1 superior problem—flickering during video calls. The camera worked fine, but each clip I started a video call, it would flicker to achromatic each fewer seconds. Lenovo seemed convinced this was a fixable bug, but that’s not what you privation to spot connected a pricey machine.

Fast and Long-Lasting Enough?

The ThinkPad X9 14 is disposable successful 2 processor options, the Intel Core Ultra 5 226V and Core Ultra 7 258V. My portion was the faster option, though neither are powerhouses. They're portion of Intel’s Lunar Lake series, which tilts the equilibrium toward ratio and artillery beingness alternatively than brute force. That’s expected successful this laptop people (though it’s worthy noting however accelerated the M4 MacBook Air is by comparison).

I wasn’t each that impressed by the Cinebench and Geekbench scores, but truthful agelong arsenic you’re buying successful the due class for your needs, you won’t beryllium disappointed by the ThinkPad X9 14. For wide enactment and concern cases, the ThinkPad X9 14 volition suit you conscionable fine.

Battery beingness isn’t rather arsenic beardown arsenic I’d hoped, lasting lone 12 hours and 15 minutes successful my section video playback test, considerably down galore of its peers—or astatine slightest laptops with this chip. This is amended than the Windows laptops successful erstwhile Intel generations, though. Depending connected your workload, it whitethorn inactive get you done astir of a workday distant from the wall.

A New Era

The ThinkPad X9 14 feels similar a spot of an experiment. On Lenovo's authoritative site, it markets the instrumentality toward tiny concern owners, which makes consciousness successful theory, but Lenovo besides has the ThinkBook line, which is an wholly abstracted marque devoted to this demographic. Those thin to beryllium much affordable, portion the ThinkPad X9 14 carries the premium features and design.

The OLED display, thinner chassis, and haptic feedback trackpad are the highlights, and the removal of the TrackPoint helps further modernize this laptop successful my book. Only ThinkPad diehards inactive curse by the unsocial navigation, thing the executives astatine Lenovo are good alert of. The ThinkPad X9 14 is simply a bully adjacent measurement successful evolving the marque beyond its roots, but the contention is stiff, offering amended artillery beingness and show astatine little prices. Laptops similar the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition, MacBook Air, oregon Asus Zenbook 14 OLED each supply immoderate oregon each of these benefits.

If the ThinkPad marque inactive holds a people of pedigree for you, though, the ThinkPad X9 14 surely brings it into a caller era, truthful agelong arsenic you’re consenting to accidental goodbye to the beloved TrackPoint.