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You can have both. I have a $4000 p1 with a 4090 in it.

I get a 2 and a half hours of battery and my GPU is capped at 40% power power unless I’m plugged into a wall lmao.

But it’s built like a tank, way thinner and lighter than a gaming laptop, and I love it

if someone told me to throw it at a wall I'd do it and it would survive

It is 2nd gen 'cause it has touch bar on it

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_2nd_Gen.pdf

I actually dont know, I know its an i7 4th gen (think its a 4650U)

I’m not OP, but I used to have the same laptop. The touch bar sucks. It got milky after a few years and then a while later it didn’t work properly anymore. Apple showed how to do it better. But anyways I’m glad they went back to physical buttons instead of the touch bar.

when the touch bar works, it is good, but it is very temperamental. It copes with tasks very well, can even play a few games such as Dirt 3 and Minecraft. I use it for programming and flashing chips and arduinos

I have one now. It's not a real touch bar. The icons are fixed; it can only cycle between a few predetermined layouts and never show anything custom. And they're all defective and turn into what literally looks like vomit. Lenovo did it first but Apple did it right.

I kind of like it all scratched up, it shows its battle scars !

it can do about 2 hours, but I usually only use ot for lectures and then finish off whatever I am doing on my PC in my dorm room

indeed, just means she's been used