Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon
Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . After almost five years with my previous laptop I was finally given a new one at work. My old HP has been an absolute work horse and I've been very happy with it but it was showing its age in a big way. The battery (my third) was quickly dying, the original hard drive died a couple months back and one of the keyboard's shift keys was failing to register key press about half the time. When I replaced the hard drive a couple months ago I installed Windows 8 only to find out that several hardware components do not have drivers specifically for Windows 8, most notably the ATI Radeon 2600 HD mobile GPU. This had the effect of causing my laptop fan to run at full speed continuously. A little annoying for both myself and my cube mates to put it mildly. Enter my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. The first thing that struck me is how beautiful this machine is. It's thin, light and flat black. So much lighte