Lenovo provides carbon ultrabook ThinkPad X 1 with touch screen for Windows 8

Lenovo Tuesday, announced the ThinkPad X carbon 1 Touch, the optimized version of Windows 8 X 1 carbon Ultrabook, he made his debut in August for the 20th anniversary of your ThinkPad.

The ThinkPad X 1 carbon has a 14 inch touch screen Touch, weighs 3.4 pounds and has a thickness of 20.8 mm. As the non-touchscreen version, it includes a face-tracking optimized 720 p camera Lync, fingerprint scanner, a battery of eight hours and option 3 G mobile broadband.

Windows 8 and the Multitouch display of ten fingers up the price $ 200 on the ThinkPad X 1 carbon non-touch, and 64-bit of Windows 8's basic configuration is $1,499.99. The basic model with Windows 8 Pro starts at $1,669.99. As usual, the two basic models can be configured to the needs of the users.

Windows 8 model features an Intel Core i5-3427U Processor (3 m Cache, up to 2. 80 GHz) with 4 GB of SDRAM and a 128 GB SSD. Windows 8 Pro model is equipped with an Intel Core i7-3667U Processor (4 M Cache, up to 3.20 GHz) and 8 GB memory SDRAM. Storage base in this model is the same, with a 128 GB SSD.

With this generation of Windows, users are required to accept the screens touch effect had on the design of the operating system, even though they do not necessarily play in their workflow. This particular family of PC has a funny side effect as well: it has three simultaneous input methods.

Lenovo had portable multi-touch for over three years, but these were generally in the convertible tablet form factor, i.e. the offset input method that the device was developed in its various modes. With this generation of touch ultrabooks, however, the TrackPoint thumb stick, trackpad and touchscreen are all available to the user at the same time.

The ThinkPad X 1 carbon is available now and is scheduled for December 21.

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