![]() The hottest portion on the bottom of the laptop measured 45.1 degrees Celsius (113.18 degrees Fahrenheit), right next to the fans and vents. A persistent bassline that plays through most of the song kept me bobbing my head, though the percussion occasionally felt a bit lost in the mix. The speakers showed off clear vocals, both in the artists' voice and in a choral background. They get fairly loud, easily filling my living room with Lorde's "Solar Power." The top-firing speakers on either side of the X1 Extreme's keyboard support Dolby Atmos. ![]() I was pretty satisfied with the settings out of the box, but you can adjust sensitivity in Windows settings. I'm of the opinion that TrackPoint and nubs like it are a relic of the past, but there's still a contingent that considers them a necessity on laptops (including our editor-in-chief). There's just enough room to comfortably perform Windows 10's mostly advanced four-finger gestures. The 4.5 x 2.6-inch touchpad is a bit grippy for my liking, but not so much that I couldn't get used to it. The function keys are small here, which let Lenovo jam in 12 of them (including a few dedicated to making calls) as well as home, end, insert and delete keys all in one row. I typed at 104 words per minute with my usual 2% error rate on the 10fastfingers typing test, just slightly slower than usual. That said, they required more force than I hoped, and my fingers felt a bit tired after using them. The keys have a nice clack to them and a nice clicky feel. Of course, the other part of the ThinkPad keyboard mythology is that they're almost universally good. If you've seen one ThinkPad, you've seen most of them. ![]() Sure, it's changed a bit, but the scalloped-shaped, island-style keys with the red TrackPoint nub are a bit iconic. Like Lenovo's black, boxy ThinkPad designs, the ThinkPad keyboard is a bit of a mainstay in the industry. ![]() Ours had a 2560 x 1600 resolution and was not a touch screen, but you can opt for higher-res panels, and touch is an option. It's also a great improvement over the 16:9 panels Lenovo had been using on the Extreme in the past. The ThinkPad X1 Extreme is equipped with a 16-inch, 16:10 display, making it a bit larger than the 15.6-inch screen Dell uses on the XPS 15. On the Grand Theft Auto V benchmark at very high settings, the game ran at 80 fps at 1080p and 47 fps at native resolution on the X1 Extreme. At 1080p, it ran Civilization VI: Gathering Storm at 65 fps, just two frames behind the XPS 15 (67 fps). While Lenovo doesn't call the ThinkPad X1 Extreme a gaming laptop, it's somewhat specced like one, including the RTX 3060 in our unit. The CPU ran at an average speed of 3.29 GHz, with an average temperature of 87.04 degrees Celsius (188.67 degrees Fahrenheit). During this test, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 started with a score of 12,178.95 before dipping (as is usual) to a steady state in the mid 11,000's. To stress test productivity notebooks, we run the Cinebench R23 benchmark on a loop 20 times. The ThinkPad X1 Extreme completed our Handbrake test by transcoding a 4K video to 1080p in 7:37, beating the MacBook Pro (8:00) and the rest of the field. It impressed back then at 1,017.9 MBps, but we don't have newer results. Apple has been selling the 16-inch MacBook Pro since 2019, back when we were using a 5GB test. The X1 Extreme copied 25GB of files at a rate of 1,308.58 MBps, handily beating both the XPS 15 (which is pretty fast on its own) and the Surface Laptop 4's slower SSD. Both outperformed the other Windows machine here, the Surface Laptop 4. Dell's XPS 15, with the same processor, did ever so slightly better (7,477/1,559). On Geekbench 5, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 achieved a single-core score of 1,530 and a multi-core score of 7,244.
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