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I've got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2015) that I run hooked up to two external 27" 1080p monitors along with the 14" 1080p laptop screen itself. My host OS is Windows 8.1 with my Chrome/Word stuff, some Visual Studio, and then I have an Ubuntu VM I run for all other types of development.

The portability and battery life of this laptop are what I love most.I can go to a coffee shop for 9-10AM and work through to 5PM without needing my charger.

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Does it overheat with three monitors? Have an x220 (older notebook but with 16gb and SSD) and it is impossible to use it with two external 1080p monitors without cpu throttling.

No it seems fine. How would I test for CPU throttling? That said, I do find 8GB RAM restrictive for the number of tabs/VM I have open and wish I had 16GB. Also, I think the SSD might be slowly dying because it's had many, many writes on it by now (reformats, VMs, videos, etc.) and sometimes Windows takes ages to open Explorer to show me my files.

> How would I test for CPU throttling?

Use https://www.hwinfo.com/ it will show you the CPU multiplier, if you experience throttling the multiplier will be low and never go up. Look at the following picture: http://cdn.ultrabookreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/hw...

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