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Sorry, being an owner of the 2015 version, I don't know what the fuck are you talking about:

- The brick is tiny. Sure, not as tiny as the 50 gram mac one, but is very small compared to most laptop bricks.

- It's huge? Some peope want more screen real estate, and 14in is good for that.

- Battery life is 6+ hours; less if I spend them watching youtube of course

- Never had a problem with WiFi

The only thing I agree is with the ethernet dongle (which I have only actually used once, when setting up the wifi at a new place).

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Well, I have an EU brick (which may well be different from yours) and seldom get more than 4 hours from it running Office and remote sessions (less if I fire up Docker, Visual Studio or heavier apps).

Like I said, we run a fair amount of extra stuff that may be to blame, but my experience carrying it around to customers for over a year is that I always need to sit near a power socket by noon.

Comparatively, my peers toting Surface 4s (who work on the same accounts and whom I travel with) outlast my laptop by a couple of hours.

I own this laptop too, and I agree with you. I would add a few complaints of my own, though:

- The computer sometimes seems to turn on after it's closed and asleep in my bag

- The CPU gets pegged constantly, even on the i7 version (admittedly, this may be due to some background processes that were installed by my employer, but sometimes in task manager it just seems like a generic Windows process it taking up all of the CPU, so it's hard to tell).

- The fn key placement is awful. Seriously, I think Apple started this trend, and I wish other manufacturers would stop following it. Years of muscle memory have trained me to put my pinky in the bottom, left-hand corner of the keyboard for ctrl. At least you can change this in the BIOS on this computer, unlike a Mac, but that's still less than ideal.

On the CPU being pegged, I have bothered my IT department to death over the same thing on my X1 Carbon. If you download Process Explorer, I would bet it's CSCService that's causing the issue. If so, the culprit is likely the Windows "Offline Files" feature which lets your IT department sync your laptop files with the corporate network every so often. My IT department has failed to fix the issue, though, so yours may be unable to find a fix. For a while, I just messed with the power setting on my laptop in order to never allow the CPU to be fully utilized so that the fan noises were not insufferable.

> - The brick is tiny.

I and my family have owned several Thinkpads. I just bought a Thinkpad this past cyber Monday, and the power brick it came with is significantly larger than prior Thinkpad models' bricks. So much so that I was a little disheartened when I saw it. Since you mention you have a slightly older model, I suspect that your adapter is tiny, as you say, on par w/ MBPs'. But the current models from Lenovo have regressed in this respect.

Just so you can see, here's a photo[1]. The smaller brick is from an older T500, and the larger one is from my new T460p. The small Lenovo and the MBP appear to output roughly the same. The larger, newer Lenovo one is capable of pushing more power, but at quite a cost in size.

[1]: http://imgur.com/CQJKyUp

I bought a new X1 Carbon six weeks ago. It came with the smaller brick in your picture.

6+ hours of battery life is _absolutely terrible_ by today's standards.

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