With the X1 Carbon, Lenovo refines its best ultrabook

For CES 2014 Lenovo is taking its very best ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and fixing the previous model's few pain points to make an early entrant for the ultrabook to beat in 2014. The new model starts with a similar design to last year's X1 Carbon — and that's a good thing. As the name suggests, its body is made of carbon fiber, which offers a sturdy, light, and attractive design. But the company's slimmed the machine down with the help of Intel's cooler, more power-efficient Haswell processors. It's now 0.68 inches thick (down from 0.74 before) and about 0.1 pounds lighter. More importantly, our primary gripe with last year's model has been fixed: Lenovo promises that battery life is up by over 70 percent to roughly 9 hours....

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