2022 ThinkPad X1 Carbon or MacBook Pro: Which Work Laptop Should You Push Your Boss to Buy You?
Maybe your work laptop is getting a bit slow. Maybe you’ve been closely watching our coverage, and have seen our reviews of the 2022 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 and the M2-based Apple MacBook Pro 13-Inch in recent weeks. Or maybe you just know that you want the best company-issued laptop you can get, and you don’t have it now. Well, if you’re making the case to your boss for a premium notebook, you’d better come prepared.
Top performance and features often command top dollar, but getting the best business laptop isn’t just about scoring the model with the biggest price tag. If you want a more premium work machine, you also want to sell the boss on the productivity benefits you can get for that larger chunk of the budget.
We’re here to break down the specs, compare the features, and answer the questions you and your boss will have when making a choice between these two choice business laptops.
While the X1 Carbon and the MacBook Pro 13-Inch both offer top-of-the-line components, they’re far from identical.
The most obvious difference is the old Mac vs. PC debate. The MacBook Pro is an Apple machine, running Apple MacOS Monterey. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a Windows laptop, running Windows 11 Pro. We’ll get to the key differences later, but if you’re already tied to one operating system, or your IT infrastructure allows for only one or the other, it makes your decision pretty easy.
The other major difference is Apple’s use of the M2 chip, the latest Apple Silicon processor. In test after test, we found the M2 offers great performance—just not better than the M1 Pro and M1 Max offered on the more premium 14-inch MacBook Pro. It’s all part of Apple’s move away from Intel processors, but it comes with
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