Living With the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 3

pcmag.com:

One of the easiest Windows notebooks to carry around is Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Nano, with its 13-inch display, fast processor, and a weight of just about 2 pounds. This year’s model, dubbed Gen 3, is not all that different from last year’s, sporting a 13th Generation Intel Core (Raptor Lake) processor—making this in some ways the little brother to the 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11.

As before, the X1 Nano is very easy to carry, measuring 0.57 by 11.5 by 8.2 inches (HWD), and weighing 2.1 pounds (2.7 pounds with the included 65-watt charger.) The model I tested sported a 2160 by 1350 LCD display, with the common 16:10 ratio, which is sharper than most lightweight notebooks. It has the familiar matte black casing, and distinctive keyboard (with the red TrackPoint pointing stick) that is common in the ThinkPad line.

The big difference in this year's model is the processor—the model I tested had an Intel Core i7-1360P, with 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD. Like Intel's Core i7-1355, which I've seen in recent notebooks like the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 and X1 Yoga Gen 8, this is part of Intel's 13th Generation core family, but this one has four performance cores (each offering two threads each) along with eight efficient cores, thus a total of 12 cores and 16 threads and has a base power of 28 watts, instead of the 15-watt Core i7-1355, which has two performance cores with the eight efficient ones. Like the earlier chip, it has a maximum turbo frequency of 5.0GHz. The chip I tested on last year's model was an Intel i7- 1280P with six performance cores plus the eight efficiency ones, with a maximum turbo of 4.8GHz.

As a result, this year’s model scores about 10% better than last year’s on most common benchmark