Lenovo’s 10th-generation ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Aura Edition
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I’ve tested dozens of ThinkPads: Here’s the Lenovo model I keep coming back to
One of the most useful features of the Aura Edition is Smart Share, powered by the Intel Unison app, which provides a user-friendly way to “Airdrop” files and images from your smartphone to your device and vice versa. Unfortunately, Intel is discontinuing this feature in the summer of 2025.
It also comes preloaded with Lenovo’s “AI Now”, an AI-powered assistant with a local chat option, cloud chat, and PC assistant. The cloud chat connects to an online LLM that provides some limited, if acceptable responses. But the local chat and PC assistant features did not work for even the simplest requests. Note that it’s still in Beta.
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Moving to the laptop’s physical build, it stays true to the classic ThinkPad design with the triple-button trackpad and the red TrackPoint in the middle of the keyboard. The 85% PCC plastic keys are crisp and responsive, with a rough, matte texture that thoroughly resist fingerprints and are nice to type on. The trackpad is equally comfy — with a haptic option — and is utterly silent.
On that note, let’s talk about the battery on this thing. Like other Lunar Lake laptops, I found it to have an absolutely marathon battery life, scoring over 21 hours of life in our video battery test over Wi-Fi at half brightness. Battery tests, like benchmarking, are not always representative of real-world performance, but this is an impressive number, ranking it as one of the longest-lasting laptops I’ve tested.
Swapping to different performance profiles will give you more or less battery, but with sustained use, demanding workloads, and multiple video calls, you’ll easily get a full day’s worth of work on one charge. I took this laptop into the office multiple days in a row and regularly made it to around 30-40% each day.
to consumers who are already ThinkPad loyalists and want the reliability and performance of that lineup, as well as the fantastic battery life of Lunar Lake.
If you’re a hybrid worker and want to commute without worrying about a charger, this is a fantastic choice. If you’re looking for a laptop that’s more geared towards creative workloads, there are other options in this price bracket, like the MacBook Air M4 or the HP EliteBook X G1a.
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