Lenovo ThinkPad X9
Shares rank 58 of 63 laptops by recommenders
Praised for battery life, ports and display, with a solid premium build; critics note weaker CPU performance and Linux driver problems.
Praised for battery life, ports and display, with a solid premium build; critics note weaker CPU performance and Linux driver problems.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Long battery life, beating M5 MacBooks
“has a very nice OLED display. OLED displays consume more power than LCD, and yet it still beats MacBook Pro 14" M5 in battery life”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6” “super quiet thin and light laptop that gets double digit hours of productivity battery life”
Comment from 30 Aug 2026 in “GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)” “better port selection and better battery life than any M5 MacBook product”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch” - Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6”
Many ports without needing dongles
“which has 3x thunderbolt, SD Card, HDMI, and USB-A, all at the same time with no dongle.”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch” “better port selection and better battery life than any M5 MacBook product”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch” “it has 3x thunderbolt, HDMI, SD card, and USB-A”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
CPU performance behind Apple chips
“the cpu performance just isn't as good”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop” “single core geekbench scores of 2700 compared to my MacBook Air at 3500”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6” Linux driver and support problems
“apart from the webcam which has fundamental driver issues on all Linux kernels everything runs really well”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “KDE Plasma 6.7 Released” “I really wish that Lenovo would fix their X9 Gen1 Linux support”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams”
Other laptops people recommend
The four most recommended other laptops, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple MacBook Pro | 928 | 688 | 57% | 13 | 5 yrs248 owners | — |
| Apple MacBook Neo | 707 | 355 | 66% | 9 | 1 mo8 owners | — |
| MacBook Air | 633 | 209 | 75% | 12 | 5 yrs130 owners | Approved |
| Apple MacBook | 499 | 348 | 59% | 12 | 9 yrs77 owners | — |
| Lenovo ThinkPad X9This page | 5 | 3 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“better port selection and better battery life than any M5 MacBook product”
“has a very nice OLED display. OLED displays consume more power than LCD, and yet it still beats MacBook Pro 14" M5 in battery life”
“it has 3x thunderbolt, HDMI, SD card, and USB-A”
“which has 3x thunderbolt, SD Card, HDMI, and USB-A, all at the same time with no dongle.”
“But the problem is “last you checked” is before Panther Lake came out.”
“Multiple similar Windows laptops outlast the M5 MacBook Pro and Air.”
“single core geekbench scores of 2700 compared to my MacBook Air at 3500”
“super quiet thin and light laptop that gets double digit hours of productivity battery life”
“I'd say my Thinkpad X9's glass haptic touchpad is as good as my Macbook Pro's.”
“the battery lasts 5 hours shorter performing office productivity tasks”
“apart from the webcam which has fundamental driver issues on all Linux kernels everything runs really well”
“Yup, I got Thinkpad X9, the idea being "Air 15 but with Windows". It does the job.”
“I really wish that Lenovo would fix their X9 Gen1 Linux support”
“the cpu performance just isn't as good”
“Lenovo X9 15 Aura Edition that's getting acclaim as a solid premium laptop”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.