Dell XPS 13 vs Lenovo ThinkPad X1e2

The battery life is very short (4ish hours) and it takes a long time to charge (about 1 1/2 hours). The brick on the cord gets very hot as it charges as does the bottom of the laptop. Otherwise it runs cool. I really like that there is no separate place to plug in the charger

The newer processor suffers here because of the faster graphics card, although the latter also falls short of expectations. The result is that the X1 Extreme Gen 2 has a slower CPU than its predecessor and only a minimally faster GPU. Another problem is the device's massive power consumption, owing to its matte 4K panel, which yields sub-5-hour runtimes.The second generation of the ThinkPad X1 Extreme has gotten worse in some places