Adapter required in order to use LAN? Card reader accessible only with some needle/pin after closing the lid? Keyboard area getting overly hot? Exhaust noise increased along with CPU-throttling? Thanks God you at least moved main sockets back to the left side, so we can use mouse comfortably again.
C'mon guys, what is wrong with you? Did you ever tried to think what is important and usable in everyday business practice from end-user perspective? Do you really see all these cuts worth for trimming 1mm in device dimensions and/or reducing weight by 65g for everyday-workhorse device? Usability, comfort and reliability are top points, and not some negligible dimension or weight reductions for already compact and light device.

wrg, ts not more or less pleasant, doesn't matter

Why is not the same brigthness average for the i5 and i7?

Comparing with the review of the Kaby Lake i7 and other online reviews, looks like there's pretty big contrast ratio variations between the non-touch FHD IPS screen from AUO.

Could be the usual lottery with the BOE screen since the FRU lists only those two vendors. But if this isn't the case, then what's going on here?

https://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkPad/x1_carbon_5th_gen_frubom_20170509.pdf

Crystaldiskmark version 3.0 is a old version disk benchmark software, which cannot measure a speed higher than 1500 MB/s. For these latest PCI-E SSDs, one should use the newer version CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1.