The Lenovo ThinkPad X9 15 Aura Edition has a 17mm thickness and weighs 1,450g, with a footprint of 339mm wide by 228mm tall and a total volume of 1,313.964cm³. It includes a backlit keyboard and comes with a 3-year warranty. The laptop does not use a fanless design and is not weather-sealed or splashproof.
The laptop features a 15.3″ OLED/AMOLED display with a resolution of 2880x1800px at 221 ppi, delivering a sharp visual output at a typical brightness of 500 nits and a 120Hz refresh rate. The screen does not support touch input and lacks an anti-reflection coating. It is capable of driving up to three supported displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 8533 MHz, which also represents the maximum supported memory capacity, paired with a 512GB NVMe SSD using flash storage over a PCIe 4.0 interface. The 8-thread CPU operates at a base speed of 4 x 2.1GHz across all cores and reaches a turbo clock of 4.5GHz, built on a 3nm semiconductor process with multithreading enabled and full 64-bit support. The integrated GPU has a turbo frequency of 1850MHz and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, rounding out a performance profile suited to a range of compute and graphics workloads.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves a multi-core score of 17,277 alongside a single-core score of 3,866, providing a measurable reference point for both threaded and single-threaded processing capability.
The laptop offers two Thunderbolt 4 ports alongside two USB 4 40Gbps ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, and a single HDMI 2.1 output, while there are no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4 20Gbps, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, RJ45, or VGA connections present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) down through Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), paired with Bluetooth 5.4, and the device also supports AirPlay. USB Type-C is available, though there is no external memory slot.
The device is equipped with an 80Wh battery to support portable use. It does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports or a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a four-microphone array, while a front camera is also present. It does not include a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, voice commands, or an S/PDIF output port. Motion and location sensing features are absent, with no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS on board, and there is no optical disc drive or included stylus.
The laptop CPU carries a clock multiplier of 21, a maximum rated temperature of 100°C, and a 17W TDP, with big.LITTLE technology enabled but no unlocked multiplier. It supports a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit support, and has 8MB of L3 cache. Graphics are handled by the integrated Arc Graphics 130V with 7 execution units, backed by OpenCL 3.0 and OpenGL 4.6 support. Memory runs across 2 channels at a maximum speed of 8533 MHz, though ECC memory is not supported.
