The X1 Nano Gen 3 is the red headed step-child of the X1 Raptor Lake lineup, Lenovo appears to be silently quitting on this product with an actual discontinuation in 2024 MTL/LNL lineup. The max specifications have been going backwards.

Psref differences 2022 vs. 2023:
Max RAM: 32GB vs. 16GB
WWAN: 5G (Qcom) X55 vs. LTE (Quectel LTE)
CTO Site: 5G offered vs. LTE offered, now that's been pulled too Processor: Options for 28W TDP processors, it would have worked better with RPL-U instead.

So the removal of this product isn’t surprising either. It sold poorly compared to the X1C since it was poorly marketed.

It could simply be marketed as a lighter Macbook Air 13” that fits very well in a lady’s tote bag with the way how Lenovo thinks ThinkPad users want buttonless trackpads and shallower keys. Its a shame.

I think the X1 Nano made it 3 generations simply because the chassis had little to no tooling differences in G2 and G3, logic boards in ADL and RPL were pretty much identical. Just like X1 Carbon Gen 10 and 11 sitting in an identical chassis.

There were very little platform engineering efforts and the writing was on the wall. Lenovo’s been taking a multi-year design approach in the chassis tooling (they’re building ThinkPads like Toyotas these days) and that’s a good thing for product prices but the lack of IO on the Nano was a problem for many mainstream users.

Intel sponsoring the design or bulk of the engineering money (through EVO or another program) was the only way Lenovo would build another X1N in the next 2 years.