ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

Lenovo has decided to change the font, which has remained almost unchanged for 30 years The font has definitively changed before. Just look at the X1 Carbon Gen 9 compared to the Gen 8. But this new font Is by far the worst one tbh.

I recently bought a broken X1 Carbon Gen 9 to repair and ended up replacing both the motherboard and keyboard to get it working. There was only one problem: the display. The stock display panel and its responsiveness felt really underwhelming, and I knew I wouldn't be happy sticking with it. Finding

Oh great, another one of these posts. -Centrered symbols means the B key can finally be on the same plane as the rest of the key symbols, which is one of the few things that annoys me to no end about every ThinkPad I own. I genuinely don't know how it's not be triggering everyone's OCD for the last

Do confirm the BIOS is not locked, and or its not locked to a company, but that's very cheap. You could pay well over twice that in Europe. RAM is fixed, as it is on all X1 Carbons, but 16GB is fine for most uses. High quality bright display, fast, decent battery life, well made and light. You can u

I recently bought (and fixed) a broken X1 Carbon Gen 9. The reason I got the X1C9 is that it is the first X1 Carbon getting the 16:10 aspect ratio, and therefore one I could buy a defective one cheap. I am very happy with it, the build quality is impeccable and it feels really nice. My only complain

My current Thinkpad collection, I've owned over 20 Thinkpads over the years and started collecting in the past year or so again: My love: T480s, low power screen upgrade, 24GB of RAM, I love this machine, I used it to work and travel through Mexico with it, USB-C got messed up at the beach and MOBO

Maybe not so obvious: buy used at the price you can afford. I like to see what’s coming out today, so i can target what I’ll buy in 2-3 years. Thinkpads have been pretty underwhelming for a while now. If the next version that Lenovo releases was a big a jump as macs going from Intel to m chips then

Yes, the keyboard is an original replacement that I bought directly from Lenovo. They had a very good deal on an Icelandic layout keyboard, not the layout I wanted but it doesn't really bother me that much. The original keyboard had to be replaced due to several dead keys, and the palm rest had worn

Depends on what the actual underlying cause is, which isn't exactly known, only theories. I personally think since the same MOSFET is used in multiple devices and X1C9/X1Y6 is the only ones having significant failure rates, that it's going into thermal runaway situation exacerbated by proximity to m

It reporting as an R140NW4D R5 actually does raise an eyebrow. I dug through all the X1C9 touch panel EDIDs on linux-hardware.org and all the InfoVision touch panels among them report as a R140NW4D R0. I don't give a dime for what the seller claims, scammers be scamming. And even if what they say is