ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

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

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

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

I just noticed, that Lenovo has the 4K 500-nits screen, complete assembly, on sale right now. Might be a cheap option, although that screen is glossy and 60Hz, I don’t know what the exact panel model is, so can’t say anything about response time. But a very cheap option for a screen replacement none

Result: After quite a bit of looking around at info, there were a couple of cons to going with a P1. Size, weight, heat and battery were obviously on the list and of no surprise - those are always the tradeoffs. I also have a desktop PC which does anything heavy so an H series CPU wasn't going to re