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

That's the best part; you don't know how widespread this may actually/truly be. Not a lot of users immediately go to Reddit and say "LOOK AT MY GREEN LINE" I worked at Lenovo during the release of the X1 Carbon 9th generation; the internet still has notes on "what was happening" but it's a few spora

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

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

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

Nice work! Working on these are just a treat. I buy most of my parts from Lenovo and AliExpress. I have just finished my last project (X1C9), and am looking for a new one.

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

I ended up ordering a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 9 14" Refurbished Laptop - Intel i7 1185G7 - 512 GB HDD - 16 GB RAM - Windows 11 Pro for $725 CDN. Maybe I will look into a board was just thinking, $100 for the new screen $250?(Not sure) for a new board. Might as well put that into something a little bett

I've had motherboard replacements done on three of these X1C Gen 9's. I still daily drive one of these alongside a X1 Nano Gen 2 and to sum up my experience and what I've found when researching this online in the past... - There are a few references to mosfets burning themselves out (on Reddit and F