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

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