Do all lenovo have smart maintenance design?

I decide to do a little cleaning for my fathers 3000 G530. As usual, i check out the service manual, then I ma like WOW. To reach fan/heatsink/cpu, All i need is remove the back thermal plate, a few screw and I am there. I dont even need to touch the keyboard .

 

For ideapad and some thinkpads yes. But current T,X and W series no.

 

my T61 was a breeze as well, literally take me 30sec to get to most component.

 

?! I disagree, at least for the T420. It's one screw to access part of the memory and a mini PCIe card, and one more to take out the keyboard and gain access to the other memory slot (and the rest of the mPCIe slots. Sure, chassis components are a little trickier due to the integrated palmrest, but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as the T4x series was.

And the screen is *much* easier to replace, no question.

 

Yeah, I was surprised how easy it is to snap off the T420 LCD bezel without the need of any screwdrivers unlike my T61 where you need to negotiate all kinds of screws and double sided tape to pry open the front screen bezel.

 

Did you get it flipped? The current T-, W-, and X-series have pretty great serviceability in my opinion, especially when compared to the last T-series generation (Tx00/T6x). The IdeaPads seem pretty average as far as consumer-grade laptops go, with some (more conventional) designs better than others (ie, U-series).

 

And especially when you compare with most other notebooks, I would argue ThinkPad servicebility is at the top. Cannot comment on IdeaPad.

 

Well it terms of easiest getting to the fan directly requires keyboard and palmrest (T/W) and some X series requires complete disassembly. I think the Latitudes are the easiest to service, 1 screw removes the entire bottom plate, where you can access the RAM, HDD, CPU/fan/heatsink, WLAN cards.

 

getting to the fan assembly of a X200 required the removal of the system board. same thing for current X models and T models.

other components are easy to access though

the first response to this thread was probably referring to this fact

 

Considering how much I/we need to replace fans for T420's... Makes me wonder what was the engineer thinking when the machine was designed.

 

Putting fan and heatsink behind bottom plate is nice, I cant justify to do a complete disassemble often just to clean the fan/repaste.

 

when i say no, i mean no to removable bottom plate like the OP is mentioning. I am not talking about the ease of serviceability. Sorry for the confusion.

 

Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, there are a selected few Thinkpads where all components are accessible through one panel (like my X120e) whereas most Thinkpads do not have this design.

 

i did forget the X120e, X121e and X130e, which are all ThinkPads with the removable bottom plate.

 

There is also a Access-Panel on the SL/L-Series. I like this design on my L520. It is much easyer then the design of my old R60 or my old R50e.