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    Service Training Guide to the X1 Carbon

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mjdart, Nov 10, 2012.

  1. mjdart

    mjdart Notebook Geek

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    ThinkPad X1 Carbon Service Training Course

    This link will take you to the Lenovo X1 Carbon Service Traing Course. It answers many questions and actually has videos on how to make service repairs. If you want to see the X1 Carbon guts this is the link. Work your way through the whole thing which I think will help you make a much more informed buying descision.
     
    mjdart, Nov 10, 2012
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    tshatlanin Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, that pretty much definitively answers the RAM/SSD upgradability questions - they are not :)
    On a different note – where is that fabled carbon fiber? In the full disassembly video pretty much the whole notebook was splayed open. Sure, the lid looked like some sort of a composite, but I’m pretty sure that 90% of the bottom case is magnesium (except maybe for the black strip 1/4 way down from the top edge).
     
    tshatlanin, Nov 27, 2012
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  3. lead_org

    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    carbon fiber composite is what the lids are made of. The Toray carbon fiber used in these lid are shredded, and there is no clear orientation. Carbon fiber used in airplane and race cars have weave pattern fixed in clear epoxy for maximum strength, if Lenovo used them in the X1C lid then the lid itself would be worth like 300 dollars, since it required high skill labour for lot of the production process.

    To be honest, carbon fiber was used in ThinkPads construction for at least the last 14 years... so it is not a big deal.
     
    lead_org, Nov 27, 2012
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