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now you've got my interest, I remember having to swap out keyboard and power button on my old acer laptop before and it was just popping it out of the metal grids, unplugging the ribbon, doing the same in reverse for the new parts and done, how tricky is the process compared to that on the XPS, some sort of soldering etc involved?
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@JoshBent You remove everything to get to that keyboard, but you just remove the screws and you can remove everything from the inside lmao
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@RootPixl how are the connections though, say I wanted to change out the touchpad, keyboard or power button are they all ribboned/pinned or need some awkward louis rossman type of switcheroo.
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@netikras except thinkpad ultrabooks is soldered RAM and sometimes storage, well no idea about their T or P series tho
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@devTea Yep. You can replace the CPUs on the T series without resoldering.
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@devTea @StefanH unfortunately newer ThinkPads aren't quite so hot, T490 is a fused brick compared to T440. Not all that modular.
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@NonImportant- I think the question is what kind of socket is it. If its a custom mobile socket its not as good as it seems. My older Thinkpad has that too, it was like 2012 model I think? Except the cpu was a special socket that went out of support after a few years. I think it was available from third parties and people who sold their old laptops for parts tho, but mind you no upgrade was possible, all the cpus were the same models iirc
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We have a bunch of XPSes at my workplace and our shared opinion is that they suck. Just last month we've replaced batteries in 3 of them (2 swollen, 1 holding charge for 20 mins, laptops still on warranty but battery warranty is shorter). They are overheating all the time - undervolting mine even improves performance, and that's with NVIDIA GPU idling, try using it and the thing throttles massively. Killer WiFi is a joke, it can't handle 5 GHz properly.
This is a view from a rooftop in NYC that I sometimes get the pleasure to work from. I really like the view an...
MacBook Pro... without the retina
7 years of innovation and best design teams on the planet... can you tell the difference?
I can officially tell, that XPS 15 series is the best series of laptops.
Mine does have quite a bit of stuck pixels, BUT
I can replace the ram
I can replace SSD
I can change the battery and its size, if I choose a smaller one I can add another 2.5" drive
I can replace the screen
I can replace power button
I can replace a mobo
I can replace the keyboard
I can replace the touchpad
I can use older or newer versions of these things since it will work for my laptop, it's just compatible
I can replace it by myself at home, no need for professional service to make it for me, it's super easy to repair laptop
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