Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential • Hacker News Board

Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Post by daghamm » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 8:39 AM UTC

daemonologist wrote: post #5

The last two images are missing for me, do they work for anyone else? Also interesting to know that there was a Thinkpad 13 - I'd been ignorant of that model despite purchasing a T460 of the same generation. (Although there's also the classic Thinkpad X13, the newer Thinkpad Z13, and the Think book 13 so I don't feel too bad.) Here's some more information: https://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/Lenovo-ThinkPad-1.…

X13 is from the X series, it is a high quality expensive thinkpad.

13 is a different laptop where price and quality is closer to ideapad despite its thinkpad brand.

Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Post by theodric » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 9:51 AM UTC

Norah_C wrote: post #8

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #2

I guess Lenovo has a history not unlocking full PCIe slots. Way back in the day, I found a footprint (solder pads) for a mini PCIe slot on my Thinkpad's motherboard. Well, I did what any reasonable person would do and soldered on a connector. It worked, surprisingly enough.

I wouldn’t agree on that

You wouldn't agree that GP did what they said, or what do you mean?

Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Post by nopelynopington » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 10:21 AM UTC

33 is a bargain. Even with just SATA that's still a pretty impressive machine.

I have an x201 and an x220 with SATA SSDs and they're surprisingly fast still

Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Post by nubinetwork » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 10:25 AM UTC

OptionOfT wrote: post #3

Zooming in on the page with CTRL+ makes the body more narrow.

It looks bad on mobile too, the footer images block the last paragraph...

Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Re: Modifying the ThinkPad 13 Gen 1 to unlock its full PCIe potential

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Post by Scene_Cast2 » Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 11:52 AM UTC

frabert wrote: post #10

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #2

I guess Lenovo has a history not unlocking full PCIe slots. Way back in the day, I found a footprint (solder pads) for a mini PCIe slot on my Thinkpad's motherboard. Well, I did what any reasonable person would do and soldered on a connector. It worked, surprisingly enough.

It worked, as in "the rest of the PCIe lanes were available", or "it still worked as a PCIe slot"?

I tried swapping the Wifi card to that slot and it worked. This is before m.2 SSDs became popular, so I didn't exactly have much use for the slot, it just sat empty afterwards. Or until I bricked the laptop by trying to flash coreboot, IIRC.