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Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

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Re: Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

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Post by gsich »

numpad0 wrote: post #70
gsich wrote: post #52

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That wasn't the question. I only know of Lenovo Thinkpads doing this heinous act. They only do it there, on the cheap-ass notebooks they don't care.

You've only heard on ThinkPad having it because it's most easily encountered problem. HP, Dell, ASUS, Fujitsu, Toshiba, VAIO, ... they all have it in some models and not on others. But Dell users don't swear by their Inspirons or maintain LatitudeWiki. White-box suppliers/resellers like Clevo or Walmart, or more recent entries like Microsoft, Huawei, Razer, Valve, etc might not have it across the lineup. Whitelist fe…

Which makes the argument that the FCC somehow requires this moot.

Re: Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

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Post by dTal »

xarope wrote: post #61
dTal wrote: post #44

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Everything's relative. Sure, the BIOS whitelist is a serious mark in the "bad" column. In the "good" column, my daily driver is a Frankenpad made from a T480 with the 7-row keyboard from a T25, the 500 nit screen and glass touchpad from an X1 Carbon gen 6, a 2TB SSD upgrade, a 32GB RAM upgrade (two slots! I could even have had 64) and a magnesium lid for kicks. There is no other laptop brand with this many options fo…

>>> my daily driver is a Frankenpad made from a T480 with the 7-row keyboard from a T25 you can't just say this without giving us more details... MOAR!

It's all documented here: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/t25-frankenpad/

Aside from sourcing the parts, the screen part was actually harder: this combination of screen, lid, and webcam is not officially supported, so the drilling and hacking I had to do for that was not documented. Unfortunately the foam tape I used to brace the screen in the correct left-right position seems to have slipped, as the screen is no longer properly centered... oh well!

Re: Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

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Post by Yakub-AlEspunj »

I'm surprised Lenovo's whitelist hasn't been tackled more frequently, given its well-documented limitations. The only real reason to maintain such an artificial barrier is to artificially inflate profits from FRUs and enterprise support. The fact that every other major manufacturer has moved past this practice already only serves as evidence. I mean, come on, Lenovo, you're trying to compete with the likes of HP and Dell, and you're stuck on this archaic thinking. It's almost as if you're deliberately trying to alienate your most loyal customers.

Re: Adding a USB port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the hard way)

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Post by MonaroVXR »

Spooky23 wrote: post #60
adolph wrote: post #34

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The tao of hardware supply chains. Surely they can do the checksums tho. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt...

That’s one scenario. Around COVID times, my then employer got stuck with about 40,000 devices, 30% of which had undetectable, counterfeit memory that would eventually cause a complete failure. Replacement was a $80M lesson for that vendor.

How did you for out? And what kind of steps are you taking right now?
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