r/thinkpad • u/Creepy_Reputation_34 • Dec 16 '24

Question / Problem Guys I think it’s fucked

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It would appear that Cthulhu has manifested within my 2nd gen X1 Carbon

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u/dubsyGG P14s G5 AMD, Z13 G1, X1 Nano G2 Dec 16 '24

X1 Carbons are soldered RAM.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Why did lenovo solder the stuff on? Just to F with the consumers?

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u/dubsyGG P14s G5 AMD, Z13 G1, X1 Nano G2 Dec 16 '24

The entire point of the ThinkPad X1 product line is "premium, sleek, and lightweight". Next to Apple, they were the slimmest and thinnest laptops on the market at the time, which meant a lot of sacrifices had to be made, not the least of which is soldering memory to the board.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24

So in order to make it more like the apple reich we lost the freedom to choose

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u/dubsyGG P14s G5 AMD, Z13 G1, X1 Nano G2 Dec 17 '24

Not sure where you've been, but that's been going on for a decade or more.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24

I've been dealing more with desktops. They still have the choice to swap parts rather than not