Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 5th Gen Disassembly and RAM, SSD Upgrade options

As a new thin and lightweight business laptop, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 is powered by Intel’s seventh-generation processor. The laptop features the appearance design that its predecessor adopts. Now, we will disassemble the laptop to explore its internal structure.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 comes with much narrower bezels. The laptop’s bezels on the left and right are only 5mm, and its top bezel is 9mm.
The ports on the left side of the laptop include a USB-C port (one is a power jack), a USB 3.0 port, a standard HDMI port, and a mini-Ethernet interface.

The ports on the right side of the laptop include an audio input and output port, a vent, a USB 3.0 port (which supports charging), and a security lock hole,

Remove five screws from the back cover, and then we can separate the back cover from the laptop fuselage.

After removing the back cover, we can see its internal structure.

The laptop sports a built-in battery. The battery occupies half the space of the laptop fuselage.

The built-in battery has a capacity of 57W.

It is the battery port of the ThinkPad X1 Caron 2017.

The part marked with the red line is the Wi-Fi cable. The part marked with a blue line is the speaker port. The part marked with a yellow line is the BIOS battery port.
The laptop features the m.2 SSD, which supports the PCI-e protocol. This laptop comes with 128GB SSD. FRU: 00UP618 M.2 2280 SSD; Intel 8256NGW Wi-Fi card FRU: 01AX722.
The internal structure is without a battery.

It comes with a dual copper pipe and a fan, which constitute the laptop’s heat dissipation module. This module is thin and lightweight.

It is a speaker cable.

Speaker

The part marked with a red line on the right is the USB 3.0 port.

The part marked with the red line is the interface of the fingerprint module. The part marked with a blue line is the screw which is used to fix the fingerprint module.

It is the motherboard’s BIOS battery.

The part marked with a blue line is the camera interface. The part marked with a yellow line is the power interface.

The part marked with a blue line is the interface of mice TrackPoint. The part marked with the red line is the interface of the keyboard wire ribbon.

The mice’s touch board is fixed by four screws.

It is the Wi-Fi cable.

Motherboard’s front part.

Motherboard’s back part.

The motherboard is thin and lightweight.

CPU

The laptop’s keyboard is fixed by 76 screws.

After removing all the screws from the keyboard, we still can’t take out the keyboard.

Keyboard.

It is the screen that the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 features.